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Photo: Spike Johnson (Shutterstock) President Biden’s sweeping plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of Americans is stuck in the courts (we cover those legal troubles in more detail…
Photo: Michael F. Hiatt (Shutterstock) President Biden’s sweeping plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of Americans is currently on hold. With the forgiveness program stuck in the courts,…
There is a wholly self-contained ecosystem of far-right influencers and followers on Twitter and Facebook. We know that it spreads disinformation and prejudice, but less thought is given to the…
We’re often told to “be here now.” Yet the mind is rarely tethered in place. We take mental trips to our past, revisiting what happened yesterday or when we were…
Meanwhile, I have scrolled past exceedingly graphic adult content on Twitter, which does not prohibit depictions of “bodily fluids” as long as users flag it as sensitive media. While Twitter…
Photo: Maddas (Shutterstock) As you are undoubtedly all too aware of by now, energy costs are rising with inflation, and the coming winter looks to be a harsh one for…
But beyond documenting and archiving and debunking disinformation, what can be done? How do we respond to this emergent property, an artistic movement born of the digital age? The knottiest…
In April, as he prepared to make his offer to buy Twitter, Elon Musk asked on the site if “a new platform is needed” for “the de facto public town…
The recent row over SpaceX’s Starlink and its role in helping Ukraine defend itself from a rapacious Russian invasion seems to grow only more urgent, especially as the Russian government…
Photo: Flik47 (Shutterstock) In an antisemitic tweet that I will not link here, a certain narcissistic celebrity garnered a lot of attention for grossly misusing the DEFCON system. If you’ve…