Новости за 09.03.2023

Influencers are a lot like consultants in some regards: No one really knows exactly what they do, but there’s an undeniably sinister air to them. I first learned—quite against my will—about MrBeast (the world’s most popular YouTuber) in January, when he made headlines after paying for 1,000 blind people to have…

It’s been a century since the Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in Congress and over 50 years since it passed. The bill then floundered for years, ultimately blowing past its seven-year deadline to be ratified in at least 38 state legislatures. But there’s new potential—and heightened necessity—for the ERA…

Basic Instinct might have put Sharon Stone’s name on the map and earned her a Best Actress Golden Globe nomination, but it seemed to have also caused her to lose custody of her young son. In an interview with Bruce Bozzi, on his podcast Table For Two, Stone alleged that her portrayal of femme fatale Catherine Tremmel…

As Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, remain jailed in Romania, more information about the brothers’ murky and allegedly violent past keeps coming to light. In addition to the human trafficking charges, corroborated by the brothers’ own descriptions of their business model, Vice reported on a string of disturbing …

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) served in the Navy as a lawyer, not as a pilot, as he’d like you to think. And as he appears to be gearing up for a presidential run, his record as a Navy lawyer is coming under increased scrutiny—particularly the time he spent in Guantánamo Bay, the Cuban naval base that the U.S.…

Fever Ray’s work rarely yields anything that could be described as “conventional,” at least from a pop-music perspective. And yet, in a conversation Jezebel this week, the artist revealed rather common underpinnings to their work: a desire for play and a quest for freedom. The most recent play session is the third…

Late Wednesday night Raquel Leviss once again addressed #Scandoval. Now, everyone (including my bodega guy) is well aware this is not her first comment on the matter. Earlier that day, she issued a four-paragraph apology in an exclusive to Entertainment Tonight, claiming the “months-long affair” with co-star and noted…

A congressional committee held a hearing on the first national anti-trans bill this year on Wednesday, marking both the culmination of and a terrifying start to transphobic advocacy on a national level. Unsurprisingly but frustratingly, no amount of facts, personal experience, or plain reason from Democrats on the…

Earlier this week, an NBC report unearthed a celebrity face-swapping app, Facemega, with the potential to easily create deepfake porn depicting famous or public-facing women. Deepfake porn refers to fake but highly realistic, often AI-generated porn and sexual imagery of people without their consent. Unsurprisingly,…