Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Yahoo Mail is purportedly locking out people who use ad-blockers. According to a post on Adblock Plus’ message boards, a Yahoo user noticed the issue on Google Chrome when trying to access email this morning, posting this screenshot: “Yeah, whatever Yahoo,” the person mused, adding that two other people noticed the issue, too. Advertisement Yahoo’s tactic…
Gunmen attacked the Radisson Blu Hotel in the Malian capital Bamako Friday morning, with some 150 hostages taken. View this image › Malian security forces evacuate two women from near the hotel, Nov. 20. Habibou Kouyate / AFP / Getty Images ID: 7392014 SECURITY MESSSAGE (1/4) The Embassy is aware of an ongoing active shooter…
There’s a predictable social media formula for what women’s pictures online should look like. Breasts in barely-there bikinis are good (thumbs-up emoji, even), but breasts with babies attached them are questionable. Women wearing next to nothing is commonplace, but if you’re over a size 10 your account may be banned. Close-up shots of women’s asses…
Neel Kashkari, the at-the-time little-known Goldman Sachs banker who was put in charge (by Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson) of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (that is, the bank bailouts) in 2008, has been named the new president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. As head of TARP, Kashkari was responsible…
It’s time for a little good news, the kind of good news that you can pass down to and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren. According to new estimates from the World Economic Forum (WEF), it will be 118 years before women across the globe will achieve pay equality. A legacy, indeed. The report indicates that…
This evening, Dayna Evans, a former Gawker writer, published an essay at Matter arguing that Gawker Media has “failed its female employees.” This piece was intended—by Evans, by former Gawker editor Leah Beckmann, and by me—to run on Gawker.com. Late last week, Gawker Media executive editor John Cook decided to kill it, over my objection….
Last November, Rolling Stone published “A Rape on Campus,” a feature article detailing the alleged gang rape of a woman named Jackie at the University of Virginia. The article, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, has since been discredited, and its implications have been far-reaching for journalists, sexual assault prevention advocates, survivors and U.Va. students. But…
Share on Facebook (1,237) Tweet (348) Share (98) Pin (2) The technology industry is flush with companies forecasting the rapid growth of cloud computing over the next five to 10 years. Now Google, a relatively small player in the cloud market, has chimed in. Urs Hölze, senior vice president of technical infrastructure, predicted today at the Structure conference that Google’s cloud revenues would surpass its advertising…
With all the controversy surrounding the #BlackLivesMatter movement, it’s rare for a company as massive as Chick-fil-A to take a stand – but they have. A counter movement has come out of the media wreckage called #PoliceLivesMatter that urges citizens to respect police and understand that they are here to serve and protect, and…
The “Jem and the Holograms” comic books have a lot to say about power, what it means to be girly, and what comics can do. Credit Image courtesy IDW Publishing Barrier Status: ‘none’ If you want to see an exuberantly colorful all-ages tribute to girl power—colorful as in candy-floss pink and lime green—where serious ideas…