Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Image: Screengrab via Twitter Товарищи, Terrible news. Project Gizmodnik, our brilliant plan to secretly infiltrate the U.S. tech media for the glorification of Matushka Rossiya’s Great Leader Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and/or the destruction of global capitalism*, has been compromised by American “super spy” Eric Garland. Fellow deep cover Russian operatives, you may remember…
Behind every bad tweet is a life story in miniature. Let Drew Magary explain. As a professional online person, I have a soft spot in my heart for bad tweets. Sure, I like to chortle at a good tweet from one of the many amateur Mitch Hedbergs plying their trade on social media. But nothing…
Time, as they say, makes fools of us all. Others might say that so too does an animatronic facsimile of the 45th President of the United States. On Wednesday, actor and comedian Jay Malsky shared a video of his recent visit to Walt Disney World in Florida, where he attended the theme park’s “Hall of…
Bitcoin, an imaginary kind of computer money made up by a mystery man, is a valuable financial asset. It is being traded daily by educated professionals, based upon rational financial calculations, so you may rest easy knowing that its value is safe, just, please, DON’T READ THE NEWS, EVER. Everything is different now: One of…
Image: Lucasfilm Given that you’re reading this online, chances are you’ve also read about The Last Jedi being divisive. Many, many fans are angry at the film for trying to do something new with their beloved Star Wars franchise. Some feel powerless. Others take their gripes to the petition website Change.org. While we at io9…
.entry-header Most of the time, I feel a little bit sorry for people who make horrendous translation mistakes. This is not one of those times. .entry-summary .post-thumbnail OK…I have to say that, most of the time, I feel a little bit sorry for people who make horrendous translation mistakes. This is not one of those…
By Patrick Kulp2017-09-01 18:47:07 UTC Pour one out for Juicero.The company behind the infamously useless $400 machine that empties fruit pulp out of bags has officially run out of juice. The once-hyped startup became a poster child for Silicon Valley’s most ridiculous excesses when Bloomberg discovered earlier this year that it could be disrupted by…
Young conscious hip-hop star Joey Bada$$ chose to be rebellious during Monday’s solar eclipse, and the decision might’ve been a costly one. After tweeting that he was gazing at the sun without protective eyewear during the eclipse—the one thing every news outlet stressed that you shouldn’t do—Joey announced on Twitter that he canceled his Cleveland, Chicago, and…
Photo: AP Oh my god, he really did it. President Trump really did the one thing you’re not supposed to do during a solar eclipse. According to Wall Street Journal reporter Ted Mann, an unidentified aide even shouted “don’t look” as the president turned to point and look at the big, dumb Sun without eye…
In Trump’s America, the press is under attack. You know what I’m talking about—in your head, do a montage of Donald Trump saying “fake news,” congressional candidates body-slamming reporters, and so on. But on Tuesday, that war intensified, when a swarm of bees lingered outside Vox Media’s New York City offices. What Are Bees? “Bees…