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This Shadowy Catholic Group Says it Buys Grindr Data to Trace Gay Priests
In a witch hunt to out gay priests, a conservative Catholic nonprofit in Denver has poured $US4 ($6) million into buying data it claims is primarily sourced from Grindr and other gay dating apps, according to the Washington Post.
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Picard’s Big Season 3 Twist Was a Long Time Coming
Star Trek: Picard’s final season is currently airing on Paramount+, but the former crew of the Enterprise-D has plenty of new problems to deal with. The biggest by far, however, was just revealed in today’s episode, “Disengage,” and it’s a twist that will force Jean-Luc to grapple with his past — which is exactly what…
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Instagram Memers Are Performing in Sold-Out Live Shows
At 9:30 p.m. on a Tuesday night in a small Manhattan comedy club, Annie Rauwerda brought down the full house with a PowerPoint slide, a blurry picture of Vienna bread illustrating a Wikipedia entry. The baked good was enhanced with motion-blur, looking inexplicably like an oncoming car. The audience, around a hundred 20- and 30-somethings,…
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The Scourge Between Stars Stalks a Failing Spaceship
The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown takes the contained-spaceship-stalked-by-aliens trope and elevates it to a treatise on colonialism, generational trauma, and human hubris. Imagine Sigourney Weaver’s protagonist in Alien meeting Nnendi Okorafor’s Binti series and you’ll have an idea of the kind of tense, claustrophobic science fiction horror that Captain Jacklyn Albright is dealing…