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Four years later, we are all BBC Dad

The Verge

Four years ago yesterday, a meme was born: professor Robert Kelly, who will be forever known as “BBC Dad,” had the gall to get interrupted by his kids during a live video interview broadcast around the world. He had to lean into the meme, making his kids part of his public persona and even featuring them in later interviews.

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The most innovative design companies of 2025

Fast Company Tech

Thats not only still open to the public with more seating than before, but it hosts biweekly concerts open to the community. million times on Instagram, but a Brat Generator was visited more than 5 million times as fans built their own brat memes for the season. As for the redwood park planted outside in 1930?

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Hasan Piker on the problem with YouTube debate culture

The Verge

Crowder, who is widely known as the face of the “change my mind” meme, has challenged people to debates in the past, including college students on campuses all across the country. I asked Hasan Piker , a popular Twitch commentator and former Young Turks broadcast journalist, to talk about it.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

This is just my strong, intuitive sense that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization,” Musk said at a TED conference on the day he made his offer. “I I don’t care about the economics at all.” Our data licensing and API with X is an incredible business.

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Elon Musk just showed how Clubhouse can succeed

The Verge

Despite beginning at 1AM ET on Monday, Musk’s room quickly hit the Clubhouse cap of 5,000 concurrent listeners — as did one overflow room hosting a broadcast of his appearance, and then another overflow room after that. There’s something more approachable about an audio-only broadcast that seems to have enabled entirely new uses.

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How Nonprofits can Use Analytics with Advocacy

Connection Cafe

Think about the iconic advocacy/activist tactics of the industrial broadcast era: A march is just a long, crowded walk on a noisy day unless media organizations are there to cover it. We develop public engagement and pressure tactics with the intent of seeing them amplified through the media. Start reading Analytic Activism.

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Rep. Gosar anime video highlights ties to the online right

The Verge

But while Democrats are now calling for his expulsion from Congress and his accounts to be banned, the incident has drawn new attention to Gosar’s long association with far-right meme culture. It’s unclear if Twitter or Gosar’s office removed the video as of publication. The video — captioned “Any anime fans out there?”

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