Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
(The following story has been updated and was originally published on Real Money on June 17, 5:48 p.m. ET) Ask Chip Wilson who is to blame for the plight of the company he founded, Lululemon Athletica (LULU) , and he loudly and clearly points at the yoga-apparel maker’s longest-standing board members. Lululemon has been under…
Tire drag tracks, by Richard Misrach. Near Calexico, California, 2014. To track migrants, Border Patrol agents use an old Native American tracking technique called “sign cutting” or “cutting for sign.” They drag tires behind trucks to smooth out the dirt and desert sand, making it easy to see footprints or other signs of life….
One chilly afternoon in March, Michelle Malliett came home to her Mission district apartment to find a legal notice taped to her door. The notice gave her three days to move out of her two-bedroom apartment, an illegal in-law unit that she shares with her 17-year-old daughter. Her reaction? “I panicked,” she recalls. Malliett, 49,…
Picture a messy, frightening, real-life Pieter Bruegel painting in 21st century Louisiana, and you get a sense of what Shane Bauer’s life was like for four months in 2015. Seemingly interminable fights and stabbings. Prison guards with rap sheets. Rapes, suicidal inmates, and lockdowns. Cost-conscious bosses who endangered guards and prisoners with deep cuts to…
Power-lunch mecca The Four Seasons, which will serve its last meal on July 16 after 57 years, plans a “hush-hush” farewell party for famous customers two days earlier — but loyal employees will get only crumbs. Longtime staffers at the landmark Seagram Building eatery that’s a favorite of boldfacers such as Henry Kravis, Barry Diller…
Nintendo has publicly denied that joke from an E3 demo for the upcoming Wii U game Paper Mario: Color Splash is a reference to a harassment campaign that targeted game designer Zoe Quinn. The company says it’s a nod to the Watergate scandal from the 1970s. The jokes drew scrutiny yesterday as they were passed…
WILKES-BARRE, PA—Oblivious to the intense feelings of arousal coursing through the pre-adolescent’s body, local man Pete Strahl reportedly introduced his children to the film Field Of Dreams Monday evening, not knowing that its male lead, played by Kevin Costner, was sparking his son’s sexual awakening. Source: Blood-Drenched, Berserk CEO Demands More Web Videos
And so we meet again. I know I’ve said this before, but this time I mean it – this is easily, without question, the worst New York Times marriage announcement to date. The amount of submissions I got expressing reader disdain for this couple was so overwhelming that I had to bring this series out…
The worst thing I read this year, and what it taught me… or Can we design sociotechnical systems that don’t suck I found Shane Snow’s essay on prison reform — “How Soylent and Oculus Could Fix the Prison System” — through hatelinking. Friends of mine hated the piece so much that normally articulate people were at a loss for…
These days, it’s not all that uncommon to run into somebody who’s streaming and commentating while you’re playing a multiplayer game. If they’re not A Tool Of The Actual Devil, they might mute their mic. But in a team-based game you can’t always afford to do that. Dapper Dog managed to put together a Team…