Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed a bill into law on Monday that makes police dashboard camera and body camera footage exempt from the public record. House Bill 972 does make such video accessible to people who can be seen or heard in it, along with their personal representatives ― but they must file…
Future trend story: I caught all the HPV thanks to Pokemon Go! (Photo courtesy Jen Chung) The Pokemon Go zombie wave is here, with the delightful cartoon cockfighting app augmenting reality from the 9/11 Memorial to Manhattanhenge. And while some devotees of the game have publicly declared that Pokemon Go got them laid, we now…
Why catch ’em all yourself when she can catch ’em for you? via Craigslist So you see everyone playing Pokémon Go, and you’ve decided that you, too, would like to catch ’em all. On the other hand, you’re American, so you’re left crying out “Can’t someone else do it?” Well good news: Someone can,…
Dear Akilah, I recently noticed your campaign against BuzzFeed on Twitter. You claim BuzzFeed is stealing your ideas and the ideas of other independent video producers; you launched an online petition against BuzzFeed, you encouraged your fans to contact our advertisers, you described us as “mother fuckers,” and you said our stealing is “egregious.” I’m…
.entry-header So I had wine and I am very tired and so I am a bit tipsy but I saw the Tarzan movie so I thought I’d give my honest review. Excuse typos because you know, wines. Ok so I don’t know what the plot is or who is in it other than Alexander Skarsgard…
1. They would be really keen to point out when heshows off his waist. Chris Ratcliffe / Getty Images / Jasmin Nahar / BuzzFeed / dailymail.co.uk 2. And when he makes some ~adventurous~ wardrobe choices. Oli Scarff / Getty Images / Jasmin Nahar / BuzzFeed / dailymail.co.uk 3. They would applaud him for bringing trousers to theforefront of fashion. dailymail.co.uk / Jasmin…
The newsroom is an exhilarating place to be. Stories break. News moves fast. I go to a mid-morning meeting every day where the reporters on my team throw out ideas about what they might be interested in covering, then I go write a few lines of code, add a few features, grab a lunch break,…
Sarah Jeong, a contributing editor at Vice’s Motherboard vertical, is a Poynter fellow in journalism at Yale and a fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry. She is on Twitter (@sarahjeong). I’ve never spent as much time outside as I did last weekend, as evidenced by my first sunburn in years. I was playing…
Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Bad news for millennials who’ve embraced post-incarceration Martha Stewart as a give-no-fucks, hoverboard-riding icon: Your queen has forsaken you. In a new interview with Luxury Listings, Stewart dragged millennials, saying: Now we are finding out that they are living with their parents. They don’t have the…
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