This week’s tour of the world of young people careens around like an out-of-control bullet train. Everyone’s talking about a pop star with a body in his trunk, a dental trend powered by TikTok, astrology-based beauty tutorials, and a football stat hound’s ultimate rabbit hole. It’s a lot to take in.
Everyone under a certain age is talking about the singer D4vd, and it’s not because he has a new album out. On September 8, Los Angeles police discovered a body in the trunk of an abandoned Tesla registered to David Anthony Burke, the birth name of the 20-year-old musician. The body was later identified as the remains of Celeste Rivas, who was reported missing from her home in Riverside on April 5, 2024, when she was just 13 years old.
The online speculation is that D4vd was in a relationship with Rivas, but that has yet to be confirmed. The singer has reportedly been cooperating with authorities, no cause of death has been determined, and no charges have yet been filed.
If you’re wondering who D4vd is, you’re not alone: The singer’s rise to fame is a quintessentially Generation Z story. His career began with online fame gained through posting Fortnite videos online, but YouTube removed his content for using copyrighted music. At the suggestion of his mom, D4vd began recording original songs using free iPhone tools, which he posted to SoundCloud. The end result was a recording contract, an album, and a couple of songs with over 1.5 billion plays on Spotify.
D4vd’s biggest hit, “Romantic Homicide” mixes the pop music of the 1970s with 1990s-style lo-fi production, and it’s actually good. But D4vd’s lyrics are chilling given later developments. “I killed you and I didn’t even regret it,” he sings on the track, “I can’t believe I said it, but it’s true.”
But just because you write a song about killing your lover doesn’t mean you’re guilty of it. In any case, the story is dark, tragic, and developing, and D4vd is innocent until proven guilty.
Yeah, it’s a mood shift to go from murder to teeth, but such is the nature of life in 2025. Anyway, the newest dental trend among younger people is veneers. Whether it’s speculation that Gen Z super-celebrity Mr.Beast is rocking a set of artificial choppers, the 250,000 videos posted to TikTok’s #veneers tag, or the below deep-dive on the topic from venerable YouTuber Papa Meat, false fronts are very of-the-moment.
Maybe the fascination comes from the straight, white teeth of influencers. Maybe it’s hyper-awareness of teeth caused by taking too many selfies. Or maybe it’s because veneers are sort of funny. Choose your own explanation.
I’m fascinated with makeup trends and pop occultism, so I’m glad makeup influencers are bringing my two interests together on TikTok. The new hotness among makeup influencers is the “rising sign” beauty trend, where the makeup you wear is determined by your astrological sign.
In astrology, your “rising sign” supposedly represents how other people see you. So if your rising sign is Scorpio, you might go with a look that’s “intense, dark, and dramatic.” If Gemini is rising, you want to go “playful and vibrant.”
I don’t understand how the position of the stars at the time you were born could possibly inform the makeup choices you make next Thursday, but if combining mysticism with style choices makes it a little easier for people to slog through another day, I’m in favor.
We all knew it was going to happen eventually, and now it has: OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced today that it’s producing the first feature film animated solely through artificial intelligence. Critterz, a feature-length version of the AI-made short film above, has a $30 million budget, and production will be finished in nine months, an impossibly short time-frame for a traditionally animated or CGI film. Critterz’s animation may be AI, but its script and voice acting are being done the old-fashioned way—by professional Hollywood actors and writers who will gladly let OpenAI pay them a lot of money for making funny voices.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Open AI hopes to premiere Critterz at the Cannes Film Festival, presumably in 2027. Whether anyone wants to see an AI-animated movie remains to be seen. It sounds like a terrible idea to me, but I’m not the target demographic. Anyway, you can check out the first teaser/promo video here.
Leave it to Gen Z to come up with a new way to enjoy football. “Scorigami” is a term coined by writer/YouTuber John Bois that describes an NFL final score that has never happened before in the league’s history. YouTube channel Secret Base is in the middle of a four-part examination of the phenomenon that starts with the first ever NFL football game played in 1922 and continues to the present, seen through the lens of “this is the only time any two pro teams have ended a game with this score.”
The series is equal parts sports, history, comedy, and statistics, with fascinating digressions and side trips to explore things like how the NFL owes its entire existence to a random guy’s truck breaking down in Texas at the turn of the century and how it’s possible—extremely unlikely, but still possible—to score a single point in a football game. In other words, it’s the kind of documentary that would be rejected by ESPN for being too math-y and rejected by PBS for being too sporty, but is able to find a home and hundreds of thousands of viewers because YouTube exists.
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Zwift’s big fondo events are a popular tradition where thousands of riders push themselves to finish long weekend rides. And while the ZFondo Series took a year off last year, it’s back for the 2025/26 indoor season, with the first event happening this weekend!
Here are all the details for this year’s ZFondo Series…
The last weekend of each month is designated as a Fondo Weekend, and each month features a different route.
Events are scheduled every three hours on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday on Fondo Weekends.
You must choose a category when you sign up, but the category you choose is entirely up to you, and all categories start together and are visible to each other.
The idea is that you’ll choose a category at the approximate pace you plan to ride, making it easy to see and group up with other riders targeting a similar pace.
Available categories:
Past fondos have typically featured jersey unlocks, but some of the designs weren’t always a hit. (Does anyone wear the salmon/chocolate 2023 kit?)
So Zwift is switching things up this year by giving a 1000 XP bonus the first time you complete each month’s fondo event.
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Of course, a fondo wouldn’t be a fondo without a kit unlock. But instead of releasing another set of fondo kits, Zwift is awarding different legacy Zwift Fondo kits each month:
Officially, no. But hundreds (possibly thousands) of riders will turn out for each of these popular “fun race” events, and the front of each event will certainly be filled with strong riders going all out.
With so many riders participating, everyone should be able to find a group that suits their desired pace. You do you!
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Castelli has added to its jacket collection with the Do.Di.Ci, which it says is the “spiritual heir” to the original Gabba.
The Do.Di.Ci has the high breathability of Castelli’s revolutionary Gabba jacket, but without the water resistance. Castelli says this makes it great for dry weather when the temperature is between 8 and 15°C (46 and 59°F).
According to Steve Smith, Castelli’s global brand manager: “There’s never been a jacket like the Do.Di.Ci. We see it as the spiritual heir to the Gabba for the way many people use the Gabba.
“The original Gabba was created for professional riders racing in the rain, but given its phenomenal success, we see that many cyclists use it in conditions that it wasn’t designed for: cool and dry.”
Castelli rather missed the mark when it launched the Gabba R in 2024. That jacket is super-aero and also waterproof, wind-resistant and very packable. But with minimal insulation and a skin-tight fit, not to mention a sky-high price, it’s one for the racers rather than an everyman piece.
So, the new Do.Di.Ci (minus the dots, the name is Italian for ‘twelve’) skips the waterproofing in favour of good windproofing, paired with plenty of airflow to prevent a boil-in-a-bag feel inside. Castelli says the Do.Di.Ci is 12 times more effective at evaporating sweat than the original Gabba, hence its name.
According to Smith: “While the Gabba R provides the ultimate protection for racing in the rain while being as aerodynamic as a speedsuit – the Do.Di.Ci excels in high intensity rides in cool dry conditions.
“With water protection taken out of the equation, we’ve designed the Do.Di.Ci. to make performance cyclists more comfortable than they’ve ever been during high-intensity efforts in cooler, dry conditions.”
The Do.Di.Ci uses Castelli’s Ristretto fabric, which has plenty of stretch and incorporates a PFAS-free membrane to restrict the airflow through the fabric. Castelli says the Do.Di.Ci is the most breathable jacket in its winter range, claiming air permeability of 3 cubic feet per minute.
If you want water repellency, too – not a bad idea for UK riders – Castelli points you to the Perfetto RoS 3. Launched earlier this month, it’s made from Polartec AirCore fabric, which is less breathable with a 0.7 cubic feet per minute rating.
The Do.Di.Ci is not a cheap winter jacket, but is still around £100 / $100 less expensive than the Gabba R. You can choose between men’s and women’s versions with long sleeves, as well as a short-sleeve variant available for men only, with four colours and sizes from XS to 3XL for men, and two colours and sizes from XS to XL for women.
The men’s Do.Di.Ci short-sleeve is priced at £220 / $240 / €199.95, and the men’s and women’s long-sleeve at £250 / $280 / €229.95.
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Many Apple Watches will soon be able to alert users about possible high blood pressure, reports Reuters — culminating six years of research and development:
Apple used AI to sort through the data from 100,000 people enrolled in a heart and movement study it originally launched in 2019 to see whether it could find features in the signal data from the watch’s main heart-related sensor that it could then match up with traditional blood pressure measurements, said Sumbul Ahmad Desai [Apple’s vice president of health]. After multiple layers of machine learning, Apple came up with an algorithm that it then validated with a specific study of 2,000 participants.
Apple’s privacy measures mean that “one of the ironies here is we don’t get a lot of data” outside of the context of large-scale studies, Desai said. But data from those studies “gives us a sense of, scientifically, what are some other signals that are worth pulling the thread on … those studies are incredibly powerful.”
The feature, which received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, does not measure blood pressure directly, but notifies users that they may have high blood pressure and encourages them to use a cuff to measure it and talk to a doctor. Apple plans to roll out the feature to more than 150 countries, which Ami Bhatt, chief innovation officer of the American College of Cardiology, said could help people discover high blood pressure early and reduce related conditions such as heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease. Bhatt, who said her views are her own and do not represent those of the college, said Apple appears to have been careful to avoid false positives that might alarm users. But she said the iPhone maker should emphasize that the new feature is no substitute for traditional measurements and professional diagnosis.
The article notes that the feature will be available in Apple Watch Series 11 models that go on sale on Friday, as well as models back to the Apple Watch Series 9.
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“Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth,” reports CNN, “and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet unseen by telescopes for about 60 years, according to new research.”
The newly discovered celestial object, named 2025 PN7, is a type of near-Earth asteroid that orbits the sun but sticks close to our planet. Like our world, 2025 PN7 takes one year to complete an orbit around the sun…
The newly found 2025 PN7 is just one of a handful of known quasi-moons with orbits near our planet, including Kamo’oalewa, which is also thought to be an ancient lunar fragment. Kamo’oalewa is one of the destinations of China’s Tianwen-2 mission launched in May, which aims to collect and return samples from the space rock in 2027. The Pan-STARRS observatory located on the Haleakala volcano in Hawaii captured observations of 2025 PN7 on August 29. Archival data revealed that the object has been in an Earth-like orbit for decades.
The quasi-moon managed to escape the notice of astronomers for so long because it is small and faint, said Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, a researcher on the faculty of mathematical sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid who recently authored a paper about the space rock. The paper was published on September 2 in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, which is for timely non-peer-reviewed astronomical observations. The space rock swings within 186,000 miles (299,337 kilometers) of us during its closest pass of our planet, de la Fuente Marcos said…. “It can only be detected by currently available telescopes when it gets close to our planet as it did this summer,” de la Fuente Marcos explained. “Its visibility windows are few and far between. It is a challenging object….”
Astronomers are still trying to figure out 2025 PN7’s size. About 98 feet (30 meters) across is a reasonable estimate, de la Fuente Marcos said. It also has the potential to be 62 feet (19 meters) in diameter, according to EarthSky. The space rock is currently the smallest-known quasi-moon to have orbited near Earth, de la Fuente Marcos said.
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