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Joe Berkowitz

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From ‘your net worth will skyrocket’ to only ‘two dolls’: Trump’s new message of austerity

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‘Hostile and political’: Jeff Bezos should have known Trump was always going to turn against Amazon

30.04.2025 10

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Turns out AI is really bad at picking up on social cues

Turns out AI is really bad at picking up on social cues
29.04.2025 20

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These 9 images will define Trump’s first 100 days—and maybe his whole presidency

These 9 images will define Trump’s first 100 days—and maybe his whole presidency
28.04.2025 5

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‘Thank you for your attention to this matter!’: Trump’s favorite sign-off has become a viral meme

‘Thank you for your attention to this matter!’: Trump’s favorite sign-off has become a viral meme
23.04.2025 5

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The Democrats’ X account is starting to get spicy. It’s about time.

22.04.2025 10

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‘The Rehearsal’ Season 2 will make you think differently about plane crashes—and standing up to your boss

20.04.2025 10

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Your favorite podcast is now a toy—and a cruise, and a book, and a backpack

19.04.2025 50

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Elon Musk claims DOGE firings will boost American manufacturing. But who will really be working in these factories?

15.04.2025 4

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What ‘Ex Machina’ got right (and wrong) about AI, 10 years later

15.04.2025 10

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‘Somebody has to pay the cost’: Business owners break down tariff drama on social media

09.04.2025 6

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‘The White Lotus’ characters would never survive Trump’s tariffs

07.04.2025 6

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Trump has an odd obsession with the word ‘groceries.’ Now his tariffs will raise the price of them

04.04.2025 10

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‘Titanic 2’? YouTube is cracking down on AI-assisted fake movie trailers that fetch millions of views

02.04.2025 10

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Kickstarter isn’t just for indie passion projects anymore

01.04.2025 7

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Elon Musk blames Tesla protests on shady payoffs—all while he makes shady payoffs in Wisconsin

01.04.2025 4

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‘Signalgate’ has turned a string of patriotic emoji into a meme that will live in infamy

26.03.2025 10

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Trump’s corporate-sponsored Easter egg roll is turning the White House into NASCAR

26.03.2025 8

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How ‘The Matrix’ helped build—and break—beleaguered production company Village Roadhouse

24.03.2025 6

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America, the brand, is becoming toxic

19.03.2025 6

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Chuck Schumer has emerged as the breakout main character of Bluesky—for the worst reasons

18.03.2025 8

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March Madness highlights Gen Z’s skyrocketing sports betting addiction

17.03.2025 5

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Trump’s Tesla infomercial was meant to be a bailout for Elon Musk. Here’s why it won’t work

13.03.2025 4

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Does Trump understand what a deal even is anymore?

11.03.2025 4

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Why weird JD Vance memes have taken over the internet

07.03.2025 20

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‘Trump Take Nest Egg’: How 2025’s best meme evolved to take on our tanking economy

05.03.2025 8

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Elon Musk’s bumbling X posts are inadvertently teaching everyone how government works

04.03.2025 6

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Adrien Brody’s record-breaking Oscar speech was a case study in entitlement

03.03.2025 2

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Everything you need to know about the Oscars’ AI controversy

02.03.2025 4

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Why Donald Trump and Elon Musk probably aren’t breaking up any time soon

On Monday morning, anonymous hackers played a video on screens throughout the Department of Housing and Urban Development HQ in Washington, D.C....

25.02.2025 7

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Pokémon cards spiked 20% in value over the past few months. Here’s why

22.02.2025 10

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How ‘Trump Take Egg’ captured the mood of an inflation-weary nation

22.02.2025 20

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DOGE and Elon Musk keep making mistakes. How many can America afford?

20.02.2025 10

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How Lorne Michaels manages creative people after 50 years of ‘Saturday Night Live’

15.02.2025 10

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Meta’s laid-off ‘low performers’ defend themselves on LinkedIn and Reddit

12.02.2025 10

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Why the ‘wallet inspector,’ a 32-year old ‘Simpsons’ gag, may be the defining meme of 2025

11.02.2025 20

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How science proves killing DEI won’t turn the U.S. into a color-blind meritocracy

06.02.2025 4

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This is what happens when you try to run the government the way Elon Musk runs Twitter

31.01.2025 9

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OpenAI sees the downside of ‘fair use’ now that DeepSeek may have used OpenAI’s data

30.01.2025 20

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Everything wrong with the AI landscape in 2025, hilariously captured in this ‘SNL’ sketch

28.01.2025 9

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Netflix knows you’re looking at your phone—and it’s changing how shows get made because of it

26.01.2025 6

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How the broligarchy is imitating Trump in more ways than one

24.01.2025 5

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Trump’s Hawk Tuah-like meme coin moment isn’t a betrayal—it’s keeping a promise

23.01.2025 10

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The vibe shift of Trump’s second term, summed up in one telling tagline

17.01.2025 4

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Coca-Cola and the new age of vice signaling for CEOs

16.01.2025 7

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5 ways TikTok profoundly changed the culture

15.01.2025 20

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How ‘legacy media’ became a toxic brand

14.01.2025 10

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6 years ago, Elon Musk offered help during wildfires. This time he blamed DEI

10.01.2025 10

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Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary is just the beginning

Sometimes, the medium is indeed the message. When the just-announced Melania Trump documentary comes out later this year, for instance, it will...

07.01.2025 7

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Elon Musk turns Cybertruck explosion into a marketing moment

The new year started out with the worst kind of bang. In the early hours of January 1, an assailant exploded a Cybertruck in front of Trump Hotel...

03.01.2025 6

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