Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Names have been changed to protect myself from these very silly and possibly litigious white people. I received a racist email in 2011, when I had just started the English PhD program at Rutgers University. This email has come to define so much of who I am, in ways both good and bad. I think…
When Michael Bloomberg was winding up his term as mayor of New York City and speculation turned to what he might do, the CEO of the financial-data company that bears his name said the ex-mayor would probably be an absentee landlord, and would “likely spend a few hours a day working from his new desk…
The Bitcoin network is being hammered by a massive spam attack, and the targets now include WikiLeaks and Voat, the upstart Reddit clone that became a home for Redditors fleeing the site after new anti-harassment policies were instituted. The onslaught began earlier this week, when thousands of tiny Bitcoin transactions—called “dust”—were sent across the network…
Fireworks, lightsabers, Harrison Ford, and that wasn’t even the panel. Yes, Friday night Lucasfilm and Star Wars did their best to drop the mic on what a San Diego Comic-Con event could possibly be. They threw a free concert for 6,000 fans who had already seen a kick-ass presentation. We liveblogged the Star Wars: The…
The USA invades Canada in the futuristic sci-fi series “We Stand on Guard.”(Photo: Image Comics) Oh, Canada. Your home and native land is in for it. Armed with romping, stomping giant gorilla-shaped robots, the USA invades our neighbors to the north in the futuristic sci-fi comic book We Stand on Guard, written by Brian K….
‘How can anyone be allowed to paint a swastika on the statue of Marianne, the goddess of French liberty, in the very center of the Place de la République?”That was what the chairman of one of France’s most celebrated luxury brands was thinking last July, when a tall man in a black shirt and a…
Reddit has a problem. It’s a well-documented problem, which, oddly, is a big part of the problem. Every six months or so, from the depths of the sprawling site’s underbelly, a network of disparate communities which seem to feed off of bigotry and perversion rise into the greater public’s consciousness. For many people, this is…
Are you ready to live under Nazi and Japanese occupation? Amazon is adapting Philip K. Dick’s beloved alt-history novel The Man in the High Castle for television, and today at Comic-Con, we found out what to expect from the show’s first season. The first episode of Man in the High Castle already appeared online months…
ATHENS The leader of Greece’s main opposition party, New Democracy said on Friday it would back attempts by the government to seal a deal with international creditors to stave off financial meltdown. “We want an agreement by Sunday for Greece to stay in Europe. We will authorize the Prime Minister to negotiate and come back…
BuzzFeed is the leading media company for the social age, intensely focused on delivering high-quality original reporting, insight, and viral content across a rapidly expanding array of subject areas. Our technology powers the social distribution of content, detects what is trending on the web, and connects people in realtime with the hottest content of the…