Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Illustration by Angelica Alzona/Deadspin/GMG When I was in high school, I let my guy friends shoot crumpled paper balls into my cleavage at lunch. I thought this made me cooler than the other girls, and that my ability to assimilate and remain sexualized was special. Besides, it was just a silly thing they did. It…
Photo Illustration by Elena Scotti/Deadspin/GMG, photos via Getty Images Here we are again in the midst of another news cycle involving a powerful man being accused of sexual assault and harassment and women sharing their own traumas in the hope that something—anything—will change the way men treat women and our bodies. If you remember, we…
In a CNN investigation published on Wednesday, Mark Halperin, an influential journalist and political analyst who co-authored the bestselling book Game Change, was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women who worked with him while he was political director at ABC News. Halperin is currently an analysis for NBC News. Five women shared previously undisclosed…
The famous tech blogger just showed us everything you shouldn’t do when you’re accused of sexual assault. Last Thursday, former Microsoft spokesman and well-known blogger Robert Scoble became the latest of the many, many men in the technology industry who have been publicly accused of sexual harassment this year. Scoble’s story came to light in…
Photo courtesy of Aimee Lutkin Even if they haven’t gone so far as to get formal self-defense training, many people (particularly women) have considered what strategies they’d deploy if they were attacked by a stranger. A popular thought is that one would use an object on your person as a weapon of defense—like keys, for…
AP On Tuesday, Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona announced he will be retiring from Congress in 2019. To that I say: Bye, bitch!!! Flake decided to announce the end to his political career in the most Jeff Flake way possible: with a grandstanding speech on the Senate floor. People like to characterize Flake as a…
Over the past two years, Adobe has ventured deeper into artificial intelligence with initiatives like Adobe Sensei, the AI the company is building to power many of its tools. In 2016 it demoed an experiment that let you literally put words into someone else’s mouth (some unrelated researchers took the idea even further and faked a speech by…
Apparently its drone plans are done for, too By Jacob Kastrenakes on October 23, 2017 12:30 pm Spectacles were one of last winter’s hottest gifts, but apparently demand for them quickly died off and left Snap in a bad position. The Information reports that Snap expected demand for Spectacles to continue after the holidays…
.entry-header Note: We’ve read the email sent out by Jack Conte. We still endorse this letter in full, our demands have not changed, and we will continue gathering support. You can read our additional response to Jack, and Patreon, below the signatures, here. We’re writing you today both as adult creators and concerned individuals about…
Delicious industrial goodness. Nesster/Cropped/CC BY 2.0 When you hear the name “Product 19,” you’ll either flash on an experimental invention from some corporate R&D department, or, if you’re one of its fans, you might think of the health cereal, rare in the aisles of American supermarkets yet loved all the same. But earlier this…