Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
When New York magazine teased Jonathan Chait’s coming opus on race, politics and free speech last Friday – “Can a white liberal man critique a culture of political correctness?” — the hook alone was enough to send his Twitter haters into multiple ragegasms. I thought folks should save themselves some grief and at least wait…
<span><span><span class=”message_content”>How the language police are perverting liberalism. </span></span></span> How the language police are perverting liberalism. Around 2 a.m. on December 12, four students approached the apartment of Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student at the University of Michigan, who had recently published a column in a school newspaper about his perspective as a…
If there’s something worse than discovering your ‘boyfriend’ is a bot, it’s discovering that your bot-friend is a human. Photograph: Tara Moore/Getty Images In the middle of composing my second text message to my boyfriend, it dawned on me that he probably wasn’t a robot. I was testing with Invisible Boyfriend, a new app that…
Warren Ellis hates super-heroes. At least, that’s what people say. He certainly has played his part, through a few off-the-cuff remarks, in this misconception. But it would be more accurate to say that Ellis hates how much the super-hero genre dominates comics. Ellis also didn’t grow up immersed in super-heroes, the way many comics creators…
By Bennett Stein, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project & Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project at 7:15pm The Drug Enforcement Administration has initiated a massive national license plate reader program with major civil liberties concerns but disclosed very few details, according to new DEA documents obtained by the ACLU…
The first teaser trailer for Chronicle director Josh Trank’s take on The Fantastic Four is finally out, and it looks amazing. Here we see the cast show off their new powers, and it already looks significantly better than Fox’s first outing with the property a decade ago. via Watch the first teaser trailer for The Fantastic…
Let me be 100% clear on this: F*ck the ad analytics industry. These companies are nothing but bunch of exploitive bullshit operations with malfunctioning code and an overly large stake in the only operation (IAB) that polices them, to let them get away with it. Why publishers ever agreed to a measure like viewability that,…
article start The online ad world is racing to make viewable ads–ads people can actually see–the standard currency for the industry. And that race is causing major pain for Web publishers while wreaking general havoc in the ad marketplace, say executives from major media companies, digital native sites and top ad agencies. Making viewable ads…
In centuries, when we look back at the menswear seasons of yesteryear, autumn/winter 15 will be remembered first and foremost as the season that Rick Owens sent three penises down his runway. It sounds silly in this day and age, but while no one bats an eyelash at female nudity on the catwalk, the male…
On Sunday night, a woman who has dominion over our universe was crowned in Doral, Florida. It was the Miss Universe pageant. There were hockey sticks on dresses, an ambassador for child prostitution, and a big upset. Here’s what you may have missed. Who won? (Getty Images) Miss Colombia (Paulina Vega). Miss USA (Nia Sanchez)…