Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
On the Fetishization of a Brooklyn Neighborhood and the Problem with Saying Park Slope Has a Small Town Feel Yesterday, the New York Times Real Estate section ran a story about what it’s like to live in Park Slope, a neighborhood which, the paper declared, is an ideal place to “grow into.” And while I have…
Ross Ulbricht. Image: Facebook On Wednesday, prosecutors in the Silk Road trial began to lay out the wealth of evidence found on the laptop taken from accused kingpin Ross Ulbricht when he was arrested in a San Francisco library in October 2013. The evidence presented by prosecutor Timothy Howard was the most comprehensive and…
Illustrations by Susie Cagle. I imagine that someday I may have a story written about my life, and it would be good to have a detailed account of it. — from Ross Ulbricht’s laptop, home/frosty/documents/journal/2012/q1/january/week1 When Ross Ulbricht, the alleged operator of a massive online drugs black market, was arrested on October 1,…
Facebook announced yet another tweak to the algorithm that governs its users’ News Feeds yesterday. The social network has introduced a new tool that allows users to flag a post as “a false news story.” The move follows a few other attempts by the platform to better delineate different types of content. For example, in…
Speaker of the House John Boehner and Republicans passed a bill Thursday that would codify a ban on federal funding for abortions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) | ASSOCIATED PRESS Entry Text On the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion rights decision in Roe v. Wade, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 242-179 to…
A gigantic mushroom cloud billowed over Nagasaki, Japan, when an atomic bomb was dropped on the city in 1945. Credit: U.S. National Archives The world is “3 minutes” from doomsday. That’s the grim outlook from board members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Frustrated with a lack of international action to address climate change…
/.byline-inner Nearly every single trend people used to wear in the ’90s has made a comeback by now: relaxed-fit jeans, logo tees, turtlenecks, camel coats. Many of them played a big role in last year’s normcore movement. If we’re going to be honest, though, most of us who are loving the redux probably didn’t wear…
Welcome to Antiviral, an occasional column in which we run down the worst hoaxes, pranks, Photoshops and straight-out lies blowing up on the internet. Nothing is true anymore, everything’s a hoax, and it’s all the internet’s fault. Come onnnn. You don’t really believe that, do you? Humans have always made up stories. And we’ve been…
Capcom’s next-generation reboot of survival horror classic Resident Evil has lots of new additions – including breast physics Photograph: public domain I need to get something off my chest. Well, I need to get my chest off my chest. No, wait, let’s start again. Video games are a technological art form. Anything you can imagine,…
On Sunday morning, Dec. 7, Michael Jeffries called some of the senior executives at Abercrombie & Fitch to discuss the holiday season. That was typical Jeffries. He was the creator and chief executive officer of the modern-day Abercrombie and had controlled virtually every aspect of the company for the past 22 years. He approved every piece of…