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Wrecked machinery in the Chernobyl sarcophagus. (All Photos: Alexander Kupny) It is hard to imagine the circumstances why someone would want to climb into a small hole under the Chernobyl’s infamous—and dangerous—charred No. 4 reactor. But Alexander Kupny did just that, many times. The explosion that occurred on April 26, 1986, blew off the building’s four…
Over the past several seasons, it’s become quite apparent that fashion girls have abandoned overtly sexy outfits in favor of oversize, athletic, and menswear-inspired looks. Some would say that this shift began in 2010 when Leandra Medine introduced the “Man Repeller” concept. The (likely temporary) nail was cemented on the “sexy”-outfit coffin when Balenciaga and…
Walt Disney Co. decided not to pursue a bid for Twitter Inc. partly out of concern that bullying and other uncivil forms of communication on the social media site might soil the company’s wholesome family image, according to people familiar with management’s thinking. The producer of family fare like “Finding Dory” had gone so far…
GTM DataLayer Umbel End Umbel [if lte IE 9]>< ![endif][if gte IE 10]>< ![endif] Google Tag Manager Container End Google Tag Manager Container If Trump supporters really loved law and order, they wouldn’t be going around calling the election “rigged.” Three weeks before Election Day, a major party presidential candidate is openly questioning the...
Ousted Fox News head Roger Ailes and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump have fallen out and are no longer speaking, sources say. Emily Jane Fox of Vanity Fair reported on Wednesday that New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman and Vanity Fair editor Sarah Ellison have both been informed that the longtime friends Trump and Ailes are no longer on good terms, but the…
Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti decided to share a little insight into Ivanka Trump’s capacity for lewdness on Twitter earlier today. And according to Peretti, Ivanka is particularly interested in seeing “a mulatto cock.” A few things. First: Jonah, you know you run a news site, right? And second, this does not conform to Ivanka’s meticulously…
Dive Brief: In a blog post Tuesday, Facebook announced Live API, a new tool that allows publishers to schedule Facebook Live streaming video broadcasts in advance. The blog post explained the tool was added to Facebook Live following publisher demand. TechCrunch points out that the ability to schedule live streams eliminates the frustration of announcing…
A woman. An elderly woman. A mentally ill elderly woman. ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads A mentally ill elderly woman with a baseball bat. Police shooting of Bronx woman eerily similar to 1984 incident A mentally ill elderly woman with a baseball bat having a breakdown. A mentally ill elderly woman with a baseball bat having…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended Facebook board member Peter Thiel’s support of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in a post that invoked the importance of “diversity” for the social media company. “We care deeply about diversity. That’s easy to say when it means standing up for ideas you agree with. It’s a lot harder when…