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Why weird JD Vance memes have taken over the internet

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

‘Trump Take Nest Egg’: How 2025’s best meme evolved to take on our tanking economy
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Elon Musk’s bumbling X posts are inadvertently teaching everyone how government works

Elon Musk’s bumbling X posts are inadvertently teaching everyone how government works
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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 4

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Why Hawk Tuah Girl’s crypto scandal may be the defining moment of 2024

A lot of moments from the past 12 months partially tell the story of 2024: An AI-generated Willy Wonka experience bumming out a bunch of...

30.12.2024 30

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Meet the mad scientist of headphones, whose wild designs electrify Reddit

29.12.2024 4

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If you thought 2024 was a lot of Hollywood sequels, wait until you get a load of 2025

29.12.2024 3

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Paying with Venmo? You may be missing out on the hidden psychological benefits of cash

Never in history has grocery shopping been easier for people prone to forgetting their wallets at home. Whenever you approach the cashier and...

27.12.2024 4

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I tried out 3 media outlets’ AI chatbots. Here’s what happened

How fitting for Time to debut an AI chatbot last week with its annual Person of the Year package. AI was almost certainly Thing of the Year, after...

23.12.2024 10

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Meta wants Threads to be more like Bluesky. Again

The surest sign a social media platform is winning: when Meta starts cribbing notes from it. Stories only arrived on Instagram in 2016 after...

13.12.2024 10

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How social media unspooled Luigi Mangione’s life after UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder

The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last Wednesday sparked a five-day manhunt for the mysterious killer, who left behind irresistible...

11.12.2024 5

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Internet rankings are breaking our brains

Any time I’m unsure of which jacket to buy, or which movie to watch, or which country to visit, I do this one simple trick: take a look at the...

11.12.2024 10

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Disney’s ‘Moana 2’ is a monster hit. But some in the animation industry aren’t happy

As Disney confirmed on Monday, Moana 2 is a huge success. The film’s staggering $389 million holiday-weekend gross marks the highest global opening...

06.12.2024 4

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Chappell Roan, Kamala, and Shein are the most mispronounced words of 2024

04.12.2024 4

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Why 2025 will be the year of the K-drama

27.11.2024 5

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Bluesky has a growing problem: fake accounts

22.11.2024 10

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Can Democrats win back podcasting? We asked 6 popular show hosts to weigh in

22.11.2024 4

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Congress’s transgender bathroom ban is a grim preview of what’s coming to American workplaces under Trump

21.11.2024 4

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‘The Onion’ buys Alex Jones’s ‘Infowars’—and it’s already having fun with the purchase

14.11.2024 7

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Threads vs. Bluesky: Which social media network is right for you?

13.11.2024 1

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How the right won podcasting—and helped Donald Trump win the election

07.11.2024 2

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Here’s why Trump’s allies are talking about a squirrel right now

05.11.2024 3

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Americans are ‘doom spending’ to cope with election stress

04.11.2024 2

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How Trump’s garbage truck stunt became a dumpster fire online

01.11.2024 30

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Why ‘Get Out the Vote’ remains an enduring political phrase even as its meaning has evolved

31.10.2024 5

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Nobody saw Tony Hinchcliffe upending the election. Maybe they should have

30.10.2024 2

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Netflix is having a moment. Its new feature, Moments, is not

29.10.2024 2

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AI is now a crucial tool in Trump’s image-management arsenal

24.10.2024 10

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