Is “Latinx” a thing? Should kinks be allowed at parades? And what’s queerbaiting? The start of June means the arrival of Pride Month, and with Pride Month comes heightened, annoying discourse about every facet of our existence. Much of this includes reevaluating the media we used to hold near and dear, seeing how well it holds up and ruining it for others when it doesn’t. In the last year, we’ve dog-piled Ryan Murphy and seen Ellen DeGeneres get dethroned as America’s favorite lesbian — both of which were a long time coming.

The date is October 1st, 2024. You’re in your gooncave. You put on your VR headset and fire up GoonoShop v1.0. This software runs a text-to-video machine learning model which generates photorealistic porn clips, streaming a barrage of e-girl ass directly into your eyeballs. The prompt inputs for the text-to-video model are generated by a language model hooked up to a reinforcement learning algorithm. As the clips zoom past, you can press a number between 1 and 5 on your keyboard to rate the experience.

In my job, I get to know a lot of fascinating people. It’s one of my favorite parts of what I do. I’ll never forget my times interviewing the late Daisy Myers for my book Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb. Daisy was quiet but fierce. She and her family took an extraordinary and courageous stand against discrimination and injustice - and the most powerful builder in America, William Levitt.

Emily Calandrelli, known to many as @TheSpaceGal on social media and host of Emily’s Wonder Lab on Netflix, just published her ninth (!) children’s science book, Stay Curious and Keep Exploring: Next Level. To greet her fans around the country, the MIT engineer is wearing the most fun — and feminine — outfits. Think: Tulle skirts, sparkly shoes, and pearl headbands. Calandrelli has loudly and proudly turned her book tour into a fashion show, too.

I want to talk to you about some buildings. You may or may not know this about me, depending on how you’ve come to this newsletter, but in my daily, non-internet life, I’m an architect. Wait, stay — no, I don’t like the way most architects write about architecture either. There’s a great deal of pretension, of empty theory and academic word salad, of trying to prove that you’re smarter than your reader by making what you’re saying utterly inscrutable.