Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
We live in a pretty polarized era. The internet has turned the world into a gigantic family Thanksgiving table, and everyone’s fighting about pretty much everything, always, forever. I know this. And yet I still have to admit I’m surprised by the level of anger and vitriol I’ve seen regarding something that you’d think would…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that beginning March 1, 2018 their pay-as-you-wish policy will undergo a change. From now, you can only pay-as-you-wish with a New York state ID, and if you don’t have one you can pay out your asshole for what’s supposed to be a free museum full of cultural artifacts….
Image via Getty. Do you ever look at the news and feel the urge to scream the F-word very loud? What am I even saying—of course you do! At this very moment, I personally am punching the air with limp fists weak with extended anger and vitamin D deficiency, shrieking “Fuuuuuuuuuck offffffff, Joe Biden, with…
Screengrab via Disney. Disney reportedly struggled to fill its male lead for Aladdin last summer. Perhaps it was all a clever marketing ploy to get the public invested, perhaps they wanted kudos for not immediately casting a white guy instead, but eventually, the role went to Egyptian-Canadian actor Mena Massoud. Now, what to do about…
Stephen Miller, an angry, obnoxious teen masquerading as an adult man, sat down for an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday afternoon. The interview did not go well, to put it mildly, and when Tapper pressed Miller on some of the depictions of the Trump administration in the new Michael Wolff tell-all Fire and Fury:…
Image via AP. New York State has launched a new “program” that would severely limit one of the few earthly pleasures permitted to prisoners during their time behind bars: Books. Directive 4911A, which is being piloted at three prisons around the state, limits the items available to inmates to just six vendors, ostensibly to “enhance…
GIF Image via ABC. During an interview with ABC’s Laura Spencer on the Golden Globes red carpet early Sunday evening, actor David Harbour (best known as the sheriff on Stranger Things) was asked what “Time’s Up” meant to him. Though he may not have known it at the time, his response was a perfect distillation…
Images via Getty At last night’s Golden Globes, zero men who got up onstage mentioned #MeToo or the #TimesUp campaign that decorated many of their lapels. Some of them, smiling big for the camera in a sea of black dresses, had their own rocky histories to contend with; the awards show that was supposed to…
Ads.txt is showing publishers that domain spoofing remains a big problem for their video ad businesses. In a study being published Dec. 12 by independent consultant Matthew Goldstein, a group of 16 publishers — including The Washington Post, Daily Mail, Turner, The New York Times and USA Today — found that advertisers spent $3.5 million a…
The Financial Times’ fight against domain spoofing is paying off. After catching 25 ad exchanges misrepresenting access to its inventory in September, the business news publisher took its fraud-fighting test a step further by purchasing counterfeit inventory that purported to be the FT’s to see which vendors were still selling fake FT impressions. Over few…