Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The hope was to eventually identify the slaves’ descendants. By the end of December, one of Mr. Cellini’s genealogists felt confident that she had found a strong test case: the family of the boy, Cornelius Hawkins. Broken Promises There are no surviving images of Cornelius, no letters or journals that offer a look into his…
LOS ANGELES — Sorry Paramount Pictures: Fans of Ghost in the Shell are still mad about Scarlett Johansson being cast instead of an Asian actress as the lead. So mad, in fact, that many are utilizing Instagram to Photoshop Asian actresses into the recent still provided by the studio. Ghost in the Shell, based on the popular Japanese…
As a young astronomer, Joan Schmelz worked alongside men and the pinups they tacked to the lab walls. She didn’t have a precise vocabulary for the subtle harassment she experienced every day. Schmelz’s supervisor gossiped about her to colleagues and demeaned her, making inappropriate comments that highlighted their uneven power dynamic. When Schmelz, now a…
Hello everyone, I’ve had a great first week at Mashable. I’ve really enjoyed getting to know you all by spending time in editorial meetings and chatting individually with many of you. Thanks for being so welcoming. I’m very happy to be here – and as I meet everyone I’m increasingly excited about what we’ll do…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Defending a Texas state law banning the sale of sex toys, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz argued in a 2007 court brief that individuals have no legal right to use them, even in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Prior to becoming a U.S. senator, Cruz was for more than five…
On October 4, 2012, two FBI agents visited the home of Matthew Keys, aged 25, in Secaucus, New Jersey. At the time, he was the deputy social media editor for Reuters. Special Agents John Cauthen and Gabriel Andrews showed him a sheaf of papers—a search warrant over 50 pages including chat transcripts. Keys was…
remember remember Who Is Matthew Keys? Matthew Keys is an Internet hero, I guess. He was a social media guy with a big Twitter following, and then he lost or quit his job after publicly criticizing his TV station’s newscasts, and then he went into Anonymous’s chat room (they have a chat room) and was…
Now with Kerning! We have a Special Celebrity Guest Comment of the Week this week, from the very person who we wrote about right here at Yr Wonkette! Thursday, we ran a story about Matthew Keys, a jerkbaby who was convicted of computer criming for distributing his LA Times administrator login and password to an…
Although the term “supermodel” didn’t become popular in fashion lexicon until the mid-1950s, Audrey Munson would definitely have been considered one, if she’d begun her career at that time. Instead, Munson’s career happened many decades earlier, in the early 1900s. You’ve probably seen her work many times, even if you don’t realize it, because she served as a sculptor’s model for several famous statues. Here…
Why don’t “booth babes” get considered to be Women In Games? I am not the first person to ask this question. Model View Culture’s “Feminists in Tech: Please Stop Treating Sex Work as a Contagion” serves as a concise introduction to the topic. That article is a year old. This topic, and variations upon it,…