Five for the Weekend

A brief weekly round-up of some things that are good.

Aimee Levitt, who was one of my best contributors at Eater, has written a smart and disturbing piece in the Guardian about how Google AI is wreaking havoc on the recipes and livelihoods of recipe writers.

Also smart and disturbing is this heroic anti-cosmetic surgery manifesto from Father Karine. It's long — like a 30-minute read — but well worth it.

Yet another long read I'm enjoying is Brad Gooch's Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring. I've been wanting to read the book ever since it was published in 2024; I grew up surrounded by Haring's imagery, and it's so fascinating to learn more about the person behind it.

Ramsey Lewis's "The In Crowd" popped into my head that other day and it's the rare earworm I don't want to get rid of; there's no way to listen to it and not have a good time.

I've been rewatching Mad Men since HBO made it available, and it's making me nostalgic — not for the '60s, but for a time when prestige TV actually lived up to that designation.