Tag: cultural appropriation

• That’s Not What Unc Means

  April 19, 2026

  You’d never know the meaning of unc or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media. https://aftermath.site/unc-aave-african-american-vernacular-english-slang-gen-z/ more ›

• Planet Money: Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear

  December 10, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/Rc6SOvC From nuclear fission to GPS to the internet, it’s common knowledge that many of the most resource intensive technologies of the last century got their start as military… more ›

• Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship

  July 9, 2025

  As Chinese immigration to California accelerated across the 19th century, the hairstyle known as the queue — a long, braided pony tail — became the subject of white Americans’ fascination,… more ›

• Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok

  July 3, 2025

  Content warning: This article contains racist and antisemitic imagery, videos, and language.  These videos — seemingly created with Google’s Veo 3, a publicly accessible text-to-video generator — traffic in racist… more ›

• Cain Culto – KFC Santería (Official Music Video)

  May 11, 2025

  #Cainculto #KFCSantería Listen now: https://ift.tt/BwrWkbx Subscribe to the Cain Culto’s YouTube channel: @cainculto2301 Follow Cain Culto Instagram: https://ift.tt/98a3vHh TikTok: https://ift.tt/MXFmCe0 KFC Santería Lyrics: Extra crispy You want my Thick Deep… more ›

• The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

  March 22, 2025

  Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the… more ›