Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
You wake up in a puddle of water. It’s 5:00 a.m. Not water. Pee. You realize it’s pee. Your three-year-old has been having trouble sleeping lately and expertly wedged herself between the two of you. You lazily decided to forego the pull-up last night. You both pretend not to see the wet patch. One of you will…
In a lengthy interview published today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg attempted to explain to Recode’s Kara Swisher why his platform wouldn’t ban Holocaust deniers: [A]t the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don’t think that…
It’s no secret that mobile ad fraud is a m assive problem. Less clear are the specific channels and brands being impacted, and to what degree. This past week, the ad fraud specialists at Pixalate helped me see this space with a bit more precision: For example, the firm finds that unfiltered invalid traffic (IVT)…
Elon Musk speaks at a news conference in Chicago on July 14. (Kiichiro Sato/AP) The latest development in the heated feud between Elon Musk and British diver Vernon Unsworth may be surprising to many: It was an apology from Musk. Late Tuesday night, the Silicon Valley billionaire took to Twitter, writing the apology many have…
Nearly everyone on Samish Island knew Chuck Davis, a bighearted retiree who lived in the handsome gray shingle house with the best view of Samish Bay. But almost no one on Samish Island had ever even seen Lane, Chuck’s 33-year-old son — until the sunny day last July when they heard a woman’s screams, and…
“The reason that God was able to create the world in seven days is that he didn’t have to worry about the installed base.” — Enzo Torresi. 1945–2016. A few months ago, I published a blog called “What I learned working for both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs”. It was a re-publication of a blog I’d written two years…
The new iPhone 5S with fingerprint technology is displayed during an Apple product announcement at the Apple campus on September 10, 2013 in Cupertino, California Photo: Getty What started as a routine traffic stop has quickly escalated into a civil rights case in a Florida courtroom after a man was put behind bars this week…
Photo: Charles Sykes (AP) Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk accused one of the British divers involved in the rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach from the flooded Tham Luang cave complex of being a pedophile on Saturday in retaliation for questioning Musk’s contributions to the rescue effort. Yeah. CNN reported that…
Screenshot: Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night Tons of Twitter bots are still just pictures of boobs asking for your credit card information, but programmers have also used the format to make some cool shit. Every Teenager Bot and Gradients are genuinely fun little experiments that brighten up my timeline. But every botmaker struggles with getting…
Following a year in which YouTube has repeatedly promoted conspiracy-theory videos during breaking news events like the shootings in Parkland, Florida, and Las Vegas, the company announced on Monday a slew of new features it hopes will make news on the platform more reliable and less susceptible to manipulation. The company is also investing $25…