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The Typo Vibe Shift " DNYUZ
3+ hour, 8+ min ago (325+ words) Toward the beginning of the 2002 film Secretary, a domineering lawyer (played by James Spader) barges into the office of his assistant (Maggie Gyllenhaal) with evidence of a work infraction: a memo she has written that has "three typing errors." Spader's…...
The Men Behind Your Favorite AI Gay Thirst Traps
3+ week, 6+ day ago (588+ words) It's an impressive online presence, and Jae's fans eat it up: his comments are filled with fire and heart-eye emoji and people praising his music. It's not until you go back to his profile and look at his bio, which…...
Things We Hate and Love Online This Week
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (508+ words) The column that is terminally online so that you don't have to be. It's been a busy week for geopolitical AI experts, which is basically what all of us are these days. The end of the world seemed to be…...
Gen Z is feeling nostalgic for a life they never knew
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (560+ words) Early in FX's hit show "Love Story," an extraordinary scene takes place. John F. Kennedy Jr. rolls up on his bicycle to meet Carolyn Bessette for their first date. She's strolling out " she tells him he could've called the restaurant to…...
The grief behind the cascade of online Dolores Huerta photos
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (636+ words) The famous 1960s-era black-and-white shot of her looking like a bohemian in sweatshirt and black pants while she holds up a sign proclaiming "HUELGA" in the grape fields of California's Central Valley. Chanting at the front of picket lines, strands…...
Why I Love the Movies and How to Save Them
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (445+ words) The great American creative-industrial supertanker that is Hollywood is being rocked by rough seas. Nowhere is the conflict between the gales of change and the enduring strength of professional storytelling fiercer than in the business of movies in movie theaters,…...
Pet pig that talks with buttons earns world-record IG following
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (254+ words) This is one sensational swine. Merlin the Pig, who boasts a staggering 1. 1 million Instagram followers, recently earned a Guinness World Record for his social-media stardom. The 4-year-old Mini Vietnamese potbelly, which lives in Sacramento, Calif. , took home the title for…...
DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1491+ words) Before the lights dimmed for the film, "The Lady from Shanghai" at Vidiots, Aidan Gannon and Jason Fine were busy perusing the aisles of endless DVDs. For these young cinephiles, the Eagle Rock hub isn't just a theater " it's a…...
Mogging, -maxxing, and Clavicular, briefly explained
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (605+ words) Do you remember where you were when Clavicular got brutally framemogged by an ASU fraternity leader?" Or maybe you saw the clips of the 20-year-old creator " alongside Andrew Tate and white nationalist Nick Fuentes " dancing to Kanye West's "Heil Hitler…...
After lonely baby monkey goes viral, his IKEA comfort toy sells out
3+ mon, 8+ hour ago (866+ words) What's it like to have millions of fans but struggle to make friends? For Punch, a 7-month-old macaque, fame and loneliness have collided, leaving the world watching as he clings to a stuffed orangutan toy from IKEA. Punch was abandoned…...