It’s always funny (or sad, depending on how you’re looking at it) to walk into a store and realize you’re dressed like the employees. This gives you the opportunity to do some really funny things in that store, and possibly get away with it. I wouldn’t be surprised if some Targets out there do not …
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Social Media Has Turned Into a Slop Factory, And I Hate That Nobody Cares
We have spent the past three years hearing that AI was going to revolutionize all of our lives, completely changing the trajectory of the future of each and every industry. While there is no doubt that AI has and will continue to bring positive changes to various aspects of our lives, it has yet to …
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‘Fighting algorithm hypnosis:’ As Gen Z and millennials stray from social media, they now have to worry about their Boomer parents getting addicted to the screen
Whispers of a vibrating phone, beckoning unanswered calls, and constant post notifications have become white noise at the family dinner table. While your parents sit in silence, scrolling through their phones and chuckling at Facebook posts, they’ve excluded themselves from any kind of human interaction; it’s become clear that family time includes their entire social …
Seguir leyendo ‘Fighting algorithm hypnosis:’ As Gen Z and millennials stray from social media, they now have to worry about their Boomer parents getting addicted to the screen
‘The kids yearn for 2014 Tumblr’: Algorithms ruined the original intention of social media and left us uninspired
Though, to many of us, 2014 feels like yesterday, some young internet users are already nostalgic for that not-so-bygone era, one of indie pop, American Apparel, and reblogging moody gifs. It’s called «Tumblrcore» since the axis on which that nostalgia revolves is Tumblr, a social media platform that ruled a certain side of the internet …
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25+ IT Memes for Computer Geniuses Helping Their Parents Copy and Paste
If you’re under a certain age, odds are a family member has called upon you to assist in a matter of technical support. And usually, you’re pretty good at solving it. You know that Chrome slows down when there are too many tabs open. You know how to rename a folder on your desktop. And …
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Woman ends relationship with iPad-obsessed boyfriend after he spends her grandmother’s 80th birthday celebration glued to the device: ‘I snapped’
We’re living in the age of cutting-edge technology. Millions of pieces of information are at our fingertips and our brains are in need of constant stimulation to keep us engaged and entertained. The upside of all of this is that our learning capabilities are infinite—any question can be answered with a quick and simple Google …
Seguir leyendo Woman ends relationship with iPad-obsessed boyfriend after he spends her grandmother’s 80th birthday celebration glued to the device: ‘I snapped’
23-year-old uncle smashes his brothers phone after her refuses to pay for the TV his 12-year-old son broke: ‘My mom said it was an accident, my dad said I could just replace it myself’
Back in the day, breaking a TV was a huge deal. I will never forget the night all the families on our cul-de-sac went to a party, and my neighbor Nile broke our other neighbor’s giant flat-screen TV. Nile was about eight and broke the TV screen by throwing a toy at it. This was …
Seguir leyendo 23-year-old uncle smashes his brothers phone after her refuses to pay for the TV his 12-year-old son broke: ‘My mom said it was an accident, my dad said I could just replace it myself’
23-year-old uncle smashes his brothers phone after he refuses to pay for the TV his 12-year-old son broke: ‘My mom said it was an accident, my dad said I could just replace it myself’
Back in the day, breaking a TV was a huge deal. I will never forget the night all the families on our cul-de-sac went to a party, and my neighbor Nile broke our other neighbor’s giant flat-screen TV. Nile was about eight and broke the TV screen by throwing a toy at it. This was …
Seguir leyendo 23-year-old uncle smashes his brothers phone after he refuses to pay for the TV his 12-year-old son broke: ‘My mom said it was an accident, my dad said I could just replace it myself’
25+ Tech Memes for People Whose Parents Think They’re Computer Geniuses
It’s a near-universal experience of millennials and below that whenever we help an elder with a simple tech problem, they act like we’re Steve Wozniak himself. I’m no coder, I just know how to press control-alt-delete. The folks in my generation grew up with tech all around us. We taught ourselves how to use the …
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28 Google Maps Gags and Blunders for Trolls of the Open Road
Google Maps is probably my favorite piece of technology that’s ever been invented. I would be completely helpless without it, as someone with a minimal innate sense of direction. I need Google Maps in my own neighborhood, on my own block. It’s also how I look for things around me that I might need, like …
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