hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/borowitz-670.png

can someone shop this onto osama thumbs up

I am sure there's a long german word for the particular brand of disgust I feel when I see a link to a borowitz article

that article written by the NYer's general counsel was really good, i really can't see how they lose this appeal

Would we be worse off if no one were willing to publish such a video? You don’t have to be a First Amendment absolutist, in favor of the unlimited publication of sex tapes, to believe that we would.

lol

The one thing I found odd about that piece is that he uses the term "public interest" throughout it in the sense of "something the public is interested in." I'm no lawyer so I could be way off, but I was under the impression that in legal terms "public interest" means something related to the general welfare of the public, not something a lot of people are curious about. I think it'd be a lot harder to argue that the video serves the public interest under that definition.

i think it can mean both but it can be a cute rhetorical trick to talk about "the public interest" which def implies public welfare when you mean just titillating shit that gets the public's rocks off

God help us if theres a war, and so on.

the ol' deadspin-jezebel switcheroo, i like it

surprised no one bumped this thread for this the other day: http://www.law360.com/media/articles/777787

Gawker Escapes Unpaid Intern FLSA Suit

A New York federal judge on Tuesday tossed a proposed class action accusing Gawker Media LLC of not paying interns in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, saying the experience the interns gained outweighed the benefits the internship program provided the digital media company.

saying the experience the interns gained outweighed the benefits the internship program provided the digital media company.

grim

so basically a judge ruled that Gawker has shitty interns?

they must have spilled coffee on some laptops

i thought we were gawker's interns

Did J0rdan forget to eat yesterday?

https://49.media.tumblr.com/8652cd63085b749c7ec263e863562bb5/tumblr_n0pdtxhxQf1sdqajoo1_400.gif

Did J0rdan forget to eat yesterday?

actually, yes. (well i did all the eating at once but I was traveling yesterday and forgot to post the video, so im gonna put it up on monday. it's the last one!)

lol J0rdan... I didn't even look at the byline until I saw this and thought "gotta be an ilxor"

But the “27 Questions Black People Have For Black People” video was so bad and... hated that BuzzFeed’s facade of positivity was punctured, and what spilled out was anti-BuzzFeed Motion Pictures tea that could not have been brewed just in one night.

ouch.

re: the Harris Wittels convo at the very top of this thread: https://medium.com/@stephaniewittelswachs/the-end-of-empathy-5d8383b066d3#.nzuft1b33

Hi JS I liked your longish-form bit on the (potentially dismal) future of writing in new media

f the alternative is an io9 headed by rob bricken, i'm all for them shutting up shop

― Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, January 14, 2016 1:42 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

yeah I almost revived this thread this weekend

you sadly called that one, bg

f the alternative is an io9 headed by rob bricken, i'm all for them shutting up shop

perfect

gawker's new editor is the guy from kotaku that posts nothing but videos of himself playing mario

lol

is that the same as the kotaku guy who lives in japan and is one step removed from shiroib4sketsh0es?

Hi JS I liked your longish-form bit on the (potentially dismal) future of writing in new media

― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Saturday, April 23, 2016 8:58 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

thanks tomboto

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/gorgeous-shot-of-an-espresso-being-poured-from-the-mach-1774825130

I don’t even drink coffee but after seeing an espresso shot get pulled through a naked portafilter on an espresso machine, it’s the only thing I want in my life. Watching the water swish through the finely ground coffee beans and then seeing it seep through each hole and then finally getting being allowed to witness how the various flows group together to form that golden brown liquid of the gods. Man oh man, it’s like being around to see a superweapon charging up.

they want to fuck that machine

that gif did not live up to the description

and then finally getting being allowed to witness how the various flows group together to form that golden brown liquid of the gods. Man oh man

i love getting being allowed

i love crapping in your mouth

rude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13H8_xGMBe0

"i don't even drink coffee" who the fuck even are you

you would be literally murdered on the cof thread

I wish they'd amend stories with info on why they're trending again - the Jezebel redditor incest story is in the sidebar again but I have no clue why.

I think the Slate advice columnist has a related story today

when is incest not trending

I wish they'd amend stories with info on why they're trending again - the Jezebel redditor incest story is in the sidebar again but I have no clue why.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, May 5, 2016 11:56 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

sometime it's really hard to figure out why this happens http://gawker.com/why-is-gawkers-top-story-a-four-year-old-post-about-vaj-1586474680

Kinja definitely could use a little more "curator" intervention from time to time

Is it just me or have Kotaku and io9 kind of devolved into frontends for SPLOID!!!! with like <5 vertical-specific pieces per day?

is this shit even supposed to be funny? Every time I think this guy is going to turn a corner and stop pissing me off, he doesn't.

http://gawker.com/science-watch-sleazy-space-sex-1775158310

ashley feinberg and gabrielle bluestone are pretty funny sometimes.

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/bartolo-colon-jacks-first-career-dong-1775360860

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/gorgeous-shot-of-an-espresso-being-poured-from-the-mach-1774825130

I don’t even drink coffee but after seeing an espresso shot get pulled through a naked portafilter on an espresso machine, it’s the only thing I want in my life. Watching the water swish through the finely ground coffee beans and then seeing it seep through each hole and then finally getting being allowed to witness how the various flows group together to form that golden brown liquid of the gods. Man oh man, it’s like being around to see a superweapon charging up.
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, May 4, 2016 10:07 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fwiw this existed in the pre-clickbait era: http://espressoporn.blogspot.com/

jon stewart on the louis ck gawker "story" at 1:14:04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da5VYSPsoE0
curious how the follow up to that for-sure-damning-evidence-is-on-the-way blind item is coming along

well

i've received dozens & dozens of emails about him. i still get them monthly even tho the story is like a year old. most of them are people passing on secondhand knowledge, but i've gotten several from people with close accounts of harassment. unfortunately people are reticent to come forward because comedy is a close knit community that privileges people who can keep secrets. this is true for hollywood writ large, really. being a whistleblower is a giant risk to someone's livelihood in a number of ways. i've found this to be true for people with nascent or nonexistent careers and also for people who you would think could not be touched by simply saying something about an incident of harassment. people with hundred million dollar movie budgets and multiple televised award show acceptance speeches have said things off the record to me but then refused to speak about them any further. so i dunno. i still report out the story when i can. ultimately i'm in no way less convinced of its truth.

i read that as you're suggesting the system is complicit and that's why you can't be reasonably expected to report this story more deeply. I'm not sure how that's any different from any scandal that's ever been broken? Isn't one of the key purposes of investigative journalism to unearth a cover up? To what degree are you willing to take on responsibility for the difficulty of evidence gathering by publishing hearsay before you had on-the-record confirmation? And if you truly believe that your allegations are true, what degree of complicity do you take on by not more actively furthering the story?

Or are these naive questions?