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"'Are we at war with Norway?' Brits reel at 'sad' gifted Trafalgar Square Christmas tree"

>"Chris Cuomo abused his platform at CNN to help his politically besieged brother. It was flagrantly unethical, but in keeping with the culture of complete unaccountability for unethical abuse that American media elites have long _...Read More_

Taylore Scarabelli on TikTok, New York and gentrification

"Dietary metaphors for internet use blame individuals for systemic hazards."

"This article discusses rape culture and rape apologism and includes some references to and descriptions of sexual violence." >"Mired in power relations and inequalities, fanfiction has long produced the most nuanced and productive _...Read More_

"A wave of statistical enthusiasm, coupled with new technologies, paved the way for data visualization that laid the foundations for social reform in 19th-century Britain."

"We live at the whims of the tech giants. What if small businesses had alternatives?"

[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/style/yassify-bot-meme.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/style/yassify-bot-meme.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes) >"A new Twitter account has amassed a following by sharing highly filtered versions of well-known images."

[@taylore](/user/profile/taylore) As predicted, A great read. Totally agree with you, I think Instagram is dying, though a very slow death. I follow a lot of regular people and a lot of influencers and I’ve noticed that only influencers post. My friends haven’t _...Read More_

Agree with this, but I also feel like, for all the abundance, there are fewer truly *excellent* options. There are like 50 media properties these days in which I am half-interested, but almost nothing any more that I really, really look _...Read More_

"Social media reality may be seen as a magical realm where we belong. That’s where the _...Read More_

>"With genitalia proudly exposed, the amphibian raced up the charts in 2005 and irritated much of the UK. Why _...Read More_

>"The site, made by an 18-year-old coder from Germany, has surpassed 200,000 users and offers an antidote to algorithmically-driven timelines"