“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it […]
A righteous Twitter user named Nathan has made an accessible Google doc collecting all the Twitter emoji, ASCII and text meme templates he can. Behold here.
The Drive-In Mob movie tweetalong shares video reporting a shocking scandal at the Drive-In Mob 10th Anniversary Gala. CW: Godzilla and MechaGodzilla use some harsh language. (Full Disclosure: the Cultural Gutter is a co-host of this weekly tweetalong).
Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens tells the story of Homer’s Odyssey… in memes! You can read Part 1 here.
The Future Fire shares and annotates the 55 greetings on the Voyager Golden Record. “This is my best attempt at listing all the greetings and languages on the Voyager Golden Record. I’ve annotated the bits I’m not sure about or that seem incomplete. This is what we, in […]
Please enjoy these story ideas submitted to the Midnight Society. “Stephen King: For the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this… The Tale of the Creepy Small Town with a Spooky Secret Clive Barker: Is the town in Maine King: NO King: King: yes”