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It Started on 4 Chan, Then Went to You Tube. Now It's One of the Most Anticipated Movies of the Summer.
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (689+ words) Slate Magazine How does a teenager become the director of one of the year's most anticipated auteur horror films? The answer, of course, is the internet. The digital expanse is our foremost bridge closing the gap between opportunity and accessibility…...
The Internet Is Somehow Obsessed With the Pope's First Major Letter. I Read It'and Totally See Why.
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (1257+ words) Slate Magazine The online reaction to Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, a 42, 000-word tome focused on artificial intelligence and published by the Vatican on Monday, has seemingly positioned the Catholic figurehead as an ally of the global resistance to automated…...
Can Patreon Build a Better Internet?
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Women Who Date Men Always Seem to Meet the Same Fate. I Worry I'm Next.
4+ week, 1+ day ago (509+ words) Unhinged is Slate's advice column on the wild world of modern dating. Have a dating question of your own? Send it to Steffi here. It's anonymous! I'm a 29-year-old heterosexual woman interested in dating and long-term partnerships. I am currently…...
A Trendy Way to Break Your Social Media Addiction Costs $59. I Found a Clever Dupe.
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (309+ words) Slate This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Like many of us, I have struggled with social media. After a day of working at Slate, I'd close my computer, only to reach for my phone....
How Mark Zuckerberg Finds Your Perfect Pair of Shoes
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (109+ words) Niche advertising is being replaced by personal, specific ads. How Mark Zuckerberg Finds Your Perfect Pair of Shoes That's advertising in the agentic age, baby. Choose your preferred player: For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our…...
Where's MY Tariff Refund?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (117+ words) How many ways can the administration demonstrate that they don't understand who pays tariffs? Where's MY Tariff Refund? The tariffs were a bad idea. Paying the money "back" isn't great either. Choose your preferred player: For questions about subscriptions or…...
I Found Something Terrible When I Googled My Co-Worker. Now I'm Not Sure How to Act.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (278+ words) slate. com I've been at my company for about three months. When I first started, I was in a meeting on Zoom with a larger team and it was kind of boring, so I decided to Google everyone in the…...
One of the Internet's Most Iconic Websites Just Took a Bold Stand. The Rest Should Follow.
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (317+ words) Nitish Pahwa: How long have you been thinking about how to tackle A. I. across Wikipedia? But the burden kept increasing. We had to set up a new system to track all of the A. I. issues. Half of our administrative discussions were focused…...
The Price of Using Discord Might Be Your Driver's License
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (577+ words) Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Discord will soon be expanding teen. .. The megapopular digital messenger Discord is inspiring a lot of, well, discord this…...