Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
CreditCreditMatt Chase “White men,” an obscure Australian academic named Charles Henry Pearson predicted in his 1893 book “National Life and Character: A Forecast,” would be “elbowed and hustled, and perhaps even thrust aside” by people they had long regarded as their inferiors — “black and yellow races.” China, in particular, would be a major threat….
It would be interesting, if it were at all possible, to do a study to determine which era of romantic comedy had the best talkers. The odds-on favorite would probably be the screwball comedies of the ’30s and ’40s. But there would have to be some consideration for the ’90s, and all its frankness and…
gallery js Paulie Gee’s in Greenpoint makes some of the city’s best pizza, but excruciating table waits and a notorious no-takeout policy means that it can be frustratingly difficult to actually eat there. Which is one of the reasons why two years ago owner Paul Giannone decided he needed another storefront for feeding this pizza-crazy…
Woody Allen, Timothee Chalamet. (Shutterstock) What reason would a for-profit company have to shelve a feature film starring Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Rebecca Hall, Jude Law, and Elle Fanning…aside from the fact that the director is Woody Allen, long-accused of having sexually abused his adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow (but not the one he…
Village Voice newspaper boxes on a sidewalk in 2013 (Mark Lennihan/AP/Shutterstock) Three years after buying The Village Voice, and a year after the paper shut down its print edition, owner Peter Barbey told the remaining staff today that the publication will no longer be posting any new stories. “Today is kind of a…
— Fires around the world, in Greece, Sweden, the United States; floods followed by heatwave in Japan; record temperatures all over… And this summer’s events are just a taste of what’s coming, as scientists have told us. Everything’s been said on the topic. Yet the disaster is right there, unfolding. Can you explain, rationally, why…
The other night my boyfriend Tor and I had a plan to go to the movies. I was excited to see the movie we were seeing, as was he, and we purchased our tickets online, early in the morning, because Tor told me that the new movie theater in our town, which is tiny, was…
Here’s a picture of Marlowe to make this post suck less. As most of you know, I deactivated my Twitter account earlier this month. It had been a long time coming, for a whole host of reasons, but Twitter’s decision to be the only social network that gives Alex Jones a platform to spew hate,…
Wil Wheaton has left Mastodon after facing pressure and hostility from both the community and the staff. Yesterday, Wheaton got bofa’d. A bofa is an adolescent prank named after its most popular iteration, bofa. The prank works like this; you drop bofa into seemingly innocuous conversation, and when they ask what is bofa, you say…
Google isn’t one to shy away from bold claims. “We have had no reported or confirmed account takeovers since implementing security keys at Google,” a spokesperson told TechCrunch. And it’s probably true. Think of a security key as like a two-factor authentication code that’s sent to your phone — but instead a USB stick in your pocket….