Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Evan Spiegel has a new deal for “Discover” publishers: We pay you up front, and we keep all the ad money. Snapchat says it’s done sharing with media companies. The red-hot messaging app wants to make a major change in the way it works with companies that supply it with content for its “Discover” section….
The videos started to appear in America a few years ago, crossing the Pacific and landing on our digital doorsteps like mysterious gifts. Their contents were joyously unfamiliar: Korea Baseball Organization sluggers walloping balls and then flipping their bats with abandon, sending them spiraling through the air. Montages surfaced on a website called mykbo.net, gifs…
Elizabeth Chuck 30 minutes ago The presidential candidates’ respective alma maters have teamed up to endorse just one nominee: Hillary Clinton. The editorial board of the newspaper at Wellesley College had already expressed support for its alumna in its last edition. The opinion board at University of Pennsylvania’s Daily Pennsylvanian, on the other hand, had…
It was a Wednesday night in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and 40 people—mostly millennials—sat cross-legged on a cramped living room, drinking craft beers and taking off their jackets to reveal the flannels underneath. Around 8pm, the introductions and recommendations for farmer’s markets died down, as Sam Bodkin stood to announce the night’s entertainment: two violinists, one cellist,…
Not long after her parents’ very public, very mortifying divorce, an adolescent Ivanka Trump sat with her father in the back of his private plane, waiting to leave New York for Palm Beach. The doors were closed and the engines were on, but they were still missing Marla Maples. Donald’s second wife—the woman he had…
In what might be one of the more delicious cases of irony to ever grace a presidential election, a researcher has found that a number of email servers linked to Donald Trump’s hotel and others businesses are running horribly out of date software which receive no security patches, and are lacking other precautions for keeping…
Illustration by Victor Juhasz Saturday, early October, at a fairground 40 minutes southwest of Milwaukee. The very name of this place, Elkhorn, conjures images of past massacres on now-silent fields across our blood-soaked history. Nobody will die here; this is not Wounded Knee, but it is the end of an era. The modern Republican…
In February, I subscribed to all the presidential candidates’ email lists. Since then, I’ve gotten over 1,000 requests for money. Today is the 17th of October, and so far, this month, I’ve heard from Hillary Clinton’s campaign 32 times and Donald Trump’s 53 times. (Carly Fiorina chimed in once in support of Trump, too.) Sometimes…
Politics A woman’s place is in the house – The White House! Paddy Power pays out over $1m on Hillary Clinton victory Paddy Power is paying out to customers who backed Hillary Clinton to win the US election, with just weeks to go before America votes By Josh Powell on 18th October, 2016 With national…
NEW YORK ― It’s 3:00 in the afternoon, and Shepard Smith is in the chair. Fox News viewers are about to be in for an hour of broadcasting that is at once deeply familiar ― Shep has been on the network’s air since it went live 20 years ago ― and also just as strange. Shep,…