Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
This is one of the weirdest blog posts I will have to write and I am incredibly bemused and unhappy to have to do it. The short version: There was a ridiculous and unholy Twitter spat going on two years ago. The result of that spat was that an absurd number of allegations about who…
Jacobin Magazine published a piece by Amber A’Lee Frost on Saturday denouncing the “troubling new trend in younger leftist circles” of ascribing all sexism to “bros”. The article hung all of its critical extrapolation on what amounted to two tweets, one by Aaron Bady, and a second by Al Jazeera English writer Sarah Kenzior. Kendzior…
After Kenny Rocks cleared two feet of snow away from his Chevy parked outside his home this weekend, he thought it might be funny to post up a sign that warned those looking for a spot to stay away from the one he’d already cleared out. So he grabbed a pizza box, a Sharpie and a broomstick…
The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker’s Sundance darling period piece about the deadliest slave insurrection in American history, was purchased by Fox Searchlight on early Tuesday morning for $17.5 million. It was the largest deal in Sundance history, and coverage immediately suggested that The Birth of a Nation will function as some way through…
Salon dips back into its nostalgia file with horrifying results: During her two presidential campaigns, Hillary Clinton has consistently drawn greater support from women than men. Is this gender lag due to retrograde misogyny, or does Hillary project an uneasiness or ambivalence about men that complicates her appeal to a broader electorate? As a career…
Oracle is taking the final step to rid the web of its terrible Java browser plugin. While the plugin started off life back in the ’90s as an innocent way to bring app-like features to browsers, in recent years it has been a headache to users and IT admins struggling to fight against its mountain…
Ammon Bundy speaks to the media in front of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters on Jan. 6 near Burns, Ore. Bundy was arrested on Tuesday. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Ammon Bundy speaks to the media in front of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters on Jan….
Theranos chief executive Elizabeth Holmes gestures as she speaks at a technology conference in October (Glenn Chapman/AFP/Getty Images) Theranos, the high-profile Silicon Valley company that promised to revolutionize blood testing, was warned by federal regulators this week that its Newark, Calif. laboratory has “deficient practices” that “pose immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety,” according…
Photo William Chick, who was fired from the Wounded Warrior Project in 2012 after a dispute with his supervisor. He said the charity swiftly fired anyone that leaders considered a “bad cultural fit.” Credit Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In 2014, after 10 years of rapid growth, the Wounded Warrior…
Officials from the World Health Organization said on Thursday that the Zika virus is “spreading explosively” in the Americas and announced that they would convene an emergency meeting on Monday to decide whether to declare a public health emergency. close nocontent “The level of alarm is extremely high,” said Margaret Chan, the director general of…