Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
After 45 years on this planet, Ted Cruz still hasn’t quite gotten the hang of his arms. This is fair. Arms just sort of dangle and you constantly have to figure what to do with them—you even have to think of things on the fly! I get it. We all wrestle with this task, but…
The existence and meaning of the “Bernie Bro” will continue to be contested by a bored and desperate political media, but the Tinder Berners, women who attempted to “take over” Tinder with messages of support for Bernie Sanders are for real—real enough that they’re now being banned from the dating app. But what if a…
“Talk Bernie to me,” shouted no one ever on a dating app, and yet that is happening: a very small army of self-motivated young women are using Tinder, Bumble, and all the other hellish, spiritually depleting find-love-quick programs on your telephone to campaign for Bernie Sanders. What’s it like to be on the receiving end…
 Yesterday, Bungie came out with another Destiny Weekly Update (now called âThis Week at Bungieâ) which detailed a few interesting PvP changes (no spawning with special ammo in some modes) and some PvE glitch fixes (fewer teleporting Ogres). What it did not do was dive into much more detail about […] Destiny’s ‘Crimson Days’…
In the last scene of Galaxy Quest, we see the once-washed-up actors, previously stuck in a decades-long hell of fan expos and ribbon-cuttings, back on the airwaves in a brand new show for the next generation of sci-fi fans! …Or so we think. There’s actually much, much more to it. And it involves energy-hungry feds…
Messaging app Line has been having a growth spurt. Carla Zanoni, executive emerging media editor at The Wall Street Journal, claims it has been the Journal’s fastest-growing social channel, reaching over 2 million followers since it launched on the Japanese app 15 months ago. “I’m not seeing that kind of growth anywhere else, period,” she told…
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A few days before Election Day in 1990, the National Rifle Association sent a letter to its 12,000 members in Vermont, with an urgent message about the race for the state’s single House seat. Vote for the socialist, the gun rights group said. It’s important. “Bernie Sanders is a more honorable choice…
“Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York has become the go-to hub for those who lament New York’s loss of character.” –Crain’s “Jeremiah Moss does an excellent job of cataloging all that’s constantly being sacrificed to the god of rising rents.” –Hugo Lindgren, New York Times Magazine “No one takes stock of New York’s changes with the same…
In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean. In a few weeks, Leonardo DiCaprio will very likely win an Oscar for his performance in The Revenant. This result is just shy of a foregone conclusion not because DiCaprio’s turn as frontier trapper Hugh Glass is so…
The music publisher will also not stand in the way for a judge to declare the song to be in the public domain. Sing the song, blow out the candles, eat the cake and unwrap the gifts. According to a court filing on Monday, music publisher Warner/Chappell will pay $14 million to end a…