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She, Robot
Danisha Carter might be a deepfake or she might be an android. But she is a TikToker with a committed following in the millions.
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Transhumanism in Lipstick
Writer and podcaster Helen Roy wants to offer a traditional alternative to the open-air asylum of twenty-first century womanhood.
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Countries Without Borders
With the support of Balaji Srinivasan, Afropolitan wants to put a new, more hopeful kind of nation-building into action.
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JT LeRoy Never Existed, But He Lived
JT LeRoy has been called by some the great literary hoax of the 2000s, but for creator Laura Albert, he never went away.
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Slash and Burn
Pedro Gonzalez takes on institutional media on the left and the right, from within and without.
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The Fat of the Land
A Twitter collective of “mad scientists” want to solve the obesity epidemic.
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Doll Parts
Unlike the thoroughly analyzed incel, the “femcel” is a cultural blank canvas.
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An Acid That Burns Your Nerves
For Chris Gabriel, memetic warfare is more than propaganda for the digital age.
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The Nuclear Realist
For Emmet Penney, nuclear advocacy is about doing your homework.
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The Incel Galaxy
Naama Kates’s podcast, Incel, says you’re wrong about the internet’s most hated subculture.
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The Dissident Whisperer
A talk with the chief storyteller of the intellectual underground.
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Meat-Market Blues
Swan is a new service that’s trying the impossible: bringing humanity to online dating.
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Vibing at Vibecamp
“What it could be like to live with people we’ve chosen instead of those we were put around by chance.”
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Creative Machinery
DALL-E shows us a future of art without artists.
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Warholian Stasi
If we’re all potential cops, then we’re all also potential criminals.
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