Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Today in Tedium: In an era where paper is becoming less important than ever, it feels a bit bizarre at this point to go back in time just 35 years ago, when paper was perhaps having its greatest moment of all time. We were just a few years from the desktop publishing revolution, which expanded…
Jude Milhon, a cyberfeminist who died in 2003, was one of the first women to witness online harassment. Writing in Wired magazine, she urged women to “toughen up”. “Whether we’re set upon by zealots or bigots or abusively correct politicos, we have to learn to defend ourselves,” she said. The year was 1995, and Jude…
“The software is functioning as intended,” said Amber. “Wait,” I asked, “so it’s supposed to delete my personal files from my internal hard drive without asking my permission?” “Yes,” she replied. Maybe I’m Not Pressing the Keys Hard Enough. I had just explained to Amber that 122 GB of music files were missing from my…
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A new crop of startups are trying to make gas stations obsolete. Tap an app, and they’ll bring the gas to you, filling up your car while you’re at work, eating breakfast, or watching Netflix. Filld, WeFuel, Yoshi, Purple and Booster Fuels have started operating in a few cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palo…
Two weekends ago, after Beyoncé released a mythologically forceful visual album that attached the most significant art of her career to the narrative of her husband Jay Z cheating on her with a woman she called “Becky with the good hair,” the fashion designer Rachel Roy—presumably operating of her own volition—inserted herself in that narrative…
Illustration by Jim Cooke Depending on whom you ask, Facebook is either the savior or destroyer of journalism in our time. An estimated 600 million people see a news story on Facebook every week, and the social network’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has been transparent about his goal to monopolize digital news distribution. “When news is…
A couple weekends ago I built a very basic ‘personal chatbot’, which I’ve coined my ‘mebot’. It’s called SandiMacBot — and now I’m obsessed. I can’t stop thinking about how my mebot can and will become integrated into my life, and how bots are positioned to replace portions of many of the social networks and platforms that…
A couple weekends ago I built a very basic ‘personal chatbot’, which I’ve coined my ‘mebot’. It’s called SandiMacBot — and now I’m obsessed. I can’t stop thinking about how my mebot can and will become integrated into my life, and how bots are positioned to replace portions of many of the social networks and platforms that…