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ICYMI: Uber CEO Reportedly Sent Out Hookup Rules To Colleagues Before Business Trip
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- Kurt Eichenwald posted a picture that showed his laptop screen. People pointed out that one of his browser tabs suggested he'd searched for animated porn. His alibi was...not the best.
- Before a 2013 company party, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick reportedly sent out some guidelines about the dos and don'ts of hooking up with co-workers.
- Which infamous Trump tweet prompted ex-FBI head James Comey to leak his memos to the press?
- On Tom Wolfe's work with Rolling Stone and "New Journalism."
- Some Chinese officials are "deeply disappointed" that the U.S. had decided to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.
- The undulatus asperatus cloud is the first cloud category added to the International Cloud Atlas since 1951. They are absolutely mesmerizing on video.
- Remember when William Burroughs was in a Nike commercial?
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