Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last night was the fourth season premiere of HBO’s Project Greenlight—a Matt Damon and Ben Affleck passion project where they give first time filmmakers the chance to make a movie. It also provided a platform for Matt Damon to deliver a masterclass in whitesplaining—a whitesplaining sermon, if you will. They enlist a group of producers…
Illustrations by Lisa Larson-Walker. A few months ago, Natasha Chenier submitted a piece to Jezebel about her sexual relationship with her dad. She described meeting her biological father for the first time at age 19 and being gradually overtaken by lust for him. She recalled being so wracked by disgust and shame after the…
More than half of students at 347 colleges and vocational schools defaulted on their loans or failed to pay down even a single dollar of their debt after seven years, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of federal data released Saturday. Despite the low repayment rates, students at these predominantly for-profit schools received $2.2…
Colleges give prospective students very little information about how much money they can expect to earn in the job market. In part that’s because colleges may not want people to know, and in part it’s because such information is difficult and expensive to gather. Colleges are good at tracking down rich alumni to hit up…
We desperately want to mock Brooklyn’s food scene alongside this Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator, but in the interest of editorial transparency, we’d totally tear into a basket of Butter & Sprouted Kale Bombs alongside a few Seasonal Water Tacos with Ramp. Don’t judge. [via Boing Boing] [Cover Photo: Simon Watson/Getty Images]
You ideate on paper. You wireframe and design an interface in Sketch. You prototype it in HTML. And you track your progress in Slack, while sharing files via Dropbox. This is the modern designer’s workflow, according to a new poll of 4,000 designers run by Khoi Vinh—former design director of NYTimes.com who recently signed with…
Comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres may not see eye to eye with reality TV personality Caitlyn Jenner when it comes to their views on same-sex marriage. On Tuesday, DeGeneres told Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show that she thought Jenner “still has a judgment about gay marriage.” DeGeneres, who interviewed the Olympian gold medalist…
That God, boy, He sure do work in mysterious ways! After 6000 years of saying “Thou shalt not permit a marriage license to be issued by thy clerk’s office if it is sought by homosexbians,” He slept on it this weekend and said, “Nah, never mind, it’s cool.” Rowan County clerk Kim Davis returned to…
Yahoo! Inc. sued a former employee over claims she “brazenly” divulged confidential information about the company to a reporter who was writing a book about Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer’s leadership. Yahoo claims that Cecile Lal, a former senior director of product management, broke a confidentiality agreement when she leaked proprietary information to the journalist…
Evans Bank on Thursday settled a lawsuit in which the state of New York accused the bank of racist practices, including denying loans to residents of predominantly black neighborhoods in Buffalo. The suit, filed in 2014 by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, accused the Buffalo-based bank of intentionally not making loans in eastern parts…