In early August, this year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) rules were published, including a note that the Rio casino, where the series takes place, reserved the right to remove players deemed to have returned a positive COVID-19 test or come into...
After pressure from activists, Google revealed in a press release last week that it had granted geofence warrants to U.S. police over 20,000 times in the past three years.
The top post for almost 12 hours yesterday on r/all – Reddit’s so-called “front page of the internet” – was an open letter from the moderators of some of the largest subreddits, demanding the website's admins take action to remove vaccine and...
Imagine a phenomenon that is so common almost every website has a specific visual conceit to deal with it, but is so unexamined that you’ve probably never heard of it. Spotify handles it with a pun on Kanye’s 808s and Heartbreak, Marie Kondo’s...
The video is simple: a pair of disembodied hands brush a delicious-looking sauce over fried chicken. But rather than a recipe demo or a mukbang, this is a call to action.
Last week, you might have seen a viral Sky News story about how the U.K. is among the “five nations most likely to survive a collapse of global civilization” – at least according to researchers from the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia...
A meme on Irish twitter has offered users a glimpse of a possible future in which a key fixture of Dublin’s public transport system, the Luas, is free.
In December 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the British Conservative politician Michael Gove was called on to grapple with one of philosophy’s deepest and most divisive questions: Is a Scotch egg a main meal or a starter?"
Are you worried about the scourge of wokeness coming for your kids? In the present age of trans rights activism, high levels of vaccine uptake, and critical race theory, no parent can afford to be too careful: there’s every chance your kids could...