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1 week ago | 
jezebel.com | Kady Ruth Ashcraft
Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane?! It’s white smoke indicating a new pope! And he is American! Exciting? Kind of? I can’t really feign patriotism at this current political moment, but a Chicagoan pope will certainly please my Catholic mother-in-law, which is good enough for me. Robert Francis Prevost is the first American cardinal to ever be elected pope, and he’s chosen the name Pope Leo XIV.
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2 weeks ago | 
jezebel.com | Kady Ruth Ashcraft
Nothing beats kicking back with some good friends at the end of a tiresome work day, cracking open a brewski, and…drinking it alone in front of your computer, since those good friends are actually just artificial intelligence chatbots. That’s Mark Zuckerberg’s optimistic vision on the future of companionship: AI friends. “The average American has fewer than three people they would consider friends, and the average person has demand for meaningfully more.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Kady Ruth Ashcraft
Nothing beats kicking back with some good friends at the end of a tiresome work day, cracking open a brewski, and…drinking it alone in front of your computer, since those good friends are actually just artificial intelligence chatbots. That’s Mark Zuckerberg’s optimistic vision on the future of companionship: AI friends. “The average American has fewer than three people they would consider friends, and the average person has demand for meaningfully more.
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1 month ago | 
jezebel.com | Kady Ruth Ashcraft
Spoilers below for the season finale of The White Lotus. Most of the guests at The White Lotus checked out from their weeklong stay at the luxury wellness resort, boarded a ship back to the airport, and now have a really captivating and harrowing dinner party story to tell for the rest of their lives. The rest, well, were brutally killed in a resort shooting.
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1 month ago | 
jezebel.com | Kady Ruth Ashcraft
It’s been said many times, but each season of The White Lotus revolves around the wisdom, “wherever you go, there you are.” Financial troubles, mommy issues, brotherly, uhm, love—all of it follows you across time zones into your seaside cabana, and no amount of decadent room service or international escapades can rid you of it.
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1 month ago | 
jezebel.com | Kady Ruth Ashcraft
Friends, we are six episodes into our eight-episode stay at The White Lotus Thailand, meaning we’ll soon find out who fired off those first-episode rounds and who, unfortunately, received them. After Sunday night’s episode, it’s clear that tension is mounting (and in some horrific cases, being released via brotherly hand jobs) and someone is going to lose it real soon. Will Chelsea’s superstition about the rule of three prove real? Will Timothy act on his violent fantasies?
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2 months ago | 
jezebel.com | Kady Ruth Ashcraft
If The White Lotus has taught us anything, it’s that enlightenment can be achieved in many ways. For Daphne Sullivan, in season 2, it’s by cultivating a sense of unknowable mystery between yourself and your partner, aka leaving room for extramarital affairs. For Quinn Mossbacher, in season 1, it’s by bringing your bedding to the beach and ditching your screen addiction to join a group of native Hawaiian paddlers.
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2 months ago | 
jezebel.com | Kady Ruth Ashcraft
I wish I had some cheeky golf pun to set up this bit of news, but I’m just going to give it to you straight: Tiger Woods is dating Vanessa Trump—aka Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-wife. And to make matters worse there’s not even really any salacious gossip around it and people are just saying that the two are a “a good match; they’re level-headed, they like to avoid drama,” according to Page Six. Barf. Of course, you don’t need there to be drama for a couple to give you the ick.
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2 months ago | 
jezebel.com | Kady Ruth Ashcraft
An unfortunate drawback of a vacation spent doing yoga, picking through an endless selection of fresh fruit each morning, and lounging languidly beside a seaside swimming pool is that, inevitably, you’ll relax enough that your mind wanders to the thought of your own death. Without the distraction of work or your daily routines and stressors, you’re left to face your inevitable fate. There is, it seems, no escaping it, even if you’re at a world-class resort dedicated to living well.
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2 months ago | 
jezebel.com | Kady Ruth Ashcraft
Warning: spoilers for season 3, episode 3 of The White Lotus. I had a spectacular Sunday night watching one-percenters dress up, pop some benzos, and not look at their phones for an entire evening. No, I’m not talking about the Oscars, dummy! Timothy Ratliff finally surrendered his phone to the friendly resort staffer, Pam, on Sunday night’s The White Lotus.
