Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Over the past few months, I’ve been making a handful of “honeybots”– bots that act as a honeypot for Twitter troll. There are a lot of people on Twitter who search for specific terms and then yell at people who mention them; they go on about topics that range from chemtrails and the flat earth to various…
Story highlights Serena Williams is engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian The tennis champ announced the news on Reddit The couple have been dating since 2015 A spokesperson for Ohanian confirmed that he popped the question while the two were vacationing in Rome. Williams first announced the news herself in a Reddit post on its…
“They said banning me from Twitter would finish me off. Just as I predicted, the opposite has happened,” says Yiannopoulos. Milo Yiannopoulos has parlayed his ban from Twitter — and some controversial appearances on college campuses and cable TV shows — into a $250,000 book deal with Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster,…
Julian Assange is a deeply polarizing figure. Many admire him and many despise him (into which category one falls in any given year typically depends on one’s feelings about the subject of his most recent publication of leaked documents). But one’s views of Assange are completely irrelevant to this article, which is not about Assange. This article,…
Photo: Twitter Many people would say that computers have been a boon to both science and society, facilitating calculations and communications unfathomable in the pre-digital age. President-elect Donald Trump, however, is not one of those people. Asked about possible sanctions against Russia for electoral interference on Wednesday, Trump suggested we all “get on…
The internet has become a powerful tool in igniting new movements from generations-long conversations and political activity. Online hashtags and teach-ins, tweets, blog posts and inventive use of new media have forced attention on interpersonal violence issues including campus sexual assault, untested rape-kits, street harassment, and domestic violence. But these discussions, educational efforts, and organizing…
Graduate school is pricey. Very pricey. But with the dearth of data coming from schools on how their students perform financially after graduating, it can be nearly impossible to figure out whether taking thousands of dollars in loans or eviscerating your savings account will actually pay off. To figure out which graduate school degrees tend…
The Russian Olympic Committee’s building in Moscow in 2015. Many of the athletes pictured in the building’s hallways have been implicated in this year’s doping scandal. Credit Pavel Golovkin/Associated Press MOSCOW — Russia is for the first time conceding that its officials carried out one of the biggest conspiracies in sports history: a far-reaching doping…
Even as Uber Technologies Inc. exited China, the company’s financial loss has remained eye-popping. In the first nine months of this year, the ride-hailing company lost significantly more than $2.2 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. In the third quarter, Uber lost more than $800 million, not including its Chinese operation. At…
Well this is new, 300×250 units from ad exchanges designed to look like Taboola/Outbrain units CC: @robleathern 5 replies3 retweets15 likes Reply 5 Retweet 3 Like 15 View Tweet activity More Aram Zucker-Scharff @Chronotope Oct 27 So it turns out this image, which I’ve been seeing all over goes to a link that has…