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  • In an attempt to pivot attention away from damning recent leaks that showed the company knew its products cause harm, Facebook announced that it was changing its corporate name to Meta today during a hilarious, horrifying presentation about the "Metaverse."
  • Millennials are old now, so they are threatened by Gen Z in the workplace, or something: "Twenty-somethings rolling their eyes at the habits of their elders is a trend as old as Xerox, Kodak and classic rock, but many employers said there’s a new boldness in the way Gen Z dictates taste."
  • Vox asks: Where's the line between sex work and being a regular online influencer? Are influencers on OnlyFans making sex work less stigmatized, or is it becoming harder to be a full-service sex worker?
  • Depressing headline of the day: "Tucker Carlson made a movie to prove he’s not a white nationalist."
  • GQ has a great story about how world-renowned pianist João Carlos Martins lost the ability to play due to multiple injuries, only to be able to play again thanks to bionic gloves.
  • Here's how all the many, many signs around the state emblazoned with Andrew Cuomo's name were replaced so quickly.
  • Wall Street Journal reporters were furious after the opinion section published a letter to the editor by Donald Trump full of "debunked claims and conspiratorial falsehoods about the election he lost last year."
  • Men have anxiety about their "biological clocks" too.
  • Romper has a package of interesting articles all revolving around the theme of raising kids through climate change, political upheaval and other weighty matters.
  • You'd think that if you came up with an idea as revolting and stupid as Eric Adams's dead rat soup trap, you'd want to bury it so no one ever brings it up again, but no, Eric Adams is still talking about his rat buckets.
  • Brian Cox went full fucking beast on a number of stars he doesn't care for, including Johnny Depp, Steven Seagal, Quentin Tarantino and more.
  • Spoon announced that new album Lucifer On The Sofa comes out next February—listen to first single "The Hardest Cut."
  • And finally, someday we'll find it, the bird-puppy connection, the lovers, the dreamers, the floppies: