Play Video 2:08 Erdoğan wins Turkish constitutional referendum – video report The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , has achieved victory in a historic referendum on a package of constitutional amendments that will grant him sweeping new powers. Sadi Güven, the head of Turkey’s high electoral…

Inside America’s longstanding commodification and sanitization of resistance. W hen people think of resistance in the American context, the first thing they tend to think about is the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. And when they think of this movement, they typically envision Black folx in dapper…

Robert Yang’s games have been seen by millions of people, but sometimes he’d rather they hadn’t. Yang is well known in indie game development circles as a creator of games that explore the wide world of gay sex and its consequences with an unflinching artistic vision. Hurt Me Plenty is about…

A lot of people seem to hate Uber. But the paradoxical thing about the ride-sharing giant’s notoriety is that it’s both unfair and totally justified. Taxi companies have long railed against Uber for disrupting their industry—but people flocked to ride-sharing for its convenience and reliability. (In…

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Having just crossed seven years since the untimely passing of J Dilla due to lupus-related medical complications, his thorough list of productions lives in the hearts of long-established fans and late adapters who jumped aboard once the afterlife greatly bolstered his legend. Much like the Notorious…

Los Angeles Rams guard Jamon Brown (68) competed against Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Howard Jones in an arm wrestling event at the MGM Hotel and Casino on the Vegas Strip in April. Heidi Fang/Las Vegas Review-Journal When N.F.L. owners voted overwhelmingly last month to move the Raiders to…

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White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, second from left, listens to President Trump’s news conference Wednesday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) When Stephen K. Bannon reported for work Wednesday, he did not act like a man who had just been publicly humiliated by his boss. The White…

A friend of mine once had a curious experience with a job interview. Excited about the possible position, she arrived five minutes early and was immediately ushered into the interview by the receptionist. Following an amicable discussion with a panel of interviewers, she was offered the job.…

WASHINGTON — As he grappled on Thursday with his first major decision involving military action, a fed-up and frustrated President Trump turned to his two top aides and told them he had had enough of their incessant knife-fights in the media. “Work this out,” Mr. Trump said, according to two people…

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This story appeared in the April issue of VICE magazine. Click HERE to subscribe. In the THUMP Guide to Drugs column , Anna Codrea-Rado interviews experts to find out what clubbers need to know about their substances. Since the 1940s, scientists have researched how the psychedelic drug LSD—or acid—…

In tough times , people want more in a leader than intelligence, integrity, or the ability to build really tall walls. They want someone who can make a compelling pitch and inspire a sense of urgency—someone with charisma. For decades, scholars have struggled to define this X factor, but they are…

PYONGYANG -- North Korea says it is “on the brink of war” with the U.S. In an interview with CBS News’ Ben Tracy, one of the nation’s senior officials has accused the Trump administration of wanting to “annihilate” his country and blamed the escalating tension on the Korean Peninsula squarely on the…

"The internet is shit today. It's broken. It was probably always broken, but it's worse than ever." My conversation with Peter Sunde , one of the founders and spokespersons of The Pirate Bay, did not start out optimistically. There's good reason for that: In the last couple of months, the…

Robert Voets/CBS In the seventh episode of CBS' Survivor: Game Changers , castaway Zeke Smith — returning for his second appearance in two seasons — was outed by a fellow contestant as transgender. In the following exclusive column for The Hollywood Reporter , Zeke — one of very few players in show…

“My prettiest contribution to my culture,” the writer Kurt Vonnegut mused in his 1981 autobiography Palm Sunday , “was a master’s thesis in anthropology which was rejected by the University of Chicago a long time ago.” By then, he said, the thesis had long since vanished. (“It was rejected because…

The U.S. is reportedly ready to launch a preemptive strike against North Korea if officials believe Pyongyang is going to go through with a nuclear weapons test. Citing multiple senior U.S. intelligence officials, NBC News reported Thursday that the U.S. is prepared to launch the strike against…

One man said he was held in an informal detention facility with more than a dozen gay men who were all tortured on a daily basis.Photograph: Putra Kurniawan/EyeEm/Getty Images At least once a day, Adam’s captors attached metal clamps to his fingers and toes. One of the men then cranked a handle on a…

23andMe can now sell spit-based genetic tests that estimate a person’s health risk for certain diseases directly to consumers. Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told gene-testing company 23andMe that it will be allowed to directly tell consumers whether their DNA puts them at higher risk…

Photo of Chechen regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov: AP In recent weeks, a humanitarian crisis in the Russian republic of Chechnya, where authorities are reportedly rounding up gay men to torture and kill them, has been a subject of increasing media scrutiny. Earlier this week, after an April 4 story in…

Drivers have found a loophole in Uber’s fare calculations. Uber charges riders at the time of booking by guessing what a trip will cost. But it calculates driver pay based on actual miles and minutes. This system is called “upfront” pricing and it can lead to major disparities between what a rider…

On FT's Alphaville, Izabella Kaminska takes note of the excellent, deep series on Uber's Ponzi-economics that Hubert Horan published last year on Naked Capitalism and calls out some juicy highlights. "Costs are costs, even if you're a monopoly" -- so the fact that Uber loses (a lot ) of money on…

Image: Facebook/Audra D. Bridges As you’ve surely* seen by now, the big story of the day has to do with viral videos of some confusing group of United Airlines security and/or cops—it doesn’t matter, they’re all The Man— violently dragging a ticketed passenger out of his seat and off an overbooked…

Imagine going to work at 7:30 every night and spending the next 12 hours, including meals and breaks, inside a factory where your only job is to insert a single screw into the back of a smartphone, repeating the task over and over and over again. During the day, you sleep in a shared dorm room, and…

Illustration by Angelica Alzona Unique to the digital age is the video content creation industry, one where employees are “users” and employers are “platforms.” In it, workers aren’t owed squat. When there are tech issues, they can visit the support page. When there are platform updates, a lot of…

There they were, gathered around the fire at Tribal Council on Wednesday night’s episode of “Survivor.” One of the contestants, Jeff Varner, in a last-ditch attempt to keep himself from being voted off the show, turned to a man by his side. “Why haven’t you told anyone you are transgender?” he said.…

“Charging Bull” had a message for “Fearless Girl” on Wednesday, and it was more “Get out of my space” than “Here’s looking at you, kid.” The message actually came from Arturo Di Modica, the sculptor who created “ Charging Bull ” nearly 30 years ago. He also copyrighted and trademarked the…

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The Trump administration is hoping that its cruise missile strikes will solve a problem that has defied years of efforts: the willingness of the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, to use chemical weapons. But in a war with many dilemmas, this may be among the most intractable, analysts say. It is…

By TJ Love Ostensibly, science and magic are diametrically opposed. Prior to the Enlightenment and the advance of the scientific method, however, when chemistry was alchemy, the line between the two were curiously blurred. In certain instances, chemistry creates magic, most particularly in Hip-Hop.…

Five inmates from the Marion Correctional Institution (MCI) built two computers from spare parts, hid them in the ceiling of a training room closet, and used them to hack into the prison's network. Their actions were discovered in July 2015, when the prison's IT staff switched internal proxy servers…

Enlarge / The Dallas skyline. Abhishek Chinchalkar on flickr Late Friday night and early Saturday morning, hackers set off 156 emergency sirens in and around the city of Dallas, Texas. According to The Dallas Morning News , the sirens began blaring shortly before midnight on Friday and were shut off…

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2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team Trains For Iraq Deployment Photo by Lucy Pemoni/Getty Images What if virtual reality wasn’t just a new way to play games or watch movies? What if the technology wasn’t just creating new methods of communication, of medical treatment, of military training? What if…

WASHINGTON — The American military strike against Syria threatened Russian-American relations on Friday as the Kremlin denounced President Trump ’s use of force and the Russian military announced that it was suspending an agreement to share information about air operations over the country, devised…