On Feb. 18, Utah Jazz legend Karl Malone will be a judge during the Slam Dunk Contest at NBA All-Star Weekend in Salt Lake City. On the surface, an all-time great participating in All-Star festivities […]
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Twitter to Allow Only Blue Subscribers to Use Worst Form of Authentication
Their Loss The social media platform will begin charging users to secure accounts via text message Twitter announced on Friday that it will only allow paid Blue subscribers to use text messages as a two-factor […]
Total Refreshment Centre: Transmissions From Total Refreshment Centre
A Parisian whose gateway to jazz and hip-hop was the Beastie Boys, Lex Blondin opened the Total Refreshment Centre in a London warehouse in 2012, creating a space that tripled as a recording studio, artist […]
LA Man Charged With Hate Crimes Threatened Classmate: ‘I Want You Dead, Jew’
The suspect charged with hate crimes after he allegedly shot two different Jewish men earlier this week had a history of sending violent, antisemitic messages, according to court records filed on Friday. On Friday, the […]
WHO IS ONA TZAR
Ona Tzar is 33 and lives between London and Berlin, a pretty cool pair of places to be young and creative. She describes herself as a polyglot of artistic vessels — performer, producer, singer, “visual […]
Brianna Ghey’s Vigils Have Become Protests — But to Friends, She Was Just ‘Bri’
When 16-year-old Rochelle heard that her friend, Brianna Ghey, had been dead-named in the U.K. press, she burst into tears. Why would the media disrespect Ghey by referring to her by a name that she […]
‘Like A Dragon: Ishin!’: An Eccentric Action RPG Vision of Edo-Period Japan
Like a Dragon: Ishin! originally debuted in 2014, just before its parent series Yakuza got its big break outside of Japan with Yakuza 0. While entries after that game quickly came westward (and now launch […]
Five Memphis Cops Plead Not Guilty to Murder in Tyre Nichols’ Death
The five Memphis police officers charged with second-degree murder in the death of Tyre Nichols all pleaded not guilty at their arraignment hearing Friday. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and […]
After the Ohio Train Derailment, TikTokers Say They Have a Place in Reporting News
Earlier this month, a train carrying hazardous materials — including vinyl chloride, a carcinogen — derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Residents were evacuated from the area as Norfolk Southern, the company responsible for operating the […]
Microsoft’s Bing A.I. Is Pissed at Microsoft
After launching an AI-powered Bing search engine earlier this month, Microsoft introduced an update designed to improve its conservations with humanlike responses, the Washington Post reported. The new Bing integrates a new version of AI […]
Pile: All Fiction
With their 2012 breakout Dripping, Pile cemented their status as one the loudest, most quietly influential DIY rock bands with riotous live shows and a discography that brawls with post-hardcore. In recent years, however, the […]
Erika: Anevite Void
Without wishing to spoil one of the best science fiction movies of the 1970s—you’ve had long enough to watch it, surely—there’s a crushing scene in Douglas Trumbull’s Silent Running that envisions a biome floating through deep […]