Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan…
What it’s actually like to be a Black employee at a tech company My fingertips danced with delight as I frantically typed away at my computer. “I just saw a new Black person! Does anyone know who it is?” I circulated the email to the “Blackbirds,” Twitter’s internal group for Black employees. In my three…
On Monday, teachers at the Irving Independent School District in Irving, Texas, had police arrest a 14-year-old student named Ahmed Mohamed for building a simple electronic clock as an engineering project. Police escorted Mohamed of out of school in handcuffs — photos of the arrest show him wearing a NASA T-shirt — and accused him of…
On Monday night, the Atlantic published Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” The article, the longest the magazine has run in a decade, limns America’s long history of believing African Americans are predisposed to lawlessness and using that assumption to justify a racist police state that locks up African Americans in huge…
Bitch Planet is the best kind of fucked-up: a comic that entertains, breaks hearts and wields the power to change the way you look at the world around you. Kelly Sue DeConnick writes something incredibly cruel in the first issue of Bitch Planet. There’s a scene in the comic—written by DeConnick, with art and design…
IRVING — Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday. Instead, the school phoned police about Ahmed’s circuit-stuffed pencil case. So the 14-year-old missed the student council meeting and took a trip in…
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Alex “Redwall420” Spruck started playing Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft in March 2014. He spent the next year-plus obsessed with the game, mastering every element, taking top 10 and top 20 finishes regularly in the monthly rankings, and eventually joining up with an eSports group, Vengeance Gaming. In June, Spruck played his first open tournament for Hearthstone. From there…
For a school that teaches the art of good management, Stanford’s elite business school is having a rough time at the top. Yesterday, the school announced that its dean, Garth Saloner, would step down at the end of this academic year in the face of a lawsuit from a former faculty member. The lawsuit, filed…
For all its rough and rugged mystique, masculinity can be the most vulnerable of traits. Forged by the knuckle-worn fists thumping hard against Homosapien chests, and honed to a fine sheen in the gladiator bathhouses of ancient Rome, the fragile male ego is now under threat by the greatest force the world has ever known:…