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This article is absolutely NSFW. On my kitchen table was the ass end of a giant demon bird. I was inspecting its empty orifice, comparing it to a photo on my iPad. The directions said that I had to glue a tiny lump of human hands, less than a half inch across, into the beast’s…
An ex-Snapchat employee says the company is misleading investors to drive up its IPO and he was fired for being a whistleblower, according to a heavily redacted complaint filed Wednesday in L.A. County Superior Court. Anthony Pompliano says “the avarice of the small group of executives at the helm” of Snapchat and his refusal…
This review includes major spoilers for “The Six Thatchers.” Sherlock is consistently inconsistent, veering between compelling drama (Sherlock’s death at the end of season 2) and self-indulgent nonsense (“The Abominable Bride“). The fourth season premiere, “The Six Thatchers,” is the first time it’s managed to be boring. Even at its worst, Sherlock usually maintains a palpable sense…
Hide CM floating unit A Selection of the 30 Most Disappointing Under 30 CreditPHOTOGRAPH BY NICO DE PASQUALE / GETTY Barrier Status: ‘none’ Will Heller, twenty-six After a month at a Zen silent-meditation retreat, Heller went back to his job at Goldman Sachs as a commodities trader in oil and gas. Victor Chen, twenty-eight Chen…
London has breached its annual air pollution limits just five days into 2017, a “shameful reminder of the severity of London’s air pollution”, according to campaigners. By law, hourly levels of toxic nitrogen dioxide must not be more than 200 micrograms per cubic metre (µg/m3) more than 18 times in a whole year, but late…
How “safe harbor” turned into a protector of privilege. For Airbnb, suing American cities had become something of a monthly ritual. It started in late June 2016 with a federal lawsuit against San Francisco, the company’s hometown, over an ordinance meant to crack down on illegal short-term apartment rentals. About a month later, Airbnb sued the…
The layoffs came a week after the presidential election. Fusion staffers received a “cryptic” calendar invite for a 10 a.m. meeting the following morning. Minutes before they were set to meet, a companywide e-mail from chief executive officer Isaac Lee went out describing various reorganizations at Fusion parent Univision Communications. Buried toward the end of…
Serfs carrying J.Law’s Golden Globes gown to the fashion closet or a historical reenactment of the battle of Hastings on its 950th anniversary? YOU DECIDE. Image via Getty My glory days of shopping at Charlotte Rousse and Wet Seal in 2002 are finally justified: in its natural state of fashion arbitration, Vogue has declared that…
Illustration by Angelica Alzona. On a Saturday evening last January, Gynnya McMillen was staying at her mother’s apartment complex in Shelbyville, a city of 15,000 in northern Kentucky. Gynnya, 16, lived in foster care but was allowed weekend visits with her mother, Michelle McMillen, since their long-strained relationship had begun to improve. That night, however,…
According to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assessment, “Mosul Dam is the most dangerous dam in the world.”CreditPhotograph by Victor J. Blue for The New Yorker Barrier Status: ‘none’ On the morning of August 7, 2014, a team of fighters from the Islamic State, riding in pickup trucks and purloined American Humvees, swept out…