Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
—- The usual definition of revenge porn is accompanied by an archetypal story: Girl meets boy, girl dates boy, girl consents to give nude photo to boy. A little while later, after girl breaks up with boy, boy turns out to be a monster who posts her photo on the Internet. —- There are stories…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Snapchat is ready to colonize the web with profile URLs that deeplink into its app and let you instantly follow someone. That makes it simple to add friends and celebrities so you fill your feed with content that keeps you coming back. By swiping down from the Snapchat camera to the…
This is one of the weirdest blog posts I will have to write and I am incredibly bemused and unhappy to have to do it. The short version: There was a ridiculous and unholy Twitter spat going on two years ago. The result of that spat was that an absurd number of allegations about who…
Jacobin Magazine published a piece by Amber A’Lee Frost on Saturday denouncing the “troubling new trend in younger leftist circles” of ascribing all sexism to “bros”. The article hung all of its critical extrapolation on what amounted to two tweets, one by Aaron Bady, and a second by Al Jazeera English writer Sarah Kenzior. Kendzior…
After Kenny Rocks cleared two feet of snow away from his Chevy parked outside his home this weekend, he thought it might be funny to post up a sign that warned those looking for a spot to stay away from the one he’d already cleared out. So he grabbed a pizza box, a Sharpie and a broomstick…
Salon dips back into its nostalgia file with horrifying results: During her two presidential campaigns, Hillary Clinton has consistently drawn greater support from women than men. Is this gender lag due to retrograde misogyny, or does Hillary project an uneasiness or ambivalence about men that complicates her appeal to a broader electorate? As a career…
Oracle is taking the final step to rid the web of its terrible Java browser plugin. While the plugin started off life back in the ’90s as an innocent way to bring app-like features to browsers, in recent years it has been a headache to users and IT admins struggling to fight against its mountain…
Ammon Bundy speaks to the media in front of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters on Jan. 6 near Burns, Ore. Bundy was arrested on Tuesday. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Ammon Bundy speaks to the media in front of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters on Jan….
Theranos chief executive Elizabeth Holmes gestures as she speaks at a technology conference in October (Glenn Chapman/AFP/Getty Images) Theranos, the high-profile Silicon Valley company that promised to revolutionize blood testing, was warned by federal regulators this week that its Newark, Calif. laboratory has “deficient practices” that “pose immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety,” according…
Photo William Chick, who was fired from the Wounded Warrior Project in 2012 after a dispute with his supervisor. He said the charity swiftly fired anyone that leaders considered a “bad cultural fit.” Credit Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In 2014, after 10 years of rapid growth, the Wounded Warrior…