Food. Sure, we have to eat it to survive. But the acts of eating, cooking, and even simply buying food go far beyond function. Food brings people together, it’s something universal that we share with one another. And while we all have our own food preferences and allergies, many of us use food to express…
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The bad parts of life are always going to be inevitable. To experience personhood, we’re always going to come across disappointment and difficult situations in some form. We could spend our time getting upset about every little thing, or we could take the high road of what will be, will be. This is one of…
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American TikTokers are frustrated that this filter is only available overseas.
Anyone who thinks chatbots will take over the world must get their brains checked for worms. The New York Times ran an article this week about Bing’s A.I. chatbot having a two-hour-long conversation that revealed some allegedly alarming truths. First of all, anyone who is having a two-hour-long discussion with a chatbot is wasting their…
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Enough Murphy’s law. Murphy’s going in the soup.
By all means, metrics and medical professionals, I should be classified as “chronically online.” I have been using social media since I was a wee tween, and I have not stopped ever since. I still remember Twitter discourse from years going back. I was scrolling through meme websites when there were only image macros available.…
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I know your house. I know what you look at online.
Memes are a lot like Pringles. Once you pop, you can’t stop. They are less like their dedicated knockoff, Prongles. Once you pop, it’s not so great. It is hours upon endless hours of scrolling, and that’s not exactly a good thing most of the time. We don’t want to get into the whole argument…
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This man spent 14 years writing a book that nobody bought for 11 years. Now, 25 years later, it’s a best seller in two weeks because of a viral video.