Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
There’s this app called Wire, which I love. It’s the most beautiful messaging app I’ve ever tried: super-clean backgrounds, a heavy emphasis on user photos and clean design, and a great mix of calling, texting, and weirdly great GIF search. It works across all the platforms I use, and it works well. It’s my ideal…
Amazon’s customer service backdoor As a security conscious user who follows the best practices like: using unique passwords, 2FA, only using a secure computer and being able to spot phishing attacks from a mile away, I would have thought my accounts and details would be be pretty safe? Wrong. Because when someone has gone after…
I always imagined I would sooner die than retire. Not because I love work and hate scrapbooking. Just the opposite! But as an oldish member of the youngest working generation, my fantasies of environmental and economic collapse were, until recently, slightly more vivid than my sense of mortality. Now, the economy is back from the…
Al Jazeera America’s employees didn’t see it coming. They thought they had more time. The cable news channel was always a gamble. Everyone knew that — the anchors, the producers, the engineers. And in retrospect, the channel was probably doomed from the get-go. But the business plan called for seven to ten years of huge…
Mayor de Blasio updated the city on the post-blizzard state of affairs, with his biggest concern keeping the streets clear—and to that end, alternate side parking has been suspended for the entire week. “We want people to stay off the streets, keep their cars where they’re parked,” he said. “It will take a lot of…
Last week I critiqued Bernie Sanders for dismissing reparations specifically, and for offering up a series of moderate anti-racist solutions, in general. Some felt it was unfair to single out Sanders given that, on reparations, Sanders’s chief opponent Hillary Clinton holds the same position. This argument proposes that we abandon the convention of judging our…
Bernie Sanders speaking in Littleton, New Hampshire, August 2015 (Michael Vadon / Flickr) Paul Krugman has joined the self-appointed political grownups closing ranks around Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders. In a piece titled “How Change Happens,” the liberal economist and New York Times columnist insists, “The question Sanders supporters should ask is, When has their theory of change…
cache hit 2034:single/related:7ee91088b05aceb470bc04e250c3b444 empty Shodan, a search engine for the Internet of Things (IoT), recently launched a new section that lets users easily browse vulnerable webcams. The feed includes images of marijuana plantations, back rooms of banks, children, kitchens, living rooms, garages, front gardens, back gardens, ski slopes, swimming pools, colleges and schools, laboratories, and cash…
The “reductive seduction” is not malicious, but it can be reckless. For two reasons. First, it’s dangerous for the people whose problems you’ve mistakenly diagnosed as easily solvable. There is real fallout when well-intentioned people attempt to solve problems without acknowledging the underlying complexity. There are so many examples. As David Bornstein wrote in The…
NOTE: The following piece is possible in part thanks to donations to The MovieBob Patreon. If you’d like to see more like it, please consider becoming a Patron. Let me first stipulate the following to be true, as I see it: South Park is one of the funniest television shows ever created and arguably among…