Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It is Hillary Clinton Day and all the neoliberal shills are so scited! They are like, touch us with a Bad Touch, Hillary Clinton, we are wearing vagina hats and are into you in a sexual manner! They are tweeting things like this picture of a Union Square Barnes and Noble Barnes & Noble in…
In real life, nobody has the decency to realize that they’re the bad guy until it’s too late. The worst thing about the historical record is that it is usually written after the fact. Just think, if we could only get our hands on advance copies of tomorrow’s historical bestsellers, we could work out once and…
TechCrunch: Tesla has pushed an over-the-air update to some of its vehicles in Florida that lets those cars go just a liiiittle bit farther, thus helping their owners get that much farther away from the devastation of Hurricane Irma. Tesla owners in Florida may be grateful for this mileage boost as they escape the ravages of Irma…
Yesterday, Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie, uttered a racial slur while streaming PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. We wrote a news piece about it. The responses to the article were a mixed bag. There were plenty of readers who were appalled and disturbed by the instance. However, in the past 24 hours, supporters have come to Kjellberg’s defense, saying…
(Alyssa Morgenstern) The L train’s been spared the brunt of MTA woes of late, but today straphangers were treated to extensive delays, thanks to a train with mechanical problems. The situation seems rather unpleasant: As usual, the @mta can’t figure out how to do their one fucking job. The L train has…
Contents Introduction: What a lousy party! “You’re a womanizer, baby” “But the James Bond ’60s were the most sexist time of alll!!!” Beyond the Broads: James “Totally Reckless” Kirk and the Very Exciting Prairie Lights Poetry Readings He Still Attends When He Goes Back to Riverside, Iowa to Visit His Mom The Unicorn-Dog and the…
The credit reporting agency, Equifax, announced on Sept. 7 that a hack has impacted the credit histories of up to 143 million Americans. Here’s what you should do if you believe you are affected. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post) This story has been updated with comments from the CFPB and the New York Attorney General’s office….
The credit reporting agency, Equifax, announced on Sept. 7 that a hack has impacted the credit histories of up to 143 million Americans. Here’s what you should do if you believe you are affected. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post) Equifax said Thursday that it will offer free credit monitoring services to all U.S. consumers for one year, after…
cache hit 1516:single/related:c1eac07f6d627062c9127c08bed0632d empty It’s a sad reality in 2017 that a data breach affecting 143 million people is dwarfed by other recent hacks—for instance, the ones hitting Yahoo in 2013 and 2014, which exposed personal details for 1 billion and 500 million users respectively; another that revealed account details for 412 million accounts on…
Credit Daniel Zender I’ve been studying Americans’ accelerating penchant for blending the fantastical into the real world — from Disneyland to reality TV, from themed restaurants to war re-enactments to ubiquitous porn to Burning Man. So I started seeing evidence of the phenomenon in some very unlikely places — such as the excessive police response…