im not sure who's being zinged here cos ya boy assange, some people accuse him of being in it for ca$h too
― ohhhh we plop champagne (history mayne), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
lots of musicians i admire might be just in it for the cash too
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone read this? http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning/index.html
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Part of me hopes Michael Moore has put as much towards Manning's defence fund as he put up for Assange's bail (and if so, too bad he didn't make as big a deal about it), but considering I haven't put anything towards anything I guess that's not an opinion I get to have
― moiré eel (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
um mm is a rich dude. you don't have to beat yourself up about it. unless you're rich.
― ohhhh we plop champagne (history mayne), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Xpost - this re. that link to the inhuman conditions of Manning's imprisonment
That is another of those things that is disturbing but not surprising.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Though the conditions under which Manning is held do remind me of how Mordechai Vanunu was held in solitary for years and years and did not obviously go completely mental as a result. Maybe knowing you have done right is a good defence against psychological torture.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i doubt it, but then i don't share these absolute certainties. plenty of very bad people 'know' they've done right. LIKE TONY BLAIRS AND GEORGE BUSH amirite.
― ohhhh we plop champagne (history mayne), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
― ohhhh we plop champagne (history mayne), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Its just funny the man of the year is a different internet personality w privacy issues.
As for Assange being in it for the cash, he's doing it wrong cos every bank in the world is freezing his assets.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
2010: A YEAR OF OVERSHARING
― tl;dr swinton (suzy), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Never would have expected that one of the best macro-level analysis of this whole fiasco would come from Fortean Times
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://hilobrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Cablegate1.jpg
http://hilobrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Cablegate2.jpg
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/openleaks/
― caek, Thursday, 16 December 2010 10:56 (thirteen years ago) link
lock up yer daughters
― ohhhh we plop champagne (history mayne), Thursday, 16 December 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
“We don’t know how much of the power in that promise is in fact a result of Assange and his public advocacy and the very strong stands that he sometimes takes,” Rosen told Threat Level. “It’s possible that OpenLeaks won’t be as attractive to sources. On the other hand, it might be more so. The sources will decide what method is more effective.”
Expert opinion shares that maybe OpenLeaks will be successful but also maybe it won't. I'm glad we went to him for insight.
― Mordy, Thursday, 16 December 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.businessinsider.com/read-julian-assanges-creepy-romantic-emails-2010-12
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/7/2010/12/assangeemail9.jpg
― vladimir pootawn (am0n), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.observer.com/files/full/young%20julian%20assange.jpg
http://www.observer.com/2010/daily-transom/julian-assange-persistent-don-juan
― buzza, Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
wtf @ calling him a "humbert humbert" though - the girl was 19, which is creepyish but not lolita creepy.
― o tannenbaum, o judge (crüt), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
prose very jaggerian
― caek, Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^
― vladimir pootawn (am0n), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe he is assange's ghostwriter
― vladimir pootawn (am0n), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
was gonna say, expected an athwart at any moment
― zvookster, Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://popsecret.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/axl_rose2.jpg?w=239&h=327
The plot thickens!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
He's really very tall, isn't he?
― tl;dr swinton (suzy), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Ugh, guy has some serious boundary issues with women, doesn't he?
Reading his OKC profile I kept thinking "this guy is creepy but TBH exactly like half the dudes I've dated" which erm isn't a glowing reference considering the genuine headcases I've attracted.
But those emails especially the last one just really reminds me of the "issues" film director whose seriously strange email I posted earlier this year.
I really should stop following this case for the good of my mental health but I have such a can't look/can't look away thing with this man.
― I got so many Socks I keep some at my aunt's house (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
really do not get why people find him interesting, lol
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
He's interesting to me in the same way that when you turn over a rock and see those terrible squirming white creepy crawly things beneath and you just want to poke them with a stick.
But mostly it's this kind of revulsion-attraction like, he is quite physically attractive and obviously reasonably bright, but there's something deeply just... *off* about him when he speaks. It's not just your standard insufferable nerd who thinks he's Jesus coz he can code. There's this sense that one could actually quite easily hook up with someone like this without even realising it but there's something really ... dunno. Like he sets off my alarm bells, but there's the Wilde-ian "dining with panthers" thing perhaps.
Except he probably isn't even a cunning dangerous psycho, he's probably just a nerd with poor social skills who would like to be thought of as a panther, like he'd find that flattering.
Like I said, my interest in the case isn't healthy.
― I got so many Socks I keep some at my aunt's house (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm not even sure he can code, tbh!
― kanellos (gbx), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I see entitled homeschooler genius with whacky but pretty mom.
― tl;dr swinton (suzy), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Of course he can code! He can do fancy MATHS! And cryptography based on yr number plate! That means yr uterus is totatally, like, HIS!
To impregnate with satanspawn!
Because OMG you guys I have totally worked out where I have seen hi before!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cudK8MwW64I/SiDVbQV_AeI/AAAAAAAAR7I/IJ9eSWGZk3Y/s400/20426-large.jpg
― I got so many Socks I keep some at my aunt's house (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
― caek, Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:16 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
^^just coming here to post this
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone who is not on an iphone PLS Photoshop that to say "Julian Assange: Wikileaks the Armageddon"
― I got so many Socks I keep some at my aunt's house (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
prose very jaggerian― caek, Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:16 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark^^just coming here to post this― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:08 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:08 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark
stoked for the indignation
― ohhhh we plop champagne (history mayne), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Also a touch of the Warhols, Kate - but well spotted.
― tl;dr swinton (suzy), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ha i didn't think that had not been noticed! same name and everything
― goole, Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Assange is quite handsome but he's one of those guys who, when you look at him you imagine that he might be one of those obsessively, pathologically jealous dudes.
― Pashmina, Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
some ppl like that sort of thing
― zvookster, Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i think he was posted to ws of shame
one of those guys who when you look at him you just start projecting
― o tannenbaum, o judge (crüt), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Kelsey Grammer looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
― o tannenbaum, o judge (crüt), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:27 (1 minute ago)
― ANY OTHERS CLAIMING TO BE JESUS IN A SPACE SHIP is an IMPOSTOR. (latebloomer), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
crut otm
― dan m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Well played, Curtis.
― Pashmina, Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno, these are not impressions I get from looking at him. They're impressions I get from his ridiculous OKC profile, his overblown writing & those creepy emails. But I'm prepared to admit that's projection, based on the known nutjobs he reminds me of.
― I got so many Socks I keep some at my aunt's house (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
is assange a 'rapey looking bro'
― nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
what's his OKC handle?
― goole, Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
rapey_looking_bro
― ohhhh we plop champagne (history mayne), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
SurpriseSex4U
― vladimir pootawn (am0n), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.okcupid.com/profile/HarryHarrison
now it sez u need an account
didn't the other day
― nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
sure someone has archived it, basically it was like a sixth former who really liked the matrix
but 20 years older
i c&ped the best pic upthread
― nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link