Ten days from now marks the close of my first year in Berlin. I arrived on August 30th at about 8am and sat outside the airport for two hours, drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes, before I could go pick up the keys to what was meant to be a 6-month sublet (I still occupy it). […]
Update 8/4: Okay, it’s fixed. But they have no idea where their third-party data comes from. Update: This company fucking sucks. Two weeks of emails, and no changes. Also, see this new horrible screenshot: This has been ongoing for awhile, but I keep forgetting to write about it. Spokeo, that delightful tool of stalkers, has […]
Welcome to Voat: Reddit killer, troll haven, and the strange face of internet free speech (The Verge) Ta Nehisi Coates’ A Letter to My Son (The Atlantic) What’s In a Real Name? (Slate) The Lost Girls (Huffington Post)* The Mob’s IT Department (Bloomberg Business) *trigger warning: rape, described in detail