Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Flas.) speaks during a rally on Friday in Dallas. (Brandon Wade/AP) DALLAS — For the first eight minutes of his final pre-Super Tuesday rally in Texas, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) ditched one of the tightest stump speeches in politics and hurled a luxury tower’s worth of kitchen sinks at Donald Trump. He mocked his…
UPDATE (2/19/16): We have extended our deadline for applications by 1 week! Apply by 11:59pm EST on February 26, 2016. Recipients of the Remix Residency will be chosen by March 18, 2016. NYPL Labs is pleased to announce our first Remix Residency, designed to spur transformative, interesting, beautiful new uses of our digital collections. We have been…
As of today, it is with great regret that NBC Universal Media LLC. has sent us a Cease and Desist in regards to the Battlestar Galactica: Fleet Commander mod. This comes directly from their legal department. As a friendly reminder, Battlestar Galactica is owned solely by NBC Universal. We had a great amount of fun…
In 1979, six women directors banded together to challenge the male-run Hollywood machine—then the industry tried to erase them. On the eve of the Oscars, the Original Six share important truths about the industry. Nell Cox lives on the Upper West Side in one of those kooky apartments you see only in Nora Ephron movies—quaint…
36 year-old DESTROYS 29-year-old millennial who “ripped” 25-year-old Yelp employee who got fired after complaining about her salary ♬ Listen to this Story or Read it in German, French, Spanish On Friday, a Yelp/Eat24 employee wrote a blog post to her CEO about her minimum wage compensation, which she said came out to about $8…
WASHINGTON — Republican senators are finding themselves in the hot seat for promising to block President Barack Obama’s potential nominee to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. As Democrats tried to raise the pressure on their recalcitrant colleagues on Thursday by accusing them of abandoning their responsibility to the Constitution, Republicans on Capitol…
You may have seen a story kicking around these here internets over the weekend — that is, if you weren’t busy laughing at Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz celebrating their second-and-third-place victories in South Carolina. The story involved a Yelp employee who dared to criticize the company publicly for employee mistreatment, then was almost immediately fired….
In the 90s, before Hillary Clinton was taking private meetings with Deray McKesson and campaigning on promises to end mass incarceration and reform mandatory minimums, she was a little less enlightened, shall we say, on issues around race and criminal justice. At a speech last night, two Black Lives Matter activists took her to task…
If you look very closely at America, you can see the poor physically growing apart from the rich, like a polar bear drifting out to sea on a broken chunk of ice. A new report out today from the Economic Innovation Group (a “centrist” think tank funded largely by civic-minded tech executives) examines inequality in…
Business Insider has publicly stated that it wants to significantly expand its operations in Europe. The company currently employs—at least—dozens of people in Manhattan, where its American headquarters are based—and CEO Henry Blodgett has plans to hire even more employees, if you can believe it. But relatively little is known about what Business Insider does…