An anti-diversity document written by a Google worker has reignited debate about Silicon Valley hiring practices.Photograph: JasonDoiy/Getty Images G oogle has spent much of the past 72 hours insisting its commitment to diversity is “unequivocal” after the internal publication and subsequent leak of…

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life. By Ruth Franklin. Liveright; 607 pages; $35 and £25. NEARLY 70 years after it was first published, Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery”, is still chilling. It begins benignly: on an otherwise “clear and sunny” day, every household in an unnamed village…

J-Zone with Pablo Martin, The Du-Rites. If you’ve followed MC/producer J-Zone over the past few years, you’re not going to be surprised by the mind-rattling instrumental funk of his new album, J-Zone & Pablo Martin are The Du-Rites . Before he was a hip-hop producer, lyricist, and a scholar with an…

Peanut Butter Wolf performs on stage during the 2009 All Points West Music & Arts Festival at Liberty State Park on July 31, 2009 in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images) Walk up the stairs and into the headquarters of Stones Throw Records, and you’ll find yourself in a…

Photo: eBay eBay is introducing two new features for its mobile apps that use image matching to help customers search for products they might not be able to describe. The Image Search feature lets users shop by uploading a photo onto the app’s search bar. The Find It On eBay feature allows shoppers…

No. Really. It was awful. source Have you ever screwed up something so badly that it becomes perversely kind of impressive? That’s me and my career, I guess. I was doing pretty well as an Administrative Assistant at the local University. I was good at it. I got enough praise and prizes to satisfy my…

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They are called ‘bumsters’ in Gambia, ‘Rastitutes’ or ‘beach boys’ in the Caribbean and ‘sanky pankies’ in the Dominican Republic. These are the men who, in increasing numbers, are providing sex in return for money or goods to women who want a holiday ‘romance’. The men are invariably from…

Dream Daddy is the latest unlikely hit rocketing up the Steam charts, a dating sim where you romance a neighborhood block of improbably hot dads. I spoke to creators Leighton Gray and Vernon Shaw to find out more about how they struck a balance between humor and sincerity, criticism the game has…

Mistral is rampantly misused, outdated, and tacky. It’s also due for a resurgence. A sk people to name a font they hate, and whether they’re a type sophisticate or a card-carrying member of the Helvetica hoi polloi, they’ll name Comic Sans or Papyrus. These two typefaces bear an oversize portion of…

The cops had no idea what to do with the notorious Boy Jones Detail from Angelo Inganni’s “The Chimney Sweep,” 1843. (DeAgostini/Getty Images) O ne of the earliest celebrity stalkers in recorded history lived in the walls of Buckingham Palace by day and stole Queen Victoria’s panties by night.…

The filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow in Detroit. Brittany Greeson for The New York Times DETROIT — They crept through this city clutching their rifles, an army of jittery cops and National Guardsmen surrounded by an armored battalion that seemed more suitable for a Vietnam jungle than a Middle American…

Mueller. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election has taken a step forward with the impaneling of a grand jury in Washington, according to multiple reports. Calling this “a sign that his inquiry is…

Just as the cocktail renaissance has brought renewed fame to classics like the martini, the manhattan and the Negroni, it has heaped fresh infamy on a rogues’ gallery of less classy concoctions, most of which emerged during the final decades of the last century. Now a backlash of sorts has begun, as…

Imagine music as a recipe. Would you be able tell whether it had been made with artificially engineered ingredients or fresh produce from the farmer’s market? Canned tomatoes might work just fine—but maybe you wouldn’t know what you had been missing until you tried the same dish with heirlooms, each…

Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images President Trump’s approval rating has dropped by about one percentage point per month and now sits in the mid-30s. At the current rate, it would hit zero in September 2020. (A highly unlikely possibility, though with Donald Trump, anything is possible.)…

A promotional poster for D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation Getty Images HBO’s prospective series Confederate will offer an alternative history of post-Civil War America. It will ask the question, according to co-creator David Benioff, “What would the world have looked like … if the South had…

Jasu Hu O ne day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV shows, and I asked her what she likes to do with her…

We’re not sure the first time he called. Nor are we sure who first answered the bar’s wall-mounted pay phone that day and heard his voice. It could’ve been a customer seated at the window table beside the phone; could’ve been the front-room waiter, hustling to reach the receiver and shout…

Some stories are worth the wait -- even if the wait takes more than 40 years. Case in point: The Houston Astros' famous rainbow uniform debuted in 1975. In a recent Uni Watch column that listed 10 things you might not know about that uniform, we mentioned that the uni was designed by the…

“W e are the most uncool people in Miami.” So begins, promisingly enough, David Weigel’s The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock . Weigel, along with 3,000 fellow Yes-heads, Rush-oids, Tull freaks, and votaries of King Crimson—cultural underdogs all, twitching and grimacing with…

Björk has taken to Instagram to share a very simple message: “I am excited to share with you that my new album is coming out very soon.” The Icelandic star’s last album, 2015’s Vulnicura , dealt with her break-up from the artist Matthew Barney. By contrast her new album – as she discusses in a cover…

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Andy Samberg as Rod Kimble in Hot Rod, 2007. From Paramount/Everett Collection. When Hot Rod premiered in theaters on August 3, 2007, few predicted it would be one of the most groundbreaking comedies of its generation. Unfortunately for Hot Rod, those few were wrong: the film was both ignored at the…

In this op-ed, Lauren Michele Jackson tackles the recurring use of black people as reaction GIFs and its implications in terms of broader “digital blackface.” Adore or despise them, GIFs are integral to the social experience of the Internet. Thanks to a range of buttons, apps, and keyboards, saying…

A student at Royal St. George's College Paul Darvasi Royal St. George’s College in Toronto is an elite private school, an all boys school with an Anglican-liberal tradition (and a very good choir). With annual fees of around $30,000, it's a bastion of wealth and influence. The school recently…

On revivals, reboots, and courting your audience. After going through our classic fairytales and the hale , hearty , wholesome world of Archie Andrews , Hollywood’s “darker and grittier” trend has finally come for Anne of Green Gables . The review headlines were all over my Twitter and Facebook…

I don’t remember his last name. His first name was Brad, which is the perfect name for a relatively faceless memory from your early 20s. He was handsome, with a nice smile and startlingly blue eyes. I had always thought that when the eyes got too blue it looked like a person had no soul. You’re…

For two years, the digital currency bitcoin has been deadlocked by a caustic debate— some call it a "civil war" —about how to best scale the technology up to allow for worldwide adoption. As the two opposing sides argued their positions, the rancor became so intense that at one point a former lead…

A version of this article originally appeared on Motherboard Brazil. At the end of May, Spotify made a change to its music files that went unnoticed by almost all of the service's listeners. What was apparent, however, to sound engineers and studio wizards was that the volume had been reduced on…

With Baby Driver, Edgar Wright has finally given us a truly original summer action movie—one that isn't an adaptation, or a remake, or a sequel, or part of a superhero franchise. And because Baby Driver is from Wright—director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World —it's…

This article originally appeared on VICE Netherlands It all started when my cousin, who worked as a croupier, asked me if I wanted a part-time job. Her dad had been a gambler for years, and had recently decided he wanted to organise his own illegal tournaments. He was looking for hostesses. My uncle…

How bad was that HBO hack? Here’s some perspective: first reported the hackers obtained 1.5 terabytes of data from the company, which could make the hacking the biggest the film and television industry has ever seen. Not all of the data has been released, though the hackers have promised that more…

From the first notes of the synthesizer in the opening gun barrel sequence, a sense of smooth suspense takes hold. The barrel sequence is familiar and yet different. Shinier than before. Brighter, faster, and on the move. Its target as always is James Bond, but this is 007 as we’d never seen him…

I received a call Monday night from Roger Stone, the infamous political prankster and Donald Trump confidant. He wanted to talk about Anthony Scaramucci , whose 10-day tenure as White House communications director had just ended in ignominy. Stone said that Scaramucci reminded him of “a suicide…