update: the fbi has contacted me about this article. i still haven't been able to have a meaningful conversation with a human being at
@airbnb
, though.
@Airbnb
still not a word from
@Airbnb
though i just got an email that they issued $210.89 to my credit card...? you guys have way more urgent problems now than my refund request from more than a month ago, but thanks for the seemingly arbitrary amount of money
reasons you might get laid off from your digital media job:
- forming a union
- not forming a union
- your company pivots to video
- your company pivots away from video
cool industry, very easy to keep track of all this
seems like a good time to mention that, after five whole years, this is my last week at VICE! please get in touch if you want me to write stories like this for you.
also if everyone could take a second today to consider that martin shkreli went to prison for inconveniencing rich people and not for causing people to die, that would be great, thanks
@Airbnb
updates: the head of community support called me (from a blocked number lol) and said im getting a refund. writing a 6,000-word article seems like a very normal and good amount of effort to have to exert in exchange for basic customer service
@Airbnb
the airbnb grifters have already made at least one new profile. be careful out there, and this detective wants you to file a police report if you've been victimized in chicago: Eric.Sehner
@chicagopolice
.org
@Airbnb
also, i've received an absurd amount of emails from people who've been given the runaround by airbnb after getting scammed, and i plan on going through all of them
just powered on my old laptop for the first time in three years to see what i should save before throwing it out and this was the only memory i decided to keep
vice has a new website today, and i've launched a new series called scam academy. my DMs are open if you have a story about cheating in high school or college
here's an insane story about a bunch of complete idiots in which a key takeaway is that police reports suggest there might be a white nationalist celebrity sex tape
Insane scoop by
@TaylorLorenz
: Jerry Media—famous for promoting Fyre Festival—pitched Tom Steyer's nonprofit on paying $10M+ for the Instagram World Record Egg cracking to reveal the words "Impeach Trump" as Donald Trump popped out doing the Chicken Dance
this is without a doubt the wildest, most complicated story i've ever done. tim miller is a famous search and rescuer desperate to solve his own daughter's murder before a suspected serial killer strikes again.
as always, looking for new additions to our as-told-to series scam academy. got a story that fits with what we've done so far? email me or call our hotline at (888) 559-0073!!!
got to write about motorcycle daredevils, a guy who ran away to the circus when he was 12, and "a lost piece of the magic of America" for the cover of sunday's
@NYTMetro
frank was a true legend, and he loved florida more than anyone i've ever met. we spent a month drinking rum and trying to see a panther together in 2014. we didn't succeed, but he taught me what it means to care about a place.
Frank Denninger, a legendary Everglades outdoorsman, died this week. His family's raising money for the funeral. Maybe give if you love people who love wild lands. I gave in memory of the time we saw a g-d Florida panther together (h/t
@allie_conti
)