Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
- That NFL quarterback Jameis Winston is trying to halt the CNN broadcast of the campus-rape documentary The Hunting Ground, which revisits the unproven allegation of sexual assault made against him in 2012 by a fellow student at Florida State University? —J.R. Jones
- About this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction award finalists, including Chicago’s very own Aleksandar Hemon? —Aimee Levitt
- What it was like to work at Sony in the aftermath of last year’s hack? —Julia Thiel
- That after authorities asked Belgians to refrain from posting anything that could give away information about police raids, etc, as the lockdown in Brussels continues, people responded by tweeting cat photos in a show of solidarity? —Kate Schmidt
- That Facebook is testing a new tool that will let you “take a break” from seeing your ex pop up in your feed? —Ryan Smith
- About the CTA bus rider who insists that she can sit on the bike rack because she’s actually a bike? —Aimee Levitt
- This analysis of ISIS’s magazine Dabiq by Cracked? —Mike Sula
- How texting and other ways of digital communication play out onstage? —Sue Kwong
- This New York Times story recounting the experiences of three Syrian women forced to collaborate with ISIS after its takeover of Raqqa? —Kate Schmidt
