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Welcome to One Offs: a mini segment on Day One FM, where we ask our guests to give their latest takes, gripes, and recommendations.
This week, we’re chatting with Delia Cai: the writer behind Deez Links and "Central Places". She’s also now a co-contributor to Fast Company’s new digital etiquette advice column Posting Playbook alongside Steffi Cao.
Check out the full conversation for more on:
The success of Hate Reads (eg. the allure of anonymous posting, “Safe Hate Spaces,” etc)
A Buzzfeed crash course on making work that thrives online and
A pitch for going to see Twisters in 4D.
Social niche or account we should all tap into?
Do you guys follow @starworldlab? I used to follow because they had random, wholesome things, like “Japanese craftsman crafted really hard, and he made this.” And I feel like I'm watching them pivot in real time to breaking news because that's how I found out about Trump getting shot. Before it was kind of wholesome little stories of “this cat waited for his owner for 90 years” or whatever.
Offline-ish recommendation?
I just saw "Job". Everyone who’s a little bit internet-pilled should see it. It's crazy. At first you're gonna be like, this is a little bit boring. It's a millennial tech worker having a therapy session. But it has the most slow boil, insane twist ever. It's 80 minutes, no intermission. I think it got really big on Tiktok. It's worth it.
What’s your screen time like?
I think for my phone it's about four hours. Mostly because I'm on the bigger screen.
Hot take?
I was just telling somebody this the other day: when you're starting to date someone, don't follow them on social media. You shouldn't follow each other. And they were like, “wouldn't you want to see what they're doing?” No, every post is an invitation to fight. And every time they post a story, you're going to be like, “why aren’t they texting me back?” You just don't want that much info, right?
Internet gripes/crimes you’d prosecute?
People who talk about replacing art with AI art. I'm just like, anyone who is excited about that, should go to jail. It's sort of like the way music has kind of moved to something that’s passive and you need something to listen to that makes you happy, versus like, oh, I'm interested in this artistic message that somebody has made and is putting out in the world, and I want to engage with this person that way. And I think that there's this way tech dudes talk about AI being able to make movies and make art. It's like, do you know what this is for, really? Do you know what art is for? It's not to just hang on your walls, you know?
