Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A naked woman stands across from a naked man as a museum patron walk between them. An orchestra plays a captivating piece as some of the musicians stand knee-deep in water. A cartoonist sketches a young boy and his mother walking through a graveyard after a funeral. These striking images appear in The New Yorker Presents, a…
We read it for the articles. You may have heard that beginning with its March issue, scheduled to hit newsstands on Friday, Playboy is doing away with naked women. This might sound like Vogue doing away with fashion, or Cat Fancy doing away with cats, or, frankly, Vanity Fair doing away with movie stars and…
Over the past several years, there’s been a significant increase in the number of people using ad-blocking software in their web browser. We have certainly seen a growth in those numbers here at WIRED, where we do all we can to write vital stories for an audience that’s passionate about the ongoing adventure of our…
Politico CEO Jim VandeHei is expected to leave the company he co-founded later this year in what staffers believe will be a major shake-up, with other top journalists and executives also leaving the news organization later this year. Beyond VandeHei, at least four other high-level departures are expected, according to newsroom sources. Staffers say VandeHei…
About New York By JIM DWYER Out of the blue in the fall of 2010, a blogger asked Jane Mayer, a writer with The New Yorker, how she felt about the private investigator who was digging into her background. Ms. Mayer thought the idea was a joke, she said this week. At a Christmas party…
In what some knowledgeable observers characterized as the death knell for a nearly 102-year-old American institution, Facebook millionaire Chris Hughes announced on Monday that he’s putting The New Republic up for sale. The 32-year-old Hughes—who was a Harvard roommate of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a relationship that helped him amass a fortune estimated at $700…
The New Republic, the venerable liberal magazine that many referred to during the Clinton presidency as the inflight magazine of Air Force One, is up for sale once again, Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder who bought the magazine in 2012, said in a memo to staff. “I will be the first to admit that when…
The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” Crops stretch to the horizon. Black bodies pepper the landscape, hunched over as they work the fields. Officers on horseback, armed, oversee the workers. To the untrained eye, the scenes in Angola for Life:…
Cosmopolitan Woah. Viewing this on your phone? Pinch to zoom in Cosmopolitan covers started out with women dressed conservatively. Then they started showing some skin. Then more skin. Finally, they started posing in sexy positions. As women have earned more rights throughout the years, they’ve also earned the right to wear whatever they damn well…
So let’s say you’re a New York–based publication which has just published the words and portraits of 35 women who have accused Bill Cosby of rape — on your cover no less. Then a hacker decides to launch an all-out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, bringing your servers to their knees. The first reports…