Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Added by PressForward
During The CW’s TCA Upfronts it was revealed that we will be seeing a new dark speedster in The Flash season 3, and it is none other than Savitar. If you don’t know the name: In the comics Savitar is a Cold War pilot test pilot who is struck by lightning during a flight mission. His name comes from…
08.11.16How Clinton Enables the Republican Party08.10.16If I were worried that Clinton might lose, here’s what I would—and wouldn’t—do…08.09.16Sam Tanenhaus on William Styron on Nat Turner: Have we moved on from the Sixties? The Nineties?08.09.16My First Seven Jobs07.31.16Trump’s Indecent Proposal07.30.16Why does it matter that Donald Trump is not a novelty?07.29.16Philadelphia Stories: From Reagan to Trump to…
In a segment on Last Week Tonight that has now been viewed millions of times, John Oliver turned his attention to changes in the news industry. He highlighted the pressures facing journalists who keep elected officials and institutions honest and imagined a future in which investigations like the one dramatized in the Oscar-winning movie Spotlight…
Earlier today, Hillary Clinton tweeted to her over eight million followers that Barack Obama is not, in fact, the founder of ISIS. At the time of publication, that tweet has been retweeted roughly 6,000 times and “faved” 10,000 times, which is fine. It’s a fine tweet. But Hillary—we can do better. Let us do better….
Photo credit: Shutterstock/Victory Jeffreys II; Art by Bobby Finger We here at Gawker Media are in the business of telling the truth, but we’re also in the business of collaboration. You’ve probably noticed posts from across the Gawker network appearing here on Deadspin, and you’ve probably seen our posts appear on our sister sites. Splicing…
Some serious academics, according to Google Image Search. Last week, a Serious Academic™exhausted hundreds of words denouncing the use of social media by his colleagues while insinuating that selfie culture poses an existential threat to academic life. The social media backlash from other serious academics was swift and on point, reminding us that many scientists…
I do not mean that my soul has blackened, since that ship sailed long ago. My other choice for a profession was lawyer, for god’s sake. I mean that my actual, physical body is a broken husk. If I had to blame someone for this, it would be my mother, from whose side of the…
Some takeout restaurants choose to decorate their menus with large, unappetizing photographs of their food. Not a good idea. I’m no restaurant industry insider but I bet it’s probably better for your restaurant if you don’t show bad pictures of food. Try it with no pictures of food at all and see how it goes….
Donald Trump has always insisted that he can’t be bought: A key aspect of his appeal is the independence granted by his purportedly vast wealth. And while Hillary Clinton is also demonstrably wealthy, Trump continues to insist that she is not only corruptible but corrupt. “She’s got to do right for her donors,” he told…
In the years leading up to the much-hyped release of No Man’s Sky, which launched yesterday, director Sean Murray talked several times about players being able to spot one another in the wild. So why hasn’t that happened yet? Yesterday, two No Man’s Sky players found that they were in the same region of the…