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The Time Cube test

The media loves to promote hard-right ideas in the name of open-mindedness and ideological diversity. So why don't they ever talk about Time Cube?

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Carl Beijer
Jan 07, 2022
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Before social media and the bandwidth-intensive media platforms that dominate the internet today, a massive genre of message boards relied on a simple format: users submitted stuff they found online, and then everyone talked about it. Back then, I spent a lot of time on a site like this called Portal of Evil. If you’d like to know more New York magazine…

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