Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It would be relatively simple to produce a web-based feed, outside of Twitter or Facebook, that includes only stories from vetted news orgs. That doesn’t mean that their stories are true, just that they are making their best efforts to produce real news. There’s no time to get into a deep philosophical discussion about this….
Retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn talks to media as he arrives at Trump Tower, Nov. 17, 2016, in New York. (Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP) More Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who reportedly has been offered the role of national security adviser in Donald Trump’s White House, began receiving classified national security briefings last summer while he…
Stephen Hawking attends the launch of the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. (Niklas Halle’n/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) If humanity survives the rise of artificial intelligence, the ravages of climate change and the threat of nuclear terrorism in the next century, it doesn’t mean we’re home free, according to Stephen…
Donald Trump only has two months to go from someone with zero political experience to someone who can do the job of president. Hence, it should come as no surprise that he’s investing his energy where it counts: On a victory tour. According to the Trump campaign’s advance team director George Gigicos, the president-elect is planning a “victory tour” of…
The 2016 election took place under the spectre of a bubble. Not the subprime mortgage lending bubble that shaped the 2008 election, but the “filter bubble”. Tens of millions of American voters gets their news on Facebook, where highly personalized news feeds dish up a steady stream of content that reinforces users’ pre-existing beliefs. Facebook…
No it is not. It isn’t about your feelings. In case you were wondering and a lot of you were. Before I get all the way into this, let me welcome my new readers. Welcome new readers. I post intermittently about a bunch of things that range in subject matter from knitting and my cat…
Great. This is a necessary behavior in the face of the election of the most overtly racist, sexist, xenophobic, anti- gender and sexual minority candidate in the history of the modern United States. You know the rhetoric of his campaign was wrong. It was the very worst thing about America and you want to do…
Writer Ariana Lenarsky was scrolling through her Twitter feed at 6:08 P.M. last night when she says she came upon a tweet from new_order_1488, a Neo Nazi account. “‘New Article: The United States Was Founded as a White People’s Republic’ on NEW ORDER website,” it read. The hashtag #WhiteAmerica followed. Racist and white supremacist content…
Your Post Has Been Launched! Fabulous! Don’t forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. 1. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday appointed Stephen Bannon, the controversial executive chairman of far-right website Breitbart, as his chief White House strategist and counselor. View this image › Evan Vucci / AP The appointment — Bannon first…
The Jew haters are celebrating. And Jews – from Jared Kushner to Sheldon Adelson –helped it happen. Screen grab of Donald Trump’s tweet of an image of Hillary Clinton with the words “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever” on a Star of David-like form. July 2, 2016.Twitter Tuesday’s election marked a stunning victory for Donald…