Forget Disruption. Tech Needs to Fetishize Stability
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Instagram Proves When You’ve Lost the Kardashians, You’re Screwed
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Is Beyoncé’s Renaissance a Sign of the Apocalypse?
[ad_1] This week, Beyoncé released her seventh studio album, Renaissance. Soon—if the hidden messages in the album’s various promotional images are correct—the end days foretold in Revelation will come. Or,…
This Hardcore Band Is a Product of the Internet—in the Best Way
[ad_1] Hardcore, in the broadest strokes, follows a known live formula: a guy death-grips a microphone in his fist and screams about betrayal into a pack of other guys crowding…