Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Here’s what your stolen identity goes for on the internet’s black market Identities for sale on AlphaBay, a dark web marketplace. The going rate for a stolen identity is about twenty bucks. Tens of millions of people have lost their private information in data breaches over the past few years. But what happens after that—how…
TT he other day on Twitter, a man posted a picture of my coloring book he’d given his daughter for Christmas. He was excited to give her a coloring book full of badass intersectional feminists. He wanted to thank me for creating it. “I don’t know,” chimed in a random stranger (because Twitter), “Sounds like…
Is Monster Trucks good? Hell no. Is it bad? It is a disaster. And because it is a disaster, it’s almost kind of fun to watch. Presuming you don’t go out and pay for it and have to find a theater. Also, if you’re an adult? Booze would help. If I had watched Monster Trucks…
< ?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″????> Anthony Rushton, Telemetry CEO. Bloomberg/YouTube Telemetry, an adtech outfit that specialized in detecting fraudulent traffic and was once tipped to be worth $486m plus a possible IPO, has closed its operations The Drum has learned – a development that took place in the immediate aftermath of the recent Methbot revelations. Industry…
Rex Tillerson appears before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for his confirmation hearing as secretary of state. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post) There’s a joke among Asian Americans that people think we all look the same. That joke became my own personal Pizzagate late Wednesday: I got caught in a terrible case of mistaken identity…
3 Shares post-social-count Share Tweet Share Share Email social-sharing-top Donald Trump’s efforts at fooling the American people into believing he’s a competent leader are nothing but a pathetic charade, and nothing makes that clearer than discovering that the large pile of folders placed next to him at yesterday’s…
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump Tower on January 11, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) The most confrontational moment of Donald Trump’s first press conference in 168 days featured the President-elect pointing his finger at a CNN reporter and declaring, “You are fake news.” CNN Senior…
Band imagines America under brutal rule in song from new ‘xxx’ EP Pussy Riot imagine a brutal world ruled by Donald Trump in their new “Make America Great Again” video. Pussy Riot launch a no-holds-barred assault on Donald Trump’s candidacy in their new video for “Make America Great Again.” “YOU decide elections,” the video’s…
As 2016 drew to a close last month, I opened my newsfeed with dread, braced for more gloomy tidings. Sure enough, amidst the news round-ups and “best of” lists was The New York Times’ most popular article of the year: “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person.” In a year when Americans voted to turn…
67 diggs Save Share Tweet WHERE THE WILD SYNTH ARE What ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ Would Sound Like In The 1980s Swap out a couple of instruments and throw in a few chords and suddenly a newish song is swimming in nostalgia. What 'Somebody That I Used To Know' Would Sound Like In…