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Film

'The Farewell' Deserves to Be Seen as an American Drama

Lulu Wang's film is nominated in the Foreign Language category at this year's Golden Globes. That choice undermines the diversity of the American audience.
Bettina Makalintal
12.9.19
Internet

Verizon Is Blocking Efforts to Preserve Internet History

Activists are scrambling to catalog internet history ahead of a looming shutdown of Yahoo Groups. Verizon’s actively undermining their efforts.
Karl Bode
12.9.19
Genetic engineering

A Genetic Dating App Is a Horrifying Thing That Shouldn’t Exist

For anyone not white, cis, or male, it’s obvious where all this is going.
Janus Rose
12.9.19
Film

It Took the Safdie Brothers 10 Years to Finally Make 'Uncut Gems'

"If any of these movies failed, 'Gems' would've never happened."
River Donaghey
12.9.19
CELEBRITIES

Beyoncé Broke a Cardinal Rule of Karaoke

The Eagles? Beyoncé nooooooo!
Alex Zaragoza
12.9.19
Instacart

Instacart Workers Are Launching a Week of Protest Against the App’s Tipping Policy

Grocery delivery gig workers who use Instacart told Motherboard that after this year’s pay cuts, they’re struggling to pay for basic necessities like utilities and food.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
12.9.19
North Korea

'Heedless and Erratic Old Man': North Korea Warns Trump to Knock Off the Tweets

They only threatened to pull out "dotard" again, but they might as well have said it.
Tim Marcin
12.9.19
climate change

The 2010s Killed Off the Polite Climate Change Conversation

The decade that began with the defeat of a relatively moderate climate bill is ending amid calls for capitalism to be dismantled.
Geoff Dembicki
12.9.19
christmas

Walmart Pulls Sweater of Santa About to Rip Lines of Cocaine

The sweater, which has since been pulled by the store, featured Santa in front of three lines of, er, ‘snow.’
Mack Lamoureux
12.9.19
oral histories

The Real Story Behind the Iconic Ode to Oral Sex, "Put It In Your Mouth"

How the raunchy 1996 duet from neighborhood friends Kia Jeffries and Akinyele Adams came to be.
Soheil Rezayazdi
12.9.19
security

A Saudi Telecom Exposed a Streaming List of GPS Locations

The company, STCS, uploaded a constantly updating list of GPS coordinates in Saudi Arabia, China, and west Africa.
Joseph Cox
12.9.19
Art

Of Course Someone Ate the $120,000 Duct Tape Banana

A man pulled Maurizio Cattelan's work off a gallery wall at Art Basel, chomped into it, and called the move performance art.
Drew Schwartz
12.9.19
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