Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Given the company’s character and scale and long ethical rap sheet, it is reasonable to construe every message issued by the company formerly known as Facebook as a threat. The company surely doesn’t intend this, but the story of the company’s growth and success has by now been overtaken by the sum of the many,…
Facebook Inc. has spent the better part of a year telling its users, Congress and the readers of this paper that we’re in charge of our personal data and the ads we see. The network has streamlined its privacy settings, shared more details about how data is used and highlighted how its ad controls work. If we take advantage of all these privacy controls, it shouldn’t still feel as…
This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Every single and lonely millennial is on at least two dating apps. Without them, it would be impossible to meet someone at a Time Out-approved Bavarian beer hall pop-up and split an Uber home for profoundly disappointing sex. The amount of rutting you can actually get done off…
Elon Musk offers his resources and expertise to the Thai government.Image: Joshua Lott/Getty Images By Rachel Kraus2018-07-06 14:44:27 UTC What is that saying about life and art again? Elon Musk has sent engineers from his SpaceX and Boring Company teams to assist with the rescue efforts of the boys’ soccer team stuck in a cave…
‘Sometimes our systems get it wrong’, says spokesperson for video streaming giant YouTube has been accused of preventing videos that contain LGBT+ related words from making money, by popular users of the video-sharing platform. At the same time they have also claimed that the video streaming were running adverts for gay conversion therapy and companies that were…
Our nation’s present uproar over the deleterious effects of social media on society and fretting about the decline of trusted news outlets is nothing new. What’s new is the fact that the straightforward ways to prop up the Real Journalism industry have never been more obvious. For two decades, professional thinkers—most of them employed in…
Facebook’s Campbell Brown and Adam Mosseri.Image: code media/recode By Karissa Bell and Kerry Flynn2018-02-13 03:28:39 UTC Facebook is famous for the mantra “move fast and break things.” But these days, the tech giant is all about time well spent, and with that comes a new tagline for everyone to follow: If you don’t like us,…
Apple forgot the greatest lesson of the MacBook Air The MacBook Air is widely considered the best computer ever made.Image: megan uno/mashable By Raymond Wong2018-01-16 23:17:43 UTC Ten years ago, Steve Jobs hopped on stage at Macworld 2008 and did another one of his seemingly impossible magic tricks: He undid the string on a manila…
Sure, there have been times when I’ve looked at the mirror and not liked what I saw, but I always thought that mirrors themselves were immune to my loathing—I never blamed any of the world’s problems, or my own, on a mirror. And now I fucking hate this mirror I’m about to describe to you….
“This is the first time I’ve been willing to admit that I need leadership help and I intend to get it,” wrote Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, in an email to his staff the other day. In that same email, which he sent out after Bloomberg published a video showing him berating an…