culture
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Forget the Metaverse, Zuck Says WhatsApp Could Be the Real Money Machine
Mark Zuckerberg wants his staff to know he hasn’t forgotten how to make money.
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We Officially Live in a Cyberpunk Dystopia
Listen. Things are bad. But consider how much worse they could be! Sure, our modern world may have the societal institutions outpaced by technological advancement, rapidly decaying ecosystem, insular extremist communities, and rampant income inequality that codify the cyberpunk genre, but consider this: we don’t have a single Blade Runner-style blimp advertising life in the…
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Here Are the Bridges Kanye West Has Burned So Far
Kanye West, or Ye, as he’d like to be called, is a man that needs no introduction, for better or for worse, but the rapper and fashion designer is facing consequences for his antisemitic actions over the past few weeks. This latest round of backlash against West began when he posted an image wearing a…
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More Than a Decade Later, The Walking Dead Changes the Game
If I told you the best part of tonight’s episode of The Walking Dead was a doorknob, would you believe me? Because it’s true, but that sounds like a bigger knock against “Variant” than I mean it to be. It was a pretty cool doorknob.