Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
On a warm-for-March night, a foursome led by a 23-year-old fledgling fashion designer named Andrew Warren shimmied themselves into an Uber S.U.V. They were heading from a pajama-themed party at the Dolce & Gabbana store on Fifth Avenue to dinner at a new restaurant, Vandal, on the Bowery. Dressed in a black corseted two-piece lent…
Photo: adwarren/Instagram Today the New York Times’ “Style” section brings us a delightfully nauseating look into the lives of New York City’s “Snap Pack,” a group of wealthy 22-year-olds who are doing a lot with their personal Instagram and Snapchat accounts. Some of them may already be familiar to you…
Photo: mskyrakennedy/Instagram Have you heard of the “Snap Pack”? So christened yesterday by the New York Times, the Pack is a group of privileged 22-year-olds living, loving, and Snapchatting in New York City. They are the sons and daughters of Matisses, Kennedys, and Trumps, and now some of them are…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s daughter Kyra Kennedy, 20, used Instagram to pick on a New York magazine blogger — and now she’s being forced off social media by her dad, his reps told Page Six. The bullying brouhaha began when Allie Jones of New York magazine fashion blog the Cut wrote a short post about…
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Illustrations: Jim Cooke/Gawker One afternoon in early January, just outside the small, north Texas town of Pottsboro, Vincent Smith shot and killed his friend, Charles Carter, who was drunk. The two were members of the American patriot movement, and they had been organizing, through Facebook, a march of gun rights evangelists on Washington. According to…
The latest startup to “catch Silicon Valley’s eye” is a company called Juicero that’s selling, essentially, a $700 Keurig for organic cold-pressed juice. Even though it offers the kind of overpriced, niche gizmo you’d find in a Hammacher Schlemmer catalog, the company is flush with $120 million in investment capital. Silicon Valley giants are betting…
Image: Getty I was kind of tired of the FBI vs. Apple story, but now it has a secret collective of morally ambiguous hackers, and I’m into it again. According to a report from the Washington Post, the Federal Bureau of Investigation paid a group of hackers a one-time fee to pinpoint a zero-day security…
My path to a career in software engineering should have been simple. I grew up in Silicon Valley, the child of two software engineers with computer science PhDs. I went to high school in Mountain View—the land of Google. Later, I went to college at Stanford University, where our university president was a computer scientist…
Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., last month. (AP Photo/Steven ) Inside the hallowed halls of Harvard University, one of the most exclusive colleges in the world, there are ever more hallow, exclusive halls: those of the university’s “final clubs,” or undergraduate social clubs known for their selectivity and secrecy. But now, in the age of…