grimes
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A Chatbot Is Mysteriously Sending Droves of People to Listen to Grimes and Stevie Wonder
When did we find ourselves on a music hamster wheel? Slowly, over years, with every daily Spotify playlist, my ever-shortening menu of pellets features five artists I used to love, and also DJ Khaled, for some reason. It’s functional; it can synch my BPM for running and effectively dull the hyper-aware blog brain. But the…
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For Whatever Reason, People Are Willing to Pay up to $13 Million for an NFT of Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s first tweet is well-known on the platform. Published nearly 15 years ago, the tweet reads, “just setting up my twttr.” While there’s no doubt that it’s meaningful in popular culture, Dorsey apparently also seems to believe it’s got monetary value. And it appears he’s right.
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I Followed Grimes’s Arcane Training Regimen, Unlocked The Powers Of My Soul, And Cut My Hand
Last week, Grimes, the Canadian pop star who makes pretty good music that sounds like a computer fighting an elf, outlined the parameters of an ambitious training regimen on Instagram Tuesday. The program takes between four to seven hours, requires sword fighting and screaming, and seems to be a promotion for a shoe company and…
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Elon Musk Explains Why He Quit Instagram: ‘I Didn’t Like It’
It looks as though Tesla founder and tortured workaholic Elon Musk has deleted his Instagram account. “Finally!” you might say, if you’ve been following the 47-year-old’s controversial behaviour on social media lately. “But wait you have to give me back my phone!” Azealia Banks might say, since she demanded Musk return the device around the…