Denver is a huge airport, and I hate connecting there, but the Illuminati probably have a cooler hideout.
How could there be a Harley dealer inside the Illuminati HQ?
Read the rest “Vice employee convinced the Illuminati hang out at Denver Airport”
The FBI describes the group Proud Boys as an “extremist group with ties to white nationalism” in a document provided to reporters by law enforcement in the state of Washington. Read the rest “FBI describes 'Proud Boys' as 'extremist group with ties to white nationalism' in law enforcement document”
Brandon Presser managed the high-roller suites in Las Vegas's Cosmopolitan. They're reserved for players who front more than a million in the hotel's private casino. Read the rest “Secrets of a Vegas high-roller suite from its manager”
Flexispy is the creepy stalkerware advertised to abusive spouses and exes that Motherboard's Joseph Cox has been relentlessly tracking; when he acquired a leaked trove of the company's files, he started to mine it to see who was buying the potentially illegal app. Read the rest “Motherboard files legal complaint against London police to force it to explain why an officer bought creepy, potential illegal stalkerware”
One thousands teenagers were asked to rank brands by coolness [PDF]. YouTube and Netflix are the coolest. The Wall Street Journal and Vice are the least cool. Many are surprised by the latter, but it must be said, they aren't teenagers.
(If you're wondering why Chrome and other polo-shirted, khaki-shortsed Googlebrands are cool, well, take a guess who commissioned and published the research.) Read the rest “Teens think Vice is almost as cool as People Magazine”
Skateboarder Rick McCrank hosts Abandoned, a series from Vice where he explores abandoned malls, amusement parks, racetracks, and even nuclear missile silos. Many of these are excellent places to skate. Read the rest “Skateboarding in an abandoned nuclear missile silo”
Vice, the media powerhouse said to be worth upwards of $5bn and "sloshing with cash" thanks to annual revenues in the $900m range, treats its freelancers badly, according to Columbia Journalism Review. Work goes unpaid, payment is late when it comes, assignments are rescinded, and freelancers seem generally expected to work like salaried staff, pitching in on tasks related to their work without further compensation. Read the rest “Horror stories from Vice freelancers”
