Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The new issue of Jacobin is out now. To mark its release, we’re offering discounted introductory subscriptions. The shooting at the Comet Pizzeria in Washington, DC last weekend brought the subject of fake news to national attention. The gunman was “self-investigating” the preposterous claim that Hillary Clinton and John Podesta operated a child sex ring out…
Only two more weeks to endure guys Ah, what a year it’s been. What a year it’s been for women! We got more medals than ever before at the Olympics, we ended up with a surprise woman Prime Minister and, equally surprisingly, no female POTUS. We made huge medical advances towards addressing the gender imbalance…
This article has been updated to include a link to a Firefox version of the extension. On Friday morning, President-elect Donald Trump took a new tack in his war on the Russia hacking issue. Are we talking about the same cyberattack where it was revealed that head of the DNC illegally gave Hillary the questions…
FEATURE FEATURE December 20, 2016 by Ijeoma Oluo 2016 was the year that everything failed. A massively garbage year on the trash heap of history. This was the year that we took all of our society’s weaknesses, mixed them all together, put them in the oven, and ended up with a…
For months, YouTubers have complained that their view counts are down. New data from the third-party stat tracker SocialBlade confirms what YouTubers fear: viewership is lower across the board. SocialBlade crunched some numbers for Kotaku and determined that, since the first half of the year, YouTube views are now 5-7% lower. Between July and September,…
All images: Disney/Lucasfilm It was inevitable that with something as culturally dominant as Star Wars, people would be falling all over themselves to share their thoughts. We’re not immune to takes here, but everything on this list contains something that will melt your face off from the sheer heat of the take, or crack your…
Throughout the ‘Fake News’ uproar of the post-election cycle I kept thinking back to this line that I wrote in The Boy Kings about the launch of News Feed in 2006. The story concerns a moment when a Facebook coworker tested a News Feed story by putting the two of us ‘in a relationship’ on…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.John Lamparski/Getty Images A bug in a recent version of Twitter’s Android app inflated video advertising metrics by as much as 35%, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Twitter let advertisers know about the error earlier this week. The company has issued advertisers refunds for over-billing from video campaigns that ran…
21st Century News Cycle – by Tom Tomorrow. Source: 21st Century News Cycle – by Tom Tomorrow