Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
No chief executive at the nation’s 100 largest companies had donated to Republican Donald Trump’s presidential campaign through August, a sharp reversal from 2012, when nearly a third of the CEOs of Fortune 100 companies supported GOP nominee Mitt Romney. During this year’s presidential primaries, 19 of the nation’s top CEOs gave to other Republican candidates, including…
To view the interactive version of this list, visit this page on another platform, like your phone’s mobile browser or your computer’s browser. 1. Proposed to create a database system to track Muslims in the U.S. 2. Made fun of a reporter’s physical disability 3. Advocated shutting down mosques 4. Claimed he saw thousands of…
To: Everyone From: Paul Farhi Subject: “The media.” Folks, I know a lot of you don’t like the people who work in my chosen profession, the news business. I’m aware you think we’re lazy and unfair (yes, I got your emails and tweets on this topic — a few thousand of them). Of course, I…
Updated Sept. 24, 2016 9:56 a.m. ET IN AN UNMARKED BUILDING on a quiet side street just off the beach in Venice, California, 26-year-old Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel stands in a small conference room. He’s draped a towel over a mysterious object sitting on a table. He is eager to the point of jitters. “You…
Enlarge this image Last Thursday, Donald Trump stated he believes President Obama was born in the United States after years of questioning his place of birth. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call,Inc. hide caption toggle caption Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call,Inc. Last Thursday, Donald Trump stated he believes President Obama was born in the United States after years…
Hey everyone — there have been questions about Chris Ziegler and his absence from The Verge in the past few weeks. I want to provide answers for those who have been worried about him. First, Chris accepted a position at Apple. We wish him well. Second, the circumstances of Chris’ departure from The Verge raised…
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has secretly been spending some of his Facebook millions on funding an unofficial Donald Trump supporters group that “shitposts” anti-Hillary Clinton memes and images. In a report tonight on The Daily Beast, 24-year-old Luckey is revealed as a financial backer for Nimble America, an organization that promotes Trump in the forthcoming presidential election…
In the next fifty years the entirety of our inherited archive of cultural works will have to be re-edited within a network of digital storage, access, and dissemination (Jerome McGann, 2001) You have to put the corn where the hogs can get at it (Bill Clinton) Only the paranoid survive (Andrew Grove) Introduction At the…
My day started with a video. A grainy scene shot on a school bus by a child with a phone; it captured a few seconds of some jolly middle-schoolers from Maryland chanting, en masse: “1,2,3,4, how many niggers are in my store?” Voices brimming with hilarity and excitement, they no doubt repeated that phrase over…
When Idiocracy was released in 2006, it didn’t make much of an impact upon the world. In fact, most people didn’t even know it existed. 20th Century Fox had a contractual obligation to release Mike Judge’s follow-up to Office Space, but they pretty much just tucked it away. After being sat on for more than…