New Yorker magazine alert thread

yah srsly he missed one hs football game is what happened

not loving this week's cover

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012/02/13/p154/120213_2012_p154.jpg

the picture is not loading, that is the actual cover

the article about suicide is really, really good, though. so strange, now, how our lives can be reconstructed through our online breadcrumbs.

Lol I like that cover

the face transplant article is amazing

I think the cover is really nicely done

it looks terrible on a tablet i can tell you that

never loads completely

haa

lol

so strange, now, how our lives can be reconstructed through our online breadcrumbs.

Yes, it reminded me of a book a professor of mine wrote recently about a murder-suicide that occurred on our college campus when I was a senior. Lots of details pieced together -- and psychological insights gleaned -- through e-mails and instant-message transcripts.

psychological insights, or pontificating?

In both the New Yorker article and the book I read, there does tend to be a lot of extrapolation, but at least by reproducing the original sources, it's somewhat transparent about it.

tijuana food article from a couple weeks ago was interesting! definitely made me want to head down there the next time I'm in san diego...

the plagiarism article was crazy

the plagiarism article was crazy

the plagiarism piece was cray

Haven't read it yet. But I went to college with him and used to talk about spy novels and cold war paranoia movies when I saw him at the store he worked for. Crazy story.

yeah plagiarism story was like high-level n/a-bait NYer story, wish it had been longer

I wish I had more access to my wife's iPad, because I get all jealous when you guys are talking about the new issue and I'm still waiting for the print edition to show up (yes I know I could read them online, but I refer reading either print or iPad on the train).

P psyched to have discovered that I can get it on my Nook every Monday for free, as a print subscriber. Looks great in this format (except the cartoons).

Agreed that last week's was fucking solid.

You can get this on the Nook now? I didn't know that.

plagiarism piece is p lol, some of the quotes from the guy are classic

i did end up feeling somewhat sympathetic to the guy but i did lol that the last paragraph or two was basically like "oh and now he's writing a book about his struggles being a plagiarist," def. made me feel not as sympathetic b/c it made it all seem like grist for his fancy memoir

finally read the rutgers suicide story

roommate sounds like an asshole, but not really a manslaughterer or purveyor of hate crimes

kind of amazed that the two roommates appear to have communicated almost exclusively electronically, but then here we are

yah roommate came off as a super-gossipy & entitled kid but im thinking that is par for the course among 18 yr olds

I spent almost an entire semester communicating with my roommate solely through post-it notes and whiteboard.

dharun's friends seemed like total assholes.

whys the ipad always always telling me there are updates to issues, anyone know what these updates consist of

ugh facial transplant article is very intense and difficult to read (esp during lunch)

yeah I stopped somewhere on the first page, wasnt quite ready

Haven't read it yet. But I went to college with him and used to talk about spy novels and cold war paranoia movies when I saw him at the store he worked for. Crazy story.

Was he really like an adult version of McLovin from Superbad?

He's a really nice guy.

was prob just trying to make u like him

In the Rutgers story, the webcam guy (who didn't post it) does come across as an erratic kid at first, prob confused about his own sexuality ("never known him to have a girl friend", etc etc from his fellow assholes). The first viewing (not a posting, but a gossip-hyped "experiment") scared him, he scared himself, basically. But then he tried to do it again, and set up a viewing party. All of this as loudly as possible online--bias intimidation? I dunno, of course the jury won't hear it just like we read it, the evidence might seem quite different in court. And the author depicts the mysterious aspects of suicide; what an ending to the article. But, even though Tyler did take it to his r.a., and was going to get another roommate, when he'd first discussed this with his friend online, he'd worried he'd end up with somebody even worse. And speaking of electronic breadcrumbs, he may have decided that, even if he started using motel rooms and got smarter online, all manner of shit could just go on and on. And in terms of death ny a thousand breadcrumbs, check this if you haven't already (Facebook is just the beginning, despite the title) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/facebook-is-using-you.html?src=me&ref=general

LexisNexis has a product called Accurint for Law Enforcement, which gives government agents information about what people do on social networks.

First I've ever heard of Accurint and googling around doesn't bring up any articles or other information about it. What a tidbit to drop in the middle of a NYT article!

I don't think he was confused about his sexuality he prob just wasn't good w/ girls and stunts like this were just trying to get people to like him

xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39m06np3PjY

Still pretty vague. Where does it pull this information from? Can it be used on anyone or do you need a warrant to look someone up? Is it all publicly available information?

weird. my agency deals with lexisnexis to help validate the identities of reporters of information, but i didn't know they got into THAT kind of stuff. makes sense, i guess.

uuuuugh, 2012 suuuuucks

i stopped believing in privacy roughly around 1994
not that this is good in any way or that i am special
just gave up early

u r special to us forks

giving up privacy is the first step towards liberation. well done.

iPad edition released on Monday: 160 MB
Update released yesterday: 105 MB
Update released today: 110 MB

Total for ONE ISSUE: 375 MB

But, even though Tyler did take it to his r.a., and was going to get another roommate, when he'd first discussed this with his friend online, he'd worried he'd end up with somebody even worse. And speaking of electronic breadcrumbs, he may have decided that, even if he started using motel rooms and got smarter online, all manner of shit could just go on and on.

a small point, but, I think this is k misrepresentative, & slightly mitigates how unacceptable what the other guy did, say bc it happened in a world of unacceptable thing - this was kinda addressed by the article's focus on "drama" vs "bullying"; going through whatever hassle and having to decide how you feel about it is part of going through something, and it feels wrong to use someone on the receiving end's uncertainty - or perhaps tendency to generously wish that they hadn't been put in a position where they'd have to 'get someone in trouble' &c - as a gauge of the thing itself. w/all the caveats about what you can possibly know from an article, it seemed like it sucked a lot for him & bothered him, stayed on his mind. the extent to which that's discernible from the image he's projecting while IMing his friend, trying to be breezier & non-personal about it while still expressing frustration, was one of the sadder things about the article imo.

I didn't get a chance to finish that whole webcame article yet, but one thing that really stood out for me from the first half was how depressing it was that everyone involved was so casually tossing out slurs in both directions over IM. Obviously the homophobia directed at Tyler, but also the when Tyler IMed about his roommate's parents "totally owning a Dunkin Donuts".

I didn't mean to mitigate what Ravi did, or to make Tyler a poster child for cyber-dystopia, just speculating about the feelings which Ravi fatally intensified, though didn't originate. (Tyler's mother, who of course disavows the reaction to Tyler's coming out, as he'd described it in another electronic breadcrumb, and says there were no signs of suicidal thought, does mention T. having *her* take him around to look at various bridges.) Nineteen is such a dangerous age, I almost didn't make it through, and I've known several people who didn't.

"everyone involved was so casually tossing out racial slurs", yeah, quite a swath. The other Tyler C. made some pretty mature comments,though. Would like to see a more extensive interview with him. Oh, and Amy Davidson's post re Eastwood's Superbowl commercial was brilliant!