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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Amelia Bedelia, Meet Samuel Alito</strong> - What the Supreme Court Justice’s leaked draft opinion reveals about originalism. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/abortion-supreme-court-leak-samuel-alito-originalism-amelia-%20bedelia">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>DeafBlind Communities May Be Creating a New Language of Touch</strong> - Protactile began as a movement for autonomy and a system of tactile communication. Now, some linguists argue, it is becoming a language of its own. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/deafblind-communities-may-be-creating-a-new-language-of-%20touch">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What the “Life of the Mother” Might Mean in a Post-Roe America</strong> - “We are going to see more deaths and more injuries,” Ghazaleh Moayedi, an ob-gyn in Dallas, said. “I don’t have to speculate about that at all.” - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/what-the-life-of-the-mother-might-mean-in-a-post-roe-%20america">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kentucky Primary Map: Live Election Results</strong> - The latest results from the Kentucky primary ahead of the 2022 midterms. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/election-2022/live-midterm-results-kentucky">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Pennsylvania Primary Map: Live Election Results</strong> - The latest results from the Pennsylvania primary ahead of the 2022 midterms. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/election-2022/live-midterm-results-pennsylvania">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>Twitter trolling with Chapo Trap House’s Felix Biederman</strong> -
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Felix, with some of the stuff he likes to do online. | Felix Biederman
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How “the pied piper of the dirtbag left” spends his day online.
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<em>Welcome to </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/24-hours-online"><em>24 Hours Online</em></a><em>, where we ask one extremely internetty person to document a day in their life looking at screens.</em>
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Felix Biederman, whom the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/us/politics/bernie-sanders-chapo-trap-house.html">once called</a> one of “the pied pipers of the dirtbag left,” is among Twitter’s most prolific posters. He also thinks that maybe people shouldn’t be allowed to have smartphones.
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“I really do think that we need very strong regulation of phones,” he says over Zoom. “I think it would be almost probably better if you just couldn’t make smartphones in America anymore.” Of course, like everyone else, he has zero plans to throw his away. “I’m still drinking that garbage.”
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As a founder and co-host of the leftist podcast <em>Chapo Trap House</em>, Biederman has been a public figure since the Obama administration, and a message board troll since Bush. (“When I was 17 or 18, there was this proto-hipster dude who did a call-in web show out of Portland, and me and my friends would call in and do increasingly elaborate fucked-up personas,” he says.) But his 24 Hours Online reveals a lifestyle much more in step with his new home of California: On a Thursday in May, Biederman listens to video game lore videos while on a run, gets sucked into a Mormon YouTube hole, and retweets pictures of adorable weasels.
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Here he is, in his own words:
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<strong>6:30 am</strong>
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I have invented a new form of sleeping called the Two Morning Method: I first wake up at a time between 5:30 and 7 am, and the first thing I check is my emails. I’ve got an email that seems important, so I draft a response, and then when I wake up the second time two or three hours later, I fix the misspellings and confusing clauses.
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If business is a body, emails are the blood. I’m a huge email supporter. Every exciting new project starts on email. If you can start your day with a successful email, you’re already ahead of the competition.
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<strong>10:30 am</strong>
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With the hard part done, it’s time to reward myself with a very forgettable croissant. But it isn’t just Nespresso and 25mg Adderall XR accompanying me: My Twitter timeline is also there. If the Two Morning Method has failed me and I’m in a bad mood, I will tweet something awful at a guy who works for Senator [redacted].
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Instead, I mindlessly quote-tweet stuff with animals that I like. I love all mustelids — sables, pine martens, otters — and I love all primates, but I’m really invested in gibbons. Quote tweets are probably the lowest form of posts, so I do. like, 47 a day.
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昨日のエゾクロテン。<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E6%97%AD%E5%B1%B1%E5%8B%95%E7%89%A9%E5%9C%92?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#旭山動物園</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/asahiyamazoo?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#asahiyamazoo</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E3%82%A8%E3%82%BE%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#エゾクロテン</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sable?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#sable</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E7%94%A3%E5%8B%95%E7%89%A9%E8%88%8E?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#北海道産動物舎</a> <a</p></blockquote></div></li>
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href=“https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E6%8B%85%E5%BD%93%E8%80%85%E6%92%AE%E5%BD%B1?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#担当者撮影 <a href="https://t.co/V90WnUhT8z">pic.twitter.com/V90WnUhT8z</a>
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— 旭川市旭山動物園［公式］ (<span class="citation" data-cites="asahiyamazoo1">@asahiyamazoo1</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/asahiyamazoo1/status/1525772400679194624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2022</a>
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<strong>11:00 am</strong>
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It’s time to record [the podcast, <em>Chapo Trap House</em>]. We use <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/16/zencastr-raises-4-6m-as-its-video-offering-goes-live-for-
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all/">Zencastr</a> because a few of us are still in New York and some are here in LA. While we record, I watch muted videos of animals or cars that I’d be too embarrassed to actually drive. Sometimes I just want to know what the dashboard of a Range Rover looks like.
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Toward the end I grab my phone and check my message requests. I don’t know what I expect, but I think anyone in the professional media or entertainment world does have the delusional asshole part of their brain. Sometimes you check your message requests and it’s a legitimately famous person saying, “I love your podcast,” which is insane. A lot of it is just annoying questions that you’ve already answered, but people sometimes tell me interesting things that I wouldn’t have known.
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Today a guy tells me that there’s a video game that Hezbollah made, and I’m very curious to figure out how to play it. Apparently you play as a Hezbollah guy fighting an IDF guy. I like video games that are made by outsiders, like made in a country that is experiencing a brutal sanction regime and probably doesn’t have access to a lot of tools that someone making a game in France or Canada has.
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Unfortunately, one or two times a day there are people in my Twitter messages who are experiencing psychotic episodes where they think they’re being targeted. It definitely freaked the shit out of me in the first few years of being a public figure, but now that’s just a fact of any kind of public internet life that you cannot take personally. I don’t know if there’s something about me that particularly upsets people, maybe it’s the shape of my face, but I live with it and hope that it never crosses over.
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<strong>2:00 pm</strong>
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After recording the podcast and a long phone call, I go to the gym. If I’m lifting, I’m on my phone a lot. You feel like an asshole if you’re just standing there in between sets, so you need something to look busy. If I make a particularly gross body horror or upsetting joke that loses followers, this is usually where I do it.
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My goal is for my followers to yell at me and tell me they hate it. The real victory is when people with their full name and profession quote-tweet me and are like, “What the fuck is this? This is disgusting.” That’s the stuff I find funniest. It’s just purely for me, and that’s where I’m at my most authentic self.
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I’m just running today, so I take advantage of YouTube Premium’s audio-only feature and listen to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWLedd0Zw3c7TTg9J6yA5fd-554ojNlrF">Dark Souls lore videos</a>. Neither aspect of this is defensible; I am paying for the privilege of listening to a 17-minute narrated essay about a dragon named Kalameet.
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<strong>4:00 pm</strong>
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I’m done with everything I absolutely have to do at this point. I do have some logistic payroll shit that isn’t especially demanding or urgent. I go in and out of doing that for the next few hours. It’s a dance of looking at automated accounts called, like, Every Image Of Martens, or the group DMs that have a .09 percent variation in members, and going back to my spreadsheet bullshit.
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At some point I see something about the baby formula shortage that makes me badly want a public execution of the people responsible. I really do feel that in my heart, but of course, I’m just staring at my phone with the blankest expression in recorded human history. Minutes later I’m just looking at posts about the crypto crash. I think the schadenfreude with this particular thing is sort of forced and blinkered, but I’m not exactly looking at this like a first responder surveying a disaster. I’m sure some obnoxious shitty people lost money but considering how many people in this country are just two left turns away from complete financial ruin, it’s really hard for me to feel happy about it. Everyone between, like, 22 and 40 right now thought this was going to be for them what buying a house was for their Boomer parents. A lot of desperate people got screwed.
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Many would have you believe that cryptocurrency is collapsing, but those who have closely studied the history of these markets have seen this before – and they know that earnings are poised to shoot through the roof. Here’s what’s really going on. <a href="https://t.co/nxqbx5VNQL">pic.twitter.com/nxqbx5VNQL</a>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">— Jon Bois (<span class="citation" data-cites="jon_bois">@jon_bois</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1524104658029092865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2022</a></p>
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This is just the other type of thing you do when you’re looking at your phone, which is enjoying the drama of something bad happening, but without the pain of it happening to you or the feeling that you need a clear moral opinion on it. I don’t think that’s really unique to the internet. People have always kind of liked hearing about a coworker’s horrifying divorce if they don’t really talk to them. Everyone does it to some extent, but so many different groups of people being in one place makes it absurdly easy to access now. It is pretty horrifying to think what instant feedback reactions to headlines and ready-made arguments are doing to us.
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I’m almost certainly not going to take any of this shit off my phone, though. I’m just going to feel it deep in my heart and not really do anything.
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<strong>6:00 pm</strong>
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It’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/22983651/elden-ring-fromsoftware-dark-souls-bloodborne-goty">Elden Ring time</a>. Let’s get this shit. I try soloing Malenia twice until I think better of it and do some catacombs. I’ve beaten her twice but I used the spirit summons. It’s really fucking hard.
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<strong>9:00 pm</strong>
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None of my friends are online playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which is what I actually want to play. I think of CS:GO the way that other people think of golf or baseball: an unimpeachably great, fundamental game.
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It’s a pretty dull Thursday, all told. I close out this day by watching YouTube videos about MLM-cult hybrids and crypto (I am desperately trying to understand the Luna implosion to uncertain success). I watch an amazing two-part documentary about LuLaRoe <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMp7iIAiWQU">by Munecat</a> and learn something interesting, which is that there are a lot of MLM scams in Utah not only because it’s a favorable business environment, but because the social cohesion and sense of community with Mormons is such that one Mormon is probably not going to think that another Mormon would be lying to them. Unfortunately it’s screwed a lot of Mormons out of money. Utah is one of the few states that has a white- collar criminal database registry, like a sex offender registry, just because there are so many people scamming their neighbors and friends and cousins and shit.
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And that’s what I do as I drift off into sleep.
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<em>This column was first published in The Goods newsletter. </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/pages/newsletters"><em><strong>Sign up here</strong></em></a><em> so you don’t miss the next one, plus get newsletter exclusives.</em>
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<li><strong>Are we ever authentically ourselves on the internet?</strong> -
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When the online self is fractured across multiple platforms, authenticity becomes a metric in producing a coherent, ready-made identity for public consumption. | Getty Images/500px Prime
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New “anti-Instagram” apps like BeReal claim to help users be more authentic online, but the distinction between real and fake isn’t quite that simple.
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BeReal, as the app’s name suggests, wants me to post my truth. Once a day at random, I am prompted to “be real,” to capture my unfiltered life synchronously through my phone’s selfie and back camera. There is, so BeReal claims, a distinctly authentic self behind social media’s smoke and mirrors, waiting to be revealed.
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BeReal’s premise is simple. Every day, users are randomly prompted to snap a photo within a two-minute time frame, although the window to post remains open for hours. Users can add a caption, comment on friends’ day-of posts, and interact through RealMojis, or personalized reaction photos. Upon posting, two feeds are unlocked, one personalized with friends’ posts and one a Discovery feed that features strangers in the midst of mostly mundane tasks. The feeds are updated once a day and posts expire once the next BeReal alert is sent out, presumably for users to put their phones down and live their “real” lives after a few minutes on the app.
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BeReal falls into the genre of “anti-Instagram” apps, novelty photo platforms that attempt to fulfill a niche social function that Instagram lacks. In this case, it’s authenticity and an ad-free experience. “BeReal won’t make you famous,” the app declares. “If you want to be an influencer you can stay on TikTok and Instagram.”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="O52MLX">
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Every year or so, a hot new social startup emerges from the woodwork with an overconfident vision of a better, more authentic way of being online. It rarely sticks. In early 2021, the app du jour was Dispo, which simulated the experience of using a disposable camera by having users wait for photos to develop. Dispo <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/style/dispo-david-dobrik-
|
||
disposable-camera-app.html">benefited</a> from co-founder David Dobrik’s YouTube fame, but a scandal led investors to quickly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spark-capital-backs-out-of-david-dobrik-dispo-deal-2021-3">distance themselves</a> from the startup, even with Dobrik resigning. Later that year, Poparazzi, an app that encouraged users to take paparazzi-like shots of their friends, took off on TikTok. It shot to the top of the App Store for a few weeks, but the <a href="https://constine.substack.com/p/poparazzi-photo-app-blows-up-by-banning">hype</a> soon subsided.
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</p></li>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="GPfGD2">
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This year, the buzzy, VC-backed darling is BeReal, which is currently the <a href="https://www.data.ai/en/apps/ios/app/1459645446/">second most-downloaded</a> social networking app on the App Store, behind TikTok. It launched in December 2019, but nearly 75 percent, or 7.67 million, of BeReal downloads occurred this year, according to recent Apptopia data shared with <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/22/bereal-hype-or-hit-
|
||
what-to-know-about-the-gen-z-photo-sharing-app-climbing-the-charts/">TechCrunch</a>. The app recently closed on a Series B funding round and is expected to quadruple its valuation to around $630 million, reported <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bereal-buzzy-gen-z-social-media-app-raise-630m-valuation-2022-5">Business Insider</a> in early May.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="2JfSXZ">
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“We’re always looking to connect with friends in a casual way,” said Kristin Merrilees, 20, a junior at Barnard College and BeReal user, who also writes about culture and the internet. “I think Snapchat briefly was that space until my friends stopped using it. Now, it’s BeReal that lets you peek into people’s lives throughout the day.”
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</p>
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||
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="tSTWrm">
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What is real, though, and what is fake when we spend so much of our time tethered to screens? In a commodified social media landscape, authenticity is as much of a marketing buzzword as it is <a href="https://d1a.com/perspective/the-rise-of-performative-authenticity-how-influencers-and-brands-are-
|
||
redefining-how-they-work-together">an on-screen value</a>, touted by people, brands, and, of course, apps. BeReal assumes that the authentic self can be divulged under the right conditions — that catching users off-guard will lead them to abandon all pretense. And so far, users seem to be buying into its pitch.
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||
</p>
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||
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="p0imyC">
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“It has the vintage feel of early Instagram,” said Sasha Khatami, 21, who works in digital marketing. “I think it’s an interesting shift for people like me, who are used to posting curated content for so long, now toward a reminder to post in the moment.”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="BPx262">
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BeReal’s unsubtle marketing strategy has led it to be a breakout hit among college students. The startup pays students to serve as campus ambassadors, refer friends, and host promotional events. Besides its trendiness, however, the app’s concept and key functions are anything but original. It’s a well-timed reinvention of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/frontback-app-shuts-down-2015-7">FrontBack</a>, an app that popularized the simultaneous selfie and back-camera photo before shuttering in 2015. Similarly, its unpredictable daily push alert mimics the engagement strategy of Minutiae, an anonymous daily photo-sharing app launched in 2017.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="PZ3IN1">
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Still, BeReal is not much of a threat to the established hierarchy of social platforms that have built a decade-old fiefdom off our data and attention. BeReal is not intent on remaking the social internet. Instead, it operates on the sidelines of this seemingly unshakeable world order, and is backed by some of the same firms that funded Instagram and Twitter. (Venture capitalists are perpetually on the hunt for the next big social startup, despite <a href="https://www.newcomer.co/p/after-the-fallout?s=r">its history of false starts</a>.) Its goal, like that of most startups, is to become commercially viable, which means it eventually has to find ways to make money off of its users.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="3f9sAJ">
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The app’s greatest appeal may be its current novelty and the fact that it isn’t Instagram or Snapchat. Still, BeReal can’t seem to escape the pall of the major social networks. Merrilees has noticed an uptick in people sharing their BeReals on Instagram. Some are even <a href="https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdGDYeMP/?k=1">remixing them</a> into TikToks, as a kind of memory reel. “A lot of people are migrating content across different platforms,” Khatami tells me. “It feels very natural to me. I started making TikToks of my BeReal photos after seeing people post theirs.”
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</p>
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<div id="VVgGDl">
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<blockquote cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@yuhswagdopeyuh/video/7086934425618959662" class="tiktok-embed">
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<section>
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<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@yuhswagdopeyuh" target="_blank" title="@yuhswagdopeyuh"><span class="citation" data-cites="yuhswagdopeyuh">@yuhswagdopeyuh</span></a>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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i love it <span class="citation" data-cites="BeReal">@BeReal</span>. <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bereal" target="_blank" title="bereal">#bereal</a>
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<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7073906138529434414" target="_blank" title="♬ original sound - kei">♬ original sound - kei</a>
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</section>
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</blockquote>
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</div>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="ZveOSp">
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Since BeReal is so insular, usage is highly dependent on individual friend circles. Once people start to tire of it, chances are, their friends will too. There’s a FOMO-ish undercurrent to the hype. People download BeReal because they’re curious. They don’t want to miss out. It’s nostalgia bait, too, for those old enough to remember the ad- free days of Instagram. The Times’s John Herrman <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/style/bereal-app-social-
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media.html">found</a> it to be a “reproduction of the experience of joining one of the dominant social networks when they all still felt like toys.” BeReal’s daily reminder tries to enforce a reflexive instinct to post and use the app, similar to how Snapchat users feel beholden to maintain their streaks. These alerts, however, seem more contrived than spontaneous. They run counter to not only BeReal’s stated mission but to the psychological literature on authenticity and self-perception.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="tGfWeY">
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Authenticity is a fluid, ever-evolving social construct that cannot be clearly mediated, least of all through an app. In a <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1037/gpr0000157">critical examination</a> of the concept, researchers Katrina Jongman-Sereno and Mark Leary argued that authenticity “may not be a viable scientific construct,” citing the varying definitions used by psychologists, sociologists, and behavioral researchers in their assessments. So, why does this concern over online authenticity seem so pervasive? The internet flattens any distinction between irony and sincerity, human and machine, real and fake. If it’s all artifice, why do we care?
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="11y5a6">
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Our fixation on authenticity-posting is perhaps a reflection of our anxieties about the internet and how it debilitates our modern sense of self. Authenticity is a metric to measure content and the celebrities, influencers, brands, and individuals behind the facade. “Lately, it feels like more people are noticing and calling out performance on social media, like how ‘casual Instagram’ was identified as a trend,” said Maya Man, a Los Angeles-based artist and programmer. The notion of authenticity mollifies the viewer, assuring them that there is some truth to what is seen online. For the poster, it’s an ego-driven ideal to aspire toward or embody — even with content they’re paid to promote.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="3yyoib">
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BeReal’s attempt at curating an authentic space is far from perfect, but it gets at an unanswerable ontological question: Are we ever truly ourselves on the internet? “I view every single thing you post online as contributing to this distributed internet avatar that you’re performing,” Man said. “Performing isn’t a negative thing. It’s the fact that you have a mediated audience in mind, even if you’re posting on a private account.”
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</p>
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<div class="c-float-right">
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<aside id="DZrL3f">
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<q>“I view every single thing you post online as contributing to this distributed internet avatar that you’re performing.”</q>
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</aside>
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</div>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="5asIfz">
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Users who started using the internet at an early age, or “digital natives,” might share Man’s gestalt theory, and are more accustomed to reconciling these varying personas. It’s why people have Twitter alts, finstas, and specific accounts dedicated to food, aesthetics, or memes. Some of these disaggregated identities might be perceived as more authentic than others. Since the online self is fractured across multiple platforms and mediums, authenticity matters in that it’s a coherent, ready-made identity for consumption by a public audience.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="xKWkAb">
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In a <a href="https://reallifemag.com/sneak-peeks/">critique of BeReal</a>, Real Life magazine editor Rob Horning posits: “An even more real version of BeReal would just give your friends access to your cameras and microphones without you knowing it, so they can peep in on you and see how you act when you think no one is watching. If the panoptic gaze is falsifying us, only voyeurism sets us free.”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="a4DU1e">
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These voyeuristic conditions were what Man sought to investigate in creating <a href="https://glanceback.info/">Glance Back</a>, a Chrome extension that unpredictably snaps a webcam photo once a day when the user opens a new tab. “I was very unsettled by that feeling that someone is looking at you for a long time and you’re not looking back,” she told me. “That’s what my computer feels all day, and we don’t have a chance to engage with its view.”
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="HhuTnj">
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Even under Glance Back’s unexpected voyeurism, what it captured didn’t feel any more or less authentic than BeReal’s self-directed gaze. Glance Back catches me in a distracted, bleary-eyed state, whereas I convey a more earnest, alert version of myself on BeReal. After a few weeks of observing my life’s repetitious contours through my browser and phone, it became apparent to me that authenticity is a facile concern, one that’s easier to grapple with than our constant state of surveillance. Rather than fret over our perceived authenticity, perhaps a better question is: Why are we so willing to document ourselves to prove what we already know?
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</p>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The many, many costs of breastfeeding</strong> -
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</figure>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Breastfeeding isn’t free — and it isn’t a solution to the national baby formula shortage.
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<figure class="e-image">
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ten years from boom to bust, Chinese football in a tailspin</strong> - Impact of the global health crisis and China’s pursuit of a zero-COVID strategy, coupled with increasing difficulties within the business sector that bankrolled many of the country’s clubs, has left Chinese football in turmoil</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Nadal to play French Open despite injury concern</strong> - Rafael Nadal posted a picture with the caption “See you on Wednesday, Paris” to indicate he will play at the French Open despite struggling with a chronic foot injury</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Truss to set out plans on N Ireland trade deal</strong> - The PM said an “insurance” policy was needed to fix the protocol after meeting parties in Belfast.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Northern Ireland: Could the EU and UK face a trade war?</strong> - As tensions build over Northern Ireland, concerns of an EU-UK trade war have surfaced.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Turkey threatens to block Finland and Sweden Nato bids</strong> - Turkish President Erdogan accused the Nordic nations of harbouring terrorists wanted by Ankara.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Omicron caused spike in breathing condition in babies and toddlers, study finds</strong> - Omicron’s predilection for upper airway may pose unique risk to young children. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1854551">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Apple’s and Google’s outdated apps bans would cut each store by a third</strong> - Estimates have Google Play cutting 869,000 apps and Apple removing 650,000. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1854501">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Researchers devise iPhone malware that runs even when device is turned off</strong> - Research is largely theoretical but exposes an overlooked security issue. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1854505">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Next-gen Nvidia RTX 4000-series GPUs are reportedly coming in the next few months</strong> - Leaks are claiming big jumps in performance for the next-gen Lovelace GPUs. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1854409">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Citizen scientists help discover more than 1,000 new asteroids</strong> - Crowdsourced project unearths more than 1,000 asteroids in 37,000 Hubble images. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1853760">link</a></p></li>
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The bartender considers it, then agrees.
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After the man finished his drink, he asked the bartender, "If I show you an even better trick, will you give me free drinks for the rest of the night, the bartender thinks that nothing could possibly top the first trick so he agrees.
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The man reaches into another pocket and pulls out a small bullfrog, who begins to sing along with the rat’s music.
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The stranger increases the offer to $250,000.00 cash up front.
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“No,” he insists, “he’s not for sale.”
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“Are you insane?” the bartender demanded.
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“That frog could have been worth millions to you, and you let him go for a mere $500,000!”
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“Don’t worry about it.” the man answered.
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"The frog was really nothing special.
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You see, the rat’s a ventriloquist."
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“What’s this special military operation our glorious leader keeps talking about?”<br/> Her husband replied, “It’s a proxy war between Ruzzia and NATO.”<br/> “Oh, right. How’s it going?”<br/> “Well,” he replied, “so far we’ve lost 24,000 soldiers, 2,000 tanks, 200 aircraft, numerous helicopters, loads of armoured vehicles and artillery pieces along with our ‘flag ship’.”<br/> “Wow! What about NATO?”<br/> “They haven’t turned up yet.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Tintovic"> /u/Tintovic </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/urjuol/a_russian_wife_turned_to_her_husband_and_asked/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/urjuol/a_russian_wife_turned_to_her_husband_and_asked/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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The mom asks, “Why on Earth do you need that?!” The little boy says, "Isn’t that what you give daddy when his sh*t doesn’t get hard?"
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/nikan69"> /u/nikan69 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ur6cmc/a_little_boy_with_diarrhea_tells_his_mom_that_he/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ur6cmc/a_little_boy_with_diarrhea_tells_his_mom_that_he/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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Did Mary have a little lamb?
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MissCompany"> /u/MissCompany </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uqz18w/if_mary_gave_birth_to_jesus_and_jesus_is_the_lamb/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uqz18w/if_mary_gave_birth_to_jesus_and_jesus_is_the_lamb/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>My girlfriend said, “I am breaking up with you because of your addiction of wearing a different t-shirt every half an hour.”</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/micxiao"> /u/micxiao </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/urhtx2/my_girlfriend_said_i_am_breaking_up_with_you/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/urhtx2/my_girlfriend_said_i_am_breaking_up_with_you/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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