Author: EveAim

Over the last year, the social media platforms that dominate the web have made fools out of anyone who believed in their fundamental goodness. Neo-Nazis used Facebook groups to organize a hate rally in Charlottesville; Russian trolls used digital ads to drive a wedge through the American electorate. A man livestreamed a murder on Facebook,…

Emoji are used so often and in such volume that it feels as though they’ve been with us forever. In fact, it wasn’t until Apple released an emoji keyboard in 2011 that the Cambrian exploji ensued, a flowering to rival the birth of any language. Linguists might dispute the term—languages have verbs, emoji (probably) do…

Let's get the obvious out of the way first. Yes, Steve Ditko is the man behind Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, both of which he co-created with Stan Lee. And, sure, he’s a comic book artist and writer whose work displays a trippy aesthetic unlike anything in comics before or, truthfully, after his time. Ditko is…

Google, it seems, is looking to get into the videogame business. Over the past few months—most notably, and most recently, on the gaming site Kotaku—rumors have been circulating that the search giant is working on a multi-pronged games initiative that would involve both hardware and a streaming platform, codenamed "Yeti." Reportedly, Google is looking to…

Food doesn’t always pair so well with tech. The former is comforting and cultural, the latter cold and commercial. Lab-grown meat, transgenic crops, desserts extruded from the nozzles of 3-D printers: not exactly fodder for nostalgic childhood memories. Tasteful Portfolio But why not? asks Swedish designer Erika Marthins. "People often see technology as something alien,"…

In the dawning days of the millennium, a great harvest was promised. A new class of young revolutionists, who saw the world as not yet living up to its grandeur and thus felt the duty to order it in their vision, vowed a season of abundance and grand prosperity. Among these strivers was Facebook CEO…

When Steve Bannon got fired from his job as President Trump's chief strategist in August, he told the Weekly Standard he felt free. "I’ve got my hands back on my weapons. I built a fucking machine at Breitbart,” he said of his return to the far right media outlet. In response to Bannon's White House…

It’s been the week that saw journalists barred from government summits, sexual predator Harvey Weinstein turn himself in for arrest, and Ireland go to the polls over abortion. It’s also been the week where people have been recovering from a royal wedding and rejoicing over the Pope telling a gay man that God made him…

If it’s summer, California must be on fire. And if that’s not enough dystopia for you, there’s always the fact that DNA-testing service 23AndMe is selling clients’ information to drug manufacturers, or the emergence of mutated HIV strains that cause illness quicker than others, not to mention the president apparently threatening war with Iran for…

From baby drivers to libidinous mermen, 2017 was a very good—and somewhat strange—year at the movies. And yet not even the pulse-pounding sensation of watching Daniel Day-Lewis consume yet another mushroom omelette could match the collective jaw-dropping that came in the final moments of last year’s Oscars ceremony, when the makers of La La Land…