Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Reddit is one of the 10 most visited websites in America. It’s more popular than Netflix’s cache of prestige television shows and more well-trafficked than millennial procrastination networks Instagram and Tumblr. There’s a reason: Reddit is more frustrating, depressing, offensive, blissful, enlightening, and dramatic than any of those other sites combined. And the site is…
We are moderators for the website reddit.com, a place where, on a typical day, millions of users read and share content in self-contained communities called “subreddits.” We volunteer our time to help manage the subsection called IAmA — a popular part of the site where thousands of interviews, known as “ask me anythings,” take place….
Gideon Grudo and Tyler Krome are cheap journalists. Grudo wrote the open-source story reddit revolts below, with Krome assisting. They want you to reprint, revise, repurpose, or rewrite it – without their consent. Why give away their work? Says Grudo, a former SPJ national board member… reddit is home to hundreds of millions of people who are interacting with media, posting…
Over the past several months, many of the world’s most famous scientists and engineers — including Stephen Hawking — have said that one of the biggest threats to humanity is an artificial superintelligence. But Linus Torvalds, the irascible creator of open source operating system Linux, says their fears are idiotic. He also raised some good…
Image Credit Caption inside of wrapper on slideshow media types Caption outside of wrapper for normal article images Sales of the new Apple Watch have plunged by 90% since the opening week, according to a new market-research report. Apple AAPL, -1.73% has been selling fewer than 20,000 watches a day in the U.S. since the…
Yea, this is the one terrible thing I hate about the internet in general, when it comes to learning. It breeds this kind of arrogance where, if choosing to speak, one must know exactly what they are doing, otherwise they must commit seppuku. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve deleted comments because of…
Twitter has spent the last 12 hours mockingly asking if Hacking Team was awake yet, but the firm’s massive data breach reveals a more serious side to the PR disaster — deals allegedly between Hacking Team and oppressive governments. HACKING TEAM BREACH TIMELINE Over the weekend, the secretive Hacking Team security firm was the victim…
Charlie Hales, the mayor of Portland, Ore., was running a zoning hearing last December when he missed a call on his cell from David Plouffe, the campaign mastermind behind Barack Obama’s ascent. Although Hales had never met him, Plouffe left a voice mail that had an air of charming familiarity, reminiscing about the 2008 rally…
In the social media age, the prospect of being socially shamed has become a real site of anxiety for mainstream culture. Jon Ronson has written a book on the topic, and columnists routinely meet their wordcount by repeating cliches about the dangers of Twitter hordes. The primary anxiety seems to be centered on social media…
TL;DR /r/IAmA, /r/AskReddit, /r/funny, /r/Books, /r/science, /r/Music, /r/gaming, /r/history, /r/Art, /r/videos, /r/gadgets, /r/todayilearned, /r/Documentaries, /r/LifeProTips, /r/Jokes, /r/pics, /r/Dataisbeautiful and /r/movies have all made themselves private in response to the removal of an administrator key to the AMA process, /u/chooter, but also due to underlying resentment against the admins for running the site poorly – being…