PinnedBrooks Rocco·Jun 11, 2025Why everyone you know is picking up the guitar againFrom Swifties to software engineers, the guitar is getting people off screens, and into something realA response icon13A response icon13
Brooks Rocco·Jun 13It’s not about X, it’s about WhyThe AI culture of convenient access to information is drawing us darkly inward. Let’s pause and rewind.A response icon1A response icon1
Brooks Rocco·Feb 5The Epstein Files aren’t funnySystemic abuse by the power elite is no laughing matter, and here's why.
Brooks Rocco·Aug 18, 2025The ideal model of the future isn’t AGI, but Auto-TuneOtherwise, we’re in for a world of T-PainA response icon8A response icon8
Brooks Rocco·Jul 9, 2025Black Sabbath’s ‘Back to the Beginning’ was a missed opportunity for metalOther than Yungblud, where was the young blood?
Brooks Rocco·Jun 30, 2025Zohran Mamdani and ‘Blue Shell Economics’What Mario Kart World teaches us about justice, inequality, and NYC’s next mayor.
Brooks Rocco·Jun 14, 2025When great bands have terrible SEOMaybe don’t name your band ‘Journey’ if you want to rank on Google?A response icon23A response icon23
Brooks Rocco·Mar 4, 2020The Original Browser War is BackHow Microsoft dominated the early Internet, and plans to do it againA response icon1A response icon1
Brooks Rocco·Sep 22, 2019Deus Ex Machina and the problem with HBO’s ‘Succession’‘Succession’ is a great show. Probably the best thing on TV. Your friends probably agree. But something is off.
Brooks Rocco·Nov 16, 2017Lucy in the Sky, and Dying“The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life…A response icon2A response icon2