Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
For $1,000 a day, David Markovich will teach the old people in your office how to use Slack. Don’t know what Slack is? He can help. The 27-year-old runs ChatOverload, a consulting firm that helps companies modernize team communications using the popular, two-year-old messaging platform. For less tech-savvy (or millennial-savvy) organizations, Markovich holds seminars, builds custom Slackbots, and explains…
The latest would-be presidential candidate spent just under a week in the spotlight — long enough to confound official Washington, but not long enough to make a national splash. He passed that time whizzing from his home in Columbia, Tenn. to New York City to Washington, D.C., before ending up at a farm in Woodstock,…
Thanatos A Vampire Tale Inspired by True Events “Today’s creepy is tomorrow’s necessity.” –Sean Parker. Just a single prick. That’s all Jane Watson needed. But in recent weeks at Stanford, the young students, delicious and full of blood, had been harder and harder to come by. At first, she had no trouble finding a fix….
Around 7.30pm local time, approximately 1,000 demonstrators clashed with Trump supporters leaving the arena in San Jose where Trump spoke. But earlier in the afternoon, hundreds of protesters, mostly Latino students from nearby colleges and high schools, as well as a large contingent of union members, had gathered peacefully outside the convention center, chanting their…
I have always liked to imagine that I was conceived the night before my dad went to war, mid-October 1939. I know he came home in 1940. He was part of the British Expeditionary Force that retreated from northern France and he was on the last boat leaving Cherbourg just as the Germans were on…
It was surprising to hear the news last week that right-wing billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been secretly trying to destroy Gawker Media through proxy lawsuits. It was dispiriting, and less surprising, to hear the conversation that followed the revelation. The discussion begins, in most cases, with the premise that Gawker is bad. Even those…
We fiddle, and the republic burns. It’s sickening. Donald Trump, man-child arsonist, is day by day torching the most sacred American values — threatening the welfare of millions, undermining the pillars of our democracy, igniting the ugliest impulses of the society’s id — and we, the media, are covering it like a bemused recap of…
LOS ANGELES — Hillary Clinton has secured enough delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination, according to the Associated Press, emerging from a long and bruising primary season to become the first woman to lead a major party in the race for the White House. A bitter nomination battle that Clinton was once expected to…
Header art by Fabiola Lara I Censor My Queerness Around My Straight Friends “Oh, I had no idea, you don’t seem queer.” This is the response I have received time after time when I mention my queerness. It’s never uttered with malicious intent and it’s a sentence that’s usually followed by supportive, friendly questions, but…
Illustration: Jim Cooke Tuesday is the California primary, wherein Golden State voters will be asked to pick a replacement for long-beloved and mostly normal outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer. With the primary comes the Official Voter Information Guide and Candidate Statements, which is a perennially fun read, since California primary candidates are among our nation’s weirdest….