the shroud of the thwacker (hi, i read gothamist too)

It is entertaining enough, especially if you have read the whole Holy Blood, Holy Grail business

DNAInfo and the entire Gothamist set of sites appears to have been immediately iced, all links lead to this from Ricketts

https://assets.dnainfo.com/message.html

Per this tweet:

Breaking: @DNAinfoNY and @Gothamist were just shut down, a week after newsrooms voted to unionize. Story coming shortly.

— Andy Newman (@andylocal) November 2, 2017

Full story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/nyregion/dnainfo-gothamist-shutting-down.html

fuck the cubs

Aww man, I liked dcist

r.i.p. my old sfist posts

i still have my jpgs though

deleting the archives with no warning is breathtaking assholery

granted they redesigned the sites a bunch of times, and the archives weren't that thorough as of late. (at least iirc)

Billionaire Ricketts will be getting a nice tax cut that I'm sure he will use to bring them back (not).

When I sat in on Chicago bail hearings, the only one in the gallery who wasn't family was a local DNAinfo reporter. https://t.co/nd0Bx5w1Cq

— Matt Ford (@fordm) November 2, 2017

deleting the archives is class war (not kidding)

seems that it is viewable again

my habitual bored-at-work "G-O-T-return" keystrokes continue unabated

Walmarts done this for decades, Sam Walton explained in his 1992 book why ideological opposition to unions was profitable in the long run. https://t.co/KqsVofnT7F

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) November 4, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-business/wp/2017/11/09/a-d-c-jazz-singer-started-a-blog-to-replace-dcist-the-sites-billionaire-owner-is-threatening-to-sue-him-for-100000/?utm_term=.3a543fe19a71

Aaron Myers was furious when he heard that Joe Ricketts, the billionaire founder of the D.C. local news blog DCist, had abruptly shuttered the site after employees voted to unionize. Myers, a 34-year-old Dallas native who has been active in D.C.’s jazz community since he moved here in 2008, says he saw the move as an affront to the community.

So he bought the DCistNow.com domain name and on Monday launched a local news blog of his own.

...Ricketts does not appear to have the same enthusiasm for Myers’s idea. On Wednesday Partridge Partners, an intellectual property law firm that said it represented DCist’s parent firm DNAinfo, contacted Myers requesting that he cease and desist....The letter said Myers’s blog may also violate the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, a 1999 law that concerns deceptive domain names. The firm said Myers may be liable for $100,000 in damages not including attorneys’ fees.