Photo: Paras Griffin (Getty Images) “I’m an artist and I’m sensitive about my shit.” – Erykah Badu “If you can’t take the heat, eat bologna.” – My mama Advertisement A brief list of names I’ve been called: I believe those things as much as I believe my mother when she […]
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Today we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by examining the positive ways artificial intelligence will affect humanity in the next decade. Also, we ate an entire cake by ourselves. There’s very little chance AI will rise up and become sentient any time soon. […]
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Rex Tillerson delivers remarks after being sworn in as 69th secretary of state as President Donald Trump looks on beneath a painting of populist President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office of the White House on February 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. Tillerson was confirmed by the Senate earlier in […]
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Twitter Has So Many Ideas About Who Should Host the 2019 Oscars – HelloGiggles Twitter has SO many ideas about who should host the Oscars in place of Kevin Hart
Read MoreThe official Android Twitter client seems to be taking inspiration from other apps with a batch of new features appearing for some users. Like many third-party apps, it’s now showing which client tweets originated from, and there are YouTube-style video playback controls that skip forward or back a few seconds with a tap on the […]
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Priyanka Chopra’s Wedding Veil Was Turned Into a Series of Memes – HelloGiggles Priyanka Chopra’s dramatically long veil was turned into a series of glorious memes
Read MoreRudy Giuliani is having some Twitter trouble. It started last week with covfefe-esque tweet. Nope. No idea. Then he tweeted this, which resulted in one of Twitter’s greatest moments of 2018. Mueller filed an indictment just as the President left for https://t.co/8ZNrQ6X29a July he indicted the Russians who will never come here just before he […]
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Over the years, multiple celebrities have been caught promoting a phone on Twitter but posting that very same tweet from their iPhone. Samsung has been caught doing the same thing. The company’s Nigeria branch posted a tweet from their official account promoting the Galaxy Note 9 from an iPhone. The […]
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In 2000, Tyra Banks and a young Lindsay Lohan made Disney Channel Movie magic in Life Size, where Banks plays a Barbie-like doll who comes to life to help Lohan cope with her mother’s death and come out of her shell. Eighteen years later, Banks made the bold move to […]
Read MoreGlenn Harlan Reynolds, the law professor behind popular political blog Instapundit, published an article in USA Today, Monday, explaining why he decided to delete his Twitter account which had over 100,000 followers. In his article, titled “Why I deleted my popular Twitter account,” Reynolds claimed the social network has become a “breeding ground for thoughtlessness […]
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Photo: Win McNamee (Getty Images) Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a new type of politician. She’s young, motivated, didn’t come up through the traditional political ranks and she’s not here for the fuck shit. Not. Ever. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (which is the same as me calling myself “former Bunker […]
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On Nov. 13, Jack Dorsey, the chief executive of Twitter, met with several female journalists and activists in New Delhi to talk about online safety in India. Female journalists and activists from religious and cultural minorities face relentless harassment and abuse on Mr. Dorsey’s platform. The meeting with Mr. Dorsey […]
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BARI WEISS: Everything sucks. That’s the overwhelming feeling I get when I spend too much time on Twitter. It makes me feel anxious and angry and amped up. And that’s on a day when I’m not even trending as a Very Bad Person. This fall I read Jaron Lanier’s book […]
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Twitter’s stock took a hit yesterday after news resurfaced that Fox News had not tweeted for three weeks. The publication stopped tweeting after activists posted news host Tucker Carlson’s home address on Twitter, which reportedly did not remove it in a timely fashion. Also yesterday, an alt-right activist handcuffed herself […]
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I love Twitter. Earlier today I wrote about the joy of reading a debate, between some of the finest minds in the field of AI, held entirely via Tweet. Now I’m watching conspiracy theorist and – as is the opinion of the author and not necessarily his employer – outright […]
Read MoreAs someone who lives in a state known for bad winters I can totally sympathize with Cleveland residents that have to deal with nasty winter weather. The Cleveland police, on the other hand, are clearly happy to poke some fun at their city’s commuters and used NASA’s recent Mars InSight landing as an opportunity to […]
Read MoreOn Wednesday morning, President Trump shared an image on his Twitter account containing several of his political opponents behind bars and questioning why they are not under investigation for “treason.” The image, which was retweeted from a pro-Trump Twitter account, depicts many of those he has criticized in the past. Among those included were former […]
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Instagram announced today that it is adding two new features for visually impaired users of its photo and video-sharing service. The first is “automatic alternative text” that will give audio descriptions of photos that users come across in Feed, Explore, and Profile. The description will be based on a list […]
Read MoreMeghan Murphy, a prominent feminist who was recently banned from Twitter for stating that men aren’t women, wrote an article for Quillette on Wednesday explaining how formerly “banal” facts have become “heresy — akin to terrorist speech.” Murphy, who accused Twitter of “censoring basic facts and silencing people,” was permanently suspended from the social network last […]
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With the entire world seemingly up in arms over “fake news,” you’d think it would have been wiped out by now. Yet low-credibility content continues to thrive on social media thanks to the disproportionately influential effect that social media bots have on humans. A team of researchers from Indiana University […]
Read MoreAfter virtually every election, Democrats go-to explanation for why they didn’t win X state or Y district is “voter suppression.” The midterms were no different — but the complaint was particularly egregious, given that it occurred on the back of outright election meddling from Silicon Valley. “Voter suppression may have made the difference for Republicans […]
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Last month, Twitter banned misgendering transgender people as a part of a wider update to its hateful conduct policy. The previous policy banned “repeated and/or non-consensual slurs, epithets, racist and sexist tropes, or other content that degrades someone.” The new rewording is far more protective in what it considers to be […]
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