Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
This is a post about journalism, privacy, and the common assumption that we can’t have one without sacrificing at least some of the other, because (the assumption goes), the business model for journalism is tracking-based advertising, aka adtech. I’ve been fighting that assumption for a long time. People vs. Adtech is a collection of 129 pieces…
Mobile advertising is big business, and where money flows, fraudsters follow. Last year, advertisers spent over $327 billion targeting users as they engaged with popular mobile apps, but as HUMAN Security announced yesterday, a chunk of that spending went into the pockets of fraudsters who successfully launched a massive ad fraud scheme. HUMAN discovered the…
Yikes, y’all. I don’t even smoke and I feel like I need a cigarette before I get this thing started. We’re here to talk about Hogwarts Legacy, and to do that we need to discuss the whole mess. Pull up a chair, pour yourself some tea, wrap yourself in a blanket, scream into a pillow…
(Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images) Right-wing officials insisted their push to overturn Roe v. Wade was an effort to respect states’ rights and the democratic process. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R), who represented her state in its successful effort to invalidate Roe, wrote a November 2021 op-ed in the Washington Post claiming…
For many viewers of the Super Bowl, one ad amid the beer and tax software and car commercials may be particularly surprising. It might look something like this: A guitar strums a melancholy tune. Black and white photos, depicting mothers, fathers, and sons living in what looks to be impoverished Central American towns, cycle through….
The Super Bowl is one of the great magnets of American culture because of its place as Backup Christmas. Everyone gathers around the multiple gods of wings, beer, M&Ms in the colors of the competing teams, ads, betting squares, strangers passing as friends and occasional flickers of sport, and it all reduces us to a…
Tribune-Review The Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh campus in Oakland in pictured. TribLIVE’s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The University of Pittsburgh said Friday it will withdraw from participating in the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings,…
Credit…Desiree Rios for The New York Times If you want a sense of what separates much of the leadership of the Democratic Party from many of its supporters — of what illustrates their profound disconnect from younger cohorts of liberal and progressive voters — you could do much worse than to read this recent statement…
Over the course of his life, Alejo Lopez de Armentia has played video games for a variety of reasons. There was the thrill of competition, the desire for companionship, and, at base, the need to pass the time. In his 20s, feeling isolated while working for a solar panel company in Florida, he spent his…
Airlines’ Premium-Economy Trick Carriers are banking on the psychological allure of marginal luxury. Airlines have once again wrung a new social class from flying. ( Alex Cochran ) Let’s say you receive an unexpected financial windfall. What’s the first thing you’re spending money on? If it’s a lavish vacation—how are you getting there? Americans top the…