Daily Dot (161)

‘Anathema to the open source movement.’: Github users revolt over new login requirement for searches | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘Dawg it won’t listen’: ChatGPT is getting dumber, lazier, users bemoan | Daily Dot, November 2023

Paris mayor trolled over lengthy post on X announcing she’s leaving X | Daily Dot, November 2023

Alex Jones launches arcade-style video game—where you go to Epstein Island to hunt Bill Clinton | Daily Dot, November 2023

Who is GigaChad | Daily Dot, November 2023

As Sam Altman goes back to Open AI, ChatGPT crashes | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘CZ SACRIFICED HIMSELF FOR OUR BAGS’: Crypto bros praise Binance CEO—after feds fine company $4.3 billion | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘We are all very tired of your cringe messages’: Andrew Tate’s team mocks alleged victims when asked to comply with court order granting them anonymity | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘Get your hands off me’: Family of Israeli hostages rip into National Security Minister for hugging them, posting picture asking him not to | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘One of your guys gave it to me’: Internet cheers 9-year-old who roasted Nikki Haley over campaign swag compliment | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘I will do everything I can to reunite the company’: OpenAI board member publicly apologizes as employees post demand to bring back Sam Altman | Daily Dot, November 2023

X CEO says ‘everyone should STOP’ being racist and antisemitic on the site after Musk endorses anti-Jewish post | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘You are not Jewish you weirdo’: Richie Torres says he’s the last gay ‘Jew-ish’ member in Congress after George Santos announces he won’t run in 2024 | Daily Dot, November 2023

Court rules Tesla employees can’t wear pro-union shirts to work | Daily Dot, November 2023

GOP Rep. Clay Higgins pushes viral ‘ghost buses’ Jan. 6 conspiracy while warning FBI Director ‘your day is coming’ | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘I am my dad’s blood boy’: Multimillionaire tech entrepreneur says he de-aged his dad by 25 years with ‘super blood’ plasma donation | Daily Dot, November 2023

In the ‘stonks’ meme, the numbers always go up | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘San Francisco if Xi stays for a whole week’ meme blasts Newsom for admitting he cleaned up city in advance of Chinese president’s visit | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘That wasn’t me’: Biden nails joke about his age, stumbles while watching someone fall at a speech | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘So embarrassing for them’: Pro-Israel organization outed for offering $250 ‘microgrants’ to pay college students to attend upcoming D.C. rally | Daily Dot, November 2023

Does the wife of the judge in Trump’s fraud trial judge have a burner account where she rips the former president? | Daily Dot, November 2023

Republican operatives unearth gym thirst trap Trump fraud trial judge appears have posted in high school alumni newsletter | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘Where did you hire these no good actors?’: Recycled photo used to claim Jewish, Muslim IDF soldiers are praying together during invasion of Gaza | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘No time for diversity now’: Army recruitment ad featuring white paratroopers means war is coming soon, far-right commenters say | Daily Dot, November 2023

Free speech crusader RFK Jr. slammed for supporting open letter demanding Harvard review students’ Slacks for antisemitic memes | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘it was a good run’: ChatGPT’s new Turbo update just destroyed cottage industry of developers piggybacking on AI’s success | Daily Dot, November 2023

How a special forces cosplay brand sparked a panic Delta Force troops had been outed in Israel | Daily Dot, November 2023

Is TikTok so addictive it’s getting teens hooked on Hamas? | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘The levels of alpha male in this one photo:’ Teen GOP operative sparks mocking meme with post of bros flexing in D.C. | Daily Dot, November 2023

‘Exchange him for the hostages’: The Tinder Swindler visited an Israel military base for clout, took back gifts when barred from taking photos | Daily Dot, November 2023

Logan Paul fails to reach mediation deal in CryptoZoo scam suit despite claiming he would settle | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘The Trump campaign is being run by Rex Ryan’: DeSantis supporters attack his 2024 opponent’s unrelenting obsession with his possible shoe lifts | Daily Dot, October 2023

Hacker collective claims to have knocked 10 Israeli water treatment facilities offline | Daily Dot, October 2023

A Bella Hadid deep fake where she recants her support for Palestine was the work of an Israeli jingle maker | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘Like watching someone die’: Conservatives melt down over video of Robert E. Lee statue being melted down | Daily Dot, October 2023

Palestinian Telegram channels translate death toll reports into English after Biden claims he doesn’t believe number of Gazans killed | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘No excuse for this’: Bernie Sanders’ lack of push for ceasefire in Israel-Palestine infuriates online left | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘yes, I am with @DuchessOfDeFi’: Crypto bro appalls X by tagging his ex-wife and new girlfriend in divorce announcement | Daily Dot, October 2023

What is a JERF? New term tries to turn being a Palestine-supporting feminist into a slur | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘What a clown show’: Trump’s legal team tries to delay fraud trial over lack of adequate COViD protocol in courthouse | Daily Dot, October 2023

Trump dragged the Republican speaker nominee so hard he immediately dropped out of the race | Daily Dot, October 2023

Off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to crash a plane with 83 passengers blamed it on taking mushrooms for the first time | Daily Dot, October 2023

Viral video attempts to show Kentucky Governor drunk on a video call—but it’s likely doctored | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘My relationship ends here’: Italian Prime Minister Meloni dumps her long-term boyfriend in Facebook post after inappropriate audio leaks | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘The podcast Facebook doesn’t want you to hear’: Facebook blocks people from sharing podcasts discussing Israel-Palestine war | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘Touch some grass’: DeSantis’ team furious at right-wing influencer for pushing meme he wears high heels | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘Look at those bubbles’: ‘Al Jazeera reporter’ covering Gaza hospital blast outed as fake after spotted thirsting after Sydney Sweeney pictures | Daily Dot, October 2023

Internet troll Ricky Vaughn sentenced to 7 months in jail for meme campaign to deceive voters in 2016 | Daily Dot, October 2023

Hospital bombing in Gaza kills hundreds—sparks outrage and accusations as Israel, Palestine place blame on other side | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘Meta definitely needs to address this’: Instagram user says the phrase ‘Palestinian’ in his bio was briefly translated to ‘Palestinian terrorist’ | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘always money to destroy lives and never to build them’: Treasury Secretary ripped for saying America can afford to support war in Israel and Ukraine | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘Hi Gigi, [this] is for you,’: Israel launches Instagram story offensive against Gigi Hadid over her support for Palestine | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘Jesus hating shill’: Right-wing influencer called out for antisemitic post attacking Ben Shapiro (updated) | Daily Dot, October 2023

A photo of Israelis in Panama returning home to join the IDF went viral after getting accused of being AI-generated | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘We will do everything’: Israeli pushes support for war against Palestine with YouTube ad blitz | Daily Dot, October 2023

Reddit enforces ban on ‘terrorist propaganda’—which users say will paint uneven picture of Israel-Palestine war | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘I’m afraid he’s going to fall down every time’: Video of Tommy Tuberville spilling down airplane stairs resurfaces after comments about Biden’s stumbles | Daily Dot, October 2023

New Bigfoot video in remote Southwest Colorado area has people believing | Daily Dot, October 2023

Pro-Palestine posters with ‘paraglider’ images spark backlash | Daily Dot, October 2023

Gavin Newsom vetoes raft of progressive bills—including decriminalizing mushrooms—sparking backlash, 2024 speculation | Daily Dot, October 2023

Ben Shapiro’s old support of civilian deaths in the Middle East resurfaces after dissing call for truce in Israel-Palestine war | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘Thanksgiving gonna be pretty awkward’: 4 of RFK Jr.’s siblings dunk on his decision to run in 2024 as an independent | Daily Dot, October 2023

California man charged with threatening to shoot up a court in Orange County made threats by email and posted them on Instagram | Daily Dot, October 2023

Protesters respond to interaction with Vivek Ramaswamy by ramming their car into his SUV | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘It’s a communist takeover’: Report on FBI surveillance of MAGA extremists enrages right-wing | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘I love those heels’: TikTokers think they’ve found the hidden wedge shoe Ron DeSantis is being accused of wearing | Daily Dot, October 2023

Trump posts meme of himself as Speaker of the House as race to replace McCarthy heats up | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘Chip Soy’: DeSantis-supporting Texas Republican delivers fiery anti-MAGA rant over House Speaker fight—delighting Trump fans | Daily Dot, October 2023

The upcoming FCC emergency alert test is sparking a panic on TikTok | Daily Dot, October 2023

Trump posts ‘Truth’ making up claim judge’s clerk in fraud trial is dating Chuck Schumer—while sitting in the courtroom with her | Daily Dot, October 2023

Elon Musk sued for falsely accusing a Jewish man of participating in a Neo-Nazi fight | Daily Dot, October 2023

‘A stunt queen through and through’: George Santos drops news of secret husband Matt in condolence tweet about Diane Feinstein’s death | Daily Dot, September 2023

How tall is Gavin Newsom? | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘You’re looking particularly good’: John Fetterman draws praise from Republican for putting on a suit | Daily Dot, September 2023

Nikki Haley to Vivek Ramaswamy: ‘Honestly, every time I hear you I feel a little bit dumber’ | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘We’re going to call you Donald Duck’: Chris Christie tries out new nickname for Trump | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘Couldn’t get a Latina’s name out of his mouth’: Fox debate host Stuart Varney horribly botches cohost Ilia Calderón’s introduction | Daily Dot, September 2023

Republican charged with misusing campaign funds blew money at Trump’s DC hotel to post selfies with the first ladies of MAGA | Daily Dot, September 2023

Is Taylor Swift teaming up with Travis Kelce and George Soros to elect Michelle Obama to the White House? | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘Building smells so bad it makes people sick’: Trump criticized for visiting non-union auto plant during strike—that employees trash on career sites | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘Laseranon’ YouTuber charged with threatening to kill Florida sheriff ran channel teaching convicted felons how to obtain weapons, blind people with lasers | Daily Dot, September 2023

Senator Menendez claims he hoarded cash because his family faced ‘confiscation in Cuba’ | Daily Dot, September 2023

Canadian House Speaker sorry for calling ex-Nazi a ‘hero’ | Daily Dot, September 2023

Candace Owens calls allegations against former ‘commie leftist’ Russel Brand ‘credible’ | Daily Dot September 2023

Judge rules Andrew Tate fans pose “a risk of physical harm” and “safety concerns” to accusers | Daily Dot, September 2023

French president’s Versailles dinner with King Charles III blasted for extravagance | Daily Dot, September 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy is the latest far-right reactionary Jake Paul’s promoting | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘BOYS WILL BE BOYS’: Sneako defends racist, homophobic young fans | Daily Dot, September 2023

Andrew Tate claims Romania is leaking details of his case to ‘random podcasters’ | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘NRA, are you going to defend?’: Pro-gun organization called on to step up for Hunter Biden after new firearm indictment | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘Trolling the world hard’: Mexico’s big alien unveiling roasted for similarities to ‘Men in Black’ | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘I simply froze’: Andrew, Tristan Tate publish victim’s statement to Romanian police as part of lawsuit against her | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘Girlie you do not have to do this’: Photo of Ken Paxton’s wife contemplating her wedding ring during impeachment trial over affair prompts memes | Daily Dot, September 2023

Virginia House candidate outed as performer on adult website | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘Booger Bob’: DeSantis’ snotty 9/11 memorial moment grosses out viewers, reminds people how often he wipes his nose in public | Daily Dot, September 2023

Who got flicked off more at the Iowa-Iowa State game: Trump or DeSantis? | Daily Dot, September 2023

Grimes posts, deletes, plea begging Elon Musk to let her see her son | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘Return of the Barstool Boys to the Democratic coalition’: Even Dave Portnoy is blasting Tucker Carlson for interviewing Larry Sinclair | Daily Dot, September 2023

Did Elon Musk shut down Ukraine’s access to Starlink thanks to Ian Mile Cheong? | Daily Dot, September 2023

Cop City protesters charged with conspiracy for posting pictures of police online, writing ACAB | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘Goal to annihilate’: TikToker sued for coverage of divorce saga—which includes a ‘lie’ of a cancer diagnosis, abuse allegations, and claims of a coordinated smear campaign | Daily Dot, September 2023

Who is Larry Sinclair? Man who claims he had sex with Obama in 1999 to be interviewed on Tucker Carlson | Daily Dot, September 2023

‘Make Bharat great again:’ Leaked G20 invitation goes viral—sparks calls for India to be renamed | Daily Dot, September 2023

MrBeast sued for launching Deez Nutz chocolate bar by Dee’s Nuts nut company | Daily Dot, September 2023

Doug Burgum drops big update in campaign for 2024 Republican nomination: He met another Doug! | Daily Dot, August 2023

Far-right figures claim U.S. will soon start war with Russia to keep Biden in power | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘We’ll go in wearing a kimono’: French TikTokers plot ways to protest new abaya ban in school | Daily Dot, August 2023

Desantis Rapid Response Director Christina Pushaw rapidly responds to question about governor dropping out—by running away | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Yeah, I’d start looking for another job ASAP’: Mike Lindell claims he’s promised employees ‘we’re going to be OK’ after bank cuts off credit | Daily Dot, August 2023

Ben Shapiro’s prediction ‘Barbie’ would flop resurfaces as movie tops ‘Harry Potter’ for Warner Bros. global record | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘You’re a Caucasian by definition buddy’: Jordan Peterson calls MSNBC anchor ‘not really brown’ | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Loch Ness Noncer’: Royal family slammed for spending time with Prince Andrew after security email leak | Daily Dot, August 2023

Fulton County Sheriff’s office releases Trump mugshot | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘They let him keep his wig?????’: Ahead of Trump mugshot release, Photoshopped memes go viral | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘He knew a lot on a lot of people’: Trump tells Tucker Carlson he thinks Epstein probably killed himself | Daily Dot, August 2023

Chris Christie says teachers unions are a bigger threat to the U.S. than UFOs | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Let’s just get through this:’ Debate host Bret Baier pleads with crowd to stop booing Chris Christie for criticizing Donald Trump | Daily Dot, August 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy’s opening statement cribbed straight from Obama’s infamous DNC speech | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Can you be more tone-deaf?’: Conservatives appalled Republican debate hosted at a venue that sounds like ‘Pfizer’ | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘As if it’s not already bad enough’: Hyperinflation fears flood TikTok as users spread rumor new BRICS currency set to launch | Daily Dot, August 2023

Oliver Anthony’s fans turn on him after ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ singer speaks out in support of ‘diversity | Daily Dot, August 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy dubbed ‘VivekGPT’ as critics highlight tech entrepreneur’s ever-shifting answers | Daily Dot, August 2023

Roblox’s digital currency allows children to gamble at online casinos, new lawsuit alleges | Daily Dot, August 2023

Pride flag murder suspect Travis Ikeguchi’s Twitter account filled with anti-LBGTQ messages, image of burning Pride flag | Daily Dot, August 2023

Biden slammed for comparing fire where he ‘almost lost’ his ’67 Corvette to Maui blaze that killed at least 100 | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Lasers don’t like the color blue’: Why an image of an unburnt umbrella is at the center of Hawaii wildfire conspiracies | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Chaos’: New report details headaches Starlink’s deployment in Ukraine gave U.S. officials—including fears Musk might cut service on a whim | Daily Dot, August 2023

Twitter’s former vice president of engineering sues Musk over unpaid bonuses | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Hes got Homelander tics now’: Ron DeSantis grinding his teeth during interview draws comparisons to The Boys villain | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Classic case of f*ck around and find out’: Nick Fuentes’ fan who challenged MMA fighter walk backs Holocaust denial after getting walloped | Daily Dot, August 2023

Dick Bigger is the 2024 election’s first internet star | Daily Dot, August 2023

Alleged stalker pulled data on ex-girlfriend 16,000 times, new lawsuit against Tile claims, saying tracker lacked safety features for almost a decade | Daily Dot, August 2023

Massive new big tech lawsuit demands restitution for cost of ‘youth health crisis’ social media offloaded onto schools, teachers | Daily Dot, August 2023

Middle school math teacher impersonated high schooler on Snapchat to solicit nudes from his sixth grader students | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS’: Rumors swirl Twitter is going to require ID verification soon | Daily Dot, August 2023

The Killers booed off stage after inviting Russian fan onstage to drum during song, videos show | Daily Dot, August 2023

One of the greatest spectacles of my life’: Atlanta grand jury witness in Trump case who had 11pm ticket to Oppenheimer made it, loved it | Daily Dot, August 2023

Epstein associate Leon Black accused of trying to intimidate women suing him over alleged rape when she was a minor | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Legal Technology’ firm named in Trump indictment does not want to talk about their alleged involvement | Daily Dot, August 2023

Why Georgia’s governor can’t pardon Trump | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Karma is a nasty B’: Truth Social users rage at Georgia grand jury over Trump indictment, share links to jurors’ private social media | Daily Dot, August 2023

FBI says man who posted Biden death threats pointed gun at agents before being shot | Daily Dot, August 2023

Ron DeSantis is getting slammed by Trump supporters for a tribute he wrote to George H. W. Bush after death. Trump also praised Bush | Daily Dot, August 2023

Did Georgia accidentally post its Trump indictment online early? | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘The kindest thing anyone has said to Mike all week’: Beer-drinking Iowa fairgoer tells Pence ‘I’m glad they didn’t hang you’ | Daily Dot, August 2023

Snapchat group with 100 students tagged Black kids in racial slurs, fueled racism at middle school, lawsuit alleges | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Pittsburgh must burn’: Man who left string of posts online threatening jurors in Tree of Life synagogue shooting trial arrested | Daily Dot, August 2023

Clarence Thomas’ friend keeps getting dunked on for defending Justice’s ethically questionable luxury vacations | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Remember Waco and Ruby Ridge’: Man killed by FBI for making Biden death threat memes already a far-right rallying cry | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘I see Biden’s body in a huge puddle of blood’: FBI kills man who made repeated Facebook threats about assassinating Biden | Daily Dot, August 2023

Twitter was down when the government tried to serve a warrant for Donald Trump’s account | Daily Dot, August 2023

Seven-foot ‘Green Goblin’ aliens terrorizing village turn out to be illegal gold miners | Daily Dot, August 2023

3 white men charged with assault for role in Montgomery riverboat brawl | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘You have my full support’: DeSantis’ new campaign manager is being sued for his role in Martha’s Vineyard migrant flights | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘I knew he was going to come out’: Right-wing operative suggests Justin Trudeau is gay for taking his son to ‘Barbie’ | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Africa was never hers,’: West Africans roast France on TikTok after coup in Niger, declare colonization ‘over’ | Daily Dot, August 2023

RFK Jr. sues YouTube and Google, says he should be allowed to spew vaccine nonsense because he’s running for president | Daily Dot, August 2023

‘Italian men use them all their lives’: Rudy Giuliani’s thoughts on ethnicity and penis size draw widespread disgust | Daily Dot, August 2023

Why JP Morgan now doesn’t want to pay $1.5 million the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Fund says it’s owed | Daily Dot, August 2023

Lawsuit claiming Logan Paul defrauded investors with CryptoZoo NFTs heads to mediation—8 months after Paul promised $1.8 million in restitution | Daily Dot, August 2023

Epstein victims’ fund says JP Morgan’s discovery demands cost it $1.5 million—and the bank used it to try and dismiss civil case |  Daily Dot, July 2023

Articles:

Emmanuel Macron’s Neoliberal Government Is Replacing Welfare With Punitive Workfare | Jacobin, October 2023

The Invisible Art of the Humble Frame | Observer, July 2023

After Raising the Pension Age, Emmanuel Macron Is Planning “Unprecedented Austerity” | Jacobin, April 2023

Marine Le Pen Isn’t on the Same Side as France’s Pension Protesters | Jacobin, March, 2023

France’s Once-Mighty Socialist Party Must Change or Die | Jacobin, February, 2023

Emmanuel Macron’s Pension Reform Will Make Workers Toil Till They Drop | Jacobin, January, 2023

France’s Left Unity Is Proving Short-Lived | Jacobin, June, 2022

In France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Left-Wing Coalition Has the Neoliberals Terrified | Jacobin, June, 2022

The End of the Republican Front | Verso, May, 2022

l’Union Populaire is a Strategy | Verso, April, 2022

Jean-Luc Mélenchon Is Fighting to Be France’s Last President | Jacobin, April, 2022

France’s Xenophobes Are Claiming Charles de Gaulle for the Far Right | Jacobin, April, 2022

Mutiny in Vietnam: Richard Boyle’s Flower of the Dragon: The Breakdown of the U.S. Army in Vietnam | Liberated Texts, December, 2021

Snow on the Atlantic: How Cocaine Came to Europe | Ebb Magazine, November, 2020

Operation Extermination | Ebb Magazine, June, 2020

What Do You Call a Play? | Splice Today, May, 2020

The End of the Corbyn Project | Print - Counterpunch Magazine, Volume 26, Number 6 - 2020 (pdf)

Brexit Brought Down The Left (For Now) | Splice Today, February, 2020

Jeremy Corbyn is Gone for Good | Splice Today, December, 2019

What of the lowly page number | The Outline, April, 2018

Who Started the Korean War? |  Print - Counterpunch Magazine, Volume 25, Number 1 - 2018 (pdf)

Books:

Zemmour & Gaullism | Oxford, Ebb Books, 2022.


“Mutiny in Vietnam: Richard Boyle’s Flower of the Dragon: The Breakdown of the U.S. Army in Vietnam.” Liberated Texts: Collected Reviews, Volume 1, edited by Louis Allday and Mahmoud Najib, 51-71. Oxford: Ebb Books, 2022.

“Vincent Bevins’ The Jakarta Method.” | On Imperialism: Volume 1, edited by Lewis Hodder, 131-137. Oxford: Ebb Books, 2021.