Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Live from (Outside of) New York ComicCon: We Have (Close to the Equivalent of) Replicators: So Why Do We (Still) Have Non Personal-Service Jobs? We grow things–but fewer and fewer of us do. We make things–but fewer and fewer of us do. We provide personal services–non-information and information. What else do we do? It strikes…
Long ago, humans thrived in the great city, using golem-like demons to do their bidding. But after the demons rebelled, they forced humans to abandon the city and live on the fringes, dreaming of the day they’d reclaim their home. Peter Wartman’s webcomic Stonebreaker and its prequel Over the Wall focus on Anya, a young…
Twitter/@jorgecortell It went like this. At a reverse-demo event in New York last night, Jorge Cortell, the CEO of the healthcare startup Kanteron Systems, noticed a female attendee wearing shoes. He snapped a picture of the shoes. He then tweeted the picture of the shoes. This is what he said: Event supposed to be for entrepreneurs,…
Producer Stephanie Foo speaks to Nasubi, a Japanese comedian who, in the 90s, just wanted a little bit of fame. So he was thrilled when he won an opportunity to have his own segment on a Japanese reality TV show. Until he found out the premise: he had to sit in an empty apartment with…
Long before Vin Diesel was Groot, he teased fans about joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So few thought saying a few words as a talking tree would be enough for the star. In a new interview with io9, Diesel teased something very different could be on the horizon. First of all, the actor explained that…
HEY, IT’S FRIDAY, LET’S GET DRUNK, LET’S GO TO THE BAR, LET’S DO AWESOME SHOOTERS AND SIT AROUND AND SOAK UP ONE ANOTHER’S AWESOMENESS, TGIF AMIRITE? Oh, huh. pic.twitter.com/9zipHDsv1J — Dave Price (@DavePriceTV) October 9, 2015 Indeed, an opening of the heavens beckons. The National Weather Service has issued a “Severe Thunderstorm Watch” that’s…
If you think the posters Mondo releases are cool, wait until you see the ones they can’t. For every poster that makes it to print, several alternate versions are canceled, for a slew of different reasons. Once a year, Mondo pulls back the curtain on its most beautiful failures. Mondo is the poster and collectable…
Ben Carson is apparently no longer content to tour American disaster sites, read the names off of memorials, and call all the victims pussies for failing to stand up to the bad guys, with guns. So now he has traveled, inside his broken brain, to the Europe of the 1930s and early 1940s, in order…
Flickr/Michael Goodin The number of private tech companies valued at $1 billion or more has surged so much this year that on average 1.3 so-called unicorn companies have been created every week in 2015, according to data from CB Insights. But now it looks like winter is coming to Silicon Valley. Fortune’s Dan Primack went to…
Responsibilities include keeping the government open and explaining the concept of compromise. Democratic congressman creates Craigslist ad for speaker of the House position – Vox.