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BURLINGTON, Vt. — A few days before Election Day in 1990, the National Rifle Association sent a letter to its 12,000 members in Vermont, with an urgent message about the race for the state’s single House seat. Vote for the socialist, the gun rights group said. It’s important. “Bernie Sanders is a more honorable choice…
Think about regret as if it were sin. Some regrets are mild, but acute. The regret associated with choosing the wrong supermarket checkout lane, or buying an outfit that you notice goes on sale the next week—these seem woeful. They chafe, but their pains are pin pricks that soon subside. These are venial regrets. Regret is…
In January, following a year of stalled growth and financial disappointment, Twitter shed nearly half of its core leadership. Three days later, Adam Bain, the company’s (surviving!) Chief Operating Officer, posted this complaint: “Code for Twitter” https://t.co/pZdbJNx67J — adam bain (@adambain) January 28, 2016 The linked tweet: Wherein Facebook editorializes the Kanye Wiz ordeal as…
“Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York has become the go-to hub for those who lament New York’s loss of character.” –Crain’s “Jeremiah Moss does an excellent job of cataloging all that’s constantly being sacrificed to the god of rising rents.” –Hugo Lindgren, New York Times Magazine “No one takes stock of New York’s changes with the same…
In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean. In a few weeks, Leonardo DiCaprio will very likely win an Oscar for his performance in The Revenant. This result is just shy of a foregone conclusion not because DiCaprio’s turn as frontier trapper Hugh Glass is so…
The music publisher will also not stand in the way for a judge to declare the song to be in the public domain. Sing the song, blow out the candles, eat the cake and unwrap the gifts. According to a court filing on Monday, music publisher Warner/Chappell will pay $14 million to end a…
MediaPunch/REX Shutterstock Start Article Post Content “Hannibal” creator Bryan Fuller has found his next mission: showrunner and co-creator of CBS’ new “Star Trek” series. A longtime fan of science fiction, Fuller began his career writing for “Star Trek: Voyager” (1997-2001) and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (1997). “My very first experience of ‘Star Trek’ is my oldest…
Over the past several years, there’s been a significant increase in the number of people using ad-blocking software in their web browser. We have certainly seen a growth in those numbers here at WIRED, where we do all we can to write vital stories for an audience that’s passionate about the ongoing adventure of our…
Elon Musk is known for doing things differently – indeed, it’s been a major reason why both he and his companies have been so successful. But fingers crossed this method of thinking outside the square doesn’t succeed: Musk has allegedly banned a blogger from buying one of his cars for criticising the South African billionaire.more…
Photo A Ministry of Public Health and Population worker fumigates against mosquito breeding in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Feb. 2. Credit Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters There’s a lot we don’t know about the Zika virus, but there’s one thing I’m sure of: I had it last month. I got to Haiti in early January, a few days…