Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
First, you have to gather the cash to preorder the game at the local GameStop, where your cousin works, and, even though he hooks it up with the employee discount, the game is still a bit out of your price range because you’ve been using your Taco Bell paychecks to help your pops, who’s been…
It takes some planning—and a good deal of patience—but railroad die-hards say nothing beats a long train trip through the United States. Here’s what to know before you embark. SOUND TRACKS Amtrak’s Coast Starlight service skirts the Pacific Ocean between Los Angeles and Seattle. PHOTO: AMTRAK IT WAS 4 A.M. and a toddler was relentlessly kicking the back…
A group of conservative Colorado Catholics has spent millions of dollars to buy mobile app tracking data that identified priests who used gay dating and hookup apps and then shared it with bishops around the country. The secretive effort was the work of a Denver nonprofit called Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal, whose trustees…
Last November, Michael Morell, a former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, hinted at a big change in how the agency now operates. “The information that is available commercially would kind of knock your socks off,” Morell said in an appearance on the NatSecTech podcast. “If we collected it using traditional intelligence methods, it…
There are now 700 million CCTV cameras in Communist China. Those electronic eyes are attached to the most complete state apparatus of surveillance yet imagined. It has the ability not only to recognise faces at a distance, but gait itself when facial features are hidden or obscured. Such capability can, and soon will, be augmented…