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A new startup wants to take a “deep dive” into the private social media activity of prospective tenants—their chats, check-ins, how many times they’ve posted words like “pregnant” or “loan”—and score their “personality” for their potential landlord. Why would anyone let this happen? Because “people will give up their privacy to get something they want,”…
This morning, we received the rarest of gifts: a genuinely candid interview with a celebrity. Noah Galvin, the 22-year-old star of the ABC sitcom The Real O’Neals, spoke with E. Alex Jung of New York’s entertainment vertical Vulture about being a young, out gay actor in Hollywood. The story was headlined “Noah Galvin Has Nothing…
Peter Thiel is getting closer to his goal: Gawker Media has filed for bankruptcy protection and says it eventually plans to find a new owner for the company. Gawker and owner Nick Denton are making the Chapter 11 filing today, in order to avoid paying Thiel and Hulk Hogan the $140 million judgment they…
“A healthy and constructive debate about media buying can only happen with a bipartisan, engaged, industry-wide approach.” This was what the 4A’s, an industry organization meant to represent media agencies, wrote in response to the ANA report on media transparency released Tuesday. But while the investigation was in progress, MediaPost reported that the CEO of…
How do you feel about eight years of Hillary, kids? / Marc Nozell As the Democratic primary campaign comes to a close, let us recall how strange and improbable it has been all along. Hillary Clinton started out as her party’s hand-picked standard-bearer, the baddest and brightest of the nation’s dominant political faction. No prominent Democrat (save…
It takes a lot of high-capitalist pixie dust to turn the basics of subsistence into coveted luxuries. The brazen marketing of designer water at $5 per bottle, flown in from Fiji or the Alps—or better yet, filled from a local municipal tap—may have been the first red flag, signaling the modern public’s staggering ability to suspend…
Last Friday’s employment report cast a pall over the economic outlook. Headline jobs growth of just 38,000 was much weaker than expected and left us all wondering whether the Federal Reserve would wait longer to raise interest rates. The manufacturing sector shed 10,000 jobs, and has shown job losses in three of the past four…
All photos via PropertySex.com You’re an on-site landlord, and also a horny straight dude. Yesterday, you kicked out some obnoxious tenants and want to fill that vacancy as quickly as possible, but you also realize you’ve got a desirable space in a nice area, which, in the words of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, is…
View this image › Louisa (Emilia Clarke) and Will (Sam Claflin) dance at a wedding in Me Before You. MGM / New Line Cinema ID: 8849944 Disability rights activists were ready for Me Before You in part because, as one put it, the problems they saw in the movie were “depressingly familiar.” Protests of the…
Getty Image Stephen Colbert is having a bad week. I think it’s fair to say this is one of the worst weeks we’ve seen a late night talk show host have since the Conan O’Brien The Tonight Show fiasco in 2010. This is not to say things are just going swimmingly everywhere else – Trevor…