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When 16-year-old Harshita Arora posted on Reddit about the crypto price tracking app she created the most she hoped for was a few downloads and perhaps some useful user feedback. Instead, she was met with rape threats, days of online abuse, a deluge of hateful emails, tweets, and messages claiming that she had “plagiarized” the…
The run-up to this Winter Olympics has been beset by scandal, controversy, fights and cynicism, and none of that let up in the final hours before the opening ceremony on Friday. On a personal level, I was freezing cold and late on two deadlines. Also, I didn’t get dinner. In short, I was in no…
There are a lot of requirements if you want to vote in Kansas. You must be 18 years old. You need to show a photo ID at your polling place and show proof of U.S. citizenship when you register to vote. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says the state’s voter ID laws are among…
We’ve been debating Star Wars since the creation of Star Wars. Mikey explores the cultural and cinematic impact of a film series which quickly became the juggernaut of any film conversation. Source: How We See Star Wars (Part 1) – Movies with Mikey – YouTube
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Angelica Alzona / GMG Every time Jill Lewis goes back to the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater where she worked for a decade, she sees the face of a man she learned to fear because of his sexually aggressive behavior. It’s right there on the wall: one of the faces on a mural, painted to celebrate…
Mary Pilon Dec—27—2017 10:13AM EST About 15 years ago, Cynthia Beal, a 30-year veteran of the natural-food movement and then-owner of the Red Barn Natural Grocery in Eugene, Oregon, sat down to work on a science fiction novel. As she wrote, she began to contemplate life — and death — in the 2040s, a date…
In street terms, what the Guggenheim just did — refusing an art request from the White House but offering instead the loan of a golden toilet — is a “sick burn.” According to Washington Post reporter Paul Schwartzman, the White House asked the New York museum if it could borrow a van Gogh painting, which…
A little more than a year since the New York Times eliminated a number of bestseller lists—including the graphic novel and manga lists—literary agent Charlie Olsen has collected more than 400 signatures on a letter appealing to the paper to restore the comics lists. In the letter, which was sent earlier this week, Olsen, a literary agent at…
close story-meta Photo Jim Steyer, left, and Tristan Harris in Common Sense’s headquarters. Common Sense is helping fund the The Truth About Tech campaign. Credit Peter Prato for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Silicon Valley technologists who were early employees at Facebook and Google, alarmed over the ill effects of…