Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Entry Text What does a white girl gotta do to get arrested around here?? Comedian Jessie Kahnweiler wanted to know if she would get preferential treatment from the police simply for being a white woman. The results are hilarious — and frightening. Kahnweiler pretty brilliantly shows how a funny, bubbly white girl can get away…
Survival indie MMO Rust recently changed how players were assigned characteristics for their avatar. Everyone used to start as a bald white man, then the developers decided to alter avatars’ race and face. Here’s the catch: You don’t get to choose. As lead developer and studio owner Garry Newman wrote: “Everyone now has a pseudo…
The 5 Most Insulting Defenses of Nerd Racism News has broken that Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle) is being considered to play Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) in the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. Naturally, comic book fans across the Internet are furious, because they’ve had it with all the reboots and just want to preserve the…
In 2006, Oprah Winfrey cancelled an appearance on her show by Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the parents whose 15 children had made them famous not just to fellow evangelical Christians but to the secular world as well. The loss of the Oprah special was no obstacle to the Duggars, who continued to star in…
Over the last few years, Taylor Swift has become one of the two or three biggest pop stars in the world. She has accumulated no fewer than four homes (including a $3.5 million place in Beverly Hills and a $20 million Tribeca penthouse) and drawn enormous press and media attention. She’s still on the cover…
“On a plate.” A short animated story. Hitting a little too close to home – Album on Imgur.
5 Helpful Answers To Society’s Most Uncomfortable Questions How many of you are old enough to remember “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” that shit-awful Billy Joel song in which he unconvincingly insists over and over that he didn’t cause the apocalypse? <br /> Well, what I am finding as time goes on is that we…
Do you have a fancy college degree or a job in a STEM field? Do you have fewer than two tattoos? Do you avoid Tinder dates and songs with explicit lyrics? Do you spend more than two hours a day exercising? Then you may be qualified to live at the Startup Castle, a self-proclaimed “community…
This may appear to be a small point in the grand scheme of the conversations sparked by the Baltimore uprising but the number of times I have seen this on Facebook over the past few days (and time and time again before that) is too many to count. I lived in Maryland growing up so I have…
What if a stalker had an army? Zoe Quinn’s ex-boyfriend was obsessed with destroying her reputation—and thousands of online strangers were eager to help. The first thing Eron Gjoni said after sitting down across from me at Veggie Galaxy in December was that he would probably violate his gag order if he talked to me….