Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
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Start Article Post Content Discovery Communications, in a significant consolidation in the digital media sector, is investing $100 million into a new digital media holding company that will merge Thrillist Media Group, NowThis Media, The Dodo and Discovery’s digital network Seeker and its SourceFed Studios. The new company, Group Nine Media, will be headed by Ben Lerer…
Blackcurrants were outlawed in America in the early 1900s because they spread a fungus that killed white pine trees. Shutterstock/twinlynx The blackcurrant, a small, tart berry, that when married with sugar can be made into jams, sauces, syrups, fruit drinks, and purple candy, is popular across Europe. But most Americans struggle to describe its flavor….
Cover Photo New Jersey Transit was once at the forefront of commuter railroads in the United States. Now it is saddled with financial problems, aging infrastructure and unending delays. Credit Richard Perry/The New York Times New Jersey Transit, a Cautionary Tale of Neglect The swift decline of one of the nation’s busiest commuter railroads is…
Decades ago – before I was a fund manager – I was the resident expert on tax avoidance working for the Australian Treasury. That was where I started to hone the accounting skills sometimes shown on this blog. I very rarely do anything in tax – but now I think it is time. The New…
The internet is reeling under the onslaught of unprecedented denial-of-service attacks, the sort we normally associate with powerful adversaries like international criminal syndicates and major governments, but these attacks are commanded by penny-ante crooks who are able to harness millions of low-powered, insecure Internet of Things devices like smart lightbulbs to do their bidding. …
Dear Donald Trump, Last Friday, audio leaked of you making incredibly demeaning comments about women and bragging about sexual assault. When asked to justify your statements, you claimed that this was “locker room talk,” and it’s just how guys speak about women. You’re wrong, and only the type of wrong an over-tanned ham hock like…
Rebecca Onion wrote an interesting essay about immersing herself in survivalist “prepper” fiction. (The gateway drug was apocalyptic fiction, so, uh, I might be at risk.) Here’s an illustrative sample: In more than one of these books, the prepper encounters people who expect him to share the resources he’s planned ahead to store. […] In…
Hillary Clinton reiterated her unreserved support for both a “no-fly zone” and “safe zones” in Syria during Sunday’s presidential debate — but in a partial transcript of private remarks she made at a Goldman Sachs event in 2013, she acknowledged some of the complications involved. Her comments were included in an 80-page report prepared by the Clinton campaign listing the most politically…
Trump to Clinton: ‘You’d Be in Jail’ Donald J.Trump told Hillary Clinton during their second presidential debate that if he were elected he would seek a special prosecutor’s investigation of her and that if he were in charge, “You’d be in jail.” By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date October 10, 2016. Photo by US…