“A Turkish Cartoonist On Stating The Facts When You Don’t Have Them.”
The Nib has Turkish cartoonist Felat Delibalta’s comic, “So You’re Going Through A Coup.”
Two Sinister and Macabre Nightclubs of Twenties Paris
So Bad So Good has a gallery of images from “sinister and macabre” Parisian nightclubs from the 1920s.
Werewolf Panic!
Open Graves, Open Minds has a collection of links about the Yorkshire werewolf, Old Stinker.
“Larry Stylinson, the One Direction conspiracy theory that rules the Internet, explained.”
Vox looks at a fan conspiracy shipping two members of One Direction: “Most, but not all, ships concern fictional characters, and in many parts of fandom there’s an understanding that if you’re shipping real people, you’re only shipping the idea of them being in a relationship. Often, however, […]
“When Robots Are An Instrument Of Male Desire”
At The Establishment, Katherine Cross writes about robots, gender and Tay the chatbot. “We are being primed by many tech giants to see AI not as a future lifeform, but as an endlessly compliant and pliable, often female, form of free labor, available for sex and for guilt-free […]
Interview with African-American Jewel Thief Doris Payne
At Daily Beast, Goldie Taylor interviews Doris Payne, an 85 year-old African-American international jewel thief. “Posing as a well-moneyed customer with long dollars to spend, Payne learned to simply make them all forget. An insurance payout, an inheritance. She wooed her victims with detailed backstories. Often, it would […]
The Cultural Gutter 