Meet the Anonymous Instagram User Dedicated to Calling Out Rappers with Fake...
Meet the Anonymous Instagram User Dedicated to Calling Out Rappers with Fake Watches
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Things Are Less Sexy Without You, H. R. Giger
Illustration by Nick Gazin H. R. Giger passed away on May 12 at the age of 74, and the internet responded with a sea of frowny-faced emoticons and people clicking "like" on links to announcements of...
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Romanian Liberals Love Europe So Much They Want to Change Timezones
Living in Romania means being at the top: at the top of the European Union's lists for national poverty, car accidents, alcohol consumption, mental illness, fuel taxes and some other things I'm too...
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The Hate Boat: The Australian Border Force, Closing Detention Centres, and...
Image by Ben Thomson Congratulations Australia, you have a new government agency: Australian Border Force. Sadly it’s not the long overdue spin-off of the Australian television series Water Rats....
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Gen X Ruined the World Too
Reality Bites Screenshot via YouTube user thecultbox Hey, did you hear about the western Antarctic ice sheet? The melting there has reached the point of no return, which means we’re getting an extra...
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They're All Coming Here
Former Lost Boy Machot Lat Thiep in Nairobi, Kenya. All photos by Tim Freccia. "They’re all coming here. Maybe not now, maybe not next year, but they are coming. Halliburton, Monsanto, Nike, Samsung....
View ArticleI Infiltrated the Online Community of Adult Picky Eaters
I Infiltrated the Online Community of Adult Picky Eaters
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In the UK, You Can Be Jailed for Giving Your Girlfriend Herpes
Someone with a cold sore, a result of the herpes virus. Photo via Wikimedia Commons I can't see many people bettering David Golding's break-up story. After his then-girlfriend found out that he’d...
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'Gulf Futurism' Is Killing People
A digital rendering of the Kingdom Tower jutting out of Jeddah. Screen grab via Youtube At the end of last month, construction began on the world’s newest tallest building. This 3,281-foot-high spike...
View ArticleCro-Mags Former Guitarist Has a Lot of Shit to Talk About the Band
Cro-Mags Former Guitarist Has a Lot of Shit to Talk About the Band
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The Shifting Shape of Syria's Borders
A building at the Ras al Ain–Ceylanpınar border crossing, shelled during clashes between Syrian rebels and Kurdish armed forces. February 2013. I’m at the Kilis crossing on the Syrian side of the...
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Guatemala Is the Deadliest Place in the World to Be a Trade Unionist
A trade-union protest outside the presidential palace in Guatemala City “In 1994 they killed my son. A boy of 12 who didn’t have anything to do with this. In the same year, some of my colleagues were...
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The Cannes Film Festival Can Be a Pretty Miserable Place
If you already hate entertainment news, prepare to spend the next two weeks being inundated with even more bullshit than normal. Yesterday was the start of the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival—an...
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Hanging Out and Blazing at Canada’s Best (and Only) Weed Vending Machine
Some of the products available in the weed vending machine. All photos by the author Twenty minutes after I met Andy Bishop, a self-described “cosmic country” musician in Vancouver, British Columbia,...
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Tour Buses to Sri Lanka's Battlefields
Majority Sinhalese let loose on a propaganda tour to Sri Lanka's subdued north. All photos courtesy of the author The tour bus had far more passengers than seats, but no one around me seemed to mind....
View ArticleNot Even the FCC Likes the FCC's Proposed Net Neutrality Rules
Not Even the FCC Likes the FCC's Proposed Net Neutrality Rules
View ArticleHandmade Grenades Release Music When You Pull The Trigger
Handmade Grenades Release Music When You Pull The Trigger
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Underappreciated Masterpieces: Javier Marías’s 'Dark Back of Time'
I ordered Javier Marías's Dark Back of Time from an online bookstore, based almost entirely on the title. I know that goes directly against traditional book-buying advice, but that’s really a hell of...
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Amen Dunes’ New Record Is an Ode to Failure
On April 28, I sat in the back garden of a swank Brooklyn grub spot in front of a weird plate of fried eggs, hummus, and tabbouleh. Across the table was Damon McMahon, the curly-haired guy behind Amen...
View ArticleTech Money Is Helping Sweep Away San Francisco's Black Community
Tech Money Is Helping Sweep Away San Francisco's Black Community
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