Founder of Garbage Media, where I write the award-winning Garbage Day newsletter about web culture and host the Panic World podcast. They're both really good.
New York, I guess
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Hi, I am just learning that Pikachu speaks English in the new Pokemon movie and, yes, it is extremely fucking weird
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It’s actually very weird how basically after Civil War, MCU characters stopped not just being in physical locations but stopped interacting with objects around them. The craziest part of this scene is the fact Cap has to react to a specific thing in the room that affects the plot
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This tweet is a great way for a lot of Americans to find out the British equivalent of Dollar General is called Poundland
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It is kind of breaking my brain to watch Democratic strategists shift from "when they go low, we go high" to "Republicans are a bunch of weird pedophiles" in the span of like three weeks?
THESE GUYS ARE JUST WEIRD.
JD Vance and his Project 2025 weirdos want to control your bedroom. Will you let them?
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I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that fully AI-generated but convincing viral slop like this is truly the end of social media.
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Anthony Bourdain describing Waffle House is the single-most important description of America that has ever been articulated.
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imagine being so brain poisoned by Twitter you write a takedown piece about people being excited about seeing literally the first picture ever of a black hole
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This is like seeing those early reports of a mysterious flu spreading across the US in early February 2020. The surreal feeling of knowing we're just a few weeks away from finding out exactly how bad things are out there.
FICO will begin including ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ loans in Americans’ credit scores starting this fall.
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I think Balenciaga pope might be the first real mass-level AI misinformation case. Kinda cool to watch tbh.
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The Boys subreddit is chaos right now. Threads getting locked, users rage-deleting whole accounts. It’s amazing. Right-wing users are whining about “no politics,” but it’s impossible to talk about the show without them now. Fans who thought Homelander was cool are in a meltdown.
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I’m genuinely getting very worried that there are actually like a lot of people walking around drinking virgin jungle juice all day and it’s beginning to make me feel completely insane. Where did this start? Who is patient zero? Why is this happening?
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shoutout to the Twitch user who said "pog" in the chat to a baby saying her first words on stream
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I don't bring this up much because I don't want to be a bummer, but I think the entire world is actually still currently experiencing large-scale psychotic episode thanks to the pandemic that is affecting every aspect of our lives and is made worse by our inability to admit it.
Mental-health crisis from pandemic was minimal, study suggests bbc.in/3ZA0EHd
Community note
The review admits that it was lacking in data for many vulnerable groups, and that the findings in it can't necessarily be applied to everyone.
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uh oh I have some bad news for you about what the rest of all of our lives are gonna be like 🙊
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I find something about this so deeply upsetting and grim. Editing your personal photos to make people look happier, more photogenic. The ability to edit your own memories essentially. Awful stuff.
The Pixel 8 is getting what I'm going to call the "Michael Scott" treatment for photos, with the ability to literally change faces using AI. It looks WILD
More from the leaked ad here: 9to5google.com/2023/09/23/pi…
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The town gimp can’t even writhe around on the ground anymore because of woke
Somerset Gimp banned from wearing a gimp suit in public and 'crawling, wriggling or writhing on the ground' for five years
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Machine Gun Kelly decided to cover System Of A Down's "Aerials" live on Howard Stern and it's so much worse than you could ever imagine
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He’s not playing 4D chess. He just doesn’t know what he’s doing. And he’s just gonna keep floundering until the bank take this site away from him.
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I just watched a gender reveal video on Facebook where a guy puts a watermelon full of blue jello in a live alligator's mouth and then after the "reveal" the man has to wrestle the alligator to stop it from attacking his family
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Separating smartphones from irl socializing is, at this point, impossible. But as someone who was a teenager right as this graph was collapsing, I can tell you that there was a moment where there were free or low-cost third spaces for young people and then one day there wasn't.
People are so unwilling to blame iPhones as one of the main culprits in a variety of social ills but graphs like are revealing. It’s obviously the phones.
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idk man, I feel like "74% of American workers don't regret completely upending their careers during a pandemic" is actually a bigger story than "26% of people who changed jobs regret it"
26% of job switchers regret joining the Great Reshuffle, survey finds: 'They’ve sobered up' cnb.cx/3JPhrid
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I guess I just didn't fully grasp how many losers there are in the world. Like I knew there were a lot of losers out there, but the amount of losers that would have to exist to, one, make this product feasible and, two, to make this ad's existence possible is hard to process.
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MONKEYS DON'T KNOW WHAT ILLUSIONS ARE vine.co/v/iwjHthlamZO
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Interesting to find out that during every radicalized election, every genocide, every riot around the world over the last 10 years, huge tech platforms could have swiftly identified disinformation and malicious propaganda and paused their distribution of it, but they didn't.
Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, we’re blocking YouTube channels connected to RT and Sputnik across Europe, effective immediately. It’ll take time for our systems to fully ramp up. Our teams continue to monitor the situation around the clock to take swift action.
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I tried to figure out what Alan Wake is and even briefly considered playing it but ultimately decided it’s more fun to passive experience it via unconnected clips online. At this point I can’t even imagine how it could be a video game. I think it’s just some guy.
Alan Wake you have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch is too bad. they’ll kill you
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Anyways, here are few of my favorite shots of Sean Spicer looking like the guy in a zombie film that doesn't tell anyone he got bit
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British lads overreacting to their friends doing normal stuff when they're drunk is my new favorite meme
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You’re laughing? Millions of apes will go without their slurp juices tonight and you’re laughing?
🚨BREAKING: Bored Ape Yacht Club and Otherside Metaverse Discord servers have been hacked. Millions worth of #NFTs reportedly stolen.
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this dog's mouth is full of tater tots vine.co/v/eH7UKqbdthQ
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1960: In the future, we'll be able to take a flying car to the moon
2018: We used the data from our porn site to prove everyone in Hawaii stress masturbated after someone accidentally texted them that they were all about to killed by a missile
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Yo, for real, French debates aren't as nearly as fun without the angry leftist grandpa and the bored hot communist #2017LeDébat
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I spent some time looking into the claim that Bin Laden's "Letter to America" went viral on TikTok. And, after finding some of the videos in this supercut and lining it up with Know Your Meme's timeline, I'm pretty confident saying this tweet is actually what made it "go viral".
Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous "Letter to America," in which he explained why he attacked the United States.
The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Many of them say that reading the letter has opened their eyes, and they’ll never see geopolitical matters the same way again.
Many of them — and I have watched a lot — say it has made them reevaluate their perspective on how what is often labeled as terrorism can be a legitimate form of resistance to a hostile power.
This is not limited to TikTok; similar videos have been posted on other social media platforms.
The Guardian had a copy of “Letter to America” posted, but once these TikToks went viral, the Guardian took it down, which has only led to more interest in the letter and conspiracies from TikTokers who say this is part of the media and the powers that control it trying to silence the truth.
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If you replace Sadiq Khan's name with "Superman" in Trump's tweets about the London Bridge attack you end up with Lex Luthor's Twitter feed
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Oh hey, so, here's a photo of Bernie Sanders watching a furry fight a Jack Skellington cosplayer at Anime Boston nepetea.tumblr.com/post/1590…
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No exaggeration, I watch this vine once a week vine.co/v/iUMH7zb6JpM
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I know the Reddit blackout is sort of a punchline on Twitter, but it's basically made Google worthless. Last night, I tried to look up why an actor was replaced on a show I'm watching and all the results were Reddit threads and all of the subreddits were private.
8,300 subreddits (!!) pledged to go dark or read-only in a 48 blackout protesting reddit's API pricing, which will be prohibitively expensive for many of the indie developers running third-party apps
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There's not one detail in this vine that isn't absolutely perfect vine.co/v/eEAzawU3Di3
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This is the kind of thing that plays on TV in Robocop
Kick Streamer is currently at Tampa attempting to stream through Hurricane Milton to win Adin Ross’ $70,000 prize.
He only has an air mattress, ramen and an umbrella nitter.app/copiumx/status/1844094…
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The "make my man nut 6-7 times a day" podcast clip didn't actually come from a podcast. It was a short clip created by a pornstar to advertise her OnlyFans.
Inside the new "fake podcast" viral content growth hack.
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I've received messages all week from readers reporting the same thing. MrBeast's video is clearly being promoted as an undisclosed ad across the platform to juice its numbers.
this has shown up in my feed maybe 7 times now
it is both missing the post time next to the username (indicative of a normal user post) and the Ad indicator on the top right
so is there a third, secret type of post you get when you’re a YouTuber and Elon wants you to post here?
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imagine getting owned so hard you have to try and argue that humans have actually never gone to space
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I discovered something utterly horrifying about the new Harrison Ford movie and I feel compelled to share it all with you
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I'll be organizing a memorial best vines thread for the next 48 hours. Here's the first and possibly BEST vine vine.co/v/iu176EO1p5m
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It could be that I just don’t remember, but try and name a non-CGI location or object in an MCU movie from the last three phases that has a fundamental effect on the plot of the movie, one that if removed, would mean the movie couldn’t continue.
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retweet this if you think Betty should join the punk scene and Archie should mind his own damn business
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Shit, I think you misspelled, "Shia LaBeouf — whose mother is Jewish — protests man wearing Hitler youth hat saying '14, 88' into stream." nitter.app/Breaking911/status/823…
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Let's speak it plainly: We are watching a wealthy man haphazardly strip-mine an app built and popularized by people of color and activists and relied on in the Global South as the last public social app that can still deliver news and information in 2G.
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Dang, universal healthcare AND gay marriage in America by 2015 nitter.app/broderick/status/61443…
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The image all those right-wing influencers were sharing of the original Lola Bunny is actually pornographic fan art. Whoops!
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The users whining about season 3 of The Boys want Butcher and Homelander to high-five, agree to disagree, and then go fight the Real Bad Guy. They want a tragic Homelander’s backstory so they don’t have to reflect on why they were so drawn to the character in the first place.
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Liam Neeson can't stop driving or his family will explode
Liam Neeson can't stop driving or his family will explode in the first trailer for #Retribution
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probably the best Donald Trump vine vine.co/v/5Wm7igEpLKX
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Alright, I'm ready to share my findings.
Optimistic main character who actually has depression
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People are asking how Redditors could sympathize with Homelander (or Darth Vader or whatever) when the character is so clearly the bad guy. They know he’s the bad guy. They want the bad guy to be revealed to just be misunderstood and then redeemed so they don’t get uncomfortable.
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What’s so sad about trying to name any non-CGI physical objects that actors interact with in a meaningful way in the recent MCU movies is that the main one in Quantumania is a Baskin Robbins cake and the main one in Endgame is… the Taco Bell taco… 😕
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One of the most mindblowing things (of the many) about living in the current era is that there's almost no actual critical engagement with the biggest musical act in the world
This might be the first time I've ever read something substantial on what BTS' songs are actually about
In this cultural moment, wherein ostensible K-pop boy band BTS (@bts_twt) is the biggest pop group on the planet, why not discuss what they actually have to say? read.medium.com/p7MntXx
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Today I learned how otter moms let baby otters float on their stomachs to keep them dry and now I can't stop crying
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Taylor Swift stans learning who Tool are because they're currently selling more copies than "Lover" is really something special
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It’s worth pointing out that even as right-wing and transgressive as the comic was, it’s very clear Homelander is a deranged fascist. I mean, he full on [spoiler] a baby at one point. But there seems to have been a lot of fans of the show who thought he was just a cool guy.
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At this point, I think “.01% of bitcoin holders hold 27% of all bitcoin” should be included in every single article that’s ever written about it. To me, it has to be the starting point for any discussion about crypto. Bitcoin is not populist. It is feudal.
NEW: In the crypto economy, the 1% is old news.
.01% of bitcoin holders hold 27% of all bitcoin! That’s 100x the wealth concentration of the regular economy.
Crypto, which was supposed to decentralize wealth and power, has just made it worse. We investigate with @munecatmusic:
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The third season has been such a wild balancing act, but if they can keep it up, it’s on track to becoming one of the best modern satires in a long time. It’s like edging into Robocop or Starship Troopers territory. Though I’m concerned they might both-sides the Soldier Boy stuff
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Oh wow Tucker Carlson released a pretty emotional message to fans signing off for the last time.
Ryan Broderick
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someone made an AI model of Tucker Carlson's voice read the super NSFW 4chan Vaporeon copypasta and oh my god
piped.video/watch?v=DynOlXtl…
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This guy in r/writing trying to find a good final line for his sci-fi novel is the best thing happening on the internet right now
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Also how boring for the screenwriter! Your characters can’t do anything of any material value in the environment around them. To say nothing of the character development we lose. One of first ways we’re introduced to Thor is him smashing coffee cups in a diner.
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Three years ago today, Asif ended his friendship with Mudasir and became friends with Salman.
In May, Asif became best friends with Mudasir and Salman (who are now also friends).
2018 isn't all bad.
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Fascinating platform story happening around the Graham Platner stuff. The source of almost all of the discourse about Platner on X right now is an account that only had 70 followers at the start of the week, isn't a real Maine news outlet, and was created in August.
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A 19-year-old DOGE staffer just uploaded everyone's social security number to an unsecured server
Zohran Mamdani’s brain trust is full of young, privileged lefty radicals with little government experience — who could one day lead NYC trib.al/qCXGtAQ
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EDM, emo trap, and pop country are about to collapse into each and reinvent stomp clap hey ho indie, but instead of suspender trust fund kids it'll be a bunch of guys with lasered off face tattoos playing unplugged guitars next to Akai MPCs and it'll sweep TikTok like a virus.
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Brazil's press minister Fabio Wajngarten is waiting for the results a COVID-19 test and is currently suspected of having the virus.
He was with Trump last Saturday at Mar-a-Lago.
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We can't ever forget about the vape tornado vine vine.co/v/OLhtVzVJAqx
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