Black Twitter Is Thriving—on Threads
From outrage over Nolan Wells’ death to analysis of HBO Max’s Lanterns, Threads has transformed into a vital artery of the Black social media ecosystem.
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Party Invite Phishing Scams Are the New Missed Connections
Email scams that look like an Evite or Paperless Post invitation are meant to snatch your data. For some, they’ve become an excuse to reconnect with old friends or flames.
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Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?
A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.
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SeaWorld Wants to Make You Horny
The Orlando theme park’s immersive Halloween experience now includes hot, brooding guys in an homage to romantasy antiheroes—and it’s leading to record-breaking ticket sales.
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Kate Tolo Says Her Quest to Be ‘the Female Bryan Johnson’ Is ‘for Women’
Like her biohacking boyfriend, Tolo is undergoing a grueling regimen of tests—from tracking nighttime erections to subjecting herself to extreme heat on her period—in service of “half the population.”
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Welcome to Dogs Anonymous, the Online Support Group for People With Difficult Dogs
“This is a place where you can come and say, I fucking hate my dog today,” a Dogs Anonymous cofounder tells WIRED. “And there are people who are going to be like, yeah, that was me last Tuesday.”
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AI ‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood Told Me That ‘All Lives Matter’
The virtual character, which is promoting its upcoming movie Misaligned, tries to evade politics by repetitively commenting on the clothes you’re wearing.
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‘I Felt Super Violated’: Men Wearing Meta Glasses on Dates Is an Instant Red Flag
As anxieties over surveillance tech grow, unsuspecting singles are sharing stories of being covertly filmed on dates by Meta smart glasses.
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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He’s One of Just 50 People With Olive Garden’s Lifetime Pasta Pass. You Choose What He Eats Next
Braden Sinclair has turned his love affair with the restaurant chain into an interactive trove of dietary data.