Digital Culture
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She Asked TikTok If Her House Was Haunted. Then the Cops Came
When Katie Santry picks up the call, the police have just finished their investigation. It’s 10 pm on Thursday, and,…
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The Stan Accounts That Keep Posting Through Brazil’s Ban on X
For weeks, some 40 million Brazilian X users have been beholden to the whims of Elon Musk and the country’s…
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Soon After the Deadly Hezbollah Pager Explosions, This AI-Generated Podcast Went Up
Last week, just hours after exploding pagers and two-way radios killed dozens of people in Lebanon and injured hundreds more,…
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Your Dumb Memes Revived One of Butt Rock's Biggest Bands
Creed is having a moment. Actually, if we’re being precise, it’s having innumerable moments, over and over again, all across…
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Lo-Fi Weather Channel Videos Are Soothing Climate Fears on YouTube
The Vaporwave album Conditions at Hickory begins with static, as if you’re tuning in to a 1940s radio broadcast. First…
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How the Cyber-Thriller ‘Red Rooms’ Became a Cult Classic Before It Was Ever Released
No matter how hard movies like Hackers, Blackhat, and Unfriended may work to convince you otherwise, there’s nothing especially cinematic…
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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…
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Olympic Drag Artist Nicky Doll Hits Back at Online Hate Mob
After the Summer Olympics’ opening ceremony, drag artist Nicky Doll felt she was on a cloud. Her makeup had survived…
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Twitch’s New DJ Program Has Flaws, But It’s the Best There Is
DJs finally have a safe place to stream on Twitch. One that promises an end to the DMCA takedowns, muted…
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Kamala Harris and the Paradox of Progress
“Kamala finally has an online presence,” says Marlon Twyman, a professor of quantitative social science at USC Annenberg who specializes…
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