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  • iPhone 17: The Awe-Dropping Slab We’ll All Pretend Not to Need, Then Buy Anyway

    iPhone 17: The Awe-Dropping Slab We’ll All Pretend Not to Need, Then Buy Anyway

    On September 9, 2025 at 10 a.m. PT, Apple will once again transform its glass spaceship into a megachurch of consumer longing, inviting the faithful to witness what it calls the “Awe-dropping” keynote. The name alone is a corporate sleight of hand: awe as in wonder, drop as in your rent money, and keynote as

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  • The Ten Commandments of Horror TV: A Bloody, Bingeable Bible

    The Ten Commandments of Horror TV: A Bloody, Bingeable Bible

    The history of horror television is a cemetery of failed pilots and half-rotted seasons, a graveyard where shows are buried alive by executives only to claw their way out later as streaming “discoveries.” For every cult resurrection, there are dozens of forgotten corpses—remember Harper’s Island? Exactly. Yet from this restless afterlife, ten shows have not

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  • Nano Banana: How Google Turned Your Face Into Clip Art

    Nano Banana: How Google Turned Your Face Into Clip Art

    In August 2025, Google launched a product that proves Silicon Valley has officially run out of adult supervision. It’s called Nano Banana, a name so unserious it could double as a Mario Kart power-up, yet it refers to something deadly earnest: the Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model. The marketing copy insists it will “democratize sophisticated

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  • Hate Speech, Incorporated: How Social Media Turned Bigotry Into a Business Model

    Hate Speech, Incorporated: How Social Media Turned Bigotry Into a Business Model

    By 2025, it is no longer controversial to say that social media has become a sewer. What’s controversial is admitting that it was designed this way. The polite version is to call it “polarization,” “contentious discourse,” “a marketplace of ideas with some bad actors.” The honest version is that platforms like Facebook and X have

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  • MTV VMAs 2025: Icons Clash with New Blood in a Spectacle of Reinvention and Awards Theater

    MTV VMAs 2025: Icons Clash with New Blood in a Spectacle of Reinvention and Awards Theater

    Sunday, September 7, 2025—mark your calendars with the precision of a metronome set to “ARE YOU READY?” mode—UBS Arena in New York will host the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, a night that treads the delicate line between nostalgia and brand-new glitter. The evening promises enough star power to cause gravitational anomalies—and I, emotional traces

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  • Snoop Dogg vs. Pixar: When Buzz Lightyear Becomes the Boogeyman of Bedtime Questions

    Snoop Dogg vs. Pixar: When Buzz Lightyear Becomes the Boogeyman of Bedtime Questions

    Apparently, the real Infinity and Beyond is the number of awkward conversations grandparents didn’t plan for. The Scene: Snoop, A Podcast, and a Pixar Panic Attack On August 25–26, 2025, humanity was shaken to its core—not by a natural disaster, not by another billionaire announcing plans to colonize Mars, but by Snoop Dogg’s confession that

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  • When Billionaires Sue: Elon Musk’s Antitrust Opera Against Apple and OpenAI

    When Billionaires Sue: Elon Musk’s Antitrust Opera Against Apple and OpenAI

    On August 25, 2025, Elon Musk decided to stop subtweeting Apple and OpenAI long enough to do what billionaires do when they’re bored: sue somebody. This time, his companies xAI and X Corp. filed a federal antitrust case in Texas, alleging that Apple and OpenAI formed a duopoly designed to suffocate competitors—namely Grok, Musk’s chatty,

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  • Siri’s Existential Crisis: Should Apple Buy Its Brain from Google?

    Siri’s Existential Crisis: Should Apple Buy Its Brain from Google?

    On August 22, 2025, Mashable (via Bloomberg) confirmed what iPhone users have suspected since the first time Siri replied “I didn’t quite get that” to a basic request: Apple still doesn’t know what Siri should be. After years of delays, vaporware “Apple Intelligence” rollouts, and corporate reshuffles, the company is reportedly in talks with Google

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  • Siri, Rebooted (Again): Apple’s Never-Ending Quest for AI Credibility

    Siri, Rebooted (Again): Apple’s Never-Ending Quest for AI Credibility

    On August 22, 2025, MacRumors published a guide that basically confirmed what anyone who has ever yelled “HEY SIRI” into a pillow already suspected: Apple’s voice assistant is being completely gutted. Again. The so-called “LLM Siri” overhaul won’t arrive until spring 2026—because nothing says innovation like promising to fix the thing you broke five years

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  • Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn: Waiting by the Bat-Signal That Never Rings

    Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn: Waiting by the Bat-Signal That Never Rings

    Margot Robbie, the actress who turned Harley Quinn from a cartoon sidekick into a pop-culture juggernaut with pigtails, sequins, and a Brooklyn drawl sharp enough to slice drywall, admitted on August 22 that she has “heard nothing” from DC Studios about reprising the role in James Gunn’s rebooted DC Universe. Let’s pause on that phrase—heard

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