Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Cartoon Network’s ‘Steven Universe’—one of the most popular cartoons on American television —advances a positive, important argument for the future. It’s time to pay attention to its hero. Just like my annoying kid sister, Steven Universe, the television show, didn’t pop into this world fully formed and cool as hell. It took time for it to become…
A boy willing to love anyone he meets has become a compass guiding me toward the man I’ve always hoped to become. Steven Universe, an emotional inspiration. InToni Morrison’s Song of Solomon—my favorite novel—lived a woman named Pilate Dead. (Morrison makes much of names.) The aunt of protagonist Macon “Milkman” Dead, she is a unique woman: a…
GIF The year 2016 has been an ice cream sundae of realized horrors, topped off by a human that actually looks like a cherry if that cherry was radioactive and run over by a convertible. A lot of fears that used to feel outlandish suddenly seem pretty plausible: apocalyptic climate change, nuclear war, fascism, close-up…
Facebook is partnering with fact checking organizations to eliminate the scourge of fake news from your feed, only it doesn’t seem like partnering. Aren’t partners supposed to treat each other like equals? Many of the common objections* to journalism by the alt-right center around news being click-bait and rather uninformed discussions of impression-based advertising. The…
This came from an article in yesterday’s Washington Post. Over the next year or two, media — especially prestige print media — will begin thinning out its ranks. The economic forecast, despite temporary spikes in post-election subscriptions, is not good and headcount spots will have to be cleared to make room for all the incoming pro-Trump takes. “Identity politics writers” (read:…
By Adam Mosseri, VP, News Feed A few weeks ago we previewed some of the things we’re working on to address the issue of fake news and hoaxes. We’re committed to doing our part and today we’d like to share some updates we’re testing and starting to roll out. We believe in giving people a…
Passengers (2016 film)The signs to be hopeful were all there: A pair of dependable movie stars, a bullish Oscar-season spot on the release calendar, a director hot off of an…Passengers (2016 film)Sci-fiPT116MPG-13The signs to be hopeful were all there: A pair of dependable movie stars, a bullish Oscar-season spot on the release calendar, a director…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Unity is making a huge bet on VR and is aiming to ensure that developers have plenty of reasons to build their virtual reality titles on the company’s game engine. Today, the company has released a preview build of its EditorVR tool which allows game designers to dive into their creations in…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Snopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact, and ABC News will help Facebook make good on four of the six promises Mark Zuckerberg made about fighting fake news without it becoming “the arbiter of truth”. It will make fake news posts less visible, append warnings from fact checkers to fake news in the feed, make…
The band at D.C.’s Howard University, which marched in Obama’s first inaugural parade, also did not apply to march in Trump’s parade startclickprintincludeThe Ballou High School marching band proudly represented D.C. in President Barack Obama’s second inaugural parade, Jan. 20, 2013. Here’s the band on the parade route. (Published Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016) endclickprintinclude startclickprintinclude…