Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
.entry-header A Harris County grand jury has declined to indict Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Inc. after a two month investigation. The announcement from the Harris County District Attorney’s Office adds that two people involved in making undercover videos of the clinic were indicted. David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt have both been indicted by the grand jury for…
John “TotalBiscuit” Bain is not the first to struggle with social media as he’s become more popular, nor is he the first to announce he’s quitting a service like Twitter. But uniquely, the YouTube star is living with terminal cancer, and his statement on why he’s leaving is gut-wrenching and understandable. Bain first discussed his…
I’ve been using React.js for about 6 months now. In the grand scheme of things that’s not very long at all, but in the ever-churning world of JavaScript frameworks, that just about qualifies you as a bearded elder! I’ve helped out a few people lately with React starter tips, so I thought it would be…
There’s this app called Wire, which I love. It’s the most beautiful messaging app I’ve ever tried: super-clean backgrounds, a heavy emphasis on user photos and clean design, and a great mix of calling, texting, and weirdly great GIF search. It works across all the platforms I use, and it works well. It’s my ideal…
Amazon’s customer service backdoor As a security conscious user who follows the best practices like: using unique passwords, 2FA, only using a secure computer and being able to spot phishing attacks from a mile away, I would have thought my accounts and details would be be pretty safe? Wrong. Because when someone has gone after…
I always imagined I would sooner die than retire. Not because I love work and hate scrapbooking. Just the opposite! But as an oldish member of the youngest working generation, my fantasies of environmental and economic collapse were, until recently, slightly more vivid than my sense of mortality. Now, the economy is back from the…
Al Jazeera America’s employees didn’t see it coming. They thought they had more time. The cable news channel was always a gamble. Everyone knew that — the anchors, the producers, the engineers. And in retrospect, the channel was probably doomed from the get-go. But the business plan called for seven to ten years of huge…
Mayor de Blasio updated the city on the post-blizzard state of affairs, with his biggest concern keeping the streets clear—and to that end, alternate side parking has been suspended for the entire week. “We want people to stay off the streets, keep their cars where they’re parked,” he said. “It will take a lot of…
Last week I critiqued Bernie Sanders for dismissing reparations specifically, and for offering up a series of moderate anti-racist solutions, in general. Some felt it was unfair to single out Sanders given that, on reparations, Sanders’s chief opponent Hillary Clinton holds the same position. This argument proposes that we abandon the convention of judging our…
Bernie Sanders speaking in Littleton, New Hampshire, August 2015 (Michael Vadon / Flickr) Paul Krugman has joined the self-appointed political grownups closing ranks around Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders. In a piece titled “How Change Happens,” the liberal economist and New York Times columnist insists, “The question Sanders supporters should ask is, When has their theory of change…