News3/22/21Mar 22SaveNews3/22/21NewsGross YouTuber David Dobrik Meets the InevitableWhitney Kimball122Dethroned 24-year-old influencer David Dobrik, who started out in the boozy man cave of YouTube and migrated to a…
News3/10/21Mar 101News3/10/21NewsSolve This RiddleWhitney Kimball39What is a cross between Twitter and YouTube and is also a newspaper and TV show and radio broadcast?
News3/10/21Mar 102News3/10/21NewsThe Roblox Boom Is About to Meet RealityWhitney Kimball22Today, the online children’s gaming platform Roblox is dumping 199 million shares of mammon onto the market through…
News3/9/21Mar 91News3/9/21NewsRepublicans' Rich White Friends Will Outlive Us AllWhitney Kimball3Barring a series of increasingly tragic disasters, we’ll probably be hearing about pandemic-related political favors…
News3/5/21Mar 51News3/5/21NewsThe Guy Who Literally Coined ‘Net Neutrality’ Now Works for BidenWhitney Kimball7The reign of telecoms shills meddling in internet regulations seems to be coming to a close, at least for now. The…
News3/4/21Mar 41News3/4/21NewsMan Who Oversaw Texas Blackouts Shown the DoorWhitney Kimball42A Texas power grid oversight official who held the spectacularly wishful belief that he could keep his job after the …
News3/3/21Mar 3SaveNews3/3/21NewsBrace Yourself for a Future in Which You Do Not Attend This Year's OlympicsWhitney Kimball11If you were planning to fly to Japan to attend the Olympics, love the optimism! But most likely, your plans have…
News3/3/21Mar 31News3/3/21NewsParler Drops One Lawsuit Against Amazon, and Files AnotherWhitney Kimball6Alleged domestic terrorist haven/free speech network Parler has bowed out of its antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.…
Science3/2/21Mar 21Science3/2/21ScienceSmoke 100 Cigarettes Right Now If You Want a Vaccine in North Carolina (Kidding, Please Don't)Whitney Kimball35Have you smoked 100 cigarettes in your life? Can you take up, and kick, a pack-a-day habit in the next two weeks?…
News3/2/21Mar 2SaveNews3/2/21NewsSoftware Workers at Glitch Get a Historic Union ContractWhitney Kimball9Glitch, the software company behind Trello and Stack Overflow, now has a collective bargaining agreement with the…
News3/2/21Mar 2SaveNews3/2/21NewsExiled WallStreetBets Mods Want to Make a Blockchain-Based Hedge FundWhitney Kimball8As praises from celebrity investors and movie deals rained on the subreddit/memestock trading floor WallStreetBets,…
Politics3/1/21Mar 17Politics3/1/21PoliticsQAnon, CultTok, and Leaving It All BehindWhitney Kimball156“I was impressed that it only took four years,” Danielle, self-identified ex-cult member, 34, said on a phone call.…
Amazon2/26/21Feb 26SaveAmazon2/26/21AmazonHundreds of Amazon Drivers Agree That They Deserve a Union in an Informal Driver-Led SurveyWhitney Kimball15In just a few short years, Amazon’s warehouse workers have gone from suffering in silence to jobsite walkouts in…
News2/25/21Feb 25SaveNews2/25/21NewsTwitch Pulls Its Parent Company's Union-Busting AdsWhitney KimballWhile around 5,800 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama vote on whether to unionize, Amazon has been trying…
News2/24/21Feb 24SaveNews2/24/21NewsFacebook Told Us to Suck It, for a ChangeWhitney Kimball14Attention, haters: you have officially been put on notice by Facebook’s VP of Global Affairs Nick Clegg.
News2/19/21Feb 191News2/19/21NewsI Waited Five Hours for AOC to Ask the Robinhood Guy a Question, and This Is What I GotWhitney Kimball39Those of us who sat through yesterday’s five-and-a-half-hour House Committee on Financial Services hearing on the…
News2/18/21Feb 18SaveNews2/18/21NewsHow to Watch the Robinhood Congressional HearingWhitney Kimball4More real-time WallStreetBets drama, the David and Goliath tale of class and meme warfare that has it all, will…
Amazon2/17/21Feb 17SaveAmazon2/17/21AmazonNew York Attorney General Sues Amazon Over 'Flagrant Disregard' For Covid SafetyWhitney Kimball3Early on in the pandemic New York Attorney General Letitia James promised an investigation into Amazon’s safety…
News2/16/21Feb 16SaveNews2/16/21NewsBitcoin Hit All-Time High at Over $50,000, Leaving Us in Dire Need of Sound Financial AdviceWhitney Kimball38Bitcoin is the future, again: this morning, it hit an all-time high value of over $50,000. Is there a lesson in…
News2/12/21Feb 121News2/12/21NewsClearview AI Thinks The Solution to Dating Is Facial RecognitionWhitney Kimball2Clearview AI, now the byword for unchecked surveillance, has filed a wide-ranging patent application that…