Have a literary tattoo? There’s a convention for that
You read that right. And if you’re reading this, I bet you have a literary tattoo. And if you do, I bet you’ve done the rounds online, reading listicles like Buzzfeed’s… Read more »
Buzzfeed re-allows unironic usage of the word “millennial”
“Millennial.” It sounds like a class of elusive flower that blooms once every thousand years. And while we know the word actually refers to the demographic born between the early eighties and the early… Read more »
Two forthcoming books to help make sense of Trump, Bannon, and Breitbart
Yesterday, Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart and oft-supposed 3D chess master of the steadily imploding Trump administration, was relieved of his position on the National Security Council, given to him by… Read more »
A controversial book denying the Nanjing Massacre casts a shadow over the Asian Winter Games
This year’s Asian Winter Games are due to commence on 19th February in Sapporo, Japan, featuring participants from thirty-one countries and regions. But just as athletes should be arriving, a dark slice… Read more »
City-wide book club, “One Book, One New York,” announces the five books it wants everyone to read at the same time
One Book, One New York would like it if everyone in New York City was on the same page. Sponsored by BuzzFeed Books and the Commissioner of the New York… Read more »
Donald Trump and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Press Conference
Hi there. President-elect Donald J. Trump, fresh off a long night trying to come up with some good tweets for his haters following the controversial publication of the BuzzFeed Dossier,… Read more »
Don’t worry, we’ll only be talking about Donald Trump’s Twitter account for the next 4-8 years, it’ll be over like *that*
Continuing the spasm of Twitter-inspired anxiety, Charlie Warzel and Lam Thuy Vo at BuzzFeed have done a deep dive into the land of TrumpTweets™ in order to reverse-engineer the president-elect’s news media… Read more »
Buzzfeed announces an “unprecedented” Trump ad ban
On Monday morning, editors at BuzzFeed announced that the media company would be terminating an ad campaign booked through the Republican National Committee for the Donald Trump campaign. In a… Read more »
“If you can fall in love with a statue, I don’t see why you couldn’t fall in love with a neural network trained on romance novels.”
This quote from Google’s Andrew Dai pretty much says everything you need to know about the search giant’s latest effort to humanize its consumer-facing AI interfaces. But these posts are supposed to be… Read more »
Bios of famous male scientists had they been female scientists
Previously, we wrote about #realacademicbios—a trending hashtag that caused a stir in the Twitter circles of academia after Eva Mrozcek, an assistant professor of religious studies at UC Davis, tweeted: “Tradition of (mostly… Read more »