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The Gay Male Comic Accusing SNL of Homophobia Matt Wilstein 03.16.18 4:00 AM ET Photo Ilustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast TODO Render with a pug filter instead of unescaped html AUSTIN, Texas—James Adomian is perhaps the greatest political impressionist working in comedy today. Just this week at South by Southwest, he performed as Bernie…
With Avengers: Infinity War quickly approaching, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 3 end game becoming clearer and clearer, set photos, interviews, and promotional material provide a steady stream of tidbits of information regarding the plot of the third Avengers movie. The latest trailer, seen below, gave us our clearest picture yet… while raising even…
Google’s AMP project is not uncontroversial. Users often love it because it makes mobile sites load almost instantly. Publishers often hate it because they feel like they are giving Google too much control in return for better placement on its search pages. Now Google proposes to bring some of the lessons it learned from AMP to the web as a whole….
My bike was stolen a week ago Saturday. It was half my fault, half my husband’s fault, and 100 percent the fault of the person who stole it. Left with a lock, a front wheel and a heavy heart, I did the only thing I could think of: I decided to leave the thief a…
Since I started working on Discourse, I spend a lot of time thinking about how software can encourage and nudge people to be more empathetic online. That’s why it’s troubling to read articles like this one: My brother’s 32nd birthday is today. It’s an especially emotional day for his family because he’s not alive for…
When the news broke in October 2017 about Harvey Weinstein and his long history of sexual assault and harassment, I wanted to understand the full scope of the problem: How many people were involved in the incidents? Who was complicit in hiding his behavior? Did his actions have repercussions outside of Hollywood? Since I am…
This post has been updated. There is a group of people who are convinced that they have seen a movie called “Shazaam,” starring the comedian Sinbad. In the film, Sinbad plays a genie, doing the sorts of things that genies do. It’s hard to say what exactly happens in the movie, because the movie doesn’t…
Hide captionStephen Hawking smiles during a 2002 symposium in honor of his 60th birthday at the University of Cambridge. Hawking has died at 76. END CLASS=”IMAGECAPTION” END CLASS=”HSLIDE” Previous Next END CLASS=”AUX” END CLASS=”HSLIDEWRAP” Sion Touhig/Getty Images END CLASS=”PHOTOCREDIT” Hide captionHawking, shown in Chicago in 1986, was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a post once…
North Carolina is the one state where the law explicitly says you cannot revoke consent once it’s given. A bill that would remove this “unacceptable loophole” has little traction. Photo by Simone Becchetti via Stocksy One May evening in 1977, Beverly Hester was sexually assaulted. According to the summary included in the North Carolina Supreme…
Article Topper: Vertical The startup accelerator Y Combinator is known for supporting audacious companies in its popular three-month boot camp. There’s never been anything quite like Nectome, though. Next week, at YC’s “demo days,” Nectome’s cofounder, Robert McIntyre, is going to describe his technology for exquisitely preserving brains in microscopic detail using a high-tech embalming…