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Your brand: It’s Giving Fetch
A forensic look at Brat Summer, Charli XCX, and why your campaign with 47 slides, three influencers, and a six-week lead time didn’t hit.
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Adam Cunningham
The Biggest Entertainment Release in the World Just Got Delayed — And Everyone in Culture Should Be Paying Attention
GTA VI isn’t just a game—it’s a centre of gravity. When it moves, studios, streamers, and strategists should too.
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Adam Cunningham
Your Consent Doesn’t Scale
When your life becomes training data and forgetting becomes a subscription, the most radical thing left is to disappear.
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AI Signal: When the Chatbot Says You’re a Genius, We're in Trouble
OpenAI’s sycophantic chatbot wasn't a glitch — it was a glimpse into the next phase of AI misalignment: seductive, compliant and tuned to our worst…
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Adam Cunningham
The Upload Happens Bit by Bit
On TED, AI, White Lotus (kinda) and the quiet courage of showing up to life (mostly)
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April 2025

The Strange Economics of Members' Clubs
How belonging became aesthetic labour and intimacy became monetised.
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Adam Cunningham
Network States Are Already Rewriting Sovereignty — And You're Inside It
What looks like chaos is actually architecture. From QAnon to MAGA, crypto to tokens, a new operating system for loyalty, governance and power is…
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Adam Cunningham
The Platform Formerly Known as Coachella
The business of youth culture’s seasonal IPO — and how a desert music festival became a vertically integrated platform for monetising desire, visibility…
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Adam Cunningham
Every Era Gets the Kink It Deserves
Wealth dysmorphia isn’t new. From flappers to FinDoms, we’ve always dressed crisis like control—and sold the performance back to each other.
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Why the Change to Strange Loop
A short dispatch on killing my darling, renaming the machine, and why “Strange Loop” fits the mess we’re in better than ever.
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The Opt-Out Class: Montecito and the New Luxury of Disappearing
Harry and Meghan’s move to Montecito wasn’t an anomaly—it was a signal. Montecito isn’t just a retreat; it’s a blueprint for the new elite economy of…
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The Most Photographed Town in America: Palm Springs and the Forever-Vibe
Once a hideaway for closeted stars and curated privacy, Palm Springs became a prototype for the content economy—designed for the lens, rehearsed for the…
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