Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
close shareTools Saturday evening, I got a call that no parent wants to get. It was my son calling from college — he’s a third-year student at Yale. He had been accosted by a campus police officer, at gunpoint! This is how my son remembers it: He left for the library around 5:45 p.m. to…
A man in his 30s was shot in an apparent suicide attempt outside the News Corp. building at 1211 Sixth Ave. on Jan. 26, sources said. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Trevor Kapp MIDTOWN — A man fatally shot himself outside the News Corp. building Monday, police sources said. Philip Perea, a 41-year-old Texas resident, shot himself…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Things are getting pretty strange out there. Roughly a year ago I wrote a post entitled “This Industry Is Completely Ridiculous.” Since then, as you probably already know, our world has gotten even more surreal. If anything the ridiculousness is accelerating. It’s like the tech industry is subject to a Moore’s…
Wikipedia editors have been banned from topics relating to gender and sexuality. Photograph: Wikipedia Wikipedia’s arbitration committee, the highest user-run body on the site, has banned five editors from making corrections to articles about feminism, in an attempt to stop a long-running edit war over the entry on the “Gamergate controversy”. The editors, who were…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Editor’s note: Levi King is the CEO and founder of Creditera.First we went online to learn. Then we naturally started buying stuff. Smart retailers learned to target us based on our behavior. We searched and they reacted through pay-per-click and display. Then folks like Amazon used purchase history data to get smart about predicting what else…
Watch Emma Watson’s Second Excellent Speech About Gender Equality By Meg Watson 24/1/15 end article header At this point, I think it’s safe to say Emma Watson is absolutely killing it in her new role as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. Her speech in September last year was watched more than 11 million times and inspired…
NEW YORK—As a major winter storm continued its advance toward New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio advised residents Monday to make peace with whatever higher power they call God, for all shall meet their death in the coming tempest. “The furious hoarfrost bearing down upon us knows neither mercy nor reason, and all within…
Why We Give Our Favourite TV Shows A Free Pass Even When We Probably Shouldn’t By Sinead Stubbins 16/1/15 end article header Like learning that your significant other secretly watches The Big Bang Theory while you secretly listen to Taylor Swift*, confronting the flaws in your favourite things is a tough business. That’s probably why…
The UK is becoming a nation of grafters. With living standards at their lowest in a decade and real-term wages falling 8 per cent since the financial crisis, more people are cramming extra work into evenings, weekends and even their lunch hours to supplement their main incomes. Officially, the average number of hours Britons work each week…
1 No one on TV ever does paperwork. As everyone knows, for every second a real policeman spends on the beat, he or she wastes about a day and a half filling in endless, pointless, politically correct forms. Likewise, TV teachers are never seen marking homework or filling in the 38 risk assessment documents required…