Friendmendations 7.26.21

Hiiiii, me again.

Last week I tripped over my laptop cord, spilling water on my laptop. Extremely luckily for me, three things were true:

1. Edward was a vampire

Sorry, wrong list!!

1. The damage wasn't too extensive – I just lost my shift key – so I could back everything up before giving it to Apple to fix
2. I have Applecare+, which covers water damage
3. I have a backup laptop because it was too crappy for Apple to take it as a trade-in when I got my new one.

My backup laptp desn't have a very functional "o" key, which makes typing slightly difficult, but we are sldiering n as best as pssible.

I have been writing in between trips to the Genius Bar. I promise. Here are some recs.

Reads

• "All the trains in my son’s train podcast ranked by how much I hate them" by Ben Jenkins
• "The Jessica Simulation: Love and loss in the age of A.I." by Jason Fagone – the story of a man who programmed a chatbot to talk to him in his deceased fiancee's voice; I am actually really looking forward to the writing about this piece, which raises about a million ethical questions

Videos

Man, TV just used to suck ass. If I were having a 70s theme party, though, I'd project this vide onto a wall for vibes.

I just love her.

Quick Hits

• The punchline to this tweet made me laugh so much I almost cried
• As did this TikTok

This week last year: