Meta Moves Looks like we’ll be seeing that cage fight sooner than later Last month, a tweet about Facebook developing a Twitter rival led to Mark Zuckerberg accepting a cage match challenge from fellow tech billionaire Elon […]
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YouTuber Grace Helbig Reveals Cancer Diagnosis: ‘I’m Ready to Take This On’
YouTuber Grace Helbig has been diagnosed with breast cancer. In a seven-minute-long video shared to the nearly three million subscribers on her channel, Helbig expressed optimism about her medical team’s proposed treatment plans. In the […]
Influencers Mildly Inconvenienced by Police Shooting Protests During Paris Couture Week
“OK the past few weeks have been MANICCC,” Masoom Minawala Mehta, a lifestyle and fashion influencer with 1.3 million Instagram, posted in her stories on Sunday. In addition to dealing with events in her personal […]
Donna Missal Survived the Pandemic and Getting Dropped to Release Her Best Album Yet
A lot can change in a year. Just ask Donna Missal. Last year, the singer-songwriter was dropped by her label, severely depressed, and was living out of her car. This year, she’s back on her […]
Key Glock: Glockoma 2 (Deluxe)
With the tragic death of Young Dolph in 2021, the Memphis rapper Key Glock lost not only a close artistic collaborator, but a beloved family member and the single-most influential figure in his career. But […]
Lush: Spooky
For a too-brief moment, Lush were the platonic ideal of an underground college band turning their dreams into a career. Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi had channeled their careers as teen fanzine publishers and avid […]
#TwitterDown: Elon Musk Limits Tweet-Reading Due to ‘System Manipulation’
Rate Limit Exceeded App suffers one of the longest and strangest outages of the Chief Twit’s era Thousands of Twitter users were stuck fruitlessly reloading their feeds Saturday as the app faced one of the […]
The Transphobic War on the Word ‘Cis’ Goes Back an Entire Decade
A little over a week ago, Twitter owner Elon Musk announced that targeted harassment on the site would lead to account suspensions — which had been company policy well before he bought the social platform […]
The Durutti Column: Time Was Gigantic… When We Were Kids
The Durutti Column’s 1980 debut album—confusingly titled The Return of the Durutti Column—originally came packaged in a sandpaper sleeve, a detail that couldn’t have been more at odds with the music inside. The sandpaper was […]
New ChatGPT Lawsuits May Be Start of AI’s Legal Sh-tstorm
The burgeoning AI industry has just crossed another major milestone, with two new class-action lawsuits calling into question whether this technology violates privacy rights, scrapes intellectual property without consent and negatively affects the public at […]
Sex Expert Sue Johanson Dead at 93
Sue Johanson, the Canadian sex expert who hosted radio and TV advice shows in her home country and the U.S., died Thursday, a rep for Johanson confirmed to CBC. She was 93. Starting in 1984, […]
Frank Zappa’s Funky Nothingness Is Full of Meandering, Revelatory Jams
Forgive me, but let’s open with some math. Depending on what sounds you consider canonical—never an easy decision in Frank Zappa world—the enigmatic composer released somewhere around 60 albums in his lifetime. His first, the […]