Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Credit Nicolas Ortega To hear the Christian right tell it, President Trump should be a candidate for sainthood — that is, if evangelicals believed in saints. “Never in my lifetime have we had a Potus willing to take such a strong outspoken stand for the Christian faith like Donald Trump,” tweeted Franklin Graham, the son…
Tesla’s Elon Musk: Not a mass transit fan. Richard Drew/AP The Tesla CEO’s recent comments about public transportation triggered a firestorm of criticism. Here’s why. Like many tech entrepreneurs, Elon Musk is trying to reinvent public transit. But his comments at an event last month, as reported by Aarian Marshall in Wired, made many…
In the last year ProPublica has uncovered a number of different flaws in our advertising systems. Several of them were serious failures on our part. It’s why we apologized and took immediate action to prevent them in the future. Today ProPublica has raised new concerns about companies, including our own marketing team, using Facebook…
Inside the booming market for food in pouches, Inside the booming market for food in pouches, clear electronics, pocket-less clothing and other corrections-approved goods. To stop drugs and weapons from entering jails and prisons, many corrections agencies bar family members from mailing packages or bringing them during visits. Those who want to send food, clothing…
Change could impact a massive money-maker for Apple Credit: Chesnot/Getty Images Sometime this week, Apple changed the guidelines for applications and games sold through iTunes to include a requirement that developers now disclose the odds connected to loot boxes in apps. Listed as a new bullet item under In-App Purchases on Apple’s official…