Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo: Alex Brandon (AP) During today’s House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing, Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made Michael Cohen a stepping stone, focusing her questioning instead on what the committee needed to know. In doing so, she effectively made a list of the Democratic majority’s next targets. Ocasio-Cortez’s Republican colleagues attempted to make the…
Image: New Line Cinema Listen, I’m not here to argue about whether the 2004 film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ novel The Notebook starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling is or is not a good film. But to trim the last minute of the movie and swap in a comparatively dispassionate prelude to credits starring a…
Photo: Marc Piscotty/Getty Another day under the Trump administration, another sociopathic idiot vaulted into the halls of power. This time, it’s William Happer, a National Security Council senior director, who Trump has tapped to chair a Presidential Committee on Climate Security, according to Vox. Great! Happer is a well-known climate change denier with some far-out…
Facebook Inc. has spent the better part of a year telling its users, Congress and the readers of this paper that we’re in charge of our personal data and the ads we see. The network has streamlined its privacy settings, shared more details about how data is used and highlighted how its ad controls work. If we take advantage of all these privacy controls, it shouldn’t still feel as…
As a number of major brands, including Disney, Nestle, McDonald’s, AT&T and Epic Games, are pulling their ads from YouTube due to its latest brand-safety “crisis,” media buyers are largely reacting with a collective shrug. In a poll conducted by Digiday Research on Thursday, Feb. 21, only 14 percent of 100 buyers said they expect…
“Data is the new oil” is one of those deceptively simple mantras for the modern world. Whether in The New York Times, The Economist, or WIRED, the wildcatting nature of oil exploration, plus the extractive exploitation of a trapped asset, seems like an apt metaphor for the boom in monetized data. Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm)…
react-text: 123 After numerous controversies, /react-text react-text: 125 Rotten Tomatoes /react-text react-text: 126 announced today it will change its audience score. The key shift, per the /react-text react-text: 129 Los Angeles Times /react-text react-text: 130 , is that the site will stop allowing users to rate movies prior to their release in theaters. Users “will now…
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis said on Monday that he will support a resolution to block President Trump national emergency declaration on the U.S.-Mexico border. “I would vote in favor of the resolution disapproving of the president’s national-emergency declaration, if and when it comes before the Senate,” Tillis wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. Tillis’s decision comes…
On a 1987 voyage to the Antarctic, the paleoceanographer James Kennett and his crew dropped anchor in the Weddell Sea, drilled into the seabed, and extracted a vertical cylinder of sediment. In an inch-thick layer of plankton fossils and other detritus buried more than 500 feet deep, they found a disturbing clue about the planet’s past that…
Content warning: This story contains discussion of serious mental health issues and racism. The panic attacks started after Chloe watched a man die. She spent the past three and a half weeks in training, trying to harden herself against the daily onslaught of disturbing posts: the hate speech, the violent attacks, the graphic pornography. In…