Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Sarah Jeong, a contributing editor at Vice’s Motherboard vertical, is a Poynter fellow in journalism at Yale and a fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry. She is on Twitter (@sarahjeong). I’ve never spent as much time outside as I did last weekend, as evidenced by my first sunburn in years. I was playing…
Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Bad news for millennials who’ve embraced post-incarceration Martha Stewart as a give-no-fucks, hoverboard-riding icon: Your queen has forsaken you. In a new interview with Luxury Listings, Stewart dragged millennials, saying: Now we are finding out that they are living with their parents. They don’t have the…
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A couple of days ago Tim Wallace, a cartographer and graphics editor at The New York Times, posted a portion of his academic dissertation on Medium. There’s tons of interesting stuff in there, but unfortunately it’s no longer posted because the part that got the most attention is the little highlighted part way down toward…
Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders wave together during a campaign rally where Sanders endorsed Clinton in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S., July 12, 2016. (REUTERS/Mary Schwalm) Last month, Bernie Sanders livestreamed a national address two days after losing the last contest in the Democratic primary contest by 67 percentage points. It seemed like a moment…
Data from SimilarWeb shows that Pokemon Go is about to pass Twitter in daily active users on Android — and it hasn’t even launched globally. ‘Pokémon GO’ Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android – Forbes. Source: ‘Pokémon GO’ Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android –…
“Pokémon Go” lets players catch virtual critters in the real world — but would its reach extend to space? Credit: Sarah Lewin/Space.com via Pokémon Go / NASA As people wandered our office halls, hunting tiny monsters with the newly released augmented-reality game “Pokémon Go,” Space.com had only one question: Can astronauts play it in space?…
They sat calmly on the hot pavement; their black and gold outfits a jarring contrast to the sea of rainbow flags and banners surrounding them. Minutes earlier the parade – the crown jewel of Toronto’s month-long Pride celebrations – had been in full swing, its floats heaving through the city’s main arteries alongside thousands of…
Two bailiffs in a county courthouse in southwestern Michigan were killed following a shooting by an inmate, according to the county sheriff. Two bailiffs and the shooter are dead in Berrien County Courthouse shooting, Monday, July 11, 2016.(Photo: Michelle Crandall) Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey confirmed at a Monday press conference that two court bailiffs…
I was immediately triggered. Germany. I was back in the park. A few weeks ago. It was the final day of shooting and I was glad because I’m not a model and only agreed to help out a friend, and while I was grateful to wear cool vintage clothes and feel “pretty”, after three long…