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For over a year, Elon Musk has railed against what he calls the “woke mind virus,” which is perhaps now best defined as anything other than far-right politics. More narrowly, the “anti-woke” culture warriors with whom Musk has found common cause are focused on antagonizing companies that appear to support …

For those worried about the so-called “woke mind virus,” it’s tough keeping track of all the stuff you’re supposed to hate and boycott. Naturally, there will always be major figures and brands at top of mind — Let’s go Brandon! Down with Bud Light! — but it’s a big world …

The thing about being first is that it usually puts a target on your back. For Street Fighter, despite setting the standard for an entire genre in 1987, and perfecting it in 1991, it meant that the franchise would almost immediately be against the ropes. With its breakout followed the …

After exhausting every possible option, including literally trying to fleeing the country, Elizabeth Holmes is finally serving her 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors in her blood-testing startup Theranos. Since being found guilty in January 2022, the disgraced CEO has used everything from conviction appeals to her own children to …

From Inventing Anna to a newly invented career. On Tuesday, Anna Delvey — the convicted fraudster and fake socialite who served as inspiration for Netflix’s Inventing Anna — announced that she’ll be releasing a weekly podcast and a debut single. Delvey, who’s currently on house arrest, will work with podcast …

“Grandma locked me in an oven at 230 degrees when I was just 21 months old,” the cherubic baby with giant blue eyes and a floral headband says in the TikTok video. The baby, who speaks in an adorably childish voice atop the plaintive melody of Dylan Mathew‘s “Love Is …

On Oct. 27, 2018, as worshipers gathered at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, a gunman opened fire and killed 11 people. The federal death penalty trial of the alleged shooter Robert G. Bowers, 50, began Tuesday with an audio recording of a 911 call one of the victims, …

Target has long carried LGBTQ Pride-themed merchandise for the month of June. Sure, they’ve received some angry comments from the right, or even been called out as cringe by the left. But this year — as LGBTQ organizers brace for a particularly hate-filled Pride — Target began receiving intense backlash. …

To a certain kind of gamer, Diablo is sacrosanct. Arriving for PC in 1997, the first game in the series evoked all the most hellacious phantasmagoria ever dreamt up in a basement-bound Dungeons & Dragons campaign, neatly packaged in an endlessly replayable hack-and-slash RPG. A smash hit, its publisher, Blizzard …

Etienne Waite was not aware that his arm wrestling videos, in which he gently whispers instructions to beefy men, were inspiring thirst. “Pull backwards, that’s too much rotating…good, good,” he coos in a video that went viral on Twitter this week, shared by Twitter user @simonefiii. “You’re really strong.” Twitter …