Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
An officer pulls someone over on the side of the highway. The cop sits in the car a moment, runs the plates—they’re fine—and gets out of the car. As he or she approach the driver’s side window, the driver pulls out a gun, shoots the officer, and flees. This is something close to what happened…
ReCode, the news website led by the veteran journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, is being acquired by Vox Media, a deal that reflects the turmoil among digital organizations focused on covering the tech industry. The all-stock deal, financial terms of which were not disclosed, would give ReCode access to a wider audience, something it…
A screenshot from Johnson’s (now suspended) Twitter account. (Twitter) Chuck Johnson, the far-right mega-troll who doxed two New York Times reporters and argued that homosexuality caused the Amtrak derailment, may at last be off Twitter — this time, for good. On Sunday, Johnson was permanently suspended from the site after asking for funds to “take…
Microsoft is officially confirming today that it’s bringing Cortana to iOS and Android. The software giant is planning to release separate apps for each mobile operating system to enable its digital assistant to run outside of Windows. Microsoft is only providing an early look at those apps today, but the company notes that you’ll be…
Facebook tips. 1. SHARE three posts from someone else about stuff you are interested in. If it’s your friend’s kids, you’ll see more kid photos. If it’s tech/entrepreneurialism, you’ll see more of that. 2. Write five original posts about the same topic. You’ll see even more of that same topic on your feed. I remember…
Charter Communications is buying Time Warner Cable for $55.1 billion and Bright House Networks for $10.4 billion, in a major consolidation of the US cable industry. Here are the details: If the deals are approved by regulators, they would combine the second- (TWC), fourth- (Charter), and tenth-largest (Bright House) cable companies in the US, with a combined 23 million customers….
We are living through a jubilee of internet forgiveness. After many years of being what it is and doing what it does, the Web seems unexpectedly prepared to forgive its debts, free its captives, and start afresh with the mocked and exiled of yesteryear. And, like the biblically mandated jubilees of yore, we are making…
Sometimes it slips Kristin Parisi’s mind that she’s disabled. After 25 years in a wheelchair—the result of a car accident when she was 5 years old—her means of transportation no longer registers as abnormal. “It’s one of those things I forget—that I’m disabled—until someone tells me I am,” the 30-year-old public-relations executive says. That reminder…
Apple Watch pre-orders started with a bang and Apple’s initial inventory quickly sold out. Then US orders immediately fell, and have remained mostly flat since, according to analysis from Slice Intelligence, a company that tracks US consumer spending through e-commerce email receipts. Apple has taken orders for almost 2.5 million watches in the US through Monday, May 18, according to Slice’s projections,…
Richard Prince Sucks Paddy Johnson, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Installation view of Richard Prince, “New Portraits,” at Gagosian Photo: Paddy Johnson Richard Prince has taken over the Gagosian showroom located behind their bookstore on Madison Avenue. He’s filled the space with 38 portraits, each 65 by 48 inches, taken from his Instagram feed. It’s a…