Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The problem with Twitter, and especially the reason why it has so many dormant users, is that using Twitter for long periods of time is a fundamentally unpleasant experience. The product is not a joy to use. When users have an unpleasant time with a product, they don’t always complain loudly, they just sort of stop… using… it… The…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Include: Need For Transparency And Accountability Tech companies have gotten better about disclosing their diversity data, but there are still a ton of companies that haven’t done so. In the reports that do exist, what’s often missing are insights around retention rates, which can be good indicators of a company’s culture and what…
The Facebook “like”—a cornerstone of the service—is evolving into a cadre of six emotions. The social networking giant—which just reported that it has 1.59 billion users worldwide—is rolling out Facebook Reactions. Soon, American users will be able to choose between angry, sad, “wow,” “haha,” “yay” and love emojis to express how they feel about a…
Our nation has problems, and your nation has problems, but be thankful you don’t live in Venezuela, which is truly one of the most fucked places on earth. Sure, Syria has a horrific war and plenty of nations around the world have populations that are destitute and disease-ridden. But the thing that really hurts is…
I suppose hating on the inexplicable hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory for portraying nerds poorly is like hating the birds for singing: it’s just what they do. But now they’ve dragged Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples’ incredible scifi-fantasy comic Saga into their excrement. Mentioning Saga is actually an impressive nerd reference for a…
Four years ago, out of morbid curiosity, I clicked on the homepage of a stranger who had been saying aggressive, repulsive things to me on Twitter, and found my way to his personal YouTube channel. I was relatively new to blogging on a national platform, and struggling to get my bearings in the thick of…
Last Saturday, Susan Sarandon appeared at the SAG Awards in a plunging white blazer and black bra that made appreciators of breasts and Susan Sarandon alike all stop in their tracks and say, “DAMN, MAMA LOOKS GOOD.” Media chode Piers Morgan, however, took a more prudish and ZZZZZ-worthy line of thought. Morgan’s issue, it seems,…
On Tuesday, 24-year-old Caroline E. Nosal has the misfortune of becoming Madison, Wisconsin’s first homicide in 2016. Nosal was murdered by co-worker Christopher O’Kroley, 26, because she turned down his romantic advances. O’Kroley was fired from his job at the Metro Market grocery store in Madison on Monday. According to the complaint, O’Kroley had already…
Harley Quinn Smith, daughter of director Kevin Smith, was recently standing outside a Brentwood Starbucks waiting for an Uber when two men pulled up in a beige car and tried to convince her that they were her ride. They were not. She described the scary situation on Instagram: I was just standing outside a Starbucks…
Two Virginia Tech students, a man and a woman, are accused of carefully plotting the murder of a 13-year-old girl, prosecutors said Thursday. David Eisenhauer, 18, and Natalie Keepers, 19, are charged in connection with Nicole Lovell’s death. An anonymous law enforcement source told CNN they believe the motive for the crime was to conceal…