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The Kirkification of Our Troubled Times
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. A few months ago, the pro-Iran group Akhbar…
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War in the Age of the Online “Information Bomb”
On TikTok, the war against Iran began with a series of videos from influencer types in Dubai, Doha, and elsewhere in the Middle East. They…
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IRL Brain Rot and the Lure of the Labubu
On a recent quiet weekday morning in Manhattan, I attempted to obtain a Labubu, the cutesy monster doll that has become the biggest…
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The Year Creators Took Over
In early October, the No. 5 most popular podcast on Spotify, above the Times’ “The Daily” and just behind “The Joe Rogan Experience,” was…