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You’ve Been Eating Sushi All Wrong Your ENTIRE Life! 9. Snapping Photos of Your Sushi Yes, sushi is crazy beautiful, and yes, gramming is an addiction, but for once, just once, leave your phone in your pocket when you eat sushi. Many sushi joints even have “no cell phone” signs posted just to remind you that it’s…
Susan Sarandon on MSNBC.MSNBC Let’s be grateful to Susan Sarandon for exposing just how vapid and callous the left-wing #NeverHillary argument is. Speaking to Chris Hayes on MSNBC on Monday night, Sarandon, a Bernie Sanders surrogate, said she was unsure if she could bring herself to vote for Hillary Clinton in a general election….
Television might be getting more inclusive, but when it comes to lesbian and bisexual characters, the small screen remains a graveyard. In a recent report from Autostraddle, the queer-centric website ran the numbers over the past four decades and found that queer women were the most likely characters to die on TV: Since 1976, 11 percent…
She’s kind of an asshole. Hey, you remember Katrina Pierson? That insane lady what goes on the television and says Donald Trump is dreamy, and who maybe allegedly according to the National Enquirer let Ted Cruz put his tiny Canadian maple leaf-flavored erection inside her vagina. Yeah, her! Well she remembers last week completely differently from how everybody…
I’ve been sitting here this morning paralyzed at what to say in response to this… The last few months since we launched That Dragon, Cancer have been pretty incredible. The mainstream culture, the gamer culture, and others have all embraced our story and been willing to listen to our heart as we released a…
Nintendo employee Alison Rapp, who’s been a target of harassment over censorship controversies in recent months, said on Twitter that she has been fired. “Today, the decision was made,” she wrote. “I am no longer a good, safe representative of Nintendo, and my employment has been terminated.” Rapp laid the blame on those harassing her,…
Gaming’s culture war hasn’t ended. It’s still roiling, with new fights, new targets, new depths of ugliness, but also many of the same tactics. ‘; if (google_ads[0].bidtype == ‘CPC’) { /* insert this snippet for each ad call */ google_adnum = google_adnum + google_ads.length; } document.write(s); } } google_ad_client = ‘ca-pub-0457527031304647’; google_ad_output = ‘js’; google_max_num_ads…
Up to 30 percent of the current employees in the banking industry may lose their jobs to new technologies in the next 10 years, according to new projections from Citigroup. A 112-page report, “Digital Disruption,” released on Wednesday, said that the number of employees at American banks would drop to 1.8 million people in the…
March 30, 2016 8:00 a.m. ET Genius, the music-lyric storehouse and budding Web annotation platform, has accumulated millions of visitors and a stockpile of venture capital cash. Now the company is preparing for its next step in startup maturation: building an advertising business. To that end, the company has hired Ronen Shapiro as its first…