Cristy Thomas began to panic as she called 911 for the second time on a warm October day but couldn’t get through. She anxiously watched the plume of black smoke pouring over her rural community in central California get larger. Then she heard a familiar ping. Watch Duty, an app that alerts users of wildfire…
Meta’s rewritten policies on “hateful conduct” mean users will now be able to say different types of things on its platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads. After Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement of sweeping changes to oversight of content on its platforms, multiple edits have been made to its policies. Among them are: A specific injunction against calling…
How should we as a society interact with one another, debate, come to decisions? What impels politicians to focus and act on one thing and not another? The Athenians had the Agora, where (male, slave-owning) citizens gathered to debate and decide the issues of the day. In the early 20th century, John Reith envisioned the…
Something felt off about Kai Braden’s first day working retail at an Abercrombie & Fitch store in 2006. His bosses sat him down to watch an onboarding video, but instead of learning how to properly fold shirts or work the register, Braden watched a corporate-produced montage of young men romping through fields in various stages…
Name: The full bush in a bikini movement. Age: A mere five days, born on TikTok. Appearance: Dense and luxuriant. Well, it’s certainly nice to have a bit of foliage at this time of year. Glad to have you on board. And it’s also heartening to hear that the TikTok generation is getting into gardening….
Iris Apfel, perhaps the world’s first centenarian style icon, died last year at the age of 102. Now her clothes, art and furniture are set to be sold at Christie’s later this month in an online auction titled Unapologetically Iris. Anyone familiar with Apfel and her “more is more” style would know that it began…