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On September 7, Sweet Anita, a Twitch streamer with 1.8 million followers, issued a statement:
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The War on Trust
It is hard to capture exactly, twenty years later, how abruptly the long 1990s collapsed into the War on Terror in September 2001. Public opinion polls capture it a little. In the face of abrupt tragedy, symbolically seen as an assault on the nation...
The Protest No One Noticed
You might not have noticed or realized, but on Monday between the hours of 7-10 AM, a monumental protest was held in London. Members of the group Push Those Buttons (previously called “Push Them Buttons”), sick of “tyrrany, genocide, vaccine...
How Poker Players Become COVID Conspiracists
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...
Geofence Warrants On The Rise
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.
Reddit CEO Refuses To Remove COVID Misinfo
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 COVID...
How To Stop The Internet From Disappearing
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...
How TikTok Evolved to Be Audibly Confusing
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.
The UK Media's Climate Optimism Clouds Our Vision
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...