Crypto short form of Cryptology has been around for centuries... the study and deciphering of codes.... that can include racial and ethnic ones.....

Don’t forget that the Irish character is constantly blowing shit up. A hilarious IRA joke. You know, for kids.

Don’t try to look up what people are saying on Twitter.

To be fair, there were so many people for whom Harry Potter was the only books they ever read and their sole cultural touchpoint (except for perhaps The Office and Friends) that who could expect them to understand any of the cryptobigotry?  

Makes sense when you realize the OP defends Joe Rogan...

This headline is incredibly insensitive. It must be easy to sit there and make jokes when you're not the one who just had your dreams of owning a Richard Karn NFT crushed.

Why even bother covering this? Who is super keen on following Home Improvement cast members?

I genuinely have to wonder at the mindset of the parents here. Do they love their children? I don’t mean that as a dig, parental love is genuinely not the given that people think it is, whether you’re rich or poor. And I ask because it feels like they’re letting their kids be sucked into something that can be truly…

I began losing interest at “Kardashians” and then lost me entirely at “TikTok”

My hypothesis would be that it’s all part of what makes them so successful: They create feelings of attachment in the viewer. It’s a remarkably subtle trick, considering how loud and brazen the product appears.

Random question - why does a social media body politic that hates wealth and wealthy people (see scorn for Bezos etc.) have a strange tolerance for the Kardashian types? Why no virtual guillotines for them?

Penelope has a genuine knack for the ASMR side of TikTok.

Fair enough, this was probably an assignment.

I mean, of course in Kardashian circles they have a very warped sense of what is or isn’t appropriate, but did the AV Club really have to report on this too?

One day this will be seen as child abuse...

Everyone’s saying Adam McKay has gotten really insufferably smug all of a sudden with this movie. Meanwhile, The Big Short literally has a scene of “You rubes are too stupid to understand anything that’s happening in this movie, so here’s Margot Robbie in a bathtub to explain it.”

The film is drenched in Lana Wachowski’s reflectiveness on her work, life, culture and larger philosophical concerns and even looks like a video installation at times. Yes, we can also see the hand of the studio adding to the mess— Wachowski literally refers to those pressures directly. I think time and budget…

I don’t know if it was a deliberate editorial choice or algorithmic magic, but for me this season’s reviews have never appeared on the frontpage. And they’re usually not even on the TV frontpage either.

It was never about who will sit on the throne. It was always about ice zombies and how little of a threat they actually are when you’re in the final battle.

This is the way to be.