Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
What if the United States went to war and nobody here even noticed? The question is absurd, isn’t it? And yet, this almost perfectly describes what actually happened this past week. While many Americans, myself included, were all hypnotized by the bizarre spectacle of the Republican nominee for president, a US navy destroyer fired a…
‘The Daily Show’ asked Trump supporters about the leaked tape. Their answers are alarming. While notable Republican leaders have denounced Donald Trump in the aftermath of the candidate’s leaked 2005 tape in which ult, less attention has been paid to the everyday Trump supporter. How do they feel about their candidate’s most indicting controversy yet?…
As a medieval historian, I’ve been watching the ways in which Trump, other politicians, and even plenty of journalists characterize ISIS and its horrific actions as “medieval.” I’ve always thought it was a mistake, but a mistake mostly limited to the world of rhetoric. On Friday, that changed. Three men were arrested for plotting to…
Derek Black, 27, was following in his father’s footsteps as a white nationalist leader until he began to question the movement’s ideology. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Their public conference had been interrupted by a demonstration march and a bomb threat, so the white nationalists decided to meet secretly instead. They slipped past police officers and…
HBO UNDECIDED? Bill Maher Goes After Ken Bone: ‘Too Stupid to Pick Hillary Over President Pussy-Grabber’ The jolly man in the red sweater is no “folk hero,” claims the ‘Real Time’ host. He’s just an idiot. Perhaps it was election fatigue or perhaps, amid the cacophony of sexual assault allegations, hacked emails, and ghosts of…
AddThis Button Begin PHILADELPHIA (CNN) — Donald Trump suggested Saturday that his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, has been “getting pumped up” with performance-enhancing drugs and challenged Clinton to take a drug test before the final debate next week. Trump argued that Clinton was more energetic during the beginning of their debate last Sunday, but lost…
In what sounds like the plot of the world’s worst sequel, actor Kumail Nanjiani got stuck for hours Thursday night on Jurassic Park: The Ride, and he livetweeted the whole ordeal. It’s unclear what exactly went wrong with the Universal Studios attraction, but several cars on the ride stalled out around 10:30pm on Thursday. The…
One July morning, a Kashmiri writer named Arif Ayaz Parrey was chatting with a friend on Facebook Messenger when suddenly the service logged him out. He tried to log back in, only to find his account had been disabled. Parrey wasn’t alone: Facebook had also blocked a Facebook group he runs, the Kashmiri Solidarity Network,…
Fuck You Startup World That’s right, I said it. Fuck your startup scene with your 30 minute morning routines of reading TechCrunch, TNW, Wired, Gizmodo, Mashable, The Verge and ProductHunt- all so you don’t feel ‘left out’. Fuck your weird fucking conversations, things like “OMG did you see Snapchat’s new feature? OMG Instagram is totally copying Snapchat?…
Venture capitalists Joe Lonsdale and Brian Koo set out to conquer Asia and claim a prize that has eluded the American tech elite for decades. Now, they’ll be lucky to open a Korean restaurant in Palo Alto. Posted on October 11, 2016, at 6:04 p.m. William Alden BuzzFeed News Reporter Brian Koo often compared his business partnership…