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Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, an adaptation of the 2011 novel of the same name by Ernest Cline, is about to debut. And the internet is ready and waiting to tell him why that’s a terrible idea. “Ready Player One…
Artboard 1 Outside contributors’ opinions and analysis of the most important issues in politics, science, and culture. It’s the tech bro equivalent of a 1950s B-movie: Evil data scientists betray the simple trust of an unwitting, socially benevolent company to…
On Monday morning, Tiffany Haddish — the breakout star of last summer’s Girls Trip — gave the world a gift. She gave us some of the most entrancing gossip to hit the Internet since that time she told us all…
On Saturday, the rapper Killer Mike—one half of the hip-hop duo Run the Jewels and a known comrade of Senator Bernie Sanders—appeared in a nearly seven-minute video for NRATV, the National Rifle Association’s frenzied and bombastic television channel. The host…
Britney Spears has long been almost uniquely incompatible with the fashion industry. Now she’s the face of Kenzo’s La Collection Memento. Photograph Courtesy Kenzo In the twenty-plus years since Britney Spears became famous, she has not once starred in a…
When Jamali Maddix was twenty-four, he decided that he wanted to talk to neo-Nazis. Maddix is a British comedian who is brown-skinned (half of his family comes from Jamaica) and bearded and too tall to go anywhere unnoticed, so, in…
