Nancy Friedman

@fritinancy

Name developer, writer, lapsed journalist, bay swimmer. Born in Los Angeles, semi-rooted in Oakland, California. “Queen of retail rabbit holes.”

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Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· 5d

Must I copyedit *everything*?

Naturewell in the hearth [sic] of Los Angeles

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· 6d

They fixed it, she said wryly.

Bryant calls the project a “high-effort shitpost,” a wry commentary on the dangers of “cognitive surrender,” in which people get too comfortable outsourcing their thinking to AI.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· 6d

Someone was loafing on the job. @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2026/08/04/s...

Bryant calls the project a “high-effort shitpost,” a rye [sic] commentary on the dangers of “cognitive surrender,” in which people get too comfortable outsourcing their thinking to AI.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· 11d

People who use “singular” (exceptional) to mean “single” (one): Please don't.

You're a huge magazine fan. In your research what was your favorite singular issue of a Condé mag that you came across?

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· 21d

The company is called Oxylabs. It is not a pharma company. It's hosting a gathering called OxyCon — seriously! — in September.

"AI models hallucinate. Fresh data doesn't." (Ad for Oxylabs in a Muni Metro station.)

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Jul 7

Trademark application filed on July 1.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Jun 30

AI says I coined and popularized "hustlebro," haha

The term "hustlebro" was coined and popularized by the prominent [sic] naming expert and word watcher Nancy Friedman on her Fritinancy Substack

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Jun 29

The thrilling, lavish life of a Medium writer.

Payouts for the four highest-performing stories I've published on Medium. The most successful story, "What I'll Miss About Twitter," has earned $109.97 in the three years since I published it.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Jun 27

Recommended: “Ask E. Jean," the new documentary from Ivy Meeropol about the woman who sued Trump twice—and won twice. I saw it in San Rafael last night; find a screening near you: www.askejeanfilm.com

Director Ivy Meeropol on stage at the Smith Rafael Theater after a screening of her new documentary, "Ask E. Jean"

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Jun 24

AI ad with commentary at a bus stop in San Francisco.

Bus stop ad for Outset.ai reads "San Francisco has lost a lot of its soul." Underneath, someone has handwritten: "Because of Absolute Incompetence," with the A and I underlined.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Jun 21

Do murals count?

Mural by BiP (Believe in People) depicting a toddler wearing a police uniform with an attached pink body cam and holding a gun in his right hand. The mural covers a wall on Franklin and Oak streets, San Francisco.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Jun 17

Cover story, @harpers.bsky.social, July 2026.

Headline in Harper's magazine:

HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY

Subhed:

An exhausted America turns two hundred and fifty

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Jun 15

Spellchecker not working, @sfgate.com? (I know better than to ask about the copy editors.)

An attendee of the Stanford graduation wears pro-Palestine memoribelia [sic], in Palo Alto, Calif. on June 14, 2026.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Jun 10

See @bryaneragarner.bsky.social "Begrudging/begrudgingly" seems to belong to the needless-lengthening trend (see also: oftentimes, amongst).

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Jun 5

Oof. Reminds me of IT'SUGAR.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Jun 4

Whither fact-checking? As everyone in S.F. knows, Burning Man takes place over Labor Day weekend (September), not Memorial Day (May). Eckersley died on September 2, 2022; Labor Day was September 5. @vanityfair.com

He died on Memorial Day weekend, age 43, during Burning Man. More than 400 people attended his memorial.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· May 28

California governor candidates. There's no shortage of zanies, but Grundmann is the only one who merited the disclaimer. Also on the ballot: LivingForGod AndCountry DeMott (NPP) Barack Denzel Obama Shaw (D) Thunder Parley (D)

Don J. Grundmann | NO QUALIFIED PARTY PREFERENCE
Kirk murdered by shaped-charge bomb Israel used. Government knows. YouTube—Why Kirk had to die. Israel murdered Liberty sailors. Israel “art students” wired Twin Towers for 9/11.controlled demolition. Planes did NOT destroy towers. Israel did. 3,000 murdered to create new “Pearl Harbor” to justify fighting wars for Israel. “Dancing Israelis” (Mossad agents) prove knowledge of attack. Government knows. Israel (our greatest enemy), NOT Iran, will suitcase nuke U S. via “Samson Option”—false flag attack to blame on Iran/Russia and permanently end our nation. Israel, the REAL terrorists, created and funds Hamas via Qatar. Countless war crimes by lsrael/ Netanyahu. No further funding for Israel. They call Palestinians AND Christians AND America “Amalek”—their sworn forever enemy. We are “goyim” (less than human animals/cattle) that they will enslave. We are stupid chumps. Israel rules our conquered Republic. Talmud—their Bible—says Christ boiling in in Israel allowed/planned/promoted Hamas attack (they murdered their own people) to justify genocide and steal billion$ in Gaza oil/gas rights. Christian Zionism = soul poison. Talmudic “Judeo-Christian values” don't exist . . . DestroyTheZOG.org. Constitution Party of California, state affiliate Christian Nationalist Party. CNParty.org.—developing. Fight-the-Power.org. CPofCA.org. StopNumber24.org. Nationalize FED. Print interest free United States Notes. Freedom Law School $300,000 challenge. BlackGenocide.org. Planned Parenthood murdered 20 MILLION blacks = REAL “White Supremacy.”, HenryMakow.com. NationalStraightPrideCoalition.org. Gtvflyers.com

2010 El Camino Real #351
CA
Tel: (510) 895-6789
E-mail: STOPtheIRS@hotmail.com

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· May 28

Writing tip: "nuptial" is an adjective (= "relating to marriage"). The noun (= "wedding") is always "nuptials," plural. In either form, the word is related to "nubile."

Since December, Fishback had been showing up at campaign events with a woman named Francesca “Frankie” Raine. Though Raine also seemed to appear out of nowhere, the couple was moving fast towards a nuptial [sic].

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· May 28

Counter display at The Iliad Bookshop, North Hollywood.

A paperback copy of TRUMP: THE ART OF THE DEAL, with the word "deal" covered by a sticker reading PEDO.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· May 26

You can't be "donned in" anything, because "to don" means "to put on [clothing].* Try "attired," or "clad," or "wearing."

In the summer of 1979, she began scaring half of the nation’s children while donned in evening dresses in the incredibly effective and spooky Sapphire & Steel (1979-82) opposite a granite-suited David McCallum.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· May 26

Masters of the universe (but not of their domain).

AI company Joi AI is hiring 10 “Masturbation Consultants” at $2,000 a month to test its new Daily Guided Masturbation feature and document the effects on stress, sleep, and mood: “Yes it’s real, yes you get paid.”

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· May 23

Highlights from the members' opening of Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdos: Punk Culture 1976–86. The exhibition is at @skirball.bsky.social through September 6.

"The worst of the punk rock groups I suppose currently are the Sex Pistols. They are unbelievably nauseating...the antithesis of humankind." - Bernard Brook Partridge, Conservative Labor Council member

Punk collector extraordinaire Andy Krivine

Photographer Ann Summa in front of her photo of a mosh pit

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· May 22

Can your AI do *this*? I THINK NOT.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· May 7

New frontiers in dystopic advertising. (Muni Metro Montgomery station.)

Two-part subway station ad:
Left: Black-and-white illustration of three grim-looking executive types. Copy reads VIDEO CREATES SHAREHOLDER VALUE
Right: MAKE VIDEO EVERY DAY/ Descript (the advertiser)

Left: Illustration of glowing red eyes. Copy reads THE ALGORITHM DEMANDS VIDEO
Right: MAKE VIDEO EVERY DAY/ Descript (the advertiser)

Left: Black-and-white illustration of downtrodden masses. Copy reads YOU DO NOT EXIST WITHOUT VIDEO
Right: MAKE VIDEO EVERY DAY/ Descript (the advertiser)

Column ad for Descript depicting silhouetted office workers. Copy reads YOU MUST MAKE VIDEO EVERY DAY

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· May 7

Gas prices today, Market at Castro, San Francisco.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· May 4

Who else is here for the Meg Gala?

Email from the New York Times:

Meg Gala 2026

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· May 1

Interesting to see "orientalism" used in this clearly positive way. It's generally defined as a patronizing, stereotypical view of Eastern cultures. The founders of SONGMONT are Chinese.

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Apr 28

This is the guy you turn to for advice on “how to be cultured”?

14. Novel that explains the world?
“I've not read a novel, not ever. I can't lie about that.”

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Apr 27

Two full-page ads for prenatal supplements, each with a call to action, pages apart in the main news section of today's NY Times. Anyone know what's going on?

"We're expecting higher standards”; full-page ad for Ritual prenatal supplements

“Prenatal nutrition standards in the U.S. are broken”: full-page ad for Needed prenatal supplements

Nancy Friedman@fritinancy· Apr 26

Discovered on the @allusionistshow.bsky.social website while I was looking for something else.