Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Behind every bad tweet is a life story in miniature. Let Drew Magary explain. As a professional online person, I have a soft spot in my heart for bad tweets. Sure, I like to chortle at a good tweet from one of the many amateur Mitch Hedbergs plying their trade on social media. But nothing…
Tweet threads — also known as “tweetstorms” — will now be easier to create thanks to a new button the company is rolling out. Background: Threads, which Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen helped popularize a few years ago (before he quit Twitter last year), have become the go-to format for expressing longer and more nuanced…
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”…
AL Senate candidate Roy Moore/AP Right–wing conspiracy peddler Jack Posobiec—the guy who riled up his followers over “Pizzagate” and nearly got someone killed—appears to have gotten away with doxing AL Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore’s accuser. On Friday, Posobiec tweeted a photo of Leigh Corfman, who accused Moore of sexually assaulting her in 1979 when…
I tweeted what was intended as satire of a festering right-wing panic over Antifa allegedly planning violence on November 4. It got weird from there. What is it like to attend your own funeral? In my mind, it has to be something like waking up on a Monday morning, logging onto Twitter, and finding out…
close story-meta Photo Credit Jason Fujikuni A loose agglomeration of right-wing pundits and personalities on YouTube have, in the last few years, accumulated substantial and devoted audiences. Their politics are severe; they are culture warriors with a new set of weapons. They make their arguments for people who might not be reached by other media…
Even though she’s been wiped clean from the web, I still found Nicole Mincey. The Nicole Mincey who was personally thanked by President Trump on Twitter over the weekend. The one everyone thinks is a bot. She’s a real person—with a slightly different name—living in Newark, New Jersey. The online phone number listed for the…
Baked Alaska on the left (identified by the AP as a “white nationalist demonstrator”) and his bodyguard (right) at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017 (AP Photo/Steve Helber) Yesterday’s rally of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and so-called “alt-right” activists predictably devolved into violence. One anti-fascist protester and two police officers are…
Getty Remember when First Lady Melania Trump was going to make her pet cause a campaign against cyberbullying? She doesn’t either. After her husband, President Donald Trump, tweeted Thursday morning to claim “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, rolled into his Mar-a-Lago club with her face “bleeding badly from a…