Kyle Daly
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Past articles by Kyle:
How to deprogram America's extremists
What a "Marshall Plan against domestic extremism" might look like. → Read More
How the QAnon conspiracy theory drove the Trump Capitol riot
Believers saw the day as the climax to a long-running saga in which the president would smite his enemies. → Read More
European Union hits Amazon with antitrust charges
Europe could seek billions of dollars in fines from Amazon. → Read More
What a President Biden would mean for tech
A Biden administration would give the industry a stabler road, but not a free pass. → Read More
R.I.P. Don Rickles, comedy icon
As confirmed by Variety, legendary insult comic Don Rickles—who is probably better known to younger people as the voice of Mr. Potato Head in the Toy Story movies—died this morning from kidney failure. He was 90.Born in Queens and raised in a Yiddish-speaking household, Rickles described himself as → Read More
Frinkiac just embiggened its usefulness with animated GIFs
Once in a great while, we are privileged to experience a cultural event so extraordinary, it becomes part of our shared heritage. 1969: Man walks on the moon. 1971: Man walks on the moon again. Then, for a long time, nothing happened. Until now, as Frinkiac, the search engine that matches Simpsons q → Read More
Remember #TheDress sensation? It’s back, in emoji form
Remember in college, when you’d go home for the summer and see your friends who never left your hometown? You’d have a decent enough time, but all they’d talk about was the fun times in high school. And then a queasy, sad feeling would come over you as you’d realize they’re going to spend the rest o → Read More
This artist makes tiny paper dioramas of Wes Anderson scenes
In an apparent bid to make Wes Anderson throw his hat in the dust and exclaim, “Consarnit!” for not thinking of it first, Barcelona-based illustrator Mar Cerdà has used watercolor and papercraft to render the worlds of Anderson’s films in an even more meticulous, delicate medium. Cerdà previously ma → Read More
Vinyl jukeboxes are coming back for the first time in decades
Already the subject of countless fish-in-a-barrel jokes about Those Darn Hipsters, the vinyl revival may soon be coming to a bean-to-bar-chocolate-hawking restaurant near you: Casino and coin-operated entertainment trade publication Intergame reports that British jukebox manufacturer Sound Leisure h → Read More
David Bowie impersonates Bruce Springsteen, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and more
Everyone already knows that the late David Bowie was a singular musical genius, deft multi-instrumentalist, and celebrated stage and film actor. Now it turns out he could also put to shame the dumb Neil Young impression you do at karaoke. Mark Saunders is a record producer, sound engineer, and music → Read More
This guy used a neural network to generate a new, bizarre episode of Friends
Anyone clamoring for more episodes of Tommy Wiseau’s sitcom The Neighbors is in luck: A Twitter hero has built a program that can perfectly replicate the Wiseau-ian structure of near-gibberish grafted onto the skeleton of normal sitcom scripting. Scotland’s “Andy Pandy,” primarily known as a webcomi → Read More
DC Pierson is running a tournament to determine pop culture’s biggest overachiever
For whatever reason, film and television teem with overachievers: type A strivers who charm and irritate in (sometimes) equal measure. Comedian, author, and actor DC Pierson has done society the favor of devising an appropriately competitive method of determining the most overachieving of them all. → Read More
Great horror rejects the pop psychology that drags down the genre
(Note: This piece contains specific plot details about several horror films.)Think of the worst thing you’ve ever done. Now: Why did you do it? Maybe you have some vast network of rationalizations for it, or maybe it was because you were bored, or curious, or angry, or drunk. Or to this day, maybe → Read More
Great horror rejects the pop psychology that drags down the genre
(Note: This piece contains specific plot details about several horror films.)Think of the worst thing you’ve ever done. Now: Why did you do it? Maybe you have some vast network of rationalizations for it, or maybe it was because you were bored, or curious, or angry, or drunk. Or to this day, maybe → Read More
Great horror rejects the pop psychology that drags down the genre
(Note: This piece contains specific plot details about several horror films.)Think of the worst thing you’ve ever done. Now: Why did you do it? Maybe you have some vast network of rationalizations for it, or maybe it was because you were bored, or curious, or angry, or drunk. Or to this day, maybe → Read More
Great horror rejects the pop psychology that drags down the genre
(Note: This piece contains specific plot details about several horror films.)Think of the worst thing you’ve ever done. Now: Why did you do it? Maybe you have some vast network of rationalizations for it, or maybe it was because you were bored, or curious, or angry, or drunk. Or to this day, maybe → Read More
Darth Maul might be getting his own video game after all
It may be hard to recall now, but between the white-knuckle action of the tariff negotiation scenes, the hilarious antics of Jar Jar Binks, and the exhilaration the world felt when little Anakin Skywalker yelped his first “Yippee!,” The Phantom Menace included a character called Darth Maul. Some sor → Read More
This pixel art Choose Your Own Adventure game plays out entirely on Twitter
Using Twitter to make a Choose Your Own Adventure game is not without precedent. Neither, for that matter, is reviving the 8-bit aesthetic to make one. But Twitter user Leon Chang, a.k.a. @leyawn, just upped the ante by doing both—and all without the cynical pop culture angle usually required to get → Read More
HLN confuses Edward Snowden and Edward Scissorhands
Jon Hendren is a longtime Something Awful writer who has improbably rebranded himself as a DevOps guru but is possibly best known for locking down the Twitter handle @fart (and for getting the guy from Smashmouth to eat a bunch of eggs). He may have just cemented his legacy, however, in an appearanc → Read More
This guy keeps writing dark, amoral spec scripts for The Big Bang Theory
You know The Big Bang Theory: It’s that CBS sitcom that shows up on your parents’ DVR when you’re visiting for the holidays, it’s about scientists who are nerds, and the one guy says the catchphrase “Bazinga!” a lot. That is also apparently the sum total of Kaleb Horton’s knowledge of the show, yet → Read More