Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
When waiters are polite heroes. Women in bars don’t always have the best experiences. Yes, we have fun and drink and dance on tables or sit down and have good times with friends or play skee-ball or win quiz games or hook up or have interesting conversations or do any of the things that humans…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and CFO Ken Goldman Screenshot Yahoo had one main objective when it reported Q3 results on Tuesday: to show Wall Street that there hasn’t been a mass exodus of users after the news of its big hack attack. To make the case, Yahoo showed off several charts that indicated healthy traffic trends across its…
Security personnel hauled away an apparent protester at a Donald J. Trump campaign rally in Bridgeport, Conn., in April. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Two operatives who were working in conjunction with the Democratic National Committee to help elect Hillary Clinton are no longer working in that role after an undercover video showed them…
Ecuador’s decision to pull the plug on Julian Assange’s internet connection has highlighted the isolation of WikiLeaks, the organization he founded to expose the inner workings of governments and other powerful institutions. Some former allies and observers say that after four years confined to the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Mr. Assange is alienating former supporters…
We know that fraud is a major problem for online advertisers. But we don’t know how big a problem it is. Estimates range from 2% to 90% — which is another way of saying we have no fucking idea.The ANA (Association of National Advertisers) estimates that ad fraud will cost marketers $7.2 billion this year….
A graph from the Anti-Defamation League study showing spikes in anti-Semitic harassment on Twitter. Harassment and abuse on Twitter is rampant. In recent years, the platform has become a primary destination for trolls and hate groups. And as the US election season reaches its final stretch, the social network can feel increasingly toxic to women…
As the final weeks of the presidential campaign devolve into accusations of conspiracy and fraud, the most talked-about Trump supporter might be a poll-hating Twitter pundit who has no official role with the campaign. Bill Mitchell is here to win the ground game in our hearts. Charlie Warzel BuzzFeed News Reporter posted on Oct. 18,…
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spent part of his Oct. 14 rally addressing sexual assault accusations, which he denied and condemned. (The Washington Post) It’s the least surprising October surprise ever: Donald Trump — who bragged about groping women — is now facing multiple allegations of groping women. Trump’s misogyny greatest-hits reel was already as long…
It’s been roughly 40 days since Donald Trump became the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party, and the mere fact of it hasn’t come to feel any less weird, or any less scary. It also means that the three people I had coffee and pastries with last Wednesday morning—Danny Diaz (Jeb Bush’s campaign manager),…
There is perhaps no greater argument that American English is a deeply flawed, infuriating, and difficult language than the simple phrase “you guys.” “You guys” is the most common way Americans refer directly to a group of people; it is a de facto pronoun, duct-taped together. If you remember your high school linguistics, you might…