Tips
My family used to go for pie and coffee at a twenty-four-hour truck stop just down the road from our house in Arkansas. I got a job there when I…
The Heretical Origins of the Sonnet
The lyrical poetic form’s origins can be traced back earlier than Petrarch.
The reason the West is warmongering against China
China’s spectacular economic development has brought up the price of its labour and dwindled Western corporate profits.
I Saw the World End
At this instant 80 years ago (8:15am August 6, local time), Little Boy—a 15-kiloton, uranium-fueled atomic bomb—destroyed Hiroshima, killing (per US military estimates) ~70,000 men, women, and children, including 12…
Alex Winter’s FREAKED Unleashed Onto 4K UHD With Stacked Collector’s Edition
Following a much-anticipated announcement earlier this year, Umbrella Entertainment has unleashed their 4K restoration of Alex Winter and Tom Stern's 1993 black comedy cult classic Freaked with a stacked Collector's Edition…
The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago
Ted Litchfield, a journalist at PC Gamer, noted that the “nearly 500 other rape and incest games” figure Collective Shout cites in its own timeline of the campaign doesn’t make…
The Azrael World
Joy Williams’s stories of angels, demons, and death
Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring—and Threaten the Open Internet
A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and has experts worried about the future of…
Microsoft plans to bring Xbox age verification to countries outside of the UK
Microsoft is implementing an age verification system on Xbox accounts to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act, and in a new blog post announcing the move, the company suggests…
Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content
Spotify is requiring users in the UK to verify they’re over 18 to view "certain age restricted content," and users are reporting seeing a popup on Spotify to verify their…