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Miley Cyrus's knee looks like Seth Rogen, and Instagram is obsessed
Thanks to her 2013 “I’m grown and sexy/Screw you, Disney” world tour, we’re all intimately familiar with Miley Cyrus’s organs. I’ve probably seen her areolae more often than I’ve seen my own. But one...
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Is Joel McHale headed for late-night?
Could we finally have a new host for The Late Late Show?If you take it from Norm Macdonald, who has been crusading for Craig Ferguson’s job ever since the late-night talk show host announced that he...
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The FCC's net neutrality vote made the Internet do just what you'd expect
During a Thursday morning meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a plan that would allow Internet service providers (ISPs) like Comcast and Verizon to charge online content...
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Shutterfly apologizes for congratulating you on your new baby
Hey, ladies: Your favorite online photo-printing service, Shutterfly, knows what’s going down in your uterus. That’s why, earlier this week, the company sent a mass email to its users, congratulating...
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Are we less social because of our reliance on social media?
BY S.E. SMITH A friend of mine passed on this video the other day (via Facebook, naturally), a "spoken word film for an online generation." The premise: we spend too much time staring into our phones,...
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'Duke Nukem' creator livetweets his stroke
It wasn’t a bloodthirsty alien monster that put Duke Nukem co-creator George Broussard in the hospital last week—but the stroke that did was every bit as scary. Just not so scary that he couldn't...
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The final resting place of abandoned Twitter accounts
The rapid proliferation of social media platforms has had the curious effect of allowing each to comment on the others, as Lost Signals, a new Tumblr about Twitter, directly illustrates. The blog does...
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How a few desperate tweets changed this paralyzed man's life forever
A car accident over a year and a half ago had left a Saudi Arabian man bed-bound and paralyzed in the country’s capital of Riyadh. Ibrahim had been without a visitor to his room at the King Khalid...
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Macklemore performs surprise show in offensive costume
I can’t pretend I’ve ever understood the appeal of Macklemore, but the rapper’s latest attempt at pop spectacle has me more befuddled than ever. For a surprise set celebrating a new exhibit at...
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WePay withholds funds from ailing sex worker
Eden Alexander (link NSFW) is an adult performer and cam girl in the Bay Area. Last month, she developed a rare skin infection as a result of taking a “commonly prescribed” antibiotic, which led to her...
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YouTube's most brazen spammers are now stealing the news
The social media manipulators who fooled Time and CNN into reporting on hoaxes are now lifting their content.Swenzy’s latest scheme is a blog called FoxWeekly. Since March 4, the site has pilfered...
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How Twitter is helping fight discrimination against sex workers
BY S.E. SMITH By now, you might have heard the story of Eden Alexander, the sex worker driven off crowdfunding site GiveForward by its payments processor WePay on the grounds that she was soliciting...
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Tweeting U.K. ballot selfies can land you 6 months in jail
While the fear over voting-booth selfies during Thursday’s Local and European Elections was mostly exaggerated, there is a real danger lurking inside polling stations for British voters: Sharing...
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Teen accidentally becomes prime minister of India on Twitter
Many people have misused Twitter, fudging things up in a way that made them lose their jobs or incur the wrath of the TSA. One teen in India, however, has us all beat: he accidentally became the...
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Here's why the Pope won't join Facebook
Pope Francis may be a man of the people, but not so much that he wants to join Facebook. The papal social-media presence, at least for now, will remain a Twitter-based one. Archbishop Claudio Maria...
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Here's why you should stop splitting up your tweets
Ever since Twitter’s inception in 2006, users around the world have found it difficult not to comment on their own tweets. Be it a typo correction, an apology, a second thought, or an addendum, the...
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Neko Case had the best response to a sexist 'Playboy' tweet
On Wednesday, musician Neko Case got a shoutout from Playboy, linking to a story about her on their website. However, the publication made one fatal mistake in its promo tweet.@PlayboyDotCom Am I? IM...
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NYC teens are using social media to organize fight clubs
As we all know, the first rule of fight club is that you do not talk about fight club. However, some New York kids didn’t seem to take this onboard, and instead set up a Facebook group for their...
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Rapper Wiz Khalifa arrested for weed possession, tweets 'jail selfie'
Sunday morning, art imitated life, as rapper Wiz Khalifa was arrested for marijuana possession. Khalifa is about to release his new mixtape, 28 Grams, and was en route to the Neon Desert Music...
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This mysterious Twitter account has San Francisco chasing stacks of hidden cash
It’s a Robin Hood tale of wealth redistribution for the modern age. A San Francisco housing magnate makes a fortune by “flipping” houses, realizes he needs to give back to the community, and decides...
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