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Wednesday 22 August 2018

Who Are Your Real Friends?

There's an academic term for one-sided, media-enabled relationships: parasocial relationships. Video essayist Shannon Strucci is helping spread it to an online audience that desperately needs the language.
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GOOD GRIEF
HOW MANY FAKE FRIENDS DO YOU HAVE?
We All Live In Parasocial Hell
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There's an academic term for one-sided, media-enabled relationships: parasocial relationships. Video essayist Shannon Strucci is helping spread it to an online audience that desperately needs the language.
SILENT SURVIVORS
This Is The Suicide Story You're Not Hearing
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For every person who goes through with it, there are 280 who decide not to. Listening to them could be life-saving.
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Getting Bedbugs Actually Made My Life Better
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I'm closer to my neighbors, living with less clutter, and spend less time worrying about pointless stuff.
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HISTORIC HIGHS
A TURNING POINT FOR TRUMP?
How Major Newspapers Covered The Cohen And Manafort News
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With Paul Manafort's conviction and Michael Cohen implicating the President in criminal activities, Tuesday was a massive day in the news. Here's how major newspapers are covering it.
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The Untold Story Of The Most Devastating Cyberattack In History
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Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.
THEIR WORD IS BOND
An Oral History Of 'GoldenEye 007' On The N64
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GOT A BONE TO PICK
Puppy Spends All This Time Digging A Hole, Loses His Shit When Ocean Fills It Up
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"Ocean, how could you?"
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Scientists Find Direct Evidence Of Water Ice On The Lunar Surface
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If you didn't become a high-profile felon yesterday, your Wednesday's already off to a great start.

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