In 2012, Ellen Pao, a partner at the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, sued the venerated venture capital firm for sexual harassment and discrimination. It was a more cloistered time and the allegations were shocking, creating a fissure in Silicon Valley's self-image and spurring a wider discussion about sexism in the…
Another day, another security breach at the White House.
Clearwater, FL police say 33-year-old Melissa Dawn Sellers was taken into custody this week after she went a little overboard and called her roommate some names she regretted the next morning. Just kidding, she lit him on fire!
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By the end of this story you'll have learned some things about Tom Bergeron, teenage witches, spanking, carny lore, Lisa Kudrow and what makes Hallowe'en in particular so hallowed, among the e'ens. But let us not start at the middle, let's go back to the beginning: 8/7 central, tonight on the TV. With The Middle.
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Mark Zuckerberg has already won the race to become San Francisco's most obnoxious techie homeowner. But a report says another Noe Valley manse owned by a "tech couple" could surpass Fort Zuckerberg as the most expensive property in the neighborhood.
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Welcome to Midweek Madness, in which an overexcited fairy flaps her wings over all of America and gently drops a tiny poop on each of your heads. This week, all the tabloids are Platonic ideals of garbage, and together we unravel the mystery of the disappearing Kardashian pets, the cup size of Ariana Grande's Future…
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It is not surprising that Joan Rivers, upon the time of her death, was rich. She worked in Hollywood for 40-something years, and maniacally at that. But according to Us Weekly she was obscenely rich.
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Big storms usually paint dramatic and beautiful scenes in the sky when viewed from both below and above. The nor'easter off the East Coast this afternoon is as photogenic as it is intense.
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According to police who were involved in a high speed chase with a man in Michigan, when they finally were able to approach the man's car, he lit up a bong right in front of them. No big deal.
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When Heba Mohammad, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, emailed Alderman Chris Wery to ask if transportation would be provided for midterm elections in two weeks, Wery immediately called her religious and political affiliations into question—assuming she might have ties to Islamic extremist…
On October 1, the computing giant Intel pulled its ads from Gamasutra, a trade website for game developers, over an essay called "'Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over" by a journalist named Leigh Alexander. Intel had been successfully harassed by a small, contemptible crusade called "Gamergate"—a…
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"Someone get a tape of this? I hope you do, so you can see this when I'm famous and all of you will remember me as this beautiful little girl," says Kim Kardashian in an eighth-grade graduation video dug up by Entertainment Tonight.
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A 54-year-old drunken clown was arrested in Michigan this week for sitting in his garage and firing his pellet gun at a can on the street on what would have otherwise been a perfectly nice Monday morning.
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The above video shows drunk frat bros fighting, rolling around on the ground, and calling each other bitches at a University of Arkansas tailgate. According to Bro Bible, the fight is between Sigma Nus and SAEs, but according to me, it's between a bunch of IDIOTS who aren't even throwing real punches.
About a week ago, one of our writers made a bad joke. "Ultimately #GamerGate is reaffirming what we've known to be true for decades: Nerds should be constantly shamed and degraded into submission." It was a joke, sure, but a stupid one, and he apologized.
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Lady Liberty. The guardian of our shores. The protector of America. Her greenness, the anti-whore, who looks down upon capitalism but does not let herself be defiled by it. Until now.
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What feels like several dozen years ago, Silicon Valley's reformed party boy and his Middle Earth bride celebrated their love (and love of nature) by shitting up part of a protected redwood forest. Now the state is making him build them an "I'm Sorry" app.
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Yesterday, Ben Smith, editor of Buzzfeed News, Twittered that he'll be in San Francisco this week interviewing candidates for a new Bureau Chief position. The very lengthy and aspirational job listing can be found here. Buzzfeed is an excellent company and I'm sure they'll make an extraordinary hire.
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Climate change is causing rising oceans and more extreme weather. Even as beachfront development continues, beachfront living is growing ever more perilous. What happens when all the insurance companies decide to stop insuring anything by a beach?
