Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Yesterday, I installed the Drumpfinator. This is the famous Chrome extension, launched by John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, that replaces the word “Trump” with “Drumpf”—his ancestral name—everywhere it appears in your browser. I wanted to understand the appeal of these extensions, and why they have emerged as a cultural force over the course of the…
Just a few weeks ago, West Virginians passed a law overriding the cruel, barbaric raw milk prohibition that’s plagued the state for years. To mark the occasion, these same dairy-loving lawmakers downed what else but a tall glass of milk—raw and dirty just like god intended. In totally unrelated news, a bunch of West Virginia…
William F. Powell, a 27-year-old waiter at the IHOP in Downtown Brooklyn, was arrested recently for allegedly giving out about $3,000 in free beverages to customers over a seven-month period. He faces charges of grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, and petit larceny, for the crime of being a cool waiter. “I am the…
It probably won’t surprise you to learn that Marco Rubio very much regrets getting so nasty and personal with Donald Trump on the campaign trail recently. After avoiding going after Trump for months, Rubio unleaashed on The Donald in remarkably personal ways, even his now-infamous implied dick joke. In a preview of Rubio’s MSNBC town…
Vivienne Ming, a serial entrepreneur, theoretical neuroscientist, and Big Data specialist, likes crunching numbers. For three years, she has calculated the cost of being different—that is, how much harder do you have to work as a woman, or as a gay man, to get the same jobs and the promotions as a straight, white man?…
Donald Trump talking about the (alleged) size of his dick was only the moment of reckoning. The trend had been building throughout the primaries. Before Trump talked about the size of his dick, Trump called Ted Cruz a pussy, he attacked Megyn Kelly for having the audacity to menstruate, and he claimed that Carly Fiorina was too…
Uber—despite ignoring and dismissing literally thousands of complaints from customers and drivers regarding sexual assault within Uber vehicles over the past three years—would like us women to know that they’ve got our backs. Hey, thanks, Uber. In a blog posted on International Women’s Day, Uber Senior Program Manager Blair Mattson wrote a special thank-you to…
Having recently distanced themselves from Dr. Luke (real name Lukasz Gottwald) during his tense legal battle with singer Kesha, bosses at Sony, according to The Wrap, have begun the process of trying to figure out how to terminate the producer’s contract. The decision reportedly has nothing to do with Dr. Luke’s alleged sexual abuse towards…
The New Media is Made of Memes After months watching Snapchat’s irresistible Discover stories, I am everything but informed Gif by Ellen Porteus A year ago, Snapchat, the world’s fastest growing social network, told advertisers, media companies, and writers like me everything we wanted to hear. With the debut of its new media hub Discover,…
As goes oil, so goes the stock market…“there will be blood” The “stable” oil market… Following yesterday’s noisy drop, today was the echo with a noisy choppy low volume rally as Oil sparked the momentum in the pre-open, but stocks decoupled lower from both JPY and Oil (smashed lower on weak wholesale trade data and…