Photographed by Savana Ogburn. You’re probably familiar with cuffing season. (You know, the time of year when you want to begin a relationship because it’s cold outside and you want someone to snuggle?) But there’s more than one dating season in the year. And currently, we’re in fielding season. What is fielding season, you ask?…
Computer scientist and open software advocate Richard Stallman said he has resigned from his position as a visiting scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) after describing a victim of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein as “entirely willing” in emails sent to a department list. Stallman has also stepped down from his roles…
Photographed by Savana Ogburn. You’re probably familiar with cuffing season. (You know, the time of year when you want to begin a relationship because it’s cold outside and you want someone to snuggle?) But there’s more than one dating season in the year. And currently, we’re in fielding season. What is fielding season, you ask?…
Gone are the days when you talked politics only on the third or fourth date. With political compatibility becoming important to millennials, apps now let you list your views Everyone has their turn-offs in online dating — some swipe left for bad grammar, others for shirtless and mirror selfies (more so, a combination of the…
If you’re sick of continuously swiping, there’s a new player on the online dating scene called Facebook Dating. The feature has been available in 19 countries including Canada, Brazil, and Thailand, but starting today, U.S. users can now look for dates on the social media platform in the hopes of becoming “Facebook official.” Facebook users…
A defining feature of Facebook’s approach to product development is its ruthlessness, which often manifests as a kind of shamelessness. If good taste ever dictates that Facebook stay out of a product, history shows that it’s likely to wade right in. There are, for example, all the times that the company copied Snapchat. Or there…
Part 1 – The Best of You “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Love is a capricious spark, a miraculous whirlwind. It is found by following ancient prophecies, embarking on dangerous quests, facing your deepest fears, and finally realizing it was there with you all along.…
Photo: ShutterstockIn April, the Cut spoke to Debby Montgomery Johnson, a 60-year old victim of an online dating scam that cost her more than $1 million. “We talked about everything, we talked about kids … For me, looking back now, it was very therapeutic, because I could write so much more than I could ever…
The fog of love that is dating in 2019 has led to a near-constant barrage of new terms that help us navigate the uncertainties of modern courtship: ghosting, lumbersexual, cuffing, cloaking. To the novice, online dating profiles today can look like bafflingly coded messages with random-ass numbers (aka the unspoken requirement for men to include…
Ain’t no shame in the algorithmically optimized love life. If you and snookums matched on OkCupid, I already like you better than those obnoxious, self-satisfied couples who met “the real way.” (Good luck, IRLers—some number crunchers at the University of Vienna suspect your marriages aren’t as joyous.) The internet excels at matchmaking, widening my circle…