Culture
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Palantir Debuts Chic Chore Coat So the World Knows You’re One of the Baddies
This week, Palantir announced the upcoming release of a new chore coat branded with the company’s logo. The company has been releasing…
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Spotify Reveals Its Most Streamed Music of the Last 20 Years
This month marks 20 years since Spotify was founded. Since it began operations in April 2006, the platform has now become the…
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Watch a Game Collector Recreate 1974’s Nintendo Arcade Target Shooter ‘Wild Gunman’
Full-motion video games occupy a curious niche in video game history. If you’re not familiar with the term, it refers to games…
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China’s Biggest Streaming Platform Wants Most of Its New Films to Be AI-Generated
A company dubbed China’s Netflix expects a near-complete AI takeover of film and TV within the next five years. The streaming platform…
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What’s the Best Weather Day in the USA?
Here in New York City, there are about two weeks every year when the weather is genuinely beautiful. These are the magical…
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VHS-Inspired ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Mod Takes Night City Back to the Future
Apart from being a genuinely good game—something no one would have predicted after its disastrous launch—Cyberpunk 2077 has become something of a…
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Turns Out Home Taping Wasn’t Killing Music After All
For decades, the music and film industries have generally responded the same way to the emergence of any new technology capable of…
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Mysterious VHS Tapes May Herald the Release of a New Boards of Canada Project
At some point over the last 24 hours, mysterious VHS tapes reportedly started arriving in the mailboxes of a select group of…
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Researchers Discover How to Add Psilocybin, DMT, and Other Psychedelics to Tobacco
If you didn’t have “psychedelic tobacco” on your bingo card of “potential pieces of actual good news” for this week, well, me…
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National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy
Jack Karlson’s life, which ended less than two years ago, was extraordinary. Never famous until old age, accounts given just before he…





