Bitcoin Is a Delusion That Could Conquer the World Web Publication: The Atlantic, by Derek Thompson I’m sure most people have caught a glimpse of Bitcoin news in the past few weeks if they’re watching the news at all. There’s a lot of confusion about what is Bitcoin. This article addresses that as best as […]
Crazy Day
Here’s what happened today: Matt Lauer and Garrison Keillor were fired from their respective employers for various levels of sexual impropriety. North Korea fired a missile capable of reaching anywhere in the USA. Bitcoin briefly hit $11k. Weird huh? And these are just the top of the top headlines. What do all these headlines have […]
Hey Still Here & What’s New
Northeastern Reader has been on hiatus for a while now; all unplanned but in the moment, since October 23 to be precise. This entry is about the nature of writing a blog like this. I do news, things that seem important to me in the news cycle but yet seem under-appreciated. It might be someone’s […]
TIR 10/23/17: Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic system
Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic system Web Publication: The Guardian, by Pamela Hutchinson For the past couple weeks I’ve sat back and watched the flurry of ‘revelations’ regarding Harvey Weinstein. Is it a revelation if everyone already knew it? That’s one of the points that Hutchinson makes in her article on […]
Taking the Knee
The culture wars are here yet again. In one day, Trump trolled the NFL and probably decimated it for a decade or more to come, or maybe forever. At face value, none of this makes sense – or really, it doesn’t make sense in any way except to observe that we’re in some sort of […]