Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
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On his physics-insider blog, Résonaances, theorist Adam Falkowski titled his latest post “After the Hangover.” He’s not talking about a party. He’s talking about particle physics—and the decline and fall of this year’s most-exciting-discovery-that-was-not. On July 29, Falkowski declared what CERN, the European organization that runs the Large Hadron Collider, hasn’t yet: The Standard-Model-busting maybe-particle…
Since anchor Gretchen Carlson‘s bombshell lawsuit accusing former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, a handful of women have come forward with similar stories of mistreatment at the hands of Fox News executives. The floodgates really opened up this Friday when Laurie Luhn recounted 20 years of sexual harassment she allegedly faced from Ailes. In a shocking tell-all interview with New York Magazine‘s Gabe…
Nick Denton, the British expatriate who independently founded Gawker Media in 2002 and has served as its chief executive officer for its entire 14-year history, filed today for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York. In March, a Florida jury found him culpable of invading the wrestler Hulk Hogan’s privacy, nearly four…
The morning after Fox News chief Roger Ailes resigned, the cable network’s former director of booking placed a call to the New York law firm hired by 21st Century Fox to investigate sexual-harassment allegations against Ailes. Laurie Luhn told the lawyers at Paul, Weiss that she had been harassed by Ailes for more than…
Hillary Clinton became the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party last night, the first woman to ever head a major US party’s ticket. Many American newspapers showed a picture of her husband instead. Here’s the Chicago Tribune (all front pages via the Newseum): The Houston Chronicle: The Arkansas Democrat Gazette! Bill Clinton spoke last night, and his speech…
No one writes anything on the internet. HTML does not have a tag for bylines. The web’s fundamental technology has tags for six different headers, figure captions, navigation and asides. It does not have a tag for authorship. HTML5, designed for “allowing you to describe more precisely what your content is,” cannot describe who wrote…