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When Boredom Strikes...
Data Bites.
Data stories from the edge of attention. When boredom meets obsession, the questions get interesting. No manifesto. No roadmap. Just signal.
The Point
It's not "us" vs "them". It's "us" vs Big Pharma and a broken "dream". Sounds like Bernie. Feels like the truth. AI, loneliness, affordability, intimacy -- are both the landscape and the "noise". Maybe some of us are fed up. Maybe some of us are just waking up.
Press
Brainstem "Pain Map" Discovery Points to Non-Opioid Relief
Using ultra-high-field 7-Tesla MRI, researchers mapped distinct pain regions in the human brainstem—revealing pathways that could be targeted for precise, non-opioid pain control. A clean, hopeful step toward treatments that ease suffering without addiction.
Press
Car Repossessions Approaching Record High as Delinquency Rates Soar
A concise look at mounting auto-loan stress: delinquencies climbing, repossessions nearing historic levels, and the macro signals to watch next.
The Take
Everyone's talking about the loneliness epidemic. Nobody's connecting the dots. We're not just lonely—we're medicated, distracted, and optimizing ourselves into isolation. The data doesn't lie: sex is down, screens are up, and we're buying gold like the world's ending. Maybe it's not ending. Maybe we're just bored.
DATA DABS
The Intimacy Recession
How declining sexual frequency, rising pharmaceutical use, and increasing
screen time tell the story of American isolation
Between 2000 and 2022, average sexual frequency among American adults ages 18–64
declined from approximately 62 times per year to 41 times per year — a 34% decrease.
During the same period, SSRI prescriptions more than doubled, from 164 million to 408 million annually.
About the data: Sexual frequency data comes from the General Social Survey (GSS),
conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. SSRI prescription data: Express Scripts Drug Trend Reports.
Marriage data via U.S. Census API. Screen time estimates from Nielsen Total Audience Reports and Pew Research.
Methodology: Python · Pandas · Plotly. Enhanced with Three.js, GSAP, and Howler.js for the $100K treatment.
Pattern Recognition
When measles cases spike at the same time "tradwife" searches explode, that's not a coincidence— it's a signal. We're not just tracking metrics. We're watching a culture retreat from modernity in real-time. Gold up. Trust down. The Analog Anxiety Index is my attempt to measure what everyone feels but nobody's quantifying.
DATA DABS
The Analog Anxiety Index
Cultural signals, public health, and economic indicators converging since 2020
"Tradwife" searches peaked mid-2024. 1,698 measles cases in 2025—highest in 30+ years.
Eggs hit $4.50/dozen. Gold reached $2.79k/oz. Six trends that tell the same story.
About the series: All data normalized 0–100 for comparison.
Sources: Google Trends, CDC measles surveillance, BLS unemployment & CPI, FRED gold prices.
This is descriptive, not causal—correlation doesn't imply causation, but patterns matter.
The Context
We're all fucked up. Sold a bill of goods. Turning into crabs in a barrel. But here's the thing: sex, love, and laughter are still beautiful. That's not naïve— it's the data. Connection still matters. Joy still works. And if you zoom out far enough, the chaos starts to make sense. That's the game.