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Internet Culture Archive

Archives for March 2018

Culture
A definitive bracket of pop culture bracketsA definitive bracket of pop culture brackets
Culture

To celebrate March Madness, we bracketed a month of brackets.

By Aja Romano
Culture
Serial’s Adnan Syed just won an important court victory that puts him closer to walking freeSerial’s Adnan Syed just won an important court victory that puts him closer to walking free
Culture

An appellate court found Syed had successfully argued he had inadequate counsel during his 1999 murder trial.

By Aja Romano
Technology
Elon Musk deletes the Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceXElon Musk deletes the Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX
Technology

The tech guru chipped into the anti-Facebook conversation by deleting pages he hadn’t known existed.

By Aja Romano
Culture
Why we’ve been arguing about Lara Croft for two decadesWhy we’ve been arguing about Lara Croft for two decades
Culture

From fembot to feminist, her many paradoxes reflect our cultural ambivalence about what makes “strong” women.

By Aja Romano
Culture
Snapchat ran an ad asking users if they’d rather slap Rihanna or punch Chris BrownSnapchat ran an ad asking users if they’d rather slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown
Culture

Rihanna told the app to delete itself.

By Alex Abad-Santos
Today, Explained podcast
How “predictive algorithms” are being abused for nonconsensual pornHow “predictive algorithms” are being abused for nonconsensual porn
Podcast
Today, Explained podcast

Listen: People are manipulating artificial intelligence to nonconsensually put women’s faces in fake situations.

By Julie Bogen

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