Around 15 years ago, a user named “airloaf” began uploading video clips of evangelical church services to YouTube. Picture flailing arms and rapturous uplift—swooning exorcisms, devotees collapsing, pastors with cordless mics and wild dance moves. […]
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Conservatives Bully L.A. Dodgers Into Dropping Charity Drag Group From Pride Night
Bowing to pressure from conservatives including Sen. Marco Rubio, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced on Wednesday that they had uninvited an LGBTQ charity and drag performance group from participation in their annual Pride Night. The […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Cab Driver Downplays Car Chase
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s “near catastrophic” car chase with paparazzi Tuesday night may not be as dramatic as their spokesperson made it sound, several people say. “On Tuesday evening, May 16, the NYPD assisted […]
R.F. Kuang Is Not Your ‘Cultural Tour Guide.’ She’s a Storyteller
THERE ARE A FEW obvious reasons for author R.F. Kuang to be drinking before 5 p.m. on a Friday. She’s just turned in the last paper of the semester for her Ph.D. She’s on Day […]
Liz Holmes Loses Latest Appeal to Stay Out of Prison, Ordered to Pay Victims
Running Out the Clock The disgraced CEO of Theranos may actually begin serving her 11-year sentence sometime soon, as her options to delay reporting to prison dwindle Ex-CEO of Theranos and Poster woman of girl-bossing […]
RP Boo: Legacy Volume 2
It’s a bold move to title your first album Legacy, but by 2013 Kavain Space had earned the right. The Chicago producer, better known as RP Boo, was already legendary in his hometown, having spent the mid […]
Highway: Monochrome
Seattle-raised vocalist Highway is the kind of rapper-producer who understands that well-curated vibes are their own art form. He orbits the same universe as many other somber rap-crooners, but he’s not as emotionally distant as Dro […]
Memotone: How Was Your Life?
Bristol’s Will Yates makes music inspired by folk rituals and ley lines—music of landscape and weather, of legend and myth. Recording under the aliases Half Nelson, O.G. Jigg, and, mainly, Memotone, he has made records based […]
Texas A&M Prof Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers
A number of seniors at Texas A&M University–Commerce who already walked the stage at graduation this year have been temporarily denied their diplomas after a professor ineptly used AI software to assess their final assignments, […]
Elon Musk Claims There’s ‘No Proof’ Swastika-Tatted Texas Shooter Was White Supremacist
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Madison McFerrin: I Hope You Can Forgive Me
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Oval: Romantiq
If you’re worried about the fate of your favorite musicians in the face of AI, consider the case study that is Markus Popp. In the early 1990s, recording under the name Oval, Popp became synonymous with […]