Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Here is a video of Jeb Bush struggling to dress himself: You are no doubt thinking words of pity about poor dumb pathetic Jeb, but don’t do that. Don’t you dare. Because this awkward moment was not captured by some devious macaca liberal with an iThing, smeared across the interwebs to humiliate the sorry son…
After the release of her game-changing, brilliant video, Formation, and the stir her Superbowl halftime show caused with dancers dressed like Black Panthers, Beyoncé is blowing up everyone’s feeds everywhere. And one thing I am shocked/notshocked to see is white outrage about both. Let me begin by saying that I’m not a Beyoncé fan. I’m…
I’m a feminist of a certain age. I earned degrees in STEM before the term existed and have made a career in computer science. During the years when feminism was a dirty word, I used it frequently. When Hillary Clinton ran in 2008, I enthusiastically supported her. My husband reminds me that when he first…
Feb. 2, 2016 3:35 p.m. ET On the morning of Jan. 29, 2014, “hyperlocal” online media service Patch employed nearly 540 people. The following day, just 98 remained. Turnaround specialist Hale Global had purchased a majority stake in Patch from AOL, and initiated what it called a “hard reset,” which included hundreds of layoffs.The plan…
Claim: The state of Michigan has passed a law banning oral and anal sex. mostly false: WHAT’S TRUE: The Michigan senate amended a portion of the state penal code dealing with animal cruelty without removing old, unenforceable language that criminalizes sodomy. WHAT’S FALSE: Michigan has passed a new law banning oral and anal sex….
It’s been widely and wrongly reported in recent days that Michigan passed a law making oral and/or anal sex illegal. A better way to put it: existing language making oral and anal sex illegal might stay on the books, because nobody wants to fight about it, because it would get messy. The story has exploded…
The clothing company Nasty Gal, which is either an inspiring story of #girlboss entrepreneurdom or a really hellish place to work, depending on who you ask, is laying off employees today. Women’s Wear Daily reports that 19 people were laid off, or about ten percent of the staff; a source at the company tells Jezebel…
The parody account @TrustySupport is a bitter but hilarious send-up of Twitter’s track record on harassment (spoiler: they are not very good with harassment). Its tweets deride the company for a perceived insensitivity to users by issuing satirical messages in a spot-on social-media-PR voice, replete with emojis. On Wednesday, the account was suspended for at…
Screencap: Twitter In a remarkable meta-commentary on Twitter’s Report Abuse system, the parody account @TrustySupport, which mocks Twitter for failing to suspend harassing accounts, was, uh, suspended. So what happened here? @TrustySupport’s account was unsuspended after a few hours, leading me to speculate at the time that it had been a mistake. But after…
Bill Clinton has decided to start attacking his wife’s opponent for the Democratic nomination for president, since that worked so well eight years ago. At a rally in New Hampshire on Sunday, Bill mocked Bernie Sanders’s desire for “revolution” and accused Sanders supporters of sexism. Per the New York Times, Clinton portrayed Sanders as “hypocritical,…