Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Police arrested 74 people at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Rochester, New York, on Friday amid nationwide protests against police shootings of black citizens. The Rochester demonstration was one of many held in the wake of deadly police shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and came after the sniper attack…
rend image 12 News Officers deploy pepper spray on protesters in downtown Phoenix on July 8, 2016. Officers deploy pepper spray on protesters in downtown Phoenix on July 8, 2016. less PHOENIX – Police continued trying to disperse protesters gathered in downtown Phoenix hours after a planned rally got underway. Officers deployed tear gas to…
Development on No Man’s Sky has finished. Hello Games founder Sean Murray confirmed in a tweet that the game, which hits PlayStation 4 and Windows PC on Aug. 9, has finally gone gold. “It’s happened,” he wrote. “No Man’s Sky just went gold. I’m so incredibly proud of this tiny team. [Four] years of emotions.” ######## END SNIPPET…
Overseas buyers are now retreating from the US home market, thanks to slackening world economies, higher home prices, and a strong dollar. This week the National Association of Realtors released its annual report on international buying. It found that together, resident and non-resident foreigners invested $102.6 billion in the US home market between April 2015…
GIF Playing Pokémon Go this week has proven to be pretty difficult thanks to a wide array of issues plaguing the augmented reality game. Things got to an iffy start right from the get-go, given the lack of clarity from developer Niantic as to when the game would actually launch across various regions. Players were…
Warning: Pokemon GO is a Death Sentence if you are a Black Man. This week has been a catastrophe for Blackness…and it’s only Thursday. Two men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, were killed by police officers within 24 hours of each other. Neither had committed a crime that was punishable by death nor did they…
Ladies, what the fuck. We are (Lord willing) mere months away from finally having the first woman president. National female voices like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren and Ruth Bader Ginsburg appear stronger than ever. At the same time, personality journalism appears to be gazing longingly backwards toward an era full of Playboy bunnies and…
Begin: WordPress Article Content As large platforms like Facebook and Apple position themselves as the new go-to places to read news, an independent app that started in Japan has landed a new round of funding to raise its own game. SmartNews — a news aggregation app that works with some 1,500 publications and selects stories for you based on your…
Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson is suing the network’s CEO and chairman Roger Ailes, alleging a pervasive practice of sexual harassment. Now Ailes is vigorously denying her accusations and Fox’s parent company is conducting an “internal review.” Carlson, 50, was removed from her 2 p.m. newscast “The Real Story” in late June. The lawsuit…
Left: Daniel Holtzclaw, half Japanese American, convicted of raping and assaulting 13 black women on the job; Right: Peter Liang, Chinese-American, convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed, innocent black man As my black and brown friends on Facebook express grief and horror at the recorded murders of #AltonSterling and #PhilandoCastile, the majority of my Asian/Asian-American…