Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
(Twitter) There are literal textbooks for online harassment, the original dating back to 1999. These “ruin-life” guides include tactics from doxing and SWATing to placing endangering or annoying ads in online classifieds. As popular as those techniques remain, however, online harassers have learned that they can cause far more damage with a slightly less flashy…
Driving while black in California can be expensive, especially if you are poor. According to a report by Back On the Road California, a consortium of social justice and legal groups, black drivers in the state are more likely to have their licenses suspended for failure to appear in court or failing to pay a…
It didn’t take a startling expose about mismanaged sexual assault claims for women to know that Uber is not the most female-friendly service in this, our sharing economy. But when BuzzFeed News got a hold of some leaked screen shots from Uber’s internal customer support interface, seeing the words “rape” and “sexual assault” appear more than 10,000…
Recently, functional programming conference LambdaConf announced Curtis Yarvin would be speaking at the event. Yarvin, who writes online as “Mencius Moldbug,” is a prolific blogger whose devotees describe themselves as Neo-reactionary, or part of the “Dark Enlightenment.” A White supremacist movement, Neoreactionaries re-cast eugenics and scientific racism as “human biodiversity,” believe democratic government should be…
This post was originally published on Wait But Why. I woke up this morning to a text. It was a link: “optimistic-people-have-one-thing-common-always-late.” Intriguing. Nothing’s better than the headline: “The reason people are [bad quality that describes you] is actually because they’re [good quality].” I got to reading. And as it turns out, according to the…
One of those homes had been Anna and Davey’s, and now it was just Davey inside with the doors locked and bed sheets blocking the windows. His mother’s medications were still stacked on the counter. Those were her clothes strewn across the living room, her microwaved jambalaya leftovers in the sink and her $8.75 liter…
Perhaps you missed it because you have a life, but celebrated American journalist Gay Talese found himself in the outrage buzzsaw last week when the 84-year-old author failed to quickly state that he was influenced by scads of amazing lady-writers. Oh my, the tears that were shed! The garments torn! How dare the author of “Frank…
WASHINGTON — Racial justice and Black Lives Matter activists based in New York say they question the sincerity of Bill Clinton’s statement at the NAACP last summer that the longer sentences in the 1994 crime bill were “overdone” after he clashed with BLM protesters earlier this week. On Thursday, after protesters interrupted Bill Clinton’s remarks…
This article discusses the plots of Mad Max: Fury Road, Ex Machina, and Room in their entirety. A video made the rounds last May that mashed the catchy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt theme song with footage from Mad Max: Fury Road. How funny, the video seemed to imply, that these two wildly different pieces of…
Get the five stories that will challenge you to rethink the world by signing up for MicCheck Daily. Love of the Force has awakened once again with the release of the first trailer for forthcoming Star Wars spinoff movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. There’s lots of things to look forward to from the trailer. At the most…