The Verge

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

But right-wing supporters have a wildly different view of events: figures like Tucker Carlson have portrayed the convoy as a working-class rebellion, and Trudeau’s response has been treated as enacting martial law, leading Elon Musk to tweet (and then delete) a meme comparing Trudeau to Adolf Hitler. And engagement hasn’t really come back.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

It has a popular and meme-ified mascot in the form of the owl Duo, a creative and engaging product, and ambitious plans for expansion.There’s just one key question in the midst of all those milestones: Does anyone actually learn a language using Duolingo? university semesters in half the time. That’s not true.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!” A recent study out of Hiroshima University called the “Power of Kawaii (Cute)” found that browsing pictures of adorable baby animals on a daily basis causes workers to slow down, relax and be more accurate in their work. yourname@amnesty.org.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

American soccer meme power rankings: 1. NWSL memes (a friend just told me that NWSL fans were "raised in the pits of tumblr.") USL memes 3. MLS memes — Pablo Maurer (@MLSist) May 27, 2020. The funny, sarcastic tone of women’s soccer Twitter today partly came from the Tumblr side of the fandom, Linehan says.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When I wrote in March about non-fungible tokens , or NFTs, I tried to dazzle you by rattling off some of the more impressive sales numbers from the time: $600,000 for the Nyan Cat meme, $5.8 In March, he created Blitmap , which he described as a “community-created fantasy universe.” That brings us to Dom Hofmann.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

The Reddit meme that bludgeoned a hedge fund There are three things to remember as you watch the chaos unfolding with GameStop’s stock price. Stocks are memes now, and you trade them to show off to your friends. Stocks are memes now, and you trade them to show off to your friends. Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2022

A meme from r/Accounting. On r/Accounting , users are already posting memes about busy season. Reddit meme. In 2014, during his first term as a professor at Indiana University, where he is now the PwC Faculty Fellow, he asked his students how much the starting salaries for accountants were. Reddit accounting meme.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

Robinhood is synonymous with the rise of meme stocks and retail investing. Now, it may be that retail investors aren’t trying to maximize their returns, says Josh White , an assistant professor of finance at Vanderbilt University, who was previously a financial economist for the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Candid

JUNE 7, 2023

But other suggestions, like using pop culture slang and memes to catch Gen Z’s shorter attention span, feel a little off. We received 38 total responses from university students, young professionals, high school seniors, and members of the military, ranging in age from 18 to 25 years old.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The two co-founders of Nowports met at a program at Stanford University, with de los Rios hailing from a family with deep ties to the shipping industry. “Customers are looking for solutions that can improve their logistics processes adapted to current challenges of international trade.”.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

Games Workshop is preparing to launch Warhammer Plus, a niche subscription streaming service for fans of the sprawling, lore-dense Warhammer universe (or rather, universes: the sci-fi world of Warhammer 40,000 , and fantasy setting of Warhammer Age of Sigmar ). . | Image: Games Workshop.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

The decision broke an early promise from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and was almost universally reviled online, with critics raising concerns about intrusive data collection, targeted advertising, and being forced to use a service they hated. Facebook integration also makes non-personal Quest use more difficult. “My

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2021

Three main platforms now stand out: Universe, Weverse, and LYSN. Areum Jeong, assistant professor of humanities at Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute, says the apps offer fans a real chance to strengthen their relationship with their current favorite idols. There can be a hard edge to that intimacy.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

I learned about the saga as an undergraduate at Northwestern University, which is 15 minutes away from Skokie by car. A long-tenured professor of engineering had used his university internet domain to post his denialist views, which he had originally published in a book. (The march never took place.)

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Association TV

MARCH 16, 2022

when Kathy’s had her second cup and is dying to find the right Facebook article to forward off to her dedicated crew of colleagues who rely on Kathy for the perfect morning meme or share-worthy article. You could’ve posted it at 10 a.m., But you still have a jargon headline and a boring read. And if the writing sucks, who cares?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The memes are endless, as is the support — and the heat — we give and place onto people and topics. It really does feel like its own universe sometimes,” she wrote. Dominic would miss the community aspect of Twitter, specifically Black Twitter. It was a place to find community in a world so unkind to us.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

When in doubt, Arial, Helvetica, and Calibri are among the most universally accessible typefaces to use. When she’s not helping build content strategy for world-changing clients, you can find her in the garden—scrolling memes and growing veggies. Rachel is a Social Media Account Executive in M+R’s Oakland office.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Universally panned, Humane sold fewer than 10,000 units. Im more surprised that HP has made such a public bet on the ashes of Humane, which has been immortalized in memes as a pile of bogusness. While far short of the companys original $1 billion asking price, its astonishing that the brand scrapped for anything at all.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

For example, a guide on using Fortnite to reach tweens, or a short training on memes or emerging social media platforms the company should be aware of. Online training for nonprofits Join Whole Whale University Learn from our decade of experience with courses, webinars, templates, and guides! Visit Campus 15.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TikTok just can’t dodge the watchful eyes of the watchmen: Earlier this year, Taylor reported that a string of universities banned TikTok from devices. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn was tired of the gray and dreary design aesthetic edtech companies used to emulate universities. The growth power of a cartoon owl meme. From that frenetic creativity came the company’s distinctive mascot: a childish and rebellious evergreen-colored owl named Duo. Duolingo Skill Tree UX in 2012.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

This meme remains stuck in my mind, for example: I got more pic.twitter.com/t4ibeRWhIf. In the larger universe that Spreadsheet.com plays in, there are many competing companies. That hybrid feature set has kept traditional spreadsheet tools like Microsoft’s venerable Excel relevant amid a growing sea of applications.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Most of the memes are really funny, I got a good laugh out of them,” she says. Lisa Gunter, a research fellow at Arizona State University who has worked with dogs with separation anxiety, thinks dogs likely have a concept of duration, “but who’s to say how they would describe it.”. Devine has been enjoying the parodies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Funny memes and people shouting at their cars aside, it’s a real problem. The really neat thing about it is that it is universal. We are starting with something that is relatively universal as an MVP,” explains Tymco. And then we alter the shape of the sound wave to match it more to the desired accents.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Perhaps you recall last month, when GameStop stock shot up by as much as 500 percent, hitting a peak of $483 on January 28th, thanks largely to memes and a shitposting finance subreddit. I’m sure there will be entire academic books written on r/WallStreetBets. There is a paper already.) They have an opportunity to keep growing with this.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

People who start novel organizations like Ashesi University in Ghana, Technology Access Foundation in Seattle, and Shanti Bhavan (a boarding school) in India. He broadens this to tackling what he labels “the packaged intervention,” the neatly wrapped solution that will solve a social problem.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2012

Get practical advice on live-streaming an activist event and making an all-star meme for your nonprofit. Read the transcript of the Nonprofit Commons meeting, featuring Dr. Valerie Hill of Texas Woman’s University School of Library and Information Science discussing libraries, museums, and immersive learning. From NetSquared.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

As leader of the Jedi council in the “Star Wars” universe, Yoda was essentially their CEO. He leaps from above in the midst of dozens of enemy droids, delivering a line that has become meme fodder, “Hello, there.”. More posts by this contributor. 3 lies VCs tell ourselves about startup valuations.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

There are fan expectations, from players who want to see a beloved universe preserved to those who are still salty about how it all ended. As for whether he enjoys all of those memes? Remastering a series like Mass Effect — not quite a full remake of the trilogy, but more substantial than a port — is a thorny task.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Over the years, the largely Menlo Park-based team launched and retired a number of experiments, ranging from dating and calling apps to meme-makers to TikTok , Twitter and Clubhouse rivals to apps for couples and more. Meta, of course, understands that many of today’s universal experiences first emerged from niche communities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Nancy White tagged me to participate in an interesting meme. Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin. It is a great starting point for information about service learning and to find out what colleges and universities in your area have service learning programs.

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TechNode

JANUARY 14, 2025

John Wihbey, an associate professor of media innovation and technology at Northeastern University, shared his insights on how the TikTok ban might affect the US with TechNode. While conservatism and anti-globalization sentiments may be on the rise, Gen Z users, who were raised in a globalization tendency, are making their voice heard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

On the one hand, several of my friends feel more in touch because they are sharing memes, feel they are sharing witty things ‘on the spot,’ but there is less going into depth. We don’t seem to be able to maintain both. That is what is so curious.”. Other negative themes: Alone together.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They initially came together over a university-funded project around predicting social compatibility among a group of strangers. 222’s small print also indicates that data from the app is being analyzed as a part of a university social science project — a continuation of the one Kazemian, Hashemi and Roshannai led a year ago.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

When Stan Smeets posted a video titled “I made a synthesizer that plays plant-based music using microscopes and sensors” to a synthesizer Reddit group, the users thought it was funny that he had stumbled into a meme. There’s a] stereotype of synth people loving plants,” one user explained to him.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

And about three years ago, McGinness and his co-admin Jeff Davies were contacted by publisher McIntyre Purcell, which led to a coffee table-style book of historic photos of Florida they’ve since promoted at bookstores, houses of worship, universities, and festivals up and down the Sunshine State.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2021

Harvard University!), There’s this meme in Silicon Valley, and entrepreneurship today, that if you have an ice cream company, it’s not gonna be a good ice cream company unless you raise VC money. Whatever, sure, Adam Neumann is a wild and crazy guy — but without commitments from a number of sophisticated investors (Benchmark!

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