Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
GIF Shrek is love. Shrek is life. If you’ve spent more than a few seconds of your life on the Internet, you’ve probably seen a Shrek meme. Maybe it involved Smash Mouth’s seminal 1999 hit “All Star,” the song that inspired a whole generation to unite in shared mockery of Smash Mouth. Or maybe it…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange implied in an interview that a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer was the source of a trove of damaging emails the rogue website posted just days before the party’s convention. Speaking to Dutch television program Nieuswsuur Tuesday after earlier announcing a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Seth…
Grey has returned the Bronze Lion its Singapore office won at Cannes for its I Sea app, which purported to find refugees stranded in the Mediterranean. The app, which was eventually pulled after Grey said it was in the testing phase, caused a storm on Twitter and elsewhere. One blogger, global senior manager of sponsorship…
Today in Dallas, the city held a memorial service for the five officers killed by Micah Johnson last week. The service was attended by Barack and Michelle Obama, among others. It was, as you would expect, a somber affair for everyone—everyone except George W. Bush, who was ready to fucking party. The video above captures…
“Just by a quick show of hands, has anyone heard of a D.A.O. or an agent before?” asked Jonathan Mohan. He was in his mid-twenties and wore a beige Bitcoin T-shirt. As if to scratch my head, I halfway raised my right arm. A dozen others raced up past mine. Forty or fifty of us…
Hello! And welcome to your Monday Morning Cringefest! In this edition, we are again taking a dive into the weird, sad world of MGTOWs — Men Going Their Own Way. For those of you unhip to the manosphere lingo, MGTOWs are repulsive dudes who voluntarily take themselves out of the dating pool and gene pool…
Governor Andrew Cuomo and Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Photo: AP From 2007 to the end of 2015, the New York Daily News reports, the New York Catholic Conference, led by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, paid top Albany lobbyists more than $2.1 million to help block legislation, including the Child Victims Act, that would make it easier for…
It does not. But what if it did? Then, Civil War would probably look something like this. As pointed out by tipster Sang, Twitter user and artist Bin1 Production has been uploading images of characters from Namco Bandai’s The Idolmaster as if they were Marvel superheroes. You can follow Bin1 Production on Twitter here or…
Claim: A meme gives instructions for making a homemade glow stick. FALSE Example: [Collected via e-mail, May 2016] Apparently a meme is getting passed around that tells Bernie Sanders supporters how to make a glow stick but is actually a chlorine bomb. Is this true Origin:A meme directed at Bernie Sanders supporters purportedly giving instructions on how…
A Southwest Airlines jet takes off from Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) Earlier this month, Khairuldeen Makhzoomi found himself at a gathering with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He had been invited to the dinner-and-lecture event in Los Angeles by a friend who works for the World Affairs Council, and he…