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Sloane Rangers and fine-dining's favourite bird

Hi! It’s Ilze. I recently had the shameful experience of emailing an editor with the AI prompt header still hanging. That’s what you get when you’re a non-native English speaker with crippling impostor syndrome in a profession linked with writing, streamlining grammar via AI and scheduling emails at 3am. SHAME!!!!

This blunder made me think about the value of an imperfect text.

A recent piece in The New Yorker tells how AI is turning student work into cookie-cutter copies with zero original thinking — one professor admitted to feeling “waves of relief” when spotting misspellings and poor sentence structures. Having been a lecturer myself (hi to my dear former students, I miss you), I can imagine how bleak it must be - reading +50 papers of sameness.

So just as in visual content, where design signalling the human touch (e.g. hand-drawn elements) is booming and brands are explicitly claiming no AI was used in their ads, my prediction is - small writing errors will become a deliberate sign of authenticity. Sashay away!

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• Backrooms breaks A24 best-opening record

  (Have you seen it? Thoughts in the comments please!)

• Euphoria’s finale episode came out yesterday, May 31

• Gracie Abrams announced a tour

• Canne’s Palme d’Or prize went to Fjord movie by Romanian film-maker Cristian Mungiu

• Jisoo was named Salomon’s global ambassador

• Dua Lipa and Callum Turner got married

• Pope Leo XIV used his first encyclical to call for the "disarming" of AI

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Pitching single friends

How far are you willing to go for getting your friend a match? Events where friends get on stage to promote their single friends are popping off from NYC to Amsterdam. you show up with a photo of your single friend and pitch them to a room of strangers. Make a deck or just show their pic and give a brief speech. A wholesome way to get off the screens and the swipe fatigue.

ICYMI, Bumble announced to kill the swipe entirely.

Layered tank tops

The layering trend has been given a summer upgrade — stacking tank tops in different colours and cuts. Brands are taking notes and trying to make life easier by offering multi-layered-looking one-pieces.

Desigual; asos

Sloane Rangers

If last summer was about polo shirts, parkas, and Oasis, then this summer the aesthetic spinning out of the UK is the revival of the Sloane Ranger: the wealthy, country-house, pearls-and-wellies, old-money British look, WWD reports. The term comes from a 1970s pun on Sloane Square in Chelsea and the Lone Ranger (a fictional cowboy hero from TV).

Quail

The past year has been big for rotisserie chicken — the NYTimes even said so — as chicken prices decrease but our appetite for protein doesn’t, relaxed bistros have been dishing it out. But one thing my recent fine-dining endeavours have taught me is that upscale spots opt for quail instead — it’s giving more lux than chicken, yet cheaper than beef. Usually encouraged to eat with your hands.

NOA Chef's Hall in Tallinn; Kamer & remouillage inAmsterdam

IG story creator’s mode

The cool kids are trading polished, colour-coordinated Instagram story backgrounds for the colourful gradient “Create” mode, mostly accompanied by the bubbly Meme font — the one from the early days of Instagram Stories. It screams low-effort and 2016, so that tracks.

I mean who’s cooler than NYC’s fav line cook

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Off Campus

If you’re a woman, chances are Belmont Cameli has entered your feed. Last week we told Off Campus, “the straight” Heated Rivalry, is the new TV obsession. The secret, isn’t hockey, but women writing male characters. Having an incredibly good looking cast helps too.