Sign of the Times

You’re closer to being an incel than you think

May 21, 2026 by and

Claire Kim and Dylan Hunter will stop calling each other chuds now.
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Curiosity is the contemporary revolution

April 30, 2026 by

Ethan Griffin hopes that this article won’t put him on the most-wanted list if AI takes over.
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CTRL ALT DELETE Your Privacy

April 23, 2026 by

Lucy Miller fears declining cookies and wearing a tinfoil hat isn’t enough anymore.
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Projecting nostalgia: The subtle genius of Justin Bieber’s Coachella set

April 16, 2026 by

Lauren Chiou has Bieber fever and she hopes to never recover.
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Dopamine scrolling is killing our compassion

March 5, 2026 by

Emma Bogna plans to spend next Tuesday watching the snowy plovers scuttle across Sands Beach — sans screens.
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Long live nights at the movies

March 5, 2026 by

Sandra Vovk believes with all her heart that the Riviera Theatre has the best popcorn in town and will not apologize for the frequency at which the workers of said cinema see her face on Bargain Tuesd...
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Does Netflix need to make another Jane Austen adaptation?

February 26, 2026 by

Sophia Benito, English major and Austenite, does not see the point in continuous Jane Austen movie adaptations.
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Why is being a fangirl so hard?

February 26, 2026 by

Carly Rattner acquired BTS tickets, but at what cost?
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AI is making a hypocrite of us all

February 19, 2026 by

Isabella Leon is scared of IJBOLing at AI memes.
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What should assessment look like in an ‘AI’ integrated world?

February 19, 2026 by

Justus Swan still thinks we’re totally doomed, but maybe some high quality sublimation will come out of it.
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Inside the pipeline: How the “Whatever” podcast shapes today’s generation

November 13, 2025 by

Claire Kim went on the "Whatever" podcast so we didn't have to. Here's what she found out.
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UCSB Forgotten History: The Storke Tower rappellers

October 23, 2025 by

Jeremiah Jack thinks the philosophy behind building a pumpkin on Storke Tower leads to a more open-minded world.
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The flop of a showgirl: in defense of the critic

October 9, 2025 by

Lauren Chiou defends the critics in the name of arts journalism.
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Country girls dancing

(You should be) Dancing through life

August 22, 2025 by

Katelyn Mihalko recounts how she fell in love with line dancing, and the freedom that comes with it.
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Your Fourth of July playlist is full of dissent

July 11, 2025 by

Lucy Dixon discusses "patriotic" music and the American tendency to misunderstand it.
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