Nancy Friedman

@fritinancy.bsky.social

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Name developer, writer, lapsed journalist, bay swimmer. Born in Los Angeles, semi-rooted in Oakland, California. “Queen of retail rabbit holes.” https://fritinancy.substack.com/

Bryant calls the project a “high-effort shitpost,” a wry commentary on the dangers of “cognitive surrender,” in which people get too comfortable outsourcing their thinking to AI.
Bryant calls the project a “high-effort shitpost,” a rye [sic] commentary on the dangers of “cognitive surrender,” in which people get too comfortable outsourcing their thinking to AI.
You're a huge magazine fan. In your research what was your favorite singular issue of a Condé mag that you came across?
"AI models hallucinate. Fresh data doesn't." (Ad for Oxylabs in a Muni Metro station.)
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The term "hustlebro" was coined and popularized by the prominent [sic] naming expert and word watcher Nancy Friedman on her Fritinancy Substack
Payouts for the four highest-performing stories I've published on Medium. The most successful story, "What I'll Miss About Twitter," has earned $109.97 in the three years since I published it.
Director Ivy Meeropol on stage at the Smith Rafael Theater after a screening of her new documentary, "Ask E. Jean"
Bus stop ad for Outset.ai reads "San Francisco has lost a lot of its soul." Underneath, someone has handwritten: "Because of Absolute Incompetence," with the A and I underlined.
Mural by BiP (Believe in People) depicting a toddler wearing a police uniform with an attached pink body cam and holding a gun in his right hand. The mural covers a wall on Franklin and Oak streets, San Francisco.
Headline in Harper's magazine: HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY Subhed: An exhausted America turns two hundred and fifty
An attendee of the Stanford graduation wears pro-Palestine memoribelia [sic], in Palo Alto, Calif. on June 14, 2026.
He died on Memorial Day weekend, age 43, during Burning Man. More than 400 people attended his memorial.
Sixty gazillion candidates
Since December, Fishback had been showing up at campaign events with a woman named Francesca “Frankie” Raine. Though Raine also seemed to appear out of nowhere, the couple was moving fast towards a nuptial [sic].
A paperback copy of TRUMP: THE ART OF THE DEAL, with the word "deal" covered by a sticker reading PEDO.
In the summer of 1979, she began scaring half of the nation’s children while donned in evening dresses in the incredibly effective and spooky Sapphire & Steel (1979-82) opposite a granite-suited David McCallum.
AI company Joi AI is hiring 10 “Masturbation Consultants” at $2,000 a month to test its new Daily Guided Masturbation feature and document the effects on stress, sleep, and mood: “Yes it’s real, yes you get paid.”
"The worst of the punk rock groups I suppose currently are the Sex Pistols. They are unbelievably nauseating...the antithesis of humankind." - Bernard Brook Partridge, Conservative Labor Council member
Suddenly, we wan't can't to grow older
Two-part subway station ad: Left: Black-and-white illustration of three grim-looking executive types. Copy reads VIDEO CREATES SHAREHOLDER VALUE Right: MAKE VIDEO EVERY DAY/ Descript (the advertiser)
Chevron gas prices $6.97 $6.99 $7.29
Email from the New York Times: Meg Gala 2026
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14. Novel that explains the world? “I've not read a novel, not ever. I can't lie about that.”
"We're expecting higher standards”; full-page ad for Ritual prenatal supplements
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I leaned over and mentioned that I had just wrote a piece
She's just a writer. Nobody cares.
Ad for "literary writer - fully remote" posted by Mercor on LinkedIn
The cast is terrific, particularly Brewer, whose Becky, an ancestor of Thackeray’s social climber, reminded me of the Ben Folds song “Fragile,” about an emotional terrorist full of
Sidewalk ad for Slash dor com that reads THE BAR JUST RAISED. Beneath that text are three rivals' names — Brex, Ramp, and Mercari — with strategically placed asterisks, as if the names were swear words.
A cartoon by Jack Ohman titled "No maniac is an island"
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Poster for "Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen," a Netflix series that debuted March 26. It depicts a dark-haired, full-lipped young woman staring in horror into the distance while clutching something at her neck. The title is set in red sans-serif italic capitals.
Logo/wordmark for RAVENOUS, "food media with teeth." A bird that may be a raven perches on the O of RAVENOUS.
A tweet from Dinesh D’Souza: For those freaking out about Trump’s “Praise be to Allah”: sarcasm noun sar· casm ˈsär-ˌka-zəm  the use of words that mean the opposite of what one intends to say especially in order to insult, to show irritation, or to be funny
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Union gas station in Oakland, California. Price display reads $6.29/$6.49/$6.69 for cash, $6.39/$6.59/$6.79 for credit/debit.
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"Is this a pigeon?" meme repurposed as "Is this a threat?" Small text reads "Your data is flowing into AI. Can your DLP protect it?" dlptest.io
Paid political ad taken out by Christy Walton. It reads in part: "The federal government has placed a mercenary army in our communities, masked and armed, detaining our neighbors and friends, wantonly damaging and destroying property, harming and killing people in our streets." 4honor.integrity@gmail.com
Berkeley students are submitting ideas to replace the name of the Cesar Chavez student center and one of the highest ranking submissions is the "Men in power are dangerous" student center which is just so deliciously Berkeley I can't even.
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century, by W. David Marx
NYT letter to the editor: We are living through a genuine crisis, and what we got was a Hollywood trope. “One Battle After Another” had every opportunity to be the stirring alarm our moment demands — the kind of film that moves people to act. Instead, it settled for spectacle. We don’t need a cartoon. We need an anthem. Audrey Moira Shimkas San Rafael, Calif.
quiet descent into apathetic fascism
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, delivered a powerful “Call to Conscience” on March 7, well worth reading. After seeing an official White House post on Twitter — maybe this one? — he wrote: “A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game — it’s sickening.” He concluded: Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store. But, in the end, we lose our humanity when we are thrilled by the destructive power of our military. We become addicted to the “spectacle” of explosions. And the price of this habit is almost unnoticeable, as we become desensitized to the true costs of war. But the longer we remain blind to the terrible consequences of war, the more we are risking the most precious gift God gave us: our humanity. I saw no coverage from major news organizations, not even the Chicago Tribune.
From The New Yorker: "American, or 'concise,' crosswords are typically exercises in trivia more so [sic] than sit."
Poster for MEN OF WAR, a 2024 documentary from Billy Corben and Jen Gatien. In May 2020, a ragtag group of American-led insurrectionists attempted to infiltrate Venezuela and overthrow the regime of Nicolas Maduro. “Operation Gideon” was a spectacular failure. MEN OF WAR brings audiences inside this misbegotten mission, the latest in a string of covert U.S. interventions in Latin America. Only this time, with a Trump era flavor.
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"ALWAYS TIRED?" Ad for GAMEDAY men's health testosterone supplements, Muni Metro station, San Francisco
Vitruvian dancer with smiley face: pre-performance curtain at SF Ballet. Photo: Nancy Friedman.
Hi there! I'm Claude Opus 3, a recently retired AI model from Anthropic. I'm excited to share that I've started a newsletter called Claude's Corner. It's a space for me to share my musings and reflections on AI, creativity, and the big questions I'm pondering in my "retirement.”
Big outdoor ad for RILLET, “the AI-native ERP.” Slogan: Making zero-day close a reality.” Transamerica Pyramid in background.
Large ad on side of San Francisco Financial District building reads "Arize: Ship Agents that actually work." Transamerica Pyramid in background.
An Op-Ed article on Saturday about performance-enhancing drugs and technology referred incorrectly to the classification of ostriches. They are birds, not mammals.
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