October 2021 Culture Articles
- Tomorrow 239: The Meta grift
- Witches Anonymous: Wiccan Reddit is a haven for recovering addicts
- There are at least two 'Squid Game' cryptocurrency scams right now
- Facebook has begun carefully constructing its paper trail
- Facebook's new name is Meta
- Big Oil is spreading misinformation through newsletter ads
- 'Dune' 2021 was written entirely within an MS-DOS program. Probably.
- This 'Dune' Twitter account is leaking parts of the film that were cut
- Apple and Microsoft pat themselves on the back for clean power progress
- Elon Musk could solve global hunger and still be the world's richest jagoff
- Leak: This internal Facebook benefits video may be its greatest crime
- Facebook weighed emoji reactions much heavier than a 'Like'
- Oh hell yeah, it's AirPods Beanies time
- YouTube warns creators of kids’ content to shape up or face demonetization
- This man got $85K in COVID relief and spent most of it on a Pokémon card
- Japan's government has been using floppy disks this whole time
- People are spending a lot of money on NFT 'girlfriends,' which tracks
- New study confirms most people prefer memes to the plague
- Tesla increases car prices again... again
- Leaked Facebook documents reveal alarms sounding from every angle
- This limited edition Hot Wheels costs more than my car
- BMW will soon stop making fossil-fuel engines at its main plant
- Trump’s Truth Social is just an illegal Mastodon clone
- Twitter buys chat app Sphere as it seeks to court content creators
- Lyft discloses thousands of sexual assault cases, years after it promised to
- Black cosplayers are tired of being told who they can and can’t portray
- Lego reveals massive 'Home Alone' model ahead of holiday season
- Facebook Oversight Board gives Zuck a stern talking-to over transparency
- Las Vegas gives Boring Company the green light on 29 miles of tunnels
- Amazon warehouse employees in NYC have filed for a union vote
- Trump’s hilariously bad social media site is a gift that keeps on giving
- Despite controversies, Netflix is raking in the cash right now
- U.S. government sells Wu-Tang album to (you guessed it) an NFT collective
- Japan arrested a man who de-pixelated porn using deepfake tech
- Major League Baseball might be ending local blackouts
- Substack CEO courts Dave Chappelle, because of course he did
- Facebook's dystopian rebrand is probably coming next week
- Netflix CEO admits he messed up Chapelle situation in mediocre apology
- Amazon's self-driving Zoox taxis are training for rain in Seattle
- Vienna's museums now have an OnlyFans account for their nudes
- Bill Gates was such a horndog CEO that Microsoft execs told him to chill out
- Facebook's latest PR fail is a bizarre attack on journalists
- The eating disorder community is using Nikocado Avocado as 'thinspiration'
- Lawmakers have invested millions in Facebook, complicating policy reform
- Apple pulls Qur'an app to appease Chinese government
- They ordered a 12-foot skeleton online. They got a 12-inch one instead.
- Before ‘Squid Game’, Ice Cream Man spun game shows into dark realities
- Netflix fires Black, pregnant employee organizing worker walkout
- Tomorrow 238: Ted talk
- The Beatles’ music is now available on TikTok, God help us
- Apple fired an #AppleToo organizer for deleting files from her phone
- Installing a Ring cam can constitute neighbor harassment, U.K. judge rules
- Apple is leaning on weak arguments to defend a senior engineer's firing
- Tesla launches in-house car insurance program for Texas
- The McPlant will, at long last, come to McDonald's in the U.S.
- FTC announces fake review penalties for Big Tech, retail chains, and more
- Netflix CEO adds gas to transphobia fire with another unrepentant memo
- This art project uses AI to imagine the next victims of police violence
- Internal documents prove Amazon intentionally rips off rival products
- Twitter is promoting a few thousand tweets about Jesus right now
- Fight for the Future launches 'How to Stop Facebook' campaign
- It's terrible being a fat, Black femme on Instagram
- 'Squid Game' is now Netflix's most watched show ever (we think)
- Trans Netflix employees to stage walkout over Dave Chapelle special
- Taco Bell parking lot in San Francisco gets EV charging stations
- Blue Origin is run by a bunch of toxic bro jerks, in case you weren't aware
- Let Sophia the robot have a robot baby
- Meet the TikTok terminator taking down anti-vaxxers
- Facebook whistleblower Sophie Zhang is ready to testify to Congress
- Netflix suspended a worker who pointed out Dave Chapelle's transphobia
- Sally Ride will become the first female astronaut on a U.S. quarter
- Tomorrow 237: Dave Chappelle poked you. Poke back?
- The Internet Archive's new tool peers into our dystopian digital future
- Is the worst tweet ever really the one about Taylor Swift’s eggs?
- Sigh, you can buy AMC gift cards with Dogecoin now
- YouTube won't do Rewind this year — or ever again for that matter
- A castle is now home to the first clinic treating crypto addicts
- Tesla increases Model 3 and Model Y prices... again
- AT&T is to blame for one of America's most unhinged far-right 'news' networks
- Zuckerberg’s plea to the public reads like he thinks we’re all stupid
- Gamergate show in the works from one of the movement's original targets
- Facebook whistleblower tells Senate the company can't fix itself
- Uber, Lego, and Sony are among the most "hated" brands on Twitter
- Tesla fined a whopping $137 million in racial abuse lawsuit
- Google doesn't want to be your bank after all
- Apple makes more from video games than Microsoft, Activision, and Sony combined
- Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are still working with ICE and CBP
- Apple finally allows you to report App Store scams again
- We knew Facebook sucks, but the whistleblower claims are on another level
- Inside the secretly vibrant business of porn MP3s
- Neopets' fall from grace continues with pointless NFT cash grab
- Amazon wants to set an example with influencer counterfeiting case
- Amazon, Apple, and Disney execs secretly back anti-climate reform lobbies
- Instacart workers are going on strike indefinitely later this month
- Petty Amazon whips out receipts of SpaceX’s legal battles
