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[Link] Convicted Fyre Festival Fraudster Is Planning Another Bahamas Venture, But the Bahamas Don't Want Him
Read: 29/11/2022 www.vice.com
Billy McFarland, the Fyre Festival founder who went to jail for defrauding investors to the tune of $26 million, is back at it again with another venture in the Bahamas.
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[Link] 'You're not being told the truth': Schwarzenegger speaks out, pleading to end Ukraine war
Read: 18/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has told the Russian people they were being fed misinformation about their country's assault on Ukraine and he appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the attack.
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[Link] Elon Musk Dares UAW to Organize Tesla Factory, Says He Would “Do Nothing to Stop Them”
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Last night, like many other nights, Elon Musk was tweeting. In this case, he was tweeting to Gene Simmons of Kiss about the size and workforce of Tesla’s California plant.
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[Link] Wu-Tang Clan Producer Suing NYPD After Wrongfully Spending 4 Years in Rikers
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Former Wu-Tang Clan producer “True Master” spent four years at Rikers Island after being falsely accused of a rape that DNA evidence proved he didn’t commit. Now, he wants justice—with the help of star civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
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[Link] Dwayne Johnson appears to withdraw Joe Rogan support after N-word video
Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Dwayne Johnson, the actor and former wrestling star known as The Rock, has retracted what had seemed his unconditional support for Joe Rogan, amid continued fallout from the controversial podcaster’s use of racist language.
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[Link] The Rise and Fall of the Comedian Who Revolutionized Stand-Up
Read: 6/12/2021 slate.com
Mort Sahl, who died on Tuesday at 94, may be unknown to most people who are younger than half that age, but in his prime in the 1950s, he sparked a revolution in stand-up comedy that persists to this day.
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[Link] Sorry, Ridley Scott, we just don’t think it’s safe to go back into the cinema
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
His latest, House of Gucci, out now, has divided critics so sharply that seeing it has become a matter of urgency: is it “boring”, “audacious”, “so bad it’s bad” or “stylish”? Is anything better than Lady Gaga in the trailer, saying: “Father, son and house of Gucci”, a line tha
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[Link] Adele Reportedly Denies Ch7 Access To Footage Of Interview It Paid $1M For After Journo’s Snub
Read: 22/11/2021 www.pedestrian.tv
Oopsie, ballad queen Adele (via Sony) has reportedly denied Channel Seven access to footage of an interview it paid $1M for after their reporter admitted to the artist he hadn’t heard of the very album he was flown to London to interview her about.
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[Link] Rapper Young Dolph shot dead while buying cookies
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Rapper Young Dolph, who was widely admired in the hip-hop community for his authenticity and fierce independence, has been shot dead at a cookie shop in the US city of Memphis, Tennessee.
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[Link] An Olive Branch to My Enemy Mayim Bialik
Read: 18/11/2021 www.gawker.com
Twice now, I have used my platform to decry all things Mayim Bialik. I don’t think she’s very charismatic, and I think her whole nerdy contrarian thing is extremely grating. However, I am not above admitting that there is one acting role that clearly should have gone to her.
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[Link] Why Music Drives Us to Mayhem
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Mr. Ayers is a musician, writer and the U.S. head of the British record label 4AD. His memoir will be published by Viking in 2022.
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[Link] Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, Founder of Something Awful, Is Dead at 45
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka—the creator of the era-defining Something Awful forums—died by suicide on November 9, Motherboard confirmed with the Lee’s Summit, Missouri police department.
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[Link] Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Have Completely Lost It on Twitter
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
Bezos, the Amazon founder whose net worth is around $200 billion, implied that he would personally throw actor Leonardo DiCaprio off a cliff in a tweet.
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[Link] Kanye West condemns #MeToo movement as ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four mind control’
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Kanye West has condemned the #MeToo movement that has spoken out against sexual assault in the entertainment industry and beyond, describing it as “mob mentality … Nineteen Eighty-Four mind control”.
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[Link] Hey, Jeff Bezos: Send Hideo Kojima to Space Already
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Kojima's fascination with space is no big secret. The branding for his studio Kojima Productions features a mysterious space explorer planting a flag on an alien world, and his 1994 game Policenauts takes place in space.
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[Link] Elon Musk Tweets an Ancient Chinese Poem. Here’s What It Means.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The world’s richest man, with $335 billion in wealth and caught up in Twitter spats, now wants some peace, at least according to an 1,800-year-old Chinese poem he just shared.
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[Link] Mac Miller’s Drug Supplier Admits to Distributing Fentanyl-Laced Pills
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Stephen Andrew Walter—one of three men charged in connection with Miller’s death—agreed to a plea deal Monday, according to court documents filed in federal court in the Central District of California.
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[Link] Paris Hilton Just Spoke Out About Her Time in the “Troubled Teen Industry”
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. This week, Paris Hilton showed up in a somewhat unusual spot for the queen of early-aughts reality TV: Congress.
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[Link] Marvel Enthusiasts Angered by Non-Spoiler
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Marvel fans are apoplectic that a journalist who attended a preview screening of the upcoming Eternals had spoiled the movie. It’s unclear what, exactly, was spoiled.
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[Link] Hasan Piker Said He Went to a Brothel, Igniting Sex Work Debate
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Tweets and past comments from Leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker have kicked off yet another argument online about whether sex work is inherently exploitative. On Thursday, Piker tweeted a video from inside of a strip club, where a young man wearing one of his t-shirts gets a lap dance.
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[Link] Endometriosis forces Wiggles performer Emma to pull out of upcoming shows
Read: 19/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Popular children's group The Wiggles will be without its yellow performer Emma for its upcoming shows around the country, as she undergoes surgery to manage symptoms of chronic endometriosis. In a statement, Emma Watkins, 28, said she would be admitted to hospital on Tuesday.
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[Link] The Big Bang Theory Star Explains Their Falling Out With Neil Patrick Harris
Read: 17/10/2021 comicbook.com
Retelling, and giving more detail to, a story she has told before, The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik took to late night recently to revive an old conflict she had with How I Met Your Mother's Neil Patrick Harris.
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[Link] Daniel Craig says he goes to gay bars to avoid fights at straight venues
Read: 15/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
From his portrayal of a more vulnerable Bond to his cerise suit jacket on the red carpet, Daniel Craig has worked hard to defy expectations of masculinity – so it came as little surprise when the actor revealed he liked to frequent gay bars to avoid the “aggressive dick swinging” of hetero spa
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[Link] Leaked documents reveal the special rules Facebook uses for 5.8M VIPs
Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Facebook had a problem on its hands. People were making posts that got caught in the company’s automated moderation system or were taken down by its human moderators. The problem wasn’t that the moderators, human or otherwise, were wrong to take down the posts.
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[Link] Facebook: some high-profile users ‘allowed to break platform’s rules’
Read: 14/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Facebook gives high-profile users special treatment, which includes immunity from its rules for some, and allowed Brazilian footballer Neymar to post nude pictures of a woman who had accused him of rape, according to a report.
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[Link] R. Kelly Allegedly Forced a Woman to Have Sex as “Punishment”
Read: 24/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The woman, who is identified as Jane Doe 5 in court documents, testified on both Monday and Tuesday in New York court, Vulture reported.
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[Link] Cardi B Is the Queen of Features That Break The Internet
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Cardi B is no stranger to breaking the internet. She’s more than capable of dominating the conversation herself, as she did when she stood atop two exotic dancers on a stripper pole in 2018’s “Money,” or when she shared that questionable three-way kiss in “Up” at the height of COVID-19.
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[Link] Home and Away's Mat Stevenson adopts trans daughter’s best friend
Read: 14/8/2021 au.lifestyle.yahoo.com
Former Home And Away star Mat Stevenson has adopted his transgender daughter, Grace Hyland's best friend, Belle Bambi. In a video shared to Grace's TikTok account, she shows her dad - who is known for playing Adam Cameron on the soap during the 1990s - holding up a signed adoption certificate.
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[Link] He Preached Slow Fashion. Then He Collaborated With Fast Fashion Icon H&M.
Read: 14/8/2021 www.vice.com
This week, a hyped-up collaboration between Indian couturier Sabyasachi and fast fashion brand H&M dropped amid much media frenzy.
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[Link] Sam Pepper investigated by LA police in July
Read: 14/8/2021 www.bbc.com
Police in Los Angeles have told Newsbeat they investigated YouTube star Sam Pepper in July on suspicion of a sexual offence against a woman. LAPD have confirmed he was not contacted, questioned or arrested.
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[Link] Paris Hilton Is, Like, A Chef Now
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Paris Hilton glides down the aisles of a Gelson’s, a high-end Southern California grocery store where most people don’t typically pick out cereal in a Pepto-pink gown that’s giving Marilyn Monroe.
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[Link] DaBaby Could Still Get Paid by the Festivals That Dropped Him
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Seven major music festivals have now cut DaBaby from their lineups after the rapper went on a homophobic rant at Rolling Loud in Miami last week, then immediately doubled down, spouting off comments that were arguably even more offensive than what he said at first.
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[Link] Does Canceling DaBaby's Shows Actually Help Hip-Hop's Homophobia Issue?
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
DaBaby is the most talked about rapper this week, and unfortunately, the commotion has nothing to do with new music.
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[Link] #MeToo Hits One of China’s Biggest Celebrities. The State Is Taking Credit.
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
A megastar fell from grace over rape accusations. Now China is scrambling to steer the narrative in its favor. Until recently, Kris Wu was one of China’s most adored pop singers, swamped by screaming fans wherever he went.
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[Link] We Tried the Viral TikTok Face Mask That Makes You Look Old
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
In our quest for glowing, youthful skin and hair, we’ve tried it all. We’ve consulted skin care savants, we’ve oiled our pubes, and we’ve spelunked through Sephora sales.
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[Link] Britney Spears’ Dad Tried to Cancel Her Vacation, Lawyer Says
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Britney Spears doesn’t want to wait to kick her dad out of the conservatorship that’s controlled her life since 2008. At this point, the pop star says, it’s a matter of saving her mental health—and her finances.
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[Link] Matt Damon reveals he only recently stopped using homophobic slur
Read: 3/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Matt Damon has been heavily criticized after revealing that he has only recently stopped using a well-known homophobic slur, after being told by his daughter that it was unacceptable.
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[Link] Founding Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison dies aged 46
Read: 30/7/2021 www.abc.net.au
Joey Jordison, the founding drummer of heavy metal band Slipknot, has died aged 46. Slipknot's website and social media pages went dark after the news.
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[Link] Greta Thunberg Got Her First COVID-19 Vax Dose and Called Out Global Vaccine Inequality
Read: 30/7/2021 www.teenvogue.com
Greta Thunberg got her first dose of the vaccine and took the opportunity to call out vaccine inequality. The teen climate striker took to social media to do what she does best: highlight lackluster leadership in the face of a global crisis.
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[Link] Olivia Rodrigo Visits Joe Biden's White House to Support Youth Vaccine Initiative
Read: 30/7/2021 www.teenvogue.com
Olivia Rodrigo is teaming up with President Joe Biden in an effort to promote COVID-19 vaccinations.
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[Link] Apple founder Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement
Read: 14/7/2021 www.bbc.com
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has issued a passionate endorsement of the right-to-repair movement, despite the company's opposition. The movement wants laws passed to guarantee users access to information and parts to repair their own devices.
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[Link] Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart Take Down Candace Owens
Read: 23/6/2021 www.thedailybeast.com
“There is no possible way that I owe Candace Owens an apology, is there?” Dave Chappelle asked at the top of the latest episode of his podcast The Midnight Miracle.
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[Link] Daunte Wright: Obamas say police killing reveals ‘just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety’
Read: 16/4/2021 www.independent.co.uk
Barack and Michelle Obama said their “hearts are heavy over yet another shooting of a Black man” following the police killing of Daunte Wright in Minnesota.
[Link] Charlyne Yi Says She Tried to Quit ‘Disaster Artist’ Over James Franco Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Read: 11/4/2021 www.indiewire.com
Actress Charlyne Yi has spoken out about her experience making the 2017 film “The Disaster Artist,” directed by , via Instagram this week.
[Link] Matthew McConaughey 'seriously considering' run for Texas governor
Read: 17/3/2021 www.theguardian.com
Matthew McConaughey has announced he is “seriously considering” a run for Texas governor, a year before the state election. The actor revealed his intention on a recent episode of Crime Stoppers of Houston’s The Balanced Voice podcast on Wednesday.
[Link] Evan Rachel Wood Accuses Marilyn Manson of Abuse
Read: 1/2/2021 www.nytimes.com
“He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years,” Ms. Wood, an actor and singer, said on Instagram.