October 15, 2021 Netflix Has Fired a Pregnant Organizer of the Trans Employee Walkout The Dave Chappelle-induced meltdown at Netflix continued apace on Friday after reports emerged that the company had fired a pregnant leader of its transgender…
October 15, 2021 If Anyone’s Seen This Mildly Radioactive Device, Let the Cops Know. Also, Don’t Touch It. Authorities in Pennsylvania are on the lookout for a missing nuclear gauge, the likes of which disappeared from a local worksite and contains radioactive…
October 15, 2021 Ron Watkins, the 8chan Troll and QAnon Evangelist, Says He’s Running for Congress Online creeper and far-right conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins has filed the necessary paperwork and on Thursday announced his intent to run for Congress in…
October 15, 2021 Revisit Day of the Dead for a Reminder That Sometimes Zombies Deserve to Win Today marks the debut of Day of the Dead, a new Syfy TV series that takes inspiration from George A. Romero’s 1985 zombie classic…
October 15, 2021 Big Mouth’s New Season Looks Buggy as Hell Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg’s Big Mouth has been exploring the dark, wacky, and incredibly gross pitfalls of puberty for four seasons, and… that’s…
October 15, 2021 The Disappointing New Windows 11 Emojis Are Yet Another Reason to Stick With Windows 10 There are plenty of reasons why you might not be rushing out to upgrade to Windows 11. Emojis might be low on that list,…
October 15, 2021 Instacart’s Embattled Gig Workers Are Going On a Nationwide Strike Protesting what they characterize as low wages and a lack of consistent communication from corporate, gig workers on the grocery delivery app Instacart are poised…
October 15, 2021 Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s Morpheus Could Explain Some Crucial Lore in Matrix Resurrections Of the many mysteries revolving around The Matrix Resurrections, the situation with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s new incarnation of Morpheus has been particularly interesting because…
October 15, 2021 The ABCs of Big Oil: How Big Oil Killed Our Political Imagination On The ABCs of Big Oil, a new podcast miniseries produced in collaboration with Drilled, my co-host Amy Westervelt and I have been exploring…
October 15, 2021 A New Look Inside the Latest Thrawn Book Reintroduces a Very Familiar Chiss Timothy Zahn’s two Thrawn trilogies have done a lot to casually re-integrate elements of his highly influential work in the Expanded Universe back into…