Mashable

The New York Times is calling out Twitter and Twitter's CEO has some thoughts.

New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman wrote about why she's taking a break from Twitter on Friday, including a laundry list of reasonable examples explaining why the app has become an unbearable experience for her and others. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey hit back with his own take on the situation in a multi-part thread.

SEE ALSO: Seth Rogen calls out Twitter's Jack Dorsey for the platform's white supremacist problem

In Haberman's analysis, she describes how Twitter has gotten worse and worse in many regards over the years, developing into an unreliable source filled with toxic interactions and vitriol. Much of her overarching criticism is boiled down in these two paragraphs: Read more...

At Comic-Con Saturday, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part star Chris Pratt commented on the way his character's journey from unassuming everyman to world-saving Special mirrored his own real-life career. 

"When I was first given the role, I was Andy on Parks and Recreation," he said. "By the time we finished our recording session, I was Star-Lord."

"So that arc – it was one of those moments where you think, My life is a computer simulation and I am living in the Matrix."

SEE ALSO: Lego's model of Jason Momoa as Aquaman is zaddy material

In fact, there's a whole lot of Chris Pratt in The Lego Movie 2 – and we don't just mean his role as the voice of Emmet Brickowski.  Read more...

Moments after the first Aquaman trailer went online, fans in Comic-Con’s Hall H were treated to an exclusive second look at the superhero adventure.

This one incorporated much of the same footage from the trailer, but added several new scenes that the rest of the world likely won't see for a while.

SEE ALSO: Lego's model of Jason Momoa as Aquaman is zaddy material

So until you get to lay eyes on it for yourself, here's everything you need to know.

The extended Comic-Con look opens on a lighthouse, on top of which a woman - Queen Atlanna (Nicole Kidman) - is marveling at the snow. A man (Thomas Curry, played by Temuera Morrison) emerges to wrap a blanket around her shoulders. Read more...

UPDATE: July 21, 2018, 5:03 p.m. EDT A spokesperson for Uber informed us that Jason Gargac's behavior was not in line with its Community Guidelines and has been banned from using Uber. The article has been updated to reflect that.

If you're in the St. Louis area, you may be getting filmed by this guy who drives for Uber and Lyft.

Hundreds of Uber and Lyft rides have been broadcast live on Twitch by driver Jason Gargac this year, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Saturday, all of them without the passengers' permission.

Gargac, who goes by the name JustSmurf on Twitch, regularly records the interior of his car while working for Uber and Lyft with a camera in the front of the car, allowing viewers to see the faces of his passengers, illuminated by his (usually) purple lights, and hear everything they say. At no point does Gargac make passengers aware that they are being filmed or livestreamed. Read more...

The first trailer for Aquaman dropped during Comic-Con on Saturday, featuring everyone's favorite fish-based superhero.

The trailer digs into the origins of Aquaman with a scene of him as a child (who at that point had the name Arthur Curry) being bullied by some older kids in an aquarium who then back off when an actual shark stands up for Arthur. It looks like after whatever (hopefully succinct) origin DC has cooked up, we get into a whole bunch of super-powered action, some stuff about Aquaman being king of Atlantis, and a whole lot of sea creatures.

Just what we expected.

Aquaman dives into theaters Dec. 21. Read more...

With a release date of Nov. 1, 2019, Wonder Woman 1984 is sadly a long way off.

But fans lucky enough to be at Warner Bros.’ Comic-Con panel Saturday were treated to a little taste of the amazingness to come.

SEE ALSO: Gal Gadot dressed like Wonder Woman to visit real-life superheroes at children's hospital

The exclusive Comic-Con footage opens in that most ’80s of settings - a brightly lit shopping mall - where Wonder Woman comes leaping in, landing in front of two menacing-looking men with guns.

A kid spots her: “Oh my gosh!” she says, looking delighted. Wonder Woman looks around and sends the kid sliding across the floor into an enormous teddy bear. The kid just laughs. Read more...

Patty Jenkins chose her Wonder Woman sequel's setting and time period for a specific reason, it turns out.

The Wonder Woman 1984 director explained some of her thinking behind the upcoming movie's Cold War-era setting during at appearance at Comic-Con in San Diego on Saturday. For Jenkins, the first and second movie both occur when they do for a purpose.

SEE ALSO: The new 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald' trailer is here and it's time to get hype

"One of my favorite things about the first movie was getting to know the era," she explained during the show's big Warner Bros. panel. "Really, when you dig into the era, they serve as metaphors for things that are true always." Read more...

Meet your next new big-screen DC superhero.

Warner Bros. has shared a first look at Shazam!, starring Asher Angel as a kid who gains the ability to transform into a grown-up superhero (Zachary Levi) by uttering a magic word. 

In contrast to the gloom and doom of the Batman and Superman movies, or even the seriousness of Wonder Woman, Shazam! looks light and funny. Because Lord knows the DC universe could use some of that right now.

Shazam! hits theaters April 5, 2019. Read more...

Godzilla is here, he's back, and he's madder than ever in the new Godzilla: King of the Monsters trailer released at San Diego Comic-Con. In the sequel to 2014's Godzilla, the king of monsters will face off against humanity alongside Mothra and King Ghidorah, while a human cast including Stranger Things's Millie Bobby Brown, Get Out's Bradley Whitford, and Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga watch and fight from their ant-like perspective. 

Godzilla: King of the Monsters comes out May 31, 2019. Read more...

Mega Man is returning to television to kick some robot ass.

The first look at the upcoming Cartoon Network series Mega Man: Fully Charged dropped during Comic-Con on Saturday, giving the world a glimpse at the first episode with infamous boss Fire Man as the villain of the week. This video followed a trailer that shows Mega Man with various power-ups that he undoubtedly got from defeating bosses like Fire Man, just as he does in the games.

Interestingly, there appears to be a small robot that lives inside of Mega Man's head that insults people, which is incredibly strange and a new piece of information to me.  Read more...

Newt Scamander returns in this new three-plus minute trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, now with 100 percent more threatening spells, bizarre demon cats, and Johnny Depp as Gellert Grindelwald. The trailer gives more info on Newt's motivations in becoming a magi-zoologist (he's scared of having to work an office job) and leans in hard on the pure magical mayhem caused by Grindelwald's genocidal mania. 

There are a few delightful surprises in the trailer, including the return of Ezra Miller's Credence Barebone... and don't miss the surprising Harry Potter character who makes his movie debut at the very end! Read more...

The scope of HBO's Game of Thrones has certainly been described as Shakespearean, but one Twitter account is dedicated to drawing a straight line between Westeros and the bard by using Thrones GIFs to summarize some of Shakespeare's greatest plays, with hilarious results. 

SEE ALSO: All your burning questions about the 'Game of Thrones' prequel era, answered

Jon and Ygritte's star-crossed romance is perfect for Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet pic.twitter.com/YPlSYbVw8A

— ShakespeareofThrones (@shakesofthrones) July 21, 2018

And Jon's other big moment is very Caesar-ish.

Julius Caesar pic.twitter.com/lB9s8vOnqP

— ShakespeareofThrones (@shakesofthrones) July 21, 2018 Read more...

You'd think people would stop calling the cops on young black kids who aren't actually affecting their lives in the slightest, but here we are. At least this time the end of the story is a bit more heart-warming.

Jaequan Faulkner, 13, set up a little food stand outside of his home in Minnesota to help raise money for school clothes, and some heartless (read: racist) person called the police on him because he didn't have a permit to run a business. Instead of shutting Faulkner down, the Minneapolis Police Department came out in support of him and teamed up with the local health department to get him the permit he needed to keep running, the Associate Press reported earlier in the week. Read more...

We finally know what Shonda has in store for fans of her big Netflix deal.

Shonda Rhimes's Shondaland slate of TV, including Scandal, How To Get Away With Murder, Grey's Anatomy, and For The People, have lived on ABC for years. So it was a surprise when she announced in Aug. 2017 that she had signed a 15-year deal to produce shows with Netflix. 

SEE ALSO: Anna Delvey's biggest con played out after she got arrested

One of those Netflix shows, announced in June, and will tell the true story of Anna Delvey, best known as the "Socialite Scammer" who pretended to be a German heiress to con banks and individuals alike into giving her hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Read more...

Movies can teach just as well as they entertain, sometimes even in unexpected ways.

That was the message driven home by one San Diego Comic-Con attendee during the show's Halloween panel. He used his time at the mic during the panel Q&A to share a touching anecdote with the movie's star, Jamie Lee Curtis. 

SEE ALSO: M. Night Shyamalan drops extremely creepy 'Glass' trailer at Comic-Con

"I'm just really grateful for the movie Halloween, because 34 years ago it saved my life," the man, who has since been identified as Joseph Scott, said.

Scott launched into his story of the time that he dealt with a home invasion and a knife-wielding intruder of his own. While the movie's supernatural elements obviously didn't come into play there, Scott's appreciation for the horror classic led him to a single thought. Read more...

It was the kiss heard round the world — or on gay tumblr.

Listen, the news cycle is bleak and things have been dark for the the LGBTQ community for a long, long time. So forgive the community if we got a little too excited this week when queer icons Cher and Meryl Streep exchanged a smooch at the Mamma Mia premiere.

It was everyone's awkward celebrity fantasy come true.

SEE ALSO: Cher loves Paddington Bear, and I love both of them, so it all works out

I know, I know, Cher and Meryl aren't technically a "thing." But that doesn't mean I can't go to a beautiful, imaginary place in my head where these two have a romantic queer future. Cher and Meryl are made to buy a brownstone in the West Village together, wear matching pussyhats to anti-Trump protests, and adopt a dolphin named after their favorite intersectional feminist hero. Read more...

Space. The final frontier. A vast, formless abyss into which humanity launches its satellites and rovers in a boundless quest for knowledge. The discoveries made in that airless vacuum of mystery could impact the human understanding of the cosmos, and now anyone has the opportunity to name one of the rovers that the European Space Agency will use to explore the surface of Mars.

Except the European Space Agency will choose the rover's final name with a panel of scientists. And they probably won't go for Marsy McMarsface. 

SEE ALSO: NASA's Curiosity rover took a badass Mars selfie during a huge dust storm Read more...

The trailer for Netflix's Insatiable has already made quite an impact on social media, though perhaps not for the reasons the creators may have anticipated. 

SEE ALSO: Meet the high key goth superheroes of Netflix's upcoming 'Umbrella Academy'

The show, which stars Debby Ryan and Alyssa Milano, tells the story of Patty, an overweight girl known as (ugh) "Fatty Patty" at her high school. After she is (UGH!) punched in the face and has her jaw wired shut for a summer, she returns to school thin and therefore conventionally attractive, and so decides to exact revenge on the bullies who made fun of her before.  Read more...

Spider-Man may do whatever a spider can, but the new story trailer for his anticipated PlayStation 4 game shows that he can't do it alone. 

The trailer features Spidey teaming up with Mary Jane Watson and Miles Morales in a city overrun with costumed villains, Norman Osborne as a vigilante-averse Mayor of New York, and introduces Silver Sable as one of the many antagonists poor Peter Parker is going to have to web up in his quest to keep the city safe. 

Spider-Man for PS4 launches on Sept. 7. Read more...

After a solid week of playing The Walking Dead: Our World, the new AR-optional mobile game set in the world of AMC's The Walking Dead, I can solidly say that I would 100% survive the zombie apocalypse...but only if I was there with my friends. 

While Our World can be played by oneself, it has a strong and unique emphasis on partnering with famous characters from the show and squadding up with strangers to take on the full force of a zombie-infested wasteland.

SEE ALSO: AMC takes on 'Pokémon Go' in freaky new 'The Walking Dead: Our World' game teaser

The premise of the game is simple, but the execution is not. On its face, The Walking Dead: Our World is an Ingress/Pokémon Go style game where a real-world map of a player’s surroundings is transformed into a post-apocalyptic landscape riddled with supply crates, walker encounters, and player-built shelters that serve as drop off points for survivors.  Read more...