Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The parody account @TrustySupport is a bitter but hilarious send-up of Twitter’s track record on harassment (spoiler: they are not very good with harassment). Its tweets deride the company for a perceived insensitivity to users by issuing satirical messages in a spot-on social-media-PR voice, replete with emojis. On Wednesday, the account was suspended for at…
Screencap: Twitter In a remarkable meta-commentary on Twitter’s Report Abuse system, the parody account @TrustySupport, which mocks Twitter for failing to suspend harassing accounts, was, uh, suspended. So what happened here? @TrustySupport’s account was unsuspended after a few hours, leading me to speculate at the time that it had been a mistake. But after…
Bill Clinton has decided to start attacking his wife’s opponent for the Democratic nomination for president, since that worked so well eight years ago. At a rally in New Hampshire on Sunday, Bill mocked Bernie Sanders’s desire for “revolution” and accused Sanders supporters of sexism. Per the New York Times, Clinton portrayed Sanders as “hypocritical,…
After 45 years on this planet, Ted Cruz still hasn’t quite gotten the hang of his arms. This is fair. Arms just sort of dangle and you constantly have to figure what to do with them—you even have to think of things on the fly! I get it. We all wrestle with this task, but…
The existence and meaning of the “Bernie Bro” will continue to be contested by a bored and desperate political media, but the Tinder Berners, women who attempted to “take over” Tinder with messages of support for Bernie Sanders are for real—real enough that they’re now being banned from the dating app. But what if a…
“Talk Bernie to me,” shouted no one ever on a dating app, and yet that is happening: a very small army of self-motivated young women are using Tinder, Bumble, and all the other hellish, spiritually depleting find-love-quick programs on your telephone to campaign for Bernie Sanders. What’s it like to be on the receiving end…
Seven years after the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, the world economy continued to stumble in 2015. According to the United Nations’ report World Economic Situation and Prospects 2016, the average growth rate in developed economies has declined by more than 54% since the crisis. An estimated 44 million people are unemployed in developed…
 Yesterday, Bungie came out with another Destiny Weekly Update (now called âThis Week at Bungieâ) which detailed a few interesting PvP changes (no spawning with special ammo in some modes) and some PvE glitch fixes (fewer teleporting Ogres). What it did not do was dive into much more detail about […] Destiny’s ‘Crimson Days’…
In the last scene of Galaxy Quest, we see the once-washed-up actors, previously stuck in a decades-long hell of fan expos and ribbon-cuttings, back on the airwaves in a brand new show for the next generation of sci-fi fans! …Or so we think. There’s actually much, much more to it. And it involves energy-hungry feds…
Messaging app Line has been having a growth spurt. Carla Zanoni, executive emerging media editor at The Wall Street Journal, claims it has been the Journal’s fastest-growing social channel, reaching over 2 million followers since it launched on the Japanese app 15 months ago. “I’m not seeing that kind of growth anywhere else, period,” she told…