Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Dublin, Ireland and London, United Kingdom, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 — Simultaneous complaints have been filed with European data protection authorities against Google and other ad tech firms. The complainants are being made by Dr Johnny Ryan of Brave, the private web browser, Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, and Michael Veale…
Image: Fox Sports Sports and politics cannot be separated. Sports expresses, iterates, and interacts with politics at basically every point of their intersection. Even apart from the myriad ways sports, specifically, contain and are shaped by politics, as parts of what we’re still obliged to call a society even as it unravels around our heads,…
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Linux 4.19-rc4 released, an apology, and a maintainership note Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:22:43 -0700 Message-ID: <CA+55aFy+Hv9O5citAawS+mVZO+ywCKd9NQ2wxUmGsz9ZJzqgJQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw) [ So this email got a lot longer than I initially thought it would get, but let’s start out with the “regular Sunday release”…
Photo: Win McNamee (Getty) Shit’s real weird now. A thing it took, like, the New York Times and Washington Post and CNN and so forth maybe a little too long to figure out, back during the 2016 campaigns, a lapse that has launched innumerable blinkered Cletus Safaris in search of some other, less chillingly sociopathic…
The other week, Dave Portnoy, the founder and chief of content of the sports blog Barstool Sports, did what he and fans of his site always do: ratcheted up an online spat to a fever pitch, transforming their collective rage at a perceived enemy into content. Even if it meant leaning into the type of…
.entry-meta .entry-header This blog is mainly reserved for cryptography, and I try to avoid filling it with random “someone is wrong on the Internet” posts. After all, that’s what Twitter is for! But from time to time something bothers me enough that I have to make an exception. Today I wanted to write specifically about…
A Maryland man shot two police officers on Wednesday when they barged into his home, believing it to be the residence of a drug dealer. The man was home with his daughter just before 10 p.m. when the police began trying to enter the apartment, Prince George’s County Police Chief Henry Stawinski said at a…
In a 1997 review, David Foster Wallace referred to John Updike as “a penis with a thesaurus.” Unfortunately, this is my type. I have a propensity to sleep with boys who keep copies of Infinite Jeston display somewhere in their bedrooms. It’s not that this is a prerequisite — I’ve never denied myself a sexual experience purely because my partner didn’t…
Itcan be easy to forget that sexual assault is a crime committed by a very small percentage of the male population. You might think otherwise, considering how many women have come forward in the last year with tales of abuse and the epidemic number of sexual assault victims in the U.S. — one person every 98 seconds. The truth,…
In the late 1980s Ruth Messinger, who was then on the New York City Council, was pushing a proposal to impose rent controls on commercial space to save small businesses from being pushed out by soaring rents. I called her “the most dangerous woman in New York” in a Crain’s editorial opposing her plan. I…