Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
If you want to sleep with a robot, you don’t have to wait decades for a Westworld-style theme park of carnal delights. The future of virtual sex is already here. Strap on enough hardware, and the avatar of your dreams will grind to the beat of your teledildonics. Today’s smart dolls are becoming increasingly lifelike — nowhere…
How to grapple with fascism? How to survive a country that doesn’t want us to withstand it? There ’s not a way to self-care out of an exhausting and dark future, there’s no physical action that can totally protect us. Face masks can help pass the time and “purify” your pores but you still have…
“He Will Not Divide Us” InstallationView Full Caption ASTORIA — Celebrity Jaden Smith was standing outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria Friday morning, staring into a camera to participate in a public art installation staged by fellow actor Shia LaBeouf’s art collective to mark inauguration day. LaBeouf’s group, called LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner, set…
As 2016 drew to a close last month, I opened my newsfeed with dread, braced for more gloomy tidings. Sure enough, amidst the news round-ups and “best of” lists was The New York Times’ most popular article of the year: “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person.” In a year when Americans voted to turn…
I wore men’s clothes for a month – and it changed my life Motivated by Octieber and determined to combat the world of gendered clothing, Lucy Rycroft-Smith tries menswear for a month and documents her findings Lucy Rycroft-Smith, 7 January 2017 It’s 9am and I’m having breakfast at the House of Commons. I’m wearing a…
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” The Trouble With Publishing the Trump Dossier In distributing a set of inflammatory allegations that it admitted it could not vouch for, BuzzFeed sidestepped a basic principle of journalism. Google Metadata Mike Segar / Reuters START “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 END “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY…
When Google launched Allo and Duo last year, it recast hangouts as a cross-platform chat app for enterprise customers. Now it’s making changes to help ensure that fate. A quiet update to the Google Hangouts FAQ reveals that the sun will set on the platform’s API in late April. Effectively, this means any consumer app…
Serfs carrying J.Law’s Golden Globes gown to the fashion closet or a historical reenactment of the battle of Hastings on its 950th anniversary? YOU DECIDE. Image via Getty My glory days of shopping at Charlotte Rousse and Wet Seal in 2002 are finally justified: in its natural state of fashion arbitration, Vogue has declared that…
Believe it or not, we’ve somehow made it to the end of December—and it’s time to take those last vacation days, wrap up all those last-minute presents, and head home to friends and family. It’s all going down today: For the first time in nearly 40 years, Christmas Eve and the first night of Hanukkah will…
Amazon’s Echo devices and its virtual assistant are meant to help find answers by listening for your voice commands. However, police in Arkansas want to know if one of the gadgets overheard something that can help with a murder case. According to The Information, authorities in Bentonville issued a warrant for Amazon to hand over any audio or records…