Tag: pop culture
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The function of humor as a release from the forbidden thought explains why some of the most productive sources of jokes are authoritarian societies, because they forbid so much. In… more ›
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But viewers are also responding favorably to Prey because it is a watershed moment for representation, one that features members of the often vilified Comanche tribe as heroes. They are portrayed… more ›
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No group should be painted with one brush. We’ve known that since the inception of the comics and we knew we would deal with many different experiences. Islam is a… more ›
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The second of a three-part series charting a decade of change; how music, literature, the arts and film broke new ground in the Arab world of the 1960s. The 1960s… more ›
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Strange proportions, odd materials and clothing shaped like a car — this season, nothing is as it seems. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/t-magazine/erwin-wurm-surreal-fashion.html more ›
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Luo Tianyi is China’s most popular virtual idol among an estimated 30 to 40 holographic celebrities in the country. The trend originated in Japan, which has a long history of… more ›
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Beyoncé has an elaborate, painstakingly updated personal archive. Writer Amy Wallace described a “long, narrow room [in Manhattan] that contains the official Beyoncé archive, a temperature-controlled digital-storage facility.” Its contents… more ›
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After Sarah DaVanzo and I leveraged NWO.ai’s invaluable AI to score and re-rank the Meta Trends, we were left stuck with one finding: Both the global and U.S. AI data-driven ranks were significantly different from… more ›