Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Pulling back from social media has its perks when you can get away with it. I am often less upset and hurt, and it’s easier to see the flow of trends and how thought travels. It’s interesting, I know I’m missing huge swathes of reactions and emotions on Twitter, but usually these arise in think…
After more than a decade of debate and a record-setting proceeding that attracted nearly 4 million public comments, the time to settle the Net Neutrality question has arrived. This week, I will circulate to the members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed new rules to preserve the internet as an open platform for innovation…
Amazon’s grand plan to sell its own line of diapers has crapped out after seven weeks. At least for now. On Wednesday, the e-commerce giant notified customers who had subscribed to shipments of its Amazon Elements line of diapers that sales of the poop-pouches were being discontinued for now. “Based on early customer feedback, we…
Photo A Metro-North Railroad train struck a vehicle on the tracks on Tuesday evening. The crash was on the Harlem line, in Westchester County, N.Y. Credit The Journal News/lohud.com close shareTools Six people were killed when a Metro-North Railroad train struck a vehicle on the tracks in Valhalla, N.Y., in Westchester County, on Tuesday evening, resulting…
Joystiq will not grow to be much older than ten years. That’s a massive expenditure of time, if only to receive an unfinished creation in return. I, and my best friends in the world, leave Joystiq unfinished. We leave it as it was always going to be. How can you envision an end when your…
Paul Nungesser was cleared of a rape charge but faced a harsh trial-by-media. Now, as new details come to light, he’s speaking out and fighting back. The Columbia University senior vividly remembers the day, in April 2013, when he received a phone call while working in the school’s digital architecture lab. It was the campus…
Two and a half months after the death of Harper Lee’s sister (and lawyer) and 55 years since the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, HarperCollins has announced the summer release of Go Set a Watchman, the elusive author’s second novel. According to the New York Times, Go Set a Watchman “takes place 20 years…
When Democrats don’t stand up to the policing of speech, they surrender control of their party to its most extreme elements. Jessica Hill/AP “A liberal,” Robert Frost once said, “is someone who can’t take his own side in an argument.” If conservatives are often caricatured by their detractors as unfeeling, liberals are painted as uncertain,…
Andrew Sullivan is, as undoubtedly you’ve heard, leaving his eponymous blog: I am saturated in digital life and I want to return to the actual world again. I’m a human being before I am a writer; and a writer before I am a blogger, and although it’s been a joy and a privilege to have…
As I found myself unexpectedly snowed in this weekend, I decided to take on a weekend project for fun. While searching for something to catch my fancy, I ran across an old Slate article claiming that they found a foolproof strategy for finding Waldo in the classic “Where’s Waldo?” book series. Now, I’m no Waldo-spotting…