Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Everything old, or not really that old, is new again in Silicon Valley. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, Google is working on its answer to Snapchat. It’s called Stamp — a portmanteau of “stories” and “AMP,” the acronym for Accelerated Mobile Pages, Google’s quick-loading web articles — and you could…
The Diviners author Libba Bray has some thoughts on this all-female Lord of the Flies remake Vania Stoyanova; Scholastic Paperworks This week, news broke that an all-female remake of Lord of the Flies may be the works at Warner Bros. Audiences responded vocally on Twitter, and many noted that there were plenty of all-female nods to William…
By Patrick Kulp2017-09-01 18:47:07 UTC Pour one out for Juicero.The company behind the infamously useless $400 machine that empties fruit pulp out of bags has officially run out of juice. The once-hyped startup became a poster child for Silicon Valley’s most ridiculous excesses when Bloomberg discovered earlier this year that it could be disrupted by…
Nine percent of Americans said holding neo-Nazi or white supremacist views is acceptable, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll released Monday. The results of the survey come as the White House continues to field the fallout from President Trump’s comments following a white supremacist rally that left one counterprotester dead and numerous others injured earlier…
Young conscious hip-hop star Joey Bada$$ chose to be rebellious during Monday’s solar eclipse, and the decision might’ve been a costly one. After tweeting that he was gazing at the sun without protective eyewear during the eclipse—the one thing every news outlet stressed that you shouldn’t do—Joey announced on Twitter that he canceled his Cleveland, Chicago, and…
Even though she’s been wiped clean from the web, I still found Nicole Mincey. The Nicole Mincey who was personally thanked by President Trump on Twitter over the weekend. The one everyone thinks is a bot. She’s a real person—with a slightly different name—living in Newark, New Jersey. The online phone number listed for the…
Following a slew of Facebook measurement errors, a bombshell ad fraud report by White Ops and an uproar over ads on YouTube appearing next to extremist content, many advertisers remain flummoxed by programmatic advertising. About a year ago, Digital Content Next, a trade association for premium publishers including News Corp, Hearst and The Washington Post,…
Publishers are running into a wall with so-called native ads. Once seen as the panacea for declining digital ad rates, these ads that are designed to mimic editorial content have turned out to be costly to make and distribute and hard to scale, which makes them a tough sell with advertisers and also eats into…
Let’s Talk About “White People Facing the Most Discrimination” and Other Insane Trump Voter Fallacies It has been more than two years since Donald Trump first descended the escalator at Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for president, but that doesn’t mean the majority of Americans are any closer to understanding the mentality of his…
Long Reads is a bimonthly feature, showcasing long-form essays. The Internet has been raging in the wake of the Charlottesville, Virginia tragedy on a recent Saturday afternoon at the Unite The Right rally — an event organized to unite white nationalist, alt-right, white supremacist, far-right militia, neo-nazi, and neo-confederate organizations. The groups gathered to protest…