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NYC: Come To Our WNBA Comedy Show On May 16

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Live Event

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NYC 2

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These Musicians Are Angry, Organized, And Coming For Spotify

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Tom Ley

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Today Is A Good Day To Not Read Wirecutter

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Kelsey McKinney

History

An Historical Correction Needs To Be Seen

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Albert Burneko

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How To Quit Your Job, According To The Washington Post: Fuck You

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David Roth

Investor Michael Milken at his own institute's annual event in 2017, back when he was still a convicted financial criminal.

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Here Are The Seven Best Sentences From The Financial Times’ Story About Michael Milken’s High-Finance Jamboree

circa 1965: A woman lifts a cup of coffee off a saucer in a kitchen. (Photo by Leo Vals/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Nice Cup Of Coffee

The Machines

Boston Tech Startup Develops Worst Imaginable Way To Get A Cup Of Coffee

HISTORY Presents HISTORYTalks

Life Lessons

Fake It Until You Make It (A Worse Planet For Everyone To Live On)

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Dan McQuade

An ad for the Carlos Watson show. A quote calls him "Anderson Cooper Meets Oprah" on it.

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Media Meltdowns

Ozy Media Is A Monumental Bummer

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Patrick Redford

KIRKLAND, WA - OCTOBER 28: Google Engineering Director Chee Chew demonstrates using the climbing wall during the grand opening of Google Kirkland October 28, 2009 in Kirkland, Washington. More than 350 employees work in the Kirkland facility, which includes amenities such as a gym and soda fountain, consolidates several offices throughout Kirkland. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)

Google Moves Into New Washington Campus

Overexplained Lists

Tech Companies, Ranked By The Skill Of People Wearing Their T-Shirts At The Climbing Gym

Hungarian sculptors and creators Reka Gergely (L) and Tamas Gilly (R) pose next to the statue of Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious inventor of the virtual currency bitcoin, after its unveiling at the Graphisoft Park in Budapest, on September 16, 2021. - Hungarian bitcoin enthusiasts unveiled a statue on September 16 in Budapest that they say is the first in the world to honour Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious inventor of the virtual currency. The bronze life-size sculpture depicts a hooded figure with stylised facial features, alluding to Nakamoto, a pseudonym credited as bitcoin's founder, but whose identity remains unknown. (Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP) (Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images)

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This Is All Exactly What It Looks Like

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What Do We Do With The Big Business Of Immersive Art?

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Ray Ratto

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, NEVADA - JULY 11: NBA athlete Steph Curry tees off from the second hole during the final round of the American Century Championship at Edgewood Tahoe South golf course on July 11, 2020 in South Lake Tahoe, Nevada. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

American Century Championship – Final Round

Steph Curry, Crypto Cornball

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Future Of Film Panel: Stories By Numbers – 2014 Tribeca Film Festival

WGA East Council Slate Edits Platform After Everyone Gets Mad At Them

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An eviction notice is posted and the lock is changed on a residence in the unincorporated community of Galloway on March 3, 2021 west of Columbus, Ohio.

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The U.S. Is Failing Tenants, And It’s About To Get Even Worse

NCAA president Mark Emmert listens during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on “NCAA Athlete NIL (name, image, and likeness) Rights” on Capitol Hill on June 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress hopes to pass legislation on NIL compensation at the federal level before it takes effect in several states across the country on July 1.

Death To The NCAA

NCAA Decides That Someone Else Can Pay Its Unpaid Athletes

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Check Out The Drama At This Hip Cookware Company, And Then Confront The Sucking Void At The Heart Of The Global Economy

Amy Pedulla is a writer and audio producer. She can be reached at pedullaa@gmail.com.

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Inside The Fight To Unionize CorePower Yoga

It's Jamie Dimon, America's finance boss.

The Bosses Are At It Again

<a href="https://twitter.com/PykeA">Alan Pyke</a> is a former ThinkProgress Leftist Hack turned former Bernie Sanders 2020 Leftist Flack. His writing has appeared but it goes to another school, in Canada, you wouldn’t know it.

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A trading card commemorating Donald Trump's widely beloved nickname for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, which apparently was "Sneaky."

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Finally, Trading Cards Commemorating The Dumbest Year In American History

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Clubhouse Is Loud, Incoherent, And Packed With Suckers

Lia Russell is a freelance labor journalist from San Francisco. More work can be found at <a href="https://liaruss.com/">liaruss.com</a> or on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/liaoffleash">@LiaOffLeash.</a>

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DoorDash Raises Estimate For Initial Public Offering

When Gig Workers Die On The Job, They Die Alone

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Life's Rich Pageant

A CNBC Reporter Ruined My Lunch Plans: A Visit To The N.J. Deli Worth $100 Million

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Chris Thompson

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A Cryptocurrency Expert Introduces Me To The Dystopian Nightmare Of Art As A Financial Instrument

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Science

To Truly Appreciate The Elon Musk Tunnel Footage, You Must Hear It Set To Music

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How A “Deeply Progressive” Coffee Chain Is Trying To Crush Its Workers’ Union