Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
close story-meta Photo Credit Brian Rea Recently, my brother experienced a cryptocurrency windfall. Almost overnight, $300 ballooned into tens of thousands, and now he can remodel his basement. Maybe. I don’t know. I suppose he can if he finds the money lurking behind the math. Since the spring, I have furrowed my brow through two…
Spotify, the world’s largest paid music service, will begin offering news and political coverage to lure listeners away from radio and podcasts from rival Apple Inc. Eight companies, including BuzzFeed and Refinery29, have agreed to produce programming for the new initiative, called Spotlight. One of the first shows will be a four- to seven-minute daily…
The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears. When Babe.net published a pseudonymous woman’s account of a difficult encounter with Aziz Ansari that made her cry, the internet exploded with “takes” arguing that the #MeToo movement had finally gone too far. “Grace,” the 23-year-old woman, was…
Photo: AP Why are teens eating Tide pods? Or, at least, pretending to eat them in videos that they’re posting online? We have some theories. But the company that makes the brightly colored laundry pods would like you to know that, whatever the reason, it’s not their fault. Procter & Gamble, the company that manufacturers…
‘I borrowed from the films of Leni Riefenstahl to show that these US soldiers were like something out of Nazi propaganda. I even put one in an SS uniform. But no one noticed’ [if IE 9]>< ![endif][if IE 9]>< ![endif] ‘It’s an idiotic story’ … Casper Van Dien in the 1997 film. Photograph: Allstar/Touchstone/Sportsphoto Ltd…
The “Sh–ty Media Men” list is back in the news. And the second chapter of its story has been as fraught as the first. Three months ago, a crowd-sourced spreadsheet of men in media who preyed on their female colleagues took over the Internet — until all the shouting about what had been designed as a whisper…
A demonstrator takes part in a protest march for survivors of sexual assault and their supporters in Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2017. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) It was a classic social media firestorm. On the afternoon of Jan. 9, Dayna Tortorici, the editor of n+1 magazine, tweeted: “It’s come to my attention that a legacy print…
In October, I created a Google spreadsheet called “Shitty Media Men” that collected a range of rumors and allegations of sexual misconduct, much of it violent, by men in magazines and publishing. The anonymous, crowdsourced document was a first attempt at solving what has seemed like an intractable problem: how women can protect ourselves from sexual…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that beginning March 1, 2018 their pay-as-you-wish policy will undergo a change. From now, you can only pay-as-you-wish with a New York state ID, and if you don’t have one you can pay out your asshole for what’s supposed to be a free museum full of cultural artifacts….
Image via AP. New York State has launched a new “program” that would severely limit one of the few earthly pleasures permitted to prisoners during their time behind bars: Books. Directive 4911A, which is being piloted at three prisons around the state, limits the items available to inmates to just six vendors, ostensibly to “enhance…