Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The nation was once again gripped by gun violence on Friday after a gunman identified by authorities as Robert Lewis Dear Jr. stormed a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, killing two civilians and one police officer and injuring nine others. It is just the latest in a year of more-than-daily mass shootings in America. In fact,…
A CNN article detailing the first day in the trial of one of six Baltimore police officers indicted in the death of Freddie Gray has sparked outrage online. Why? Because of the manner in which CNN journalists Ann O’Neill and Aaron Cooper referred to Gray’s mother. Following an otherwise straightforward lede, O’Neill and Cooper described the deceased…
Police have launched an investigation into the distribution of abusive cards on the London Underground purporting to be from a group calling itself Overweight Haters Ltd. A number of people have reported seeing passengers being handed the cards, said to come from an organisation that “hates and resents fat people”. A Twitter user named Kara…
Aviator Jerrie Cobb and a Mercury spacecraft. Photo from the public domain. Last month, an all-female Russian astronaut crew spent eight days together in a mock spaceship to determine how a group of women would interact during space travel as a test run for a 2029 mission to the moon. Sadly, at a press conference…
is this thing on? can you hear me now? Man, living in the future was supposed to include jet packs and flying cars, but instead all we got was terrorists who keep thinking of innovative ways to blow stuff up so we to take off our goddamn shoes at the airport. Oh, and we got…
http://www.patreon.com/jimquisition http://www.thejimquisition.com http://sharkrobot.com/collections/jim… Making money from the easily outraged may appear cynical and exploitative, but it actually isn’t. With a convenient boogeyman, the right rhetoric, and a little bit of good ol’ fashioned demagoguery, you’ll be stacking cheddar courtesy of those who’ll take any validation tossed their way. And the best part is how it…
Over the weekend, the New York Times published a story about Bluestockings, “a bookshop and activist center” in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The Times introduces staffer Senia Hardwick like this: Mx. Hardwick, 27, who prefers not to be assigned a gender — and also insists on the gender-neutral Mx. in place of Ms. or Mr….
Nick Bostrom, a philosopher focussed on A.I. risks, says, “The very long-term future of humanity may be relatively easy to predict.” Credit Illustration by Todd St. John Barrier Status: ‘none’ I. Omens Last year, a curious nonfiction book became a Times best-seller: a dense meditation on artificial intelligence by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who…
What happens if the press takes a stand on the truth — and no one cares? Reuters Critics have for many years inveighed against “false equivalence” or “false balance” in the mainstream press. This long crusade has finally achieved its grail, or at least a version of it: In this campaign season, political reporters have…
He’s crying because he’s a LOSER. The David Vitter Era, if there ever was such a thing, is over. The rightwing senator from Louisiana was flushed away like so much doody in the state’s runoff election for Governor Saturday, losing to Democrat John Bel Edwards by a ten-point margin, which for a Democrat in a…