Culture / Culture News
-
Reddit’s ‘Celebrity Number Six’ Win Was Almost a Catastrophe—Thanks to AI
For every high-profile internet mystery that seems very grave—the Serial podcast listeners who dug deep on the case of Adnan…
Read More » -
The End of ‘Brat Summer’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think
Charli XCX said it, so it must be true: Brat Summer is over. In a tweet so echoey it got…
Read More » -
NaNoWriMo Organizers Said It Was Classist and Ableist to Condemn AI. All Hell Broke Loose
National Novel Writing Month has long been known for its quirky, homegrown approach to creativity: Write a novel during the…
Read More » -
The Trademark Tug-of-War Over ‘Demure’ Shows a Massive Meme Power Shift
From the second the message popped up on X, it had a familiar ring. Jools Lebron, the TikTok creator who…
Read More » -
7 Things to Know About the 2024 Paris Paralympics
The Paralympics also measures, with numerical values, the diversity of intensity of effort that each athlete can perform. Athletes from…
Read More » -
A Russian Chess Player Allegedly Poisoned Her Opponent With Mercury
Russia is no stranger to unique poisonings. State agents have been known to use everything from polonium-laced tea to the…
Read More » -
How Camo Hats Became an Instant Meme
On Tuesday, when Vice President Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz to be her running mate in her bid for US…
Read More » -
Welcome to the Weird Era
Y’all are weird. In a matter of days, this has become the go-to response in internet discussion. As with all…
Read More » -
The Week of Brat Summer Will Go Down in Internet History
Jake Tapper looked as flummoxed as everyone else. After a week spent trying to figure out the whys and hows…
Read More » -
The 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Will Be Unlike Any Before It
This year also marks the first time that the opening ceremony will be open to all and free of charge—well,…
Read More »