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Joe was feeling nervous. This was it: his chance to make a good impression on the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. They were both in attendance at the hottest disco in all of Manhattan, and Joe had to make sure he put his best foot forward.
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Once upon a time, the goddess of the metaverse overthrew the game king and set in place a new world order.
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We were standing in the street, half-way home from the day job and momentarily distracted by a good-looking parking cop, when it happened. It happened. And everything in our life – jobs, relationships, pastimes – was instantly suspended. It felt as if something beneath us was shifting in a fundamental way.
Read More...Dive deep into long form features on everything from smartphone addiction to what a True-Cost global marketplace would mean for the economy.
Hot off the press is the newest report of the Global Flourishing Study — an ongoing project managed by Harvard and Baylor which checks in with hundreds of thousands of folks in 22 countries to see how they're doing. "Flourishing" might best be described as truly crushing this thing called life. You're happy, you're healthy, you're at peace. Once again this year, the Scandinavian countries came out on top.The big surprise was who came out on the bottom: Japan, the UK, and the United States. Countries with among the highest GDP in the world.
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Young guy in a vest, holding a clipboard, came to the door.His timing wasn’t good – we were busy. “Thanks, sorry, can’t today,” I said through the crack in the door.“One minute, max,” he said.“Sorry, man, no.”It wasn’t clear what he was canvassing for, and I didn’t have time to find out.But he wasn’t leaving. My No hadn’t registered. He’d actually stepped forward. He was half inside the house. Only his hind end stuck out into the cold.“Listen, man. No! Look at me: No!”He looked me in the face. Blinking like a carp.I felt my fist wanting to go somewhere I’d regret. I redirected it into my pocket and found a ten—here, bugger off.The guy didn’t take it.“Sorry, can’t do a one-time payment,” he said. “We’re asking for a commitment of a small monthly amount.”“What? Nooooo!”
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When I first heard about "illiberal democracy," and what Victor Orban was doing in Hungary, I didn't give it much thought. Then when Marine Le Pen became a rising star in France, and a Nazi-tinged party started winning big in Germany, I just shook my head and hoped this far right trend would pass.But instead, the dissolution of the liberal world order quickened: Narendra Modi transformed India into a Hindu dictatorship... Jair Bolsonaro pulled off a coup in Brazil... Javier Milei feverishly waved a chain saw around Argentina... and then, fuck it, unbelievable, Putin's tanks rolled into Ukraine... Bibi Netanyahu ripped apart the bodies of 20,000 children... and finally, the coup de grâce: Trump's landslide victory last November.
Read More...Our fingers are on the global pulse, counting beats as we stutter towards the throes of death. If you want to know what Adbusters thinks about the news, this is where you find it.
We're in the middle of a guerrilla marketing war for the future of the planet. Conventional weapons are useless — all we have are ideas. These are the best of our culture jams.
Listen to the voice of Adbusters proffering sweet ASMR vibes about the end of capitalism and where Occupy Wall Street went wrong.
Memes can be cinematic too. Turn up the volume and watch the chaos of the world unfold and disintegrate before your very eyes.
Whether incensed or inspired by Wall Street's misdeeds, the memers of r/WallStreetBets are taking up the Occupy torch.
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If you've ever made the mistake of becoming a member of Amazon Prime, you should already be familiar with how painstaking it is to cancel your membership.
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In his first day in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden did much to undo his predecessor's atrocious legacy on climate-change, rejoining the (inadequate) Paris Agreement on behalf of the U.S., reinstating over 100 environmental policies weakened or wasted under Trump — and revoking president
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