Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
This week, Amazon announced that it’s launching a new type of grocery store. You walk in, pick up the boxes of food you want, and you walk out. Thanks to a combination of modern tracking technology, artificial intelligence, and a mobile app that has your payment information, you don’t need to interact with a single…
Trump shows he has nothing in his pockets. Photo: Getty A remarkable thing occurred today. It was a Sunday morning, and instead of critiquing last night’s Saturday Night Live, Donald Trump decided to talk about all the things he’s going to change. He talked about lots and lots of things—including climate change. It has been…
Late on Wednesday night, the federal judge in Michigan whose emergency order set a statewide recount into motion earlier this week lifted that order, in deference to the state court of appeals, effectively ending the recount and confirming Donald Trump’s victory there over Hillary Clinton. The Green Party has petitioned for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan,…
Photographed by Matthew Frost I first met Michelle Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll in 2011, when I was 15. I was obviously nervous but was immediately put at ease when she gave me and my mom a big hug and we all instantly bonded over our height. “Oh, we like tall girls…
Image via AP. The National Park Service, at the request of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, has filed a “massive omnibus blocking permit,” for the Lincoln Memorial, most of the National Mall, Pennsylvania Avenue, and the Washington Monument. The move means that as of yet, no protest permits have been given out for the weeks preceding…
Image via Getty. Donald Trump was scheduled to make a stop in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday to meet with survivors of the Ohio State University attack in late November. At least one of the people stabbed by student Abdul Razak Ali Artan has taken a hard pass. Mediaite reports that Professor William Clark appeared on…
Donald Trump’s transition team has asked the Energy Department for a list of names of all agency employees and contractors who worked on the Obama administration’s climate change policy. A 74-point questionnaire, first reported on by Bloomberg and obtained by Politico, is being circulated by the DOE. The department, which has reportedly turned the questionnaire…
Photo: AP On Saturday, we learned that Tim Cook and Sheryl Sandberg were among a handful of tech moguls being summoned to Donald Trump’s gilded lair for a mysterious summit this week, but the full roster of invitees remained unknown. Today, The Wall Street Journal revealed another name on the President-elect’s guest list: Tesla and…
Photo: Getty In less than two days, executives representing some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies (including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg) will assemble at Trump Tower at the President-elect’s request. Until now, the exact purpose of the gathering has been unclear, but a new Forbes report suggests Trump’s primary motive is…
Illustration: Jim Cooke, Screenshot: HBO HBO’s Westworld, the haunting tale of what can happen when cowboy sex robots go awry, spent its first season unwrapping many of the mysteries that so captivated its audience—save, that is, the question that has tormented fans most of all. And that’s apparently exactly how HBO wants it. Several days…