Whitney Kimball
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Relive the Real ‘Golden Age’ of TV With This Bonkers Web Simulation
My80sTV, the fantastic inventory of over 150,000 TV clips from the ‘70s through aughts has recently introduced a whole new decade, the ‘60s, with over 21,500 clips on over 19,000 channels. Weird era! Let’s poke around…
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Here’s an Idea: Everyone Only Gets 100 Posts
Like an abusive partner, Facebook has convinced us that we have no options and we’ll never be able to live without it. We had our chance with Ello, and we blew it, dumb fucks that we are. Now we’ve chained ourselves to harvesting content for Mark Zuckerberg until and after the day we die, to…
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Chaotic Vigilante App Citizen Might Get a Union, and the Bosses Aren’t Happy
Employees of Citizen, the app that dispatches rogue nightcrawlers to broadcast crime scenes, are unionizing. As Vice first reported, a National Labour Relations Board filing shows that 69 employees from the on-brand “Central Ops Department” have petitioned to join Communications Workers of America (CWA).
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I Miss the Dial-Up Modem Sound
If you were born after Wi-Fi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the era of the fax machine and the non-customisable ringtone. To me, it’s more than that. The sound symbolises the limits of what whole generations had agreed was basically tolerable to get online.