Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The Society of Professional Journalists is an august organization that since 1909 has been, according to its motto, “improving and protecting journalism.” Through a national office in Indiana, 12 regional suborganizations, and a code of ethics, SPJ supports good things like the “flow of information,” “diversity,” and “high standards and ethical behavior in the practice…
start .content In February 2012, LaVerne Stiles went to Citrus Memorial Hospital near her home in central Florida for what should have been a routine surgery. The bubbly retired secretary had been in a minor car accident weeks earlier. She didn’t worry much about her sore neck until a scan detected a broken bone. The…
While most of today’s middle-school-aged children are figuring out new ways to spell their favorite obscenities with numbers and Greek symbols on their phones, some people still value proper spelling. That’s why we have spelling bees, and why ESPN has turned the Scripps National Spelling Bee into a glitzy high-pressure sporting event. We sat down…
On a sunny day last week, Shaun McBride (known on Snapchat as Shonduras) went to the supermarket. His hundreds of thousands of followers were alerted to the expedition through a Snapchat showing McBride holding a hastily drawn watermelon and a box of Cap’n Crunch. “What’s up, Snapchatters? Welcome to grocery shopping with Shonduras!” he said…
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, German Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier, EU representative Federica Mogherini, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry during the final press conference of Iran nuclear talks in Vienna on July 14.Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images The deal just…
The next full-margin rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone will spell the worst natural disaster in the history of the continent. Credit Illustration by Christoph Niemann; Map by Ziggymaj / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa,…
Reddit is all about free speech. Or maybe it’s not about free speech. Or maybe nobody knows what Reddit is about. Or maybe nobody knows what free speech is about. Reddit’s management doesn’t seem sure, and it’s threatening to tear the site apart. Yesterday, Reddit’s incoming CEO and original co-founder Steve Huffman said he’d be holding…
AYYYYYY LMAO How’s everyone doing? This is AWESOME! There’s something I neglected to tell you all this time (“executive privilege”, but hey I’m declassifying a lot of things these days). Back around the time of the /r/creepshots debacle, I wrote to /u/spez for advice. I had met him shortly after I had taken the job,…
1. Friendly to the point that you become suspicious of their intent. 2. Americans generally are more confident in the way they present themselves, most other countries tend to be more reserved. Walk into a room full of different nationalities, I guarantee the American person will be the first to introduce themselves. It’s a confidence…
Donald Trump’s Twitter account shared this flag featuring his face overlooking what appears to be German Nazi soldiers marching beneath the White House. Oh, heil no. Donald Trump’s latest campaign ad appears to feature an American flag with money, the White House and German Nazis. “Make America Great Again,” the presidential hopeful’s Twitter account…