Aug 20 2019
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Two years after graduating college, I was broke and living in San Francisco, the crown jewel of the United States’a…
Jun 1 2018
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Yes, yes: The Internet, “Come Over”: Do you see that butterfly calmly flittering in the sky? That’s the vision and…
Apr 27 2018
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Clover Hope, Rich Juzwiak, Megan Reynolds, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Maria Sherman
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Sure: SZA feat. Kendrick Lamar, “Doves in the Wind” — SZA rides a horse with style, Kendrick Lamar levitates, and…
Aug 23 2017
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“UES Mommas,” a popular private Facebook group with nearly 28,000 members, is generally what you’d expect from an…
Dec 29 2015
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I had just finished Christmas dinner with my family when I got the call: “A picture of you is on the front page of…
Dec 21 2015
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25 years ago this week, the internet’s first webpage went live. Created by Tim Berners-Lee, it was essentially “an…
Dec 21 2015
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In a profile on Net-a-Porter, Tina Fey talks parenting, body hair, reality television and being the “mean girl” back…
Dec 7 2015
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This year’s Grammy nominees are out, and for the most part, it’s business as usual: a bunch of people who topped…
Nov 12 2015
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In the wake of an extremely distressing report which found that Seamless and GrubHub restaurants often use…
Oct 15 2015
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Y: This black-and-white video for “Area Code” puts Nick Jonas in his best light and he’s doing a lot of Drake-esque…
Aug 20 2015
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The return of Nancy Meyers is nigh! The writer-director behind What Women Want, The Holiday and the Father of the…
May 21 2015
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“All we ever talk about it me,” Drake mewls on “Can I,” a leaked song with Bey on the hook that hit the internet…
Apr 30 2015
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ClickHole is a site owned by The Onion that satirizes online media’s never-ending quest for creating viral content.…
Feb 13 2015
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One of the nuances Karl Marx failed to predict in his assessment of late stage capitalism—our current epoch of…
Jan 14 2015
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Yesterday, we published a quick internet deep dive essay investigating the young, Instagram-based fandom of the…
Dec 29 2014
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In a year so crammed with both cultural stasis and accelerated political mania that it resembled nothing else so…
Dec 8 2014
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What with human banality, the steady expansion of female-centered media and the slow morph of the internet into a…
Nov 29 2014
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Before last Thursday, I had no idea that Grumpy Cat was coming to San Francisco. And if someone had told me that…
Nov 11 2014
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Nov 6 2014
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The internet has recently burned its way through another meaningless ouroboros of enthusiastic self-trolling via the…