she literally just started there last week
― max, Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
this is a horrific nightmare
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/what_if_the_romney_sons_were_a_boy_band/
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
well, first i read this piece of breaking news: http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/dumb_tweet_of_the_day_14/
then went back into the archive and found these unconscionable acts against humanity:http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/child_bride_courtney_stodden_turns_18_today/http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/what_if_the_romney_sons_were_a_boy_band/http://www.salon.com/2012/08/28/more_naked_prince_harry/
it seems like it goes on and on. if she really only started last week then she's already produced a prolific amount of vapid celebrity webpage view content!
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
five
― max, Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno man if you think this is shitty and unconscionable i hope you dont read my website!
― max, Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
well obv
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
sorry bro
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
i did like the romney infodump series tho! great stuff.
― Mordy, Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
Xanax Wednesday, Aug 29, 2012 09:26 PM CDT
The only thing dumber than these tweets is the person who had the idea for this feature.
didn't know 'strong jaws' could be hyphenated
― jack chick-fil-A (dayo), Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
i would rather read all of those articles than another interminable 'thinkpiece' from michael lind
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 30 August 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
Mordy Hates Prachi
― buzza, Thursday, 30 August 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
new atlantic business/tech news property, making a big deal abt how its optimized for mobile for whatever reason, not sure how that relates to anything, all sites should be built to work good on mobile devices, but anyway http://qz.com
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Quartz is a digitally native news outlet, born in 2012, for business people in the new global economy. We publish bracingly creative and intelligent journalism with a broad worldview, built primarily for the devices closest at hand: tablets and mobile phones.
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
brace yrselves for creative and intelligent journalism
"Qz" because "Hz"=hertz in the International System of Units? oooooooh that is annoying.
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 24 September 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://qz.com/5270/before-we-came-along-quartz-really-was-a-symbol-of-the-global-economy
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
that site actually is pretty crap on an iPad despite being specifically tailored for it
― iatee, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
layout is p similar to gakwer
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
gakwer gakwer, can't you see i'm burning burning
― goole, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
there's just too much going on on the screen
― iatee, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
Quartz is intended to embody the era in which we’re creating it, like Wired in the 1990s, Rolling Stone in the 1960s, Fortune in the 1930s, and The Economist in the 1840s.
lol
― just sayin, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
haha burn
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
I would read this if it were 100% economist zings
― iatee, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
awesome burn!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 September 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://qz.com/3416/five-ways-a-new-age-of-cheap-energy-could-shift-the-power-balance-on-the-planet-2/
a great start for this website!
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 24 September 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
5. Climate change will worsen—but less than you think
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 24 September 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
whew, thank god. climate change apologetics. i was starting to get worried.
― Mordy, Monday, 24 September 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/reader_takeover/2012/10/slate_reader_takeover_your_chance_to_boss_us_around_.html
slate: "send us your story ideas bc we are running low thx"
― Mordy, Sunday, 14 October 2012 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
they'll credit you!! your name up in lights!
― j., Sunday, 14 October 2012 07:47 (eleven years ago) link
'slate is actually a good website' haha burn
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 14 October 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
What crazy social experiment should David Plotz and Hanna Rosin try to replicate next?
The social experiment of being fired from their jobs and never having attention paid to their writings.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, 14 October 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
atlantic's new design looks okay
quartz sucks, all the articles are bland nothingness
― iatee, Monday, 12 November 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
slate is in the publishing military fanfic business nowhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2012/11/27/civil_war_who_would_come_out_on_top_if_the_united_states_all_declared_war.html
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
slate is apparently in the reblogging quora business now idgi
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 30 November 2012 05:29 (eleven years ago) link
― iatee, Monday, November 12, 2012 8:25 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's like monocle fucked fast company its the worst
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 30 November 2012 05:30 (eleven years ago) link
Dumbest thing about that Quora deal is that it starts with the premise that units will splinter back to their home states but leave, say, Texas with all the hardware at Fort Hood. If you wanted to write a real alt history about Civil War II: Civil Warrer that's the story - how does the military fracture?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 30 November 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
i was kinda hoping that article would take the perky, overly literal angle slate usually does on stuff like that -- like, which state really would win in an all-out battle to the finish? instead we get that unreadable bs.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 30 November 2012 06:26 (eleven years ago) link
So pissed I fell for that Atlantic linkbait about how signing off work emails with "xoxoxoxo" is "feminizing the workplace." I'm not sure if I'm out of touch with reality or they are, but the world they are describing is not one I recognize whatsoever. So you don't have to click on it too:
The phone call was friendly, the kind any two professional contacts might have. A colleague had put Amanda McCall, a comedy writer in New York, in touch with a producer in Los Angeles. The two women had admired each other’s work from afar. They chatted about whether they might want to collaborate on a project. They made plans to talk again.The next morning, McCall received an e‑mail from the producer. “Absolutely LOVED talking,” the woman wrote, followed by a seemingly endless string of X’s and O’s. That afternoon, a follow-up to the follow-up arrived, subject line “xo.” The body read simply: “xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo.”McCall was mystified. Should she e‑mail back? Should she ask her what it meant? Was she weird for thinking this was weird? “I’d never seen so many hugs or kisses in any kind of correspondence, even from my parents or boyfriends,” she says, laughing. “In which case: Was this person actually in love with me? And if I didn’t respond with equal love, was it going to hurt her feelings?”This e‑mail was extreme, yes—yet it’s an example of a tic that’s come to plague professional correspondence, especially among women. The use of xo to denote hugs and kisses dates back to at least 1763, when The Oxford English Dictionary first defined X as “kiss,” but e‑mail and social media have provided a newly fertile habitat.“I feel like xo has taken on its own kind of life,” says Karli Kasonik, a Washington-based consultant.“I do it, most women I know do it,” says Asie Mohtarez, a writer and social-media editor, noting that she prefers a single x to the full xo.“In my field, you almost have to use it,” says Kristin Esposito, a yoga instructor in New York.
The next morning, McCall received an e‑mail from the producer. “Absolutely LOVED talking,” the woman wrote, followed by a seemingly endless string of X’s and O’s. That afternoon, a follow-up to the follow-up arrived, subject line “xo.” The body read simply: “xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo.”
McCall was mystified. Should she e‑mail back? Should she ask her what it meant? Was she weird for thinking this was weird? “I’d never seen so many hugs or kisses in any kind of correspondence, even from my parents or boyfriends,” she says, laughing. “In which case: Was this person actually in love with me? And if I didn’t respond with equal love, was it going to hurt her feelings?”
This e‑mail was extreme, yes—yet it’s an example of a tic that’s come to plague professional correspondence, especially among women. The use of xo to denote hugs and kisses dates back to at least 1763, when The Oxford English Dictionary first defined X as “kiss,” but e‑mail and social media have provided a newly fertile habitat.
“I feel like xo has taken on its own kind of life,” says Karli Kasonik, a Washington-based consultant.
“I do it, most women I know do it,” says Asie Mohtarez, a writer and social-media editor, noting that she prefers a single x to the full xo.
“In my field, you almost have to use it,” says Kristin Esposito, a yoga instructor in New York.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 30 November 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
In some settings, xo-ing may be a way to indirectly apologize for being direct—think of all those studies concluding that women must be authoritative in the office, but also nice. One such study, by a psychologist at NYU, determined that the best way for a woman to be perceived as likeable at work is to temper strong demands with “a little bit of sugar.” In that context, xo can be seen as a savvy means of navigating a persistent double standard.Or maybe, as Trubek suggests, xo‑ing is just like actual hugging: women do it more often than men, some women do it more often than other women, and that’s that.“As someone who’s regularly ended letters to her accountant with xxx, I refuse to feel any shame for this widespread woman-trait,” says Caitlin Moran, the British feminist and author of How to Be a Woman. “Statistics show we’re slowly taking over the world, and I’m happy for us to do it one xxx e‑mail at a time.”
Or maybe, as Trubek suggests, xo‑ing is just like actual hugging: women do it more often than men, some women do it more often than other women, and that’s that.
“As someone who’s regularly ended letters to her accountant with xxx, I refuse to feel any shame for this widespread woman-trait,” says Caitlin Moran, the British feminist and author of How to Be a Woman. “Statistics show we’re slowly taking over the world, and I’m happy for us to do it one xxx e‑mail at a time.”
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
I'm about 3/4 of the way through the new issue of the Atlantic and am really thinking of cancelling my own damn subscription. It seems to have turned wholly into Freakonmics bullshit and corporation porn.
― President Keyes, Friday, 30 November 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
what a Moran
― mayor mcpotle (mh), Friday, 30 November 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/where-masturbation-and-homosexuality-do-not-exist/265849/
― Mordy, Thursday, 6 December 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
i don't fuck with the magazine at all but the site has some good writers
am kind of an alexis madrigal stan
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 6 December 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
the magazine side barely matters at this point I think, my friend who worked there said they never even had copies in the office
― iatee, Thursday, 6 December 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
well when i worked in a deli i couldn't eat the food after a while either
― before and after broscience (goole), Thursday, 6 December 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
lmao http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/scientology/archive/2013/01/david-miscavige-leads-scientology-to-milestone-year-/266958/
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
it's hard to believe the pr nightmare this is gonna be was worth whatever they got paid
― iatee, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
lol three threads bumped sorry
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
scientologists should have just bought newsweek imo
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link