Lauren Collins considers the curious case of Stéphane Bourgoin. “Stéphane Bourgoin became famous through his jailhouse interviews with murderers. Then an anonymous collective of true-crime fans began investigating his own story.” Read more here.
Cory Doctorow has more to say about enshittification. “So what’s enshittification and why did it catch fire? It’s my theory explaining how the internet was colonized by platforms, and why all those platforms are degrading so quickly and thoroughly, and why it matters – and what we can […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins continue their series on Bollywood’s female superstars with a look at Dimple Kapadia! “Some may argue that Dimple Kapadia doesn’t quite count as a superstar of Hindi cinema, but she’s so interesting that we couldn’t resist! […]
“Watch as Bob the Drag Queen, Monét X Change, Alaska, and Jujubee join Brennan in the Dome for a wild, chaotic, and heartfelt adventure into the underworld in the premiere episode of Dungeons and Drag Queens.” Watch here.
“It watches,” he added suddenly. “The house. It watches every move you make.” “We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind might fight wildly to preserve its own familiar stable patterns against all evidence that it […]
Despite the fact that my kids and I share a YouTube account and my recommendations are completely ruined with the insidious algorithm pushing Minecraft content to me that I neither want or need, I still get the occasional pleasant surprise. When I first encountered Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart […]
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