Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
An advertisement for a Black Friday sale is seen on the front page of the Los Angeles Times in November in downtown Los Angeles. PHOTO: ROBYN BECK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Benjamin Mullin Jan. 19, 2018 2:30 p.m. ET 0 COMMENTS Employees at the Los Angeles Times have voted to unionize, a historic shift for a publication long resistant to…
Olympic gold medalist gymnast Aly Raisman delivered a 13-minute victim impact statement today in front of Ingham County Circuit Judge Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and Larry Nassar himself, in which she excoriated not just Nassar for his sexual abuses against herself and nearly 150 other athletes, but also USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee for…
Scott Olson/Getty Images During the first day of sentencing this week of Larry Nassar, the former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics doctor who will spend the rest of his life in prison and is accused of sexually abusing more than 150 women and girls, no MSU officials were in the courtroom. A school spokesperson said they…
Illustration by Jim Cooke/GMG Seventeen years ago, the U.S. women’s gymnastics team placed fourth at the Sydney Olympics, finishing behind Romania, Russia, and China. Coming four years after the gold medal from the Magnificent Seven, this placement was seen—both inside and outside the sport, by the press and by coaches like the famed Bela Karolyi—as…
“We protect our athletes. That’s what we learned from 2000. Not just physically but mentally, you have to protect your athletes. You have to let them know you care.” Those are the first words you’ll hear from gymnastics Dr. Larry Nassar—now disgraced as more than 80 women have come forward saying he sexually abused them…
close story-meta Photo The newsroom of Página Siete, a Bolivian newspaper. Traffic to the publication’s website plunged by 20 percent after Facebook began testing a new version of its News Feed in Bolivia. Credit Gonzalo Pardo for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — One morning in October, the editors of Página Siete, Bolivia’s third-largest…
Chinese employees eat dinner during a midnight work break at a tech company in Beijing. In China it is quite usual for managers to have working dinners followed by two or three meetings © Reuters Michael Moritz January 17, 2018 The declaration by Didi, the Chinese ride-hailing company, that delivery business Meituan’s decision to launch…
Apple forgot the greatest lesson of the MacBook Air The MacBook Air is widely considered the best computer ever made.Image: megan uno/mashable By Raymond Wong2018-01-16 23:17:43 UTC Ten years ago, Steve Jobs hopped on stage at Macworld 2008 and did another one of his seemingly impossible magic tricks: He undid the string on a manila…
Source: Trump is making the racist subtext text – Vox
Coercion is not consent. It is sexual abuse. It is sexual assault. It is rape. And “no” is a complete motherfucking sentence. [TW/CW: Descriptions of sexual assault, violence and rape culture.] With each 24-hour breaking news cycle I wait for the inevitable fall of another admired hero. I’ve almost gotten used to the gut-punch…