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[Link] Meme Stock Traders Pump Fake Company Enough to Get It Trending
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
The increasingly bored-seeming WallStreetBets crowd has decided that instead of pumping real companies, it’s going to start focusing its energy on a fake one.
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[Link] Tolkien estate vanquishes Lord of the Rings themed cryptocurrency
Read: 25/11/2021 arstechnica.com
The estate of JRR Tolkien, the author of the Lord of the Rings, has successfully vanquished a cryptocurrency that styled itself as “The One Token That Rules Them All.
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[Link] Sorry, But 69 Isn't Funny Anymore
Read: 16/11/2021 www.vice.com
Every day I go on the internet to look at things that make me pissed off—it’s a calling! Rarely, though, do I see anything that inspires as much full-body disgust as this sick, profane little missive I saw on Sunday. Behold: This is more than just a terrible post.
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[Link] Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, Founder of Something Awful, Is Dead at 45
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka—the creator of the era-defining Something Awful forums—died by suicide on November 9, Motherboard confirmed with the Lee’s Summit, Missouri police department.
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[Link] The Bigger Luke Hypothesis: going deep on Star Wars’ most absurd fan theory
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Another quiet night on Discord, and my friends and I stumble on to the subject of fan theories. “Have you heard the one about how Sean Connery in The Rock is actually James Bond?” someone says. Oh my god, I think to myself, that makes sense! He even looks like James Bond …
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[Link] Fed: Meme Stocks Might Blow Up U.S. Economy One Day
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The Federal Reserve is worried that risk-taking online investors and social media echo chambers could lead to a “potentially destabilizing outcome.
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[Link] Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Have Completely Lost It on Twitter
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
Bezos, the Amazon founder whose net worth is around $200 billion, implied that he would personally throw actor Leonardo DiCaprio off a cliff in a tweet.
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[Link] In These Strange and Uncertain Times, We Still Have the Shrek Butt Plug
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
When will the cult of Shrek be satisfied? That depends. Decades of memedom have matured the animated ogre into ideal TikTok fodder for trolls, millennials, and Gen Zers alike, whose Shrek Feels harken back to simpler, Y2K days.
[Link] An $8K Shiba Inu Investment Turned Into $5.7 Billion. But Can They Cash Out?
Read: 29/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the fast-moving world of cryptocurrencies, kingdoms can rise and crumble in the space of months or days. It’s in that spirit that Shiba Inu (SHIB), a Dogecoin-inspired token, surged past its original inspiration by market cap this week, which is the total value of all tokens in circulation.
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[Link] Why Does FaZe Clan Think It’s Worth $1 Billion?
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
FaZe Clan, the esports and gaming influencer group, announced plans on Monday to become “the only digitally native, youth-focused lifestyle and media platforms publicly traded on a U.S.
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[Link] Crypto Investors Are Bidding to Touch a 1,784-Pound Tungsten Cube Once a Year
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the latest phase of the quest to turn everything into an NFT, crypto traders are now bidding to digitally own a 1,784 lb cube of tungsten in Willowbrook, Illinois.
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[Link] ‘Hard Not To Respect That’: Why White Nationalists Are Toasting the Taliban
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
When the Taliban captured Kabul in August, sealing a remarkable victory in its nearly 20-year war of attrition against the world's leading superpower, jihadist networks around the world erupted in jubilation.
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[Link] SEC: GameStop Frenzy ‘Tested the Capacity and Resiliency’ of Stock Market
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
“At the same time, the trading in meme stocks during this time highlighted an important feature of United States securities markets in the 21st century: broad participation,” the report noted.
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[Link] Fact-checking works to undercut misinformation in many countries
Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com
In the wake of the flood of misinformation that's drowning the US, lots of organizations have turned to fact-checks. Many newsrooms set up dedicated fact-check groups, and some independent organizations were formed to provide the service.
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[Link] Pepe the Frog’s Creator Nuked a $4 Million NFT Collection Over Copyright
Read: 21/8/2021 www.vice.com
Artist Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog who previously used copyright to fight off neo-Nazis who turned the character into a mascot, has found himself in yet another weird spat.
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[Link] Young North Koreans told to shun slang and ‘cultural penetration’ from South
Read: 20/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
Young North Koreans have been warned to adhere to the country’s standard language and follow “traditional lifestyles” as part of the regime’s campaign to stamp out cultural influences from neighbouring South Korea.
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[Link] I Hate It Here, See You Tomorrow
Read: 27/1/2021 dansheehan.substack.com
This morning I awoke in Bean Dad’s America. Like most West Coast dwellers who enjoy sleeping in, I usually catch big Internet Events mid-cycle.