Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Jennifer’s Body director Karyn Kusama and screenwriter Diablo Cody realized their film was in trouble well before it hit theaters in September 2009. During the marketing phase of postproduction, the pair discovered the movie — in which mousy Needy Lesnicki (Amanda Seyfried) learns that her best friend Jennifer Check (Megan Fox) has been possessed by…
Paris riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets near the famous Champs-Elysees boulevard against “yellow vest” protesters who are staging another weekend of demonstrations against French President Emmanuel Macron. The French government said 31,000 people were protesting across France, including 8,000 in Paris. Around 700 people have been arrested so far today. Police tried push…
Microsoft is officially giving up on an independent shared platform for the internet. By adopting Chromium, Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google. This may sound melodramatic, but it’s not. The “browser engines” — Chromium from Google and Gecko Quantum from Mozilla — are “inside baseball” pieces of software that…
Millennials are a murderous bunch, a generation of homicidal maniacs. At least that’s the impression you get from reading news stories about my generation. According to the headlines, we’ve wreaked carnage across the economy with our fickle, selfish tastes. So far we have “killed” or are “killing” dinner dates, hotels, credit cards, grocery stores, cinemas, Home Depot, diamonds, banks, gyms, department stores, vacations, cruises and casinos, the car…
Russia interfered with the 2016 U.S. elections, former Secretary of State and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson said during a Thursday evening visit to Houston. Making his first public appearance in nearly nine months, Tillerson spoke at a fundraiser for the MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he participated in a conversation with CBS News veteran…
Lobbyists representing the Saudi government reserved blocks of rooms at President Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel within a month of Trump’s election in 2016 — paying for an estimated 500 nights at the luxury hotel in just three months, according to organizers of the trips and documents obtained by The Washington Post. At the time, these…
To Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor who is one of President Trump’s lawyers, it was an example of how low Twitter would stoop to carry out its anti-Trump agenda. It was, decidedly, no such thing. It was just a typo, followed by an opportunistic prank by an improv actor in Atlanta. In…
I had an excellent time talking about social media with Kara Swisher and her precocious 16-year-old s December 3 · Issue #257 · View online I had an excellent time talking about social media with Kara Swisher and her precocious 16-year-old son, Louie, on the 300th episode of the Recode Decode podcast. To the…
On November 8, Mark S. Luckie shared a lengthy memo with his co-workers before leaving his job at Facebook. In his 2,500-word note, which he releasedpublicly this past Tuesday, Luckie wrote that Facebook has “a black people problem,” and that it actively discriminates against both black Facebook users and its own black employees. Luckie, who previously…
The president thinks the balancing of the nation’s books is going to, ultimately, be a future president’s problem. Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s aides and advisers have tried to convince him of the importance of tackling the national debt. Sources close to the president say he has repeatedly shrugged it off, implying…