Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Barrier Status: ‘none’ George Shea, the emcee for the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, held at Coney Island, on the Fourth of July, believes that there are two main reasons that more than two and a half million people tune in to watch the event on television each summer. The first is the appeal of…
Start Article Post Content Debbie Alsebai has spent 55 hours of her life waiting for a ticket to “Hamilton.” The first time she tried to snag one of the very few seats released to the cancellations line before each performance, she stood for 12 hours before having to return home to Boston. The second time she…
First, they came for Istanbul. On Tuesday night, three suspected Islamic State militants launched a brazen assault on Turkey’s main airport, exploding their suicide vests after gunning down numerous passengers and airport staff. At least 45 people were killed. The world panicked; Istanbul Ataturk Airport is one of the busiest hubs in Europe and the Middle East, and…
Barrier Status: ‘none’ He Appears Trump is wearing the red baseball cap, or not. From this distance, he is strangely handsome, well proportioned, puts you in mind of a sea captain: Alan Hale from “Gilligan’s Island,” say, had Hale been slimmer, richer, more self-confident. We are afforded a side view of a head of…
For five months, Check Point mobile threat researchers had unprecedented access to the inner-workings of Yingmob, a group of Chinese cyber criminals behind the HummingBad malware campaign. HummingBad is a malware Check Point discovered in February 2016 that establishes a persistent rootkit on Android devices, generates fraudulent ad revenue, and installs additional fraudulent apps. Yingmob…
“Just by a quick show of hands, has anyone heard of a D.A.O. or an agent before?” asked Jonathan Mohan. He was in his mid-twenties and wore a beige Bitcoin T-shirt. As if to scratch my head, I halfway raised my right arm. A dozen others raced up past mine. Forty or fifty of us…
What Happens When the Media Ignores You This morning, a couple hundred graduate students began their studies at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. I was asked to offer opening remarks about “the state of the media.” Below is an excerpt of that speech. I’d like to talk to you today about what that world looks like…
AC isn’t just about one’s social status and affiliation; it’s a matter of public health: Heat waves kill at least as readily as cold, causing hundreds of deaths every year in the U.S.Photo by Stephen Chernin/Getty Images “Why is America so over air-conditioned?” asks the New York Times in last weekend’s Sunday Review. The…
A few months ago, when J.K. Rowling released “A History of Magic in North America” on the Pottermore website, Native critics, scholars, readers and writers voiced their concerns with her appropriation of living traditions cherished by Native peoples. You can’t just claim and take a living tradition of a marginalized people. That’s straight up colonialism/appropriation @jk_rowling. —…
Dear Mr. Kushner, My name is Dana Schwartz and I’m an entertainment writer at The Observer, the paper owned by your publishing company. On July 2, as I’m sure you’re aware (and have probably been wringing your hands about for the last three days), your father-in-law Donald Trump tweeted out an image of Hillary Clinton…