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Why Modern Life Feels Boring and Catastrophic at the Same Time
Notes from Square Thirty-One
Dec 19
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Adam Cunningham
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Strange Loop Culture Index Part 2: Gaming is the New Mall
From "The Feed" to "The World": Why Social Media is dead, the Metaverse was a red herring, and Roblox is the new Main Street.
Dec 17
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Adam Cunningham
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Strange Loop Culture Index Part 1: The Atomisation of Attention
From The Clip Trap to The Background War: Why Netflix is the new Cable, Linear is terminal, and the "Vertical Screen" is eating the world.
Dec 12
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Adam Cunningham
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How To Be Cool in 2026
In which we discover that being perceived is simply a tax on the poor.
Dec 9
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Adam Cunningham
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5 Implications of the Netflix-Warner Deal
Why the "Bad Bank" spin-off signals the death of cable, the library becomes a training set, and the industry formally trades the mogul for the asset…
Dec 7
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Adam Cunningham
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The 2026 Strange Loop Culture Index
From the death of the middle to the rise of the micro. A forecast of the winners and losers of the next three years.
Dec 5
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Adam Cunningham
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On Taste
Notes on friction, the unoptimised self, and the comfortable lie
Dec 1
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Adam Cunningham
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November 2025
Why Your Dick of an Uncle is Actually an Edgelord (and ruined Thanksgiving)
Algorithmic feeds reward borderline extremity and bury the middle. Meet the edgelords and the corridor they exploit.
Nov 28
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Adam Cunningham
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The Kids are Over-Engineered
Screens, logistics, GLP-1s and SSRIs, and how they quietly rewrote drinking, sex and going out.
Nov 25
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Adam Cunningham
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“Is AI a bubble?” is the finance equivalent of “Is this the year I finally get my life together?”
Why AI looks like a mania from the outside, a productivity engine from the inside, and a very normal general purpose technology in the long run.
Nov 21
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Adam Cunningham
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Sports Streaming Sucks for Sports Fans
Four Paradoxes of Modern Sports Streaming
Nov 13
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Adam Cunningham
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The 2025 Culture Confession Booth
Help a guy out: five minutes or your time, please, then back to work
Nov 7
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Adam Cunningham
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