Blake Montgomery
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Twitter Blue Bug Seems to Let Users Keep Their Checkmark Without Paying
Twitter CEO Elon Musk presented the revamped Twitter Blue subscription service as an antidote to scam content. When the service launched late last year, however, it spurred a raft of fake accounts that cost at least one pharmaceutical giant billions in stock market value. Now Twitter users say the struggling product — which has fewer…
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Instagram Memers Are Performing in Sold-Out Live Shows
At 9:30 p.m. on a Tuesday night in a small Manhattan comedy club, Annie Rauwerda brought down the full house with a PowerPoint slide, a blurry picture of Vienna bread illustrating a Wikipedia entry. The baked good was enhanced with motion-blur, looking inexplicably like an oncoming car. The audience, around a hundred 20- and 30-somethings,…
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The Twitter Files, Part Two, Explained
Late Thursday night, Substack journalist Bari Weiss tweeted a batch of screenshots detailing how Twitter limited the visibility of the accounts of several people popular among the online right.
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Why Are There so Many Lasers in James Bond Movies?
Half the appeal of James Bond movies are the action sequences — dramatic gunfights, daring car chases, the final showdowns that dismantle the villain’s masterfully laid plans for world domination at the last minute. The other half are the gadgets — watches that deploy circular saws, Aston Martins with machine guns behind the headlights, and…