Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Begin: WordPress Article Content As large platforms like Facebook and Apple position themselves as the new go-to places to read news, an independent app that started in Japan has landed a new round of funding to raise its own game. SmartNews — a news aggregation app that works with some 1,500 publications and selects stories for you based on your…
Left: Daniel Holtzclaw, half Japanese American, convicted of raping and assaulting 13 black women on the job; Right: Peter Liang, Chinese-American, convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed, innocent black man As my black and brown friends on Facebook express grief and horror at the recorded murders of #AltonSterling and #PhilandoCastile, the majority of my Asian/Asian-American…
Let me say this right off the bat: I don’t at all condone any shooting of police officers or attacking them in any way. I hope that the people responsible are caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law – which, given that the attacks appear to have been premeditated and directed at…
Photo Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and chief executive of Theranos, has seen her personal wealth fall from $4.5 billion to zero. Credit Brendan McDermid/Reuters United States regulators have banned Elizabeth Holmes, the chief executive of Theranos, from owning or operating a medical laboratory for at least two years, in a major setback for the embattled…
Simon Pegg, who has co-written the latest Star Trek movie, as well as starring as Scotty, has responded to criticism by the actor George Takei at the film-makers’ decision to make the character he used to play openly gay. Takei was Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, in the original TV series as well…
LONDON — It was only a column in The Daily Mail, but in its way, it told you everything you need to know about politics in Britain these days. It was written by Sarah Vine, who is married to Michael Gove, a leader of the anti-Europe “Brexit” campaign, and it appeared soon after Britain shocked…
While the algos have long forgotten about today’s job report whose headline was good enough to unleash an epic buying spree which has pushed the S&P to the highest level since July 2015, a quick read between the lines reveals a continuation of some recent troubling trends, namely that all job gains in recent years…
As Macbeth said in one of the Simplified Shakespeare for GCSE texts Michael Gove once tried to outlaw in schools: “Oh God. I have totally ballsed this up.” We shouldn’t laugh, because the consequences for us all are uniquely terrible, but one minor footnote to the Tory leadership ballot is that in the second…
The Conservative party doesn’t do carriage clocks for people like Michael Gove. They just get a note reading “You have outlived your usefulness” and a five minute head-start on the hounds. Still, let’s fire up Walkaway by Cast and watch a montage of Gove’s best bits. First, Michael positioned himself as the man who had…
At least five Dallas police officers were killed and seven wounded July 7, after a peaceful protest over recent police shootings. Here’s what we know so far. (Deirdra O’Regan/The Washington Post) Following the killing of at least five police officers in Dallas overnight, a former one-term congressman from Illinois ignited a firestorm with a now-deleted…