Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The Illinois Republican Party is condemning the man poised to be its nominee for Congress in the state’s third congressional district as a Nazi. So how did he end up on the ballot? The answer points to failures of democratic safeguards on every level, from a state party unable to recruit an alternative candidate in…
Michael Cohen, a personal lawyer for Trump who is named in the dossier, says BuzzFeed and several of its staffers defamed him when it published the 35-page document and an accompanying article last January. He also says that Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson, its founder, similarly defamed him after it hired an ex-British spy to…
President Donald Trump is considering a military strike against North Korea that his advisers hope, somehow, wouldn’t lead to war. It’s called the “bloody nose” strategy, and it’s based off of the idea that if America launched a limited military strike against North Korea — say, by attacking one of their facilities — that they could…
Image: Maxpixel I was hoping to start 2018 off with a positive blog, like some of my colleagues, but then I glanced at my feeds and saw ‘chocolate extinction’ all over them. Apparently, news broke over the new year that chocolate was going to go extinct in mere decades, as climate change threatens the survival…
New York City is retiring many of its Cold War-era signs designating certain indoor spaces as “nuclear fallout shelters.” prevent margin collapsing There are thousands of the signs around the five boroughs, but officials say they’re misleading, and no longer denoate active shelters. That’s because it’s been decades since anyone has taken care of the…
Puerto Rico’s apagón, or “super blackout,” is the longest and largest major power outage in modern U.S. history. Without electricity, there is no reliable source of clean water. School is out, indefinitely. Health care is fraught. Small businesses are faltering. The tasks of daily life are both exhausting and dangerous. There is nothing to do but…
Me. Hello, hi, yes, hello. We’ve all seen this, right? This story in the New York Fucking Times about the Pentagon’s $22 million Oh Shit There Might Be Aliens program? We’ve all read it? We’ve all engaged with the evidence within the story, written in part by two journalists who have won Pulitzer Prizes for…
In 2013, Andrew Mason was famously fired as CEO of Groupon, a company he cofounded. His second act, Detour, was a startup that created podcast-like audio tours. That involved producing a boatload of spoken-word content. And Mason discovered that working with speech in existing sound-editing programs was a hassle. “Trying to edit waveforms, even once you get…
Storify End-of-Life What changes are being made to Storify.com? Unfortunately, Storify will no longer be available after May 16, 2018. Can I still create a new account? As of December 12, 2017, no new Storify.com accounts can be created. What should customers using Storify.com expect? Existing Storify customers can continue to use all capabilities of…
By the end of the thread, McCarthy made it clear that these trolls are part of the “alt-right.” “The problem I’m stating here is not that ‘there are trolls on the internet’ but that people who proclaim to be on our side are trying to tear down women in our in-group,” she wrote. Another self-described “conservative woman”…