Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
To protect net neutrality, we need internet infrastructure that isn’t owned by big telecom. The net neutrality battle has been exhausting. It has come at enormous cost in time, energy, attention, and money. Fundamentally, the net neutrality fight is one where the best possible outcome is preserving the status quo: an internet landscape and connection…
Buckley Kuhn-Fricker was so disturbed by what she discovered about her teenage daughter’s boyfriend that she spent a tumultuous week pushing for a breakup. By Thursday, she texted a friend saying the “outspoken Neo Nazi” was out of their lives. But just hours later, the family said that the 17-year-old boyfriend had shot and killed…
Tesla’s Elon Musk: Not a mass transit fan. Richard Drew/AP The Tesla CEO’s recent comments about public transportation triggered a firestorm of criticism. Here’s why. Like many tech entrepreneurs, Elon Musk is trying to reinvent public transit. But his comments at an event last month, as reported by Aarian Marshall in Wired, made many…
ToutCIM Group bought Uber Technologies Inc.’s Uptown Station in Oakland in one of the city’s biggest real estate deals of 2017. CIM paid $180 million for the 356,000-square-foot building, according to property records. The building’s renovation is expected to be completed in late 2018. It’s unclear how much additional money is required to complete the…
Puerto Rico’s apagón, or “super blackout,” is the longest and largest major power outage in modern U.S. history. Without electricity, there is no reliable source of clean water. School is out, indefinitely. Health care is fraught. Small businesses are faltering. The tasks of daily life are both exhausting and dangerous. There is nothing to do but…
San Francisco residents continue to rage against the machines. While the city’s board of supervisors moves toward finalizing limits on robots that roam the sidewalks to deliver food and goods, it must also find a way to handle security robots that patrol public sidewalks. Ad Tag – c1 (xs/xm/md) The S.F. SPCA in the Mission…
close story-meta Photo Firefighters arrived on Eighth Avenue near the scene of a reported explosion on Monday morning in Manhattan. Credit David Scull/The New York Times A peaceful beginning to the workweek was shattered Monday after an explosion rattled through one of the busiest transit hubs in New York City, causing the authorities to evacuate…
A small pipe bomb went off near the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Monday, and the suspect was immediately taken into custody, police sources said. The blast happened in an underground subway passage just 200 feet from the terminal at West 42nd St. and Eighth Ave., the sources said. Port Authority cops immediately…
Technology Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models Into This Year’s Holiday Parties “Ambiance and atmosphere models” contractually obligated to pretend they’re party guests are in record demand from local agencies. By December 7, 2017, 12:45 PM EST Photo Illustration by 731; Photos: Getty Images Along with a seemingly endless string of harassment and discrimination scandals, Silicon…
Looking east on Interstate 66 from the North Scott Street overpass, traffic is seen Monday evening in Arlington. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) On the fourth day of tolling on Interstate 66, the morning price peaked at $25.50 around 8:30 a.m. Virginia Department of Transportation officials rolled out the new express lanes inside the Beltway on…