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The Official Student Opinion and Satire Magazine of UTD
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Woke Culture Hasn’t Killed Comedy, You’re Just an Asshole
Comedy is hard. It's a lot harder if you use vulnerable and underrepresented groups for a laugh.
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Born to Be In It: The Rise and Fall of Beto O’Rourke
After the most successful losing Senate campaign in history, Beto seemed poised to become a rising star in presidential politics. What happened?
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Fashion Icons of UTD: The Computer Science Professor
You've always known your CS 1336 professor slays more than you. Steal their look!
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Video Gaymes
In the constant struggle to bring positive queer representation to modern media, video game characters suffer from stereotyping, hypersexualization, and total erasure of queerness.
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New Sham, Inc. Whistleblower Sparks Discussion Over Misinformation Campaigns
Wouldn't you like to know?
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Ticket Stubs
Dive into the best and brightest films of November 2019.
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The Constitutional Argument for Abortion Rights
What does do the Constitution and the Supreme Court have to say about one of the most constant political debates of the past few decades?
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One Country, “Two” Systems
In one of the world's most important economic hubs, democracy is under attack. What's going on in Hong Kong?
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Hollywood Disconnect: The Tired Empowerment of Disenfranchised Women
In male-dominated Hollywood, blockbuster movies scramble for female representation without understanding what it should look like.
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Interview with an Influencer: Venmo Edition
We’ve all heard of Venmo, the favorite money transfer app of bank-killing millennials. What really sets it apart from other payment apps are its widely used and appreciated social features. Friends and strangers are invited into your spending habits where they can silently judge you for how often you use ride shares and eat gelato. […]
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Gilded Silicon
By Evan Meade Back in July, four Congressmen sent an open letter to Facebook asking them to halt development on their new “cryptocurrency” called Libra. The Representatives, all members of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, cited serious concerns relating to “privacy, trading, national security, and monetary policy.” They believed that such a currency […]
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Pressing Reset: The Rise, Fall, and Renaissance of Computer Reset
One of the deepest regrets I have as a student of technology and media in a school with a begrudgingly illustrious computer science program is that I’m not as knowledgeable as I would like to be about how computers work. Like any well-meaning but stressed and high-strung college student, my way of remedying this is […]