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Say that everything that Kesha alleges about the producer Dr. Luke raping and abusing her is true. She still loses her lawsuit against him. This is not a hypothetical scenario. In the ruling where the New York judge Shirley Werner Kornreich dismissed all of Kesha’s claims against the man born Lukasz Gottwald, his affiliated companies,…
Kesha, the singer known for hits such as “Tik Tok” and “Die Young,” had appealed a decision in February that said she could not be released from her contract with producer Dr. Luke. Kesha has alleged that Dr. Luke, whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald, had sexually, emotionally and physically abused her. Dr. Luke’s record…
Story highlights The school first changed the name to The Antonin Scalia School of Law, or ASSoL Observers took to Twitter to comment on the acronym’s similarity to a curse word The school first announced it would change the name to The Antonin Scalia School of Law, or ASSoL, after receiving an anonymous $30 million…
George Mason University leaders announced last week that they would rename their law school the Antonin Scalia School of Law, honoring the late U.S. Supreme Court justice, after receiving $30 million in gifts. Shortly after the university’s announcement, Del. Marcus B. Simon (D-Fairfax) began circulating a petition calling for a stop to George Mason “selling the…
Image: Gizmodo The Oculus Rift is starting to ship, and we’re pretty happy with it. While it’s cool, like any interesting gadget, it’s worth looking through the Terms of Service, because there are some worrisome things included. Quite a few of the items in the document are pretty typical in any sort of Terms of…
*** CONTENT STARTS HERE *** How to Hack an Election Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. He tells his story for the first time. By Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley, and Andrew Willis | March 31, 2016 Photographs by Juan Arredondo From BODY COPY CENTERED It was just before midnight when…
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…
Image Credit: Sam Woolley On a popular torrent site, Fallout 4 has been downloaded nearly 140,000 times. Nearly 200 people are downloading right now, as I write this. AAA or indie, Fallout 4 or Super Meat Boy, it doesn’t matter. Piracy is inevitable. But a torrent doesn’t appear out of thin air. There’s a person…
Sometimes not all is as it seems. On the the streets of New York City, that can mean some of the iconic yellow cabs are in fact disguised NYPD cop cars—but how can you spot them? Motherboard yesterday published an article, based on FOIA requests, which saw the NYPD admit that it has at least…