Reddit Investors Baffled After Tech Company’s Stock Explodes 32,000% for No Reason
Shares in Hong Kong–based tech company AMTD soared from $7.80 to $2,555, and not even the company knows why.
An Interview with the Best Portrait Artist in the World
"Last year some tabloid implied I committed treason with my Queen portrait. Firstly, I’m not British (thank God)..."
Cops Pulled Their Guns on Unarmed Teen Filming Them: ‘What Weapon?’
Two police officers in Fairfax County, Virginia, pulled their guns on an unarmed teenager, and the footage made its way to Reddit.
The Internet Communities That Love Watching People Die
The past decade has seen a boom in true crime content. But when do things go too far?
Redditors Demand Formal Apology From SEC Over Anti-Meme Stock PSA
"The whole entire market is a meme stock, to label small-mid cap stocks as meme stocks is manipulation in itself through fomentation," a letter to the SEC reads.
Asians Are Losing Their Minds Over the Swedish Tradition of Not Feeding Their Guests
“My mother would greet people with ‘what will you eat?’”
Years of Early Alien-Hunting Data Are at Risk of Being Lost Forever
“These machines are no longer made by a company that no longer exists and are running on an operating system that no longer exists,” said the director of the SETI@home project.
Can a Hangover Improve Your Mental Health? These People Think So
Some Reddit users claim they experience a "hangover effect" that relieves their ADHD, depression and anxiety symptoms.
How One Man Tried to Build a DMT-Based Cult on Reddit and Lost Everything
In his mid-50s, a depressed, Yale-trained scientist took a potent psychedelic, saw God, and set out to spread the word. Within two years, he was dead.
Are You The Asshole? New AI Mimics Infamous Advice Subreddit
Two artists are illustrating bias in machine learning with data from one of the most opinionated sites on the internet: the r/AmITheAsshole subreddit.
The Largest Subreddit for Amazon Workers Has Banned the Word ‘Union’
Moderators of the popular online forum with 43,500 members decided to censor union-related posts “due to an influx of spam and outright malicious posts.”
College Cop Was Secretly a Racist, Anti-Homeless Reddit Troll for Years
University of Colorado Boulder police officer Drew Matthews has been placed on administrative leave for a series of racist, classist Reddit posts.