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Streamer Emiru reportedly assaulted during meet-and-greet at TwitchCon 2025 Twitch streamer Emiru was seemingly assaulted by a fan during her meet-and-greet at TwitchCon 2025. Twitch says it maintains a "zero tolerance for harassment."

A fan assaulted Emiru during a meet-and-greet at TwitchCon, heightening already intense concerns about streamer safety here. If you’re a streamer and you want to talk about safety at the con and how you balance being accessible with being secure, my DMs are open. mashable.com/article/emir...

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Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of worker-owned cooperative news sites that you might want to support: www.404media.co/membership/

Hey fellas, I’ll be in LA/Anaheim June 18-22 for VidCon for @mashable.com. Hmu if you’ll be there, too!!

anyways please watch this edit that sent me into hysterics and now I need to redo my makeup

then of course there's also everything else

the most harmful thing ai videos have done is that they've made me suspicious of whimsy

tariff? i love ta riff with ta boys

only tangentially related, but over the holidays i learned that my dad uses an abacus to count which page he's on while reading kindle books. he doesn't like the percentage icon and can’t figure out how to change the settings.

Looks like Zuck had his own "Elon at the Super Bowl" moment, and it's just incredibly funny www.wsj.com/tech/social-...

We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This Mark Zuckerberg is at war with himself.

Zuckerberg holds a majority of voting power in his company. That he should see it as “out of touch” isn’t a criticism of woke Dems. It’s a criticism of the way he himself capitulates and blows with the political winds. He's at war with himself. Has been for years. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Don’t make me tap the sign. Strikes are supposed to be disruptive

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:

yeah man what the hell

The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...

Really good writing and analysis here imo, in a blog that is incredibly rich in Phrases That Do Not Appear In The Bible. defector.com/the-hawk-tua...

Content moderation in Trump's America is a political minefield In the battle between free speech and content moderation, who sets the rules?

From the Arab Spring to January 6, content moderation is caught between politics, profits, and free speech. I wrote about it for @mashableofficial.bsky.social mashable.com/article/cont...

The rise of streaming services killed the good commercial jingle. Sports are keeping this industry alive. We don’t talk about this enough.

baseball is amazing because some of the owners are participating in the most expensive auctions of all time while others are like "if toppings are extra i should be able to give you pepperoni and get a discount on this pizza"

Why top internet sleuths say they won't help find the UnitedHealthcare CEO killer TikTok users who would normally leap at the chance to identify an alleged criminal are standing down during the manhunt for the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Internet sleuths seem to leap at the chance to solve real-world crime.

But in the case of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, some have decided to sit this one out.

New from me + Melissa Chan for @nbcnews.com
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wait i've never heard you talk about them who's the hold steady

and can someone else tell my dad

can i be the one to tell ben affleck about juan soto?

Former Amazon worker here; do not cross this picket line. Don't do it. Don't even order from them (unless absolutely necessary). They're a disgusting company to work for and the reason for my knee problems that required years of physical therapy.

Fuck Amazon. We stand with the workers! 👊🏻✨

💌professional news💌 after 3.5 years today is my last day at mashable. this was my first job out of college and i started as a fellow! i loved covering digital culture, fandom, and gen z and i'm excited to build on that reporting and branch out beyond the internet.

The influencer lawsuit that could change the industry Behind the scenes of a court battle for the “clean girl” look.

New from me: Two influencers make very similar content promoting Amazon products. They dress the same. They buy the same stuff. They even have a similar tattoo.

Now one is suing the other, claiming her rival won't stop copying her. But who influenced whom? www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...

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ok so this is wrong but i rly look forward to your don't @ me about it

How do you do it

last night I saw gladiator II and the grown adult sitting next to me was live tweeting it

(2 of 2) Corporate greed like this — where profits are put ahead of workers’ well being — is exactly why we fought for our strong contract that sets limits on cost increases over the next three years. We hope our contract can be a baseline for all Ziff Davis workers.

hi i'm nick lachey and this is the spring grove experiment