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Joe Berkowitz

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Andrew Cuomo’s run for NYC mayor was him at his Trumpiest: Using AI to bring politics to new lows

04.11.2025 4

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“Who was president in 2020?” is more than a viral meme

09.10.2025 7

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What can the rise and fall—and rebound—of NFTs teach us about the AI bubble?

07.10.2025 2

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Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival represents everything wrong with the stand-up economy

27.09.2025 3

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Jimmy Kimmel’s unflinching, funny comeback monologue is the State of the Union we need right now

24.09.2025 4

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Silicon Valley wants its own Steven Spielberg, and it think it’s found him

19.09.2025 5

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What happened to Jimmy Kimmel is a warning: Watch what you say on TV

18.09.2025 4

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Charlie Kirk believed in free speech. His fans are getting people fired for exercising theirs

13.09.2025 4

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Microdramas are TikTok turned up to 11, and they’re coming for your time and money

12.09.2025 6

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A historic box office weekend for ‘The Conjuring’ shows horror has become Hollywood’s safest bet

10.09.2025 3

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‘The Toxic Avenger’ reboot wants to wipe out your medical debt

29.08.2025 10

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The White House or Theranos HQ? Trump’s purges put him in league with these disgraced CEOs

28.08.2025 4

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Social media is dead. Meta has admitted as much. What now?

19.08.2025 20

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POV: Footlong Guy is the social media folk hero we need as Trump occupies Washington

13.08.2025 4

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The Trump administration can’t win its flame war with ‘South Park’

08.08.2025 10

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Why ‘The Naked Gun’ reboot could revive more than just a franchise

01.08.2025 4

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X and Bluesky users are mad about the same New York Times ‘correction’—for exact opposite reasons

01.08.2025 4

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Diversity in fashion vastly improved in the last 15 years. AI models will set it back

29.07.2025 20

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Hulk Hogan changed media forever with his ‘Gawker’ lawsuit

25.07.2025 4

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Why Colbert’s cancellation is lighting a fire under every late-night host

23.07.2025 4

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Astronomer CEO’s viral Coldplay moment reminds us: We’re all being watched all the time

18.07.2025 4

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Thanks to Congress and SCOTUS, the walls are closing in on student loan borrowers

18.07.2025 10

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Cuomo’s revamped campaign launch proves Mamdani-style videos don’t work without Mamdani

15.07.2025 5

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Why Sun Valley has never felt more out of step with the public mood than it does in 2025

11.07.2025 4

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Elon Musk has ‘fixed’ Grok—to be more like him than ever

08.07.2025 40

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GOP defends Medicaid cuts in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ with weird talking points about basement dwellers

04.07.2025 7

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Zohran Mamdani’s video explaining his victory is a perfect example of the strategy that helped him win

03.07.2025 40

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Tucker Carlson’s pivot away from MAGA has earned him unlikely praise, but is he being genuine?

01.07.2025 4

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Why Bernie Sanders’s real-time reaction to Iran bombing took over social media

25.06.2025 4

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Why has Trump started using this weirdly formal sign-off on social media posts about Iran?

25.06.2025 4

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Backlash against Mike Lee’s tasteless tweets reminds us that online cruelty has a real-world impact

18.06.2025 10

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Why Third Amendment memes are suddenly taking over social media

11.06.2025 10

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How Waymo got caught in the crossfire of Los Angeles ICE protests

10.06.2025 40

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Trump’s favorite expression: ‘I don’t know’

07.06.2025 10

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This corny ‘conservative credit card’ ad signals a very scary future for AI

06.06.2025 10

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As fresh tariffs take effect, the ‘Taco Trump’ meme turns into a weekly internet fiesta

04.06.2025 4

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Netflix is about to dominate every holiday with ‘Stranger Things’

03.06.2025 10

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Tesla can’t just hit ‘undo’ on Elon’s D.C. adventure

31.05.2025 7

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Spicy AI-generated TACO memes are taking over social media because ‘Trump always chickens out’

29.05.2025 100

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What is ‘ghostworking’? Most employees say they regularly pretend to work

28.05.2025 3

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Americans are fueling a massive pope economy

25.05.2025 7

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Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message

21.05.2025 40

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Netflix’s ‘Sesame Street’ deal is a PR coup for the ages

20.05.2025 20

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We’re in a golden age for movie trailers—and it’s messing with our heads

19.05.2025 20

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Is the era of the benevolent billionaire really over?

14.05.2025 4

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30 years ago, ‘Hackers’ and ‘The Net’ predicted the possibilities—and horrors—of internet life

11.05.2025 20

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The White House official social media account is a total cringe fest—and it’s gaining a following

06.05.2025 3

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From ‘your net worth will skyrocket’ to only ‘two dolls’: Trump’s new message of austerity

02.05.2025 8

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‘Hostile and political’: Jeff Bezos should have known Trump was always going to turn against Amazon

30.04.2025 10

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Turns out AI is really bad at picking up on social cues

29.04.2025 20

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