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Jeremy Corbyn has been elected leader of the British Labour party, in a stunning first-round victory that dwarfed even the mandate for Tony Blair in 1994. He won with nearly 59.5% of first-preference votes, beating rivals Andy Burnham, who trailed on 19%, and Yvette Cooper who received 17%. The “Blairite” candidate Liz Kendall came last…
More sex-and-culture By Playboy.com Staff September 8, 2015 The annual festival Burning Man is in full swing right now and, as always, it’s pretty insane. It’s hard to imagine everything the festival has to offer if you’ve never been, but try to imagine what would happen if the characters from The Maze Runner were dropped…
692.9K io9 · Andrew Liptak The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet Is This Year’s Most Delightful Space Opera Today 12:00pm via We Really Wish This Sci-Fi Air Show Existed In This Reality.
The folks behind How It Should Have Ended have gone and parodied Taylor Swift’s crazy music video Bad Blood, dumping in just about every reference that you can think of and ignore what made the original great. This sort of proves the point that I think that Bad Blood was trying to point out (as…
New York University’s commencement ceremony in 2012. (Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty) New York University is among the country’s wealthiest schools. Backed by its $3.5 billion endowment, the school has built campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, invested billions in SoHo real estate, and given its star faculty loans to buy…
A collection of advocacy groups from around the world on Friday released an open letter to Twitter, calling on the company to restore API access to Politiwoops, a site that archived politicians’ deleted tweets. In May, Twitter pulled the American version of Politiwoops’ API access, and followed suit with the international editions last month. In…
A few months ago, I researched how many state legislators had social media accounts and which social media platforms they were most likely to use. That post focused on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and found that 46% of all state legislators have an account on at least one of these platforms, with Facebook being the…
Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube continue to become more and more integrated into the fabric of American culture. For many, they present a more convenient option for communication with friends, family, corporations, and political figures. It’s not unheard of for a tweet to a retail company to be more effective in…
Joshua Goldberg posed as an Islamic radical and allegedly encouraged a terrorist to attack on September 11. That’s just one of his online personas though. When Joshua Goldberg wasn’t posing as an Islamic radical, he was pretending to be a white supremacist—and is accused of impersonating a Jewish lawyer. Goldberg had several online personas: an…
The White House on Saturday unveiled the new college-information website that it developed once it abandoned its ill-fated plan to rate colleges. The new College Scorecard site, which replaces an older one of the same name, features a more modern and user-friendly design and some new information about colleges not previously available on the predecessor…