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Reddit moderators do $3.4 million worth of unpaid work each year

24 June 2022

Volunteers who maintain the standard of content on Reddit’s forums do 466 hours of work every day – labour that would cost 2.8 per cent of the firm’s revenue
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Digging into the return of an 80-year-old meme, the turbo-encabulator

22 June 2022

A retro meme that fondly satirises absurd technical language is still bringing engineers joy, finds Annalee Newitz, who is ready for the crypto version

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