Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
RICHMOND, Va. — Last Monday, around 8 p.m., a guy walked out of Subway with his newly purchased sandwich. But he didn’t get very far before, police said, three teens robbed him at gunpoint. The teens were already inside the store, near 12th Street and Semmes Avenue in Manchester and they followed the victim out of the…
Credit Photograph by Matt York/AP Barrier Status: ‘none’ WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—As America’s bridges, roads, and other infrastructure dangerously deteriorate from decades of neglect, there is a mounting sense of urgency that it is time to build a giant wall. Across the U.S., whose rail system is a rickety antique plagued by deadly accidents, Americans…
I’ll be straight with you: I don’t read a lot of videogame reviews. But every now and then, especially if GOG.com has a sale, I will find myself reading its user reviews—a good way to get a handle on, if not the game itself, at least some memories of it. I will end up reading…
After searching through the Ashley Madison database and private email last week, I reported that there might be roughly 12,000 real women active on Ashley Madison. Now, after looking at the company’s source code, it’s clear that I arrived at that low number based in part on a misunderstanding of the evidence. Equally clear is…
Politicians and pundits love to talk about the character-building experience of working your way through college. But how realistic is that ideal? As one way of answering that question, here’s a thought experiment: Let’s say you’re planning to attend your state’s best-known public university (at the in-state rate, naturally) and you’re hoping a minimum-wage job…
It’s that time of year: Journalism students are returning to campus, charting their courses for the next semester, and professors are fine-tuning their syllabi. Turmoil in the news business means that many professors are also reckoning with how to adapt their teaching approaches in an era of data visualization, apps, and distributed content. One department…
Fox & Friends host Elizabeth Hasselbeck asked a guest Monday morning why the #BlackLivesMatter protest movement has not yet been classified as a hate group. Fox invited conservative African-American commentator Kevin Jackson on the show to discuss the group of #BlackLivesMatter protesters who disrupted the Minnesota state fair while chanting “Pigs in a blanket, fry them like…
6. In a post on their blog, Cartell wrote that she and Dirnberger realized that their social media posts about their trip are not really telling the full story. “Browsing through our blog posts and Instagram feed, it seems like we’re having the time of our lives,” she wrote. “And don’t get me wrong –…
By Jean-Louis Gassée Ad blocking started as an initiative by independent developers who wanted to improve our browsing experience. Now that at least one company, Apple, has made Content Blocking “official”, ad-supported publishing business models are in trouble. Back in the days when we bought a newspaper or magazine at the newsstand, we thought we…
Our future workplaces are increasingly managed by apps and algorithms. Is technology empowering workers, or making them ever more helpless cogs in a corporate profit machine? When we talk about the “on-demand economy”, we are really talking about two things: the ability of a consumer to summon a vehicle, their lunch, or their groceries with…