June
Poem by Nicole Tallman for Miami-Dade Department of Transportation and Public Works
The rise of the slopagandist
Nick Shirley and others like him are reminiscent of yellow journalism of the 19th century, updated and turbocharged by social media algorithms.
Phoenix police sergeant under investigation for off-duty actions at student ICE protest
CHANDLER, AZ — The Phoenix Police Department is investigating the involvement of an off-duty sergeant in a late January high school walkout, which escalated to the arrest of one teenager.…
Wuthering Heights Might Have Gone Mad With Influencers and People Are Noticing
The problem remains what it's always been: influencers are sponsored content in living form. The average Joe already knows the quid pro quo of their relationship with studios, and yet…
Bisan Owda talks to AJ+ about the censorship of Palestinian voices online
On Jan. 29, just days after TikTok came under a joint U.S.-based venture, Bisan found her account on the platform was banned.
A brief history of singular ‘they’
The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf.
Mirlo: The Bandcamp Alternative Building Federative & Decentralized Tools for Music Distribution
Built from the belief that the music industry no longer serves artists or listeners, Mirlo is pushing for a radical, federated, and decentralized reimagining of how music is shared online.
Future Knowledge: Enshittification
The internet wasn’t ruined by accident—it was ruined on purpose. In this episode, Cory Doctorow joins us to break down enshittification, his term for the slow, deliberate process that transformed…
Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz at the Jewish Federations of North America general assembly
The intense backlash online.