charitable reading is essential! you’re never going to like a poem in elizabethan english if you don’t take the time to adjust to it. same goes for rap. unfortunately it’s pretty hard to show people how to be charitable if they’re decided on being critical in uninteresting ways

my high school english teacher! she taught me how to read. she taught me how to be a person.

Does it?
http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-madison-database-1725558944

Nod to the Dre song in honor of Sraight Outta Compton? I like to think so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzMx8fGc0w0

It’s pretty productive! It’s a useful way to refer to the collective speakers of a language, even across country borders. Then again, I almost never hear any of them unless I’m in a language class, so maybe they aren’t that useful outside of a more academic context.

This is a bit of a straw man— there’s a meaningful difference between being obligated to read through ads and merely having to see them on a page. As our writer goes on to say, “Ads have always been a hopeful gamble, not required consumption.” But you can hardly call it a gamble if people can block your content entirely.
However, the privacy argument that follows stands strong. It’s a click, not consent.

This is so true. I’m not going to make any sweeping statement about all smartphone reading, but I know that I’m pretty much limited to reading articles at most on my phone. And even then I stick to the Espresso app.

This sounds pretty efficient, but in my experience the Kindle app needs a ton of work. It’s ugly and pretty difficult to use. But I guess I’ve been coddled by Apple.