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Reading Pan-African Revolt
โI mean, weโre talking about the last twenty years. Thatโs most of our lives. Maybe even all of yours!โ Tentative silence. Itโs always hard to gauge how this kind of direct appeal will go over. Then ...
First as Tragedy, Then as Slop
...I think itโs safe to identify MrBeastโs primary schtick as the fusion of two favorite ultra-rich past times, philanthropy and decadence. MrBeast is far from the first tycoon to master these crafts. However, his Frankenstein brand of philanthropic decadence is the novelty that has propelled him to the top of YouTube, becoming the first โbillionaire YouTuber.โ
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โTogether, We Can Create the World We Want to Seeโ: An Interview with ChatGPT
Recently, an editor at Hard Crackers discovered that many students in his classes were having their homework assignments written for them by an artificial intelligence (AI) program called ChatGPT, a piece of software that draws on ...
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Drawing Ourselves into the Picture
My mother Leah frequented the Durban Public Library in South Africa at least once a week.ย As the youngest child, I was often forced to tag along with her.ย I enjoyed those sessions.ย I used to ...
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“Everyone Agrees”
When a politician, TV anchor or newspaper opinion writer starts out by saying that โEveryone agreesโ, I think itโs time to pay attention.ย There are not too many instances where everybody agreesโexcept about something thatโs really ...
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โStick a Fork in Their Ass & Turn โem Over – Theyโre Done.โ
Sorry to be a โNegative Nellyโ (& co-opt a Lou Reed lyric again), but pull up a stool and let me tell you why the Covid crisis is really just a mirror to a species already ...
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Politics from a Baby Boomer
In March of this year, a Hard Crackers correspondent took a trip to New Hampshire to visit a friend. It was her first time being in a place that was majority white and she was interested ...
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Advertising in the Virus Age
To borrow a phrase from the Madison Avenue ad people โIn these difficult times, itโs reassuring to know that we still have enough of what we need.โย Well, letโs be more truthful here.ย We may have ...
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The Everyday Abolitionism of 13 Reasons Why
Itโs an all-too-familiar scene. An alienated young man named named Tyler Down approaches a school clad in black, strapped with guns and ammunition, and bent on cold-blooded mass murder. But unlike the tragedies making headlines across ...
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Adventures in Cruiseland
Cruise ships are bigโthe ships are incredibly large and the number of worldwide passengers grows steadily.ย Many of the big ships are four football fields long, a half football field wide and almost a football field high ...
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