Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
If you’re like me and the grief you are feeling in response to our current political situation is keeping you from sleeping at night, it looks like you’ve got a place to go this month. On Saturday January 28, one week after inauguration, the French Embassy and Brooklyn Public Library are hosting a twelve-hour Night of…
News organizations have been producing loads of video content to fill social media feeds and attract higher ad rates, but a new report from the social analytics firm Parse.ly finds that users engage with video much less than other content types. Parse.ly examined the performance of four types of posts within its network of 700…
A month ago, when Donald Trump’s transition team was still rejecting U.S. intelligence about Russia helping get the Republican elected, Kellyanne Conway said the only people concerned about the scandal are those “who want this to be the permanent campaign.” Yeah, about that. President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t yet been sworn into office, but he’s already…
“I will not allow Justin Bieber to taint an entire genre for me,” said the street artist and Obey founder in a video for Hypebeast which is interestingly not at all ironic. “If you’re gonna wear a band tee, you better know about that band,” says Shepard Fairey, forty-nine seconds into a video interview for Hypebeast spectacularly…
People protest Donald Trump’s appointment of Steve Bannon to be chief strategist of the White House on Nov. 16, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.David McNew/AFP/Getty Images The Women’s March on Washington has released its official policy platform, a far-reaching four-page statement that takes clear stances on reproductive rights, immigration reform, and worker’s issues. Christina…
Image: AP This morning, the Guardian published a story with an alarming headline: “WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages.” If true, this would have massive implications for the security and privacy of WhatsApp’s one-billion-plus users. Fortunately, there’s no backdoor in WhatsApp, and according to Alec Muffett, an experienced security researcher who spoke to Gizmodo,…
Here’s what your stolen identity goes for on the internet’s black market Identities for sale on AlphaBay, a dark web marketplace. The going rate for a stolen identity is about twenty bucks. Tens of millions of people have lost their private information in data breaches over the past few years. But what happens after that—how…
TT he other day on Twitter, a man posted a picture of my coloring book he’d given his daughter for Christmas. He was excited to give her a coloring book full of badass intersectional feminists. He wanted to thank me for creating it. “I don’t know,” chimed in a random stranger (because Twitter), “Sounds like…
Is Monster Trucks good? Hell no. Is it bad? It is a disaster. And because it is a disaster, it’s almost kind of fun to watch. Presuming you don’t go out and pay for it and have to find a theater. Also, if you’re an adult? Booze would help. If I had watched Monster Trucks…
< ?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″????> Anthony Rushton, Telemetry CEO. Bloomberg/YouTube Telemetry, an adtech outfit that specialized in detecting fraudulent traffic and was once tipped to be worth $486m plus a possible IPO, has closed its operations The Drum has learned – a development that took place in the immediate aftermath of the recent Methbot revelations. Industry…