Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
July of 2015 is officially the moment of both peak geek nostalgia and peak geek nostalgia criticism. In less than two weeks, we’ve seen the release of Ernest Cline’s book Armada and the Adam Sandler movie Pixels, two different pieces of fiction with the same weirdly specific premise: aliens are here to kill us all, and only…
The worst of Silicon Valley is the same, just flipped over and dipped into darkness. Listen, can you hear it? It is the sound of some other company as it hockey-sticks across graphs. It is a rags-to-riches story of a group of hardworking dreamers. It is one elite list after another, ranking everything from creativity…
Like several great memes before it, this one began at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which has since its inception been ripe for rabid online ingestion via themes of humiliation, fear, and triumph of the adolescent spirit. It’s a live television event akin to the grammatical Hunger Games, wherein wee sprouts still small enough to…
Continuing the controversial conversation of the lack of diversity in the fashion world, W Magazine has released a dope spread in their current August issue featuring all black models. Styled by renowned fashion stylist Edward Enninful and W’s current fashion and style director, the feature includes a plethora of savory shades of brown from caramel to dark chocolate….
Some would consider it as sacrilegious as when Coke dabbled with its classic formula back in the 80s, but after 98 years Converse has updated its iconic Chuck Taylor All-Stars. On the outside they look nearly identical, but on the inside the Chuck II is actually far more comfy for your feet. Before you feel…
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Very, very mild spoilers for Inside Out follow. An important part of the climax of Pixar’s wonderful new film Inside Out involves the realization that all of our emotions are important, that feeling sad can be just as crucial as feeling happy, no matter what others might tell you. But the movie also reveals that…
Huge database hacks are now so common that there is a secondary industry of credit and identity-fraud protection services. It’s almost a form of theater by now. The typical sequence is: A massive company fails to secure your data, and a hacking group copies that data without permission; The breach is discovered either by internal…
This article mentions sexual assault and rape. It also includes spoilers for Steven Universe. Steven Universe has never shied away from issues regarding sexuality, introducing topics such as unconventional family dynamics and gender fluidity into the lore and backstories of the characters since the beginning. In the recent episode “Keeping it Together,” which clocks in…
Shutterstock Human: what is the colour of blood ? Machine: it is the same as a black eye . Artificial intelligence just got threatening. A chatbot has learned how to hold a conversation by analysing millions of movie scripts, allowing it to muse on the meaning of life, the colour of blood, morality and…