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NYC: Come To Our WNBA Comedy Show On May 16

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Live Event

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Defector Staff

Accademia carrara art gallery: playing cards and tarots, bembo e cicognara, 1455-1490, bergamo, Italy.

Accademia carrara art gallery: playing cards and tarots, bembo e cicognara, 1455-1490, bergamo, Italy

Underexplained Lists

Underexplained Predictions For 2025

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David Roth

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Does It Matter That AI Doesn’t Work?

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Justin Ellis

A man sitting in an Apple Store in Los Angeles demos the Apple Vision Pro with his hands held wide apart in a very silly way.

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The Problem With The Goggles Of The Future Is Today

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Patrick Redford

Santa Monica, CA - February 21: Passengers ride in an electric Jaguar I-Pace car outfitted with Waymo full self-driving technology in Santa Monica Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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San Francisco Takes First Step Towards The Grim, Autonomous Future Of Transportation

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Marc Andreessen onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt festival in 2016.

TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 – Day 2

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The Limits Of The Billionaire Imagination Are Everyone’s Problem

<p>Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.</p>


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Nicholas Russell

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Video Games

Sometimes It’s Fun To Be A Weird Guy With A Hand For A Head

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Kelsey McKinney

Arizona Diamondbacks v Colorado Rockies

They Ruined The Damn Condiment Island

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Mohammad bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia

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This Is So Stupid

Do You Not See That The City Of The Future Must Be A Straight Line, You Oaf, You Absolute Doofus

The Future