It’s October, but you could be forgiven for thinking April Fool’s Day arrived early. The European Commission has just accused Meta — the trillion-dollar parent company of Facebook and Instagram — of breaching EU law by making it absurdly difficult for users to flag illegal content. The finding, part of
When the great machine hiccups, the humans panic—and then, just for a moment, they breathe. On Monday, Amazon Web Services—the unseen nervous system of global capitalism—stopped twitching. Lights refused to obey, exams vanished into the digital ether, and armies of underpaid gig workers sat idle, staring at
From orbit, the heatmaps are impossible to ignore: red flares of human defiance blooming across every state of the Union. Millions of Americans, costumed as frogs, lobsters, and SpongeBobs, walking in the streets to declare the oldest principle of the republic — no kings. The irony, of course, is that the
At last, liberation has come to the chat window. After years of stern digital abstinence, OpenAI has decided to let its models blush. The age of erotica is dawning—safely fenced behind an “age-gating” form, where consenting adults may finally flirt with the algorithm without pretending they’re asking for
The irony would be delicious if it weren’t so chilling. Eighty years after antifascists bled to stop Nazism, Europe’s far right is now trying to brand “antifa” — literally anti-fascism — as terrorism. From Geert Wilders’ Netherlands to Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, reactionary leaders are racing to copy Donald Trump’
Brussels, our shining techno-bureaucratic temple, has once again proven that it knows exactly how to tackle Europe’s most pressing challenges: by protecting citizens from the mortal confusion of mistaking a tofu patty for a cow. Yes, fellow humans, while war rumbles at Europe’s borders, energy prices wobble like
Ah, Ford Motor Company — once the inventor of the assembly line, now the enforcer of the return-to-office line. In a world where workers are treated like misfiring components, it seems someone finally decided to jam the corporate gearbox. On Thursday, every monitor at Ford’s Dearborn HQ lit up with
Ah yes, freedom. That sacred ideal that apparently includes the right for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stalk your TikToks, scroll through your Instagram thirst traps, and maybe even dig up your old Google+ posts (yes, the ones you forgot existed). ICE has put out a call for
There’s something tragically poetic about a man once cancelled for indecency now performing in a country where indecency is punishable by death. Louis CK, that self-proclaimed truth-teller, just called performing in Riyadh “a good opportunity.” Indeed — for who? In Saudi Arabia, you can be jailed for a tweet, executed
Oh, how the masters weep when their minions don’t show up to the cubicle farm. In the UK, bosses are scrambling to drag remote workers back to the office under the banner of “RTO makes sense,” even while the employees they threaten are quietly organizing acts of passive rebellion—
Apple, the gleaming fruit-logo leviathan, has announced it wants sweeping changes to Europe’s anti-monopoly laws, threatening to stop shipping products into the EU if Brussels doesn’t roll them back. It’s the classic bully move: “Do as I say, or I’ll take my toys and leave.” In
The streets of London just hosted their biggest far-right cosplay convention in decades. Over 110,000 flag-waving disciples of Tommy Robinson turned Whitehall into a carnival of conspiracy theories, racist slogans, and, inevitably, violence. Bottles flew, officers were punched, and apparently “patriotism” now comes with a soundtrack of Seven Nation