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People Are Spending Millions of Dollars on Loot for Games That Don't Exist

"Loot" is the latest NFT craze, but whether any of the projects will ever result in a playable game is anybody's guess.
Mathew Di Salvo
9.9.21
Internet

Do Not Fear the TikTok Toilet. Embrace It.

This TikTok account is just videos of someone pouring cleaning products into a toilet and it is hypnotic (and also gross).
Gita Jackson
9.9.21
stitch fix

Stitch Fix Stylists Are Unheard, Overworked, and at the Mercy of Robots

More than a dozen workers described an environment of micromanagement and “toxic positivity,” as tech failures leave them in the crosshairs of clients’ anger.
Gita Jackson
9.9.21
prisons

Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom

Global Tel Link Corporation says the system would allow an inmate to "for a brief time, imagine himself outside or away from the controlled environment."
Joseph Cox
9.9.21
Food

Meet the Black Farmers Fighting Food Deserts in New York

Black Yard Farm Cooperative is producing fresh food to promote food sovereignty in Harlem and the Bronx.
Yasmin Tayag
9.9.21
sex work

'I Miss the Quality of Sex' – Porn Stars on Life After Porn

"I’ve got time to pursue other passions," says Franco Trentalance. "I write, I cook, I make my own wine. I’ve got lots going on."
Niccolò Carradori
9.9.21
Environment

Girls as Young as 5 Were Paraded Naked to Appease the 'Rain Gods’

From marrying off frogs to making women plow fields while naked, rain rituals are shockingly common in India. 
Shamani Joshi
9.9.21
Arizona audit

The People Stealing Arizona for Trump Just Made a Seriously Dangerous Mess

There’s incompetent, and then there’s Arizona audit levels of incompetent.
David Gilbert
9.9.21
Life

I Tried To Be TikTok’s ‘That Girl’ for a Week

From becoming an early riser and eating plant-based breakfasts to journaling daily affirmations, I tried to understand if the internet’s obsession could also help me level up my life.
Shamani Joshi
9.9.21
extremism

Do Government Terrorism Designations Even Work Against Neo-Nazi Groups?

One leader of a group on the Canadian and the UK terrorist entity list says it has changed nothing in his life.
Ben Makuch
9.9.21
Sovereign Citizens

How the Sovereign Citizen Movement Convinces Desperate Parents to Ignore Laws

Some sovereigns are tax protesters. Others peddle get-out-of-debt hacks. But a handful of new gurus are trying to expose Child Protective Services.
Alice Hines
9.9.21
tech-science

There's a Giant Dog Bone-Shaped Asteroid In Space, And We Have the Best Pictures of It Yet

The asteroid Kleopatra and its two moons have resisted explanation for more than a decade—until now.
Becky Ferreira
9.9.21
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