What Do You Do When A Scam Journalist Pitches An AI-Generated Story About Tulsa?
Our brief run-in with the internet’s latest faker.
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Ask Tulsa Bae: My Date Used Facetuning. Now What?
What do you do when your date misrepresents themselves?
Samantha Fulnecky and Christian DEI
On college campuses and American victimhood
Tulsa Picks: The Week’s Best Tulsa Events, December 3-December 9
First Friday, The Nutcracker, a concert at Tyler Thrasher's Materia shop, and insane amounts of Yuletide cheer
In ‘Monument Eternal,’ The Mountain Isn’t The Whole Story
Le’Andra LeSeur’s show at the TAF Flagship considers the weight of history, embodied resistance, and the texture of being present
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Technology
Data Centers Got You Worried? Wait Until You Find Out About The Bitcoin Mines
A state law that quietly passed in 2024 with help from a crypto advocacy group has already created a headache for one Oklahoma town.
Going Full Cyberpsycho At Cyberfest
The six-hour noise festival brought the online to real life
Video Killed The Pulpit Star
Mike Mariani tunes into LifeChurch.tv and examines the irony of a congregation suspended in the celluloid.
Tulsa PD Is Using Unprecedented Surveillance Technology. Does It Even Cut Down On Crime?
That and more in this week’s news roundup
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The Deliciously Unsettling Power of Clayton Keyes’ ‘Subterfuge’
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Tyler Thrasher Is Not Afraid Of Glowing Up
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Just what kind of Christianity is going on here, exactly?
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