People say they are deleting Snapchat after Rihanna slammed the app for showing a ‘tone-deaf’ ad about domestic violence

Jason Merritt/TERM/Getty Images People claim they’re deleting Snapchat after Rihanna slammed the app for showing an ad that seemingly made light of domestic violence. Snap apologized earlier this week for showing the ad, which appeared to joke about Chris Brown’s 2009 conviction for assaulting Rihanna. On Thursday, after Rihanna criticized Snapchat on Instagram, social media users […]

Bodega’s tone-deaf vending service won’t kill your corner store

Just when you thought the startup world learned a thing or two from the failure of Juicero, here comes Bodega, a company that’s put internet connectivity and image recognition on a West Elm-looking vending machine. That’s it! They plan to offer their boxes in apartment buildings, gyms and other locations where people might want quick […]

‘Broad City”s Decision to Bleep Donald Trump’s Name is Tokenistic and Tone-Deaf

Halfway through the first season of Broad City, a couple of years back, a thought struck me: that I couldn’t imagine the show ever becoming uncool. Ilana and Abbi were so funny, so relatable, and so real, that it seemed impossible that they could disappear up their own assholes the same way that Lena Dunham, to […]

Democrats’ reaction to the Trumpcare vote was tone-deaf and gross

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images There’s principled opposition, and then there’s political gamesmanship, and today’s Democratic Party has a remarkable knack for choosing the wrong one at the wrong time. In the moments after it became clear that House Republicans had passed the Trump-endorsed American Health Care Act, a handful of legislators began to sing. The voices […]