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The jokes were funny. The systems behind them—and the reasons we keep passing around war memes as entertainment—are more serious. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Digital Culture, IRL 

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have different visions for how to use AI for management purposes, but both imagine a system of heightened control. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Culture News, be seeing you 

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Crime 101, and Deathstalker are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Movies, Streaming Guides 

From a celibate porn star to an asexual ex-Mormon, the internet is full of people who are abstaining from sex—and it’s not just incels. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Digital Culture, Holding Out 

South Asians are a powerful, visible minority in the Trump administration. They’re also facing a racist backlash, fueled in part by the white nationalist Groyper movement. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Culture News, Culture 

After the full movie leaked, animators mourned the chance to release their work as intended. Others feel the leak is justified in light of Paramount’s marketing blunders and association with Trump. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Movies, Sneak Peek 

The platform’s large-scale crackdown on automated accounts is also impacting people who’ve spent years curating niche porn on secret X accounts. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Digital Culture, X-Files 

The Boys, The Testaments, and Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 are just a few of the TV shows we’re bingeing this month. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / TV, Streaming Guides 

Coachella—and everyone else—is making a big vertical video play. So I watched an entire weekend’s worth of sets only on my phone. Read More Culture LatestCulture, Culture / Music, Couchella