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Early Addition: Gawker Tells Silicon Valley To Suck It
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published May 27, 2016
Modified May 27, 2016
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- Taxi owners say there aren’t enough accessible cabs to go around.
- The Strokes are opening a pop-up shop next week before their album release.
- Cliques = good, also bad.
- Gawker founder Nick Denton mic-drops on Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire hellbent on taking Gawker down.
- Not that we need more proof Trump is an asshole, but.
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