Category: culture
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YouTube’s Advertising Hellhole Urges People to Waste Money on Mystery Boxes
Will Sommer for The Daily Beast: Untold riches are promised on Mystery Brand, a website that sells prize-filled “mystery boxes.” If you buy one of the digital boxes, some of which cost hundreds of dollars, you might only get a fidget spinner—or you might get a luxury sports car. For just $100, users can win…
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Sailor Moon’s Long-Lost Americanized Bizarro-World Counterpart
Cecilia D’Anastasio has the fascinating story behind the version of Sailor Moon created for a western audience that never aired. I don’t give a shit about Sailor Moon, except that it was valuable in broadening the audience for different kinds of animation outside of the typical Ninja Scroll-tier of garbage that was popular at the…
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Tim Angus’ Unique Electric Guitar
The first time I ever saw a 3D printer in-person was at a robotics conference for software developers in Florida. That thing printed out a tiny little model of an intricate water jug and I was in awe. Imagine the look on my face when I woke up this morning and saw that ioquake3 developer…
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YouTube Suggested Conspiracy Videos to Children
Let me check one thing, I’ve forgotten since the last time, should we let algorithms written by an advertising publisher decide what is OK or not for kids to watch? James Cook: Search for “UFO” on YouTube Kids and you’ll mostly find videos of toys that are clearly fine for children to watch. But one…