New Yorker magazine alert thread

“meet me in the break out room”

Was waiting for this

and people say *i* embarrassed the new yorker

— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) October 19, 2020

I hope someone is already working on the appropriate Eustace Tilley graphic, in which a Victorian dandy is holding up a monocle to look at Toobin's, um, toob

This feels like a good time to deploy the WHAT ARE THOOOOSE meme

Even without the jerking off that call sounds like a nightmare.

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, October 19, 2020

haha, yes

The post headline is “toobin his own horn”

I'm not a fan of Toobin but considering this would be an obvious career buster not to mention deeply humiliating...it's probably safe to say this was a terrible accident and shouldn't end the guy's career.

The other account upthread, however...yikes.

I also think it's inappropriate to conflate in one story the account of abuse and his enjoying himself in a sex club, gtfo w/ that

I don't think it's been established that the Zoom call was a sex club.

No, a separate event.

Meanwhile, another source claims that Toobin definitely seemed to enjoy his research in 2008, when he visited the Miami Velvet swingers club while reporting a New Yorker profile about political consultant Roger Stone.

That's bullshit reporting

horny and bad with technology, it's a tough combination

Sorry, I was just amusing myself with the thought of a New Yorker sex club involving election war games.

right over my head!

I am not clear what exactly went down (or up) with Toobin's tube.

But. Am I the only person thinking the following thought? There is a specific personality type for which the risk of discovery is part of the thrill. And the level of transgression is also part of the point. It's adjacent to obsessive-compulsive behavior (though not synonymous).

A sensible person is thinking: why not wait till later? Whereas I think the kink in this case may be more like "Wow this is so risky / so wrong / so dangerous to my position in respectable society."

Not my kink, personally, but applying normal-person logic to it may not work.

psychologizing someone's kinks based on something like this just seems...who knows?

the election simulation is WAY more embarrassing than accidentally (I think) jerking off on a zoom meeting

Toobin's most recent long NY story on the failures of the Mueller investigation reminded me what I liked about his reporting: crisp, well-sourced, able to condense complexity. His book on the 2000 election has the same virtues.

Toodles, Jeff.

yeah

i mean i'm sure masha gessen had fun playing trump but what exactly were they supposed to learn from this

never to trust Toobin's boxers over Zoom

i don't think he was being transgressive, i think he was bored off his ass and thought he was jerking off some other forum, based on the reporting that people thought that *he thought* he was on a different zoom call.

Well, we know what they did end up learning

'harvard guys jack it'

xps:

Seems it was an in-house replay of the Transition Integrity Project's June wargaming of the post-election.

Running a table top exercise always seems at least mildly absurd from the outside. I’d guess they were trying to come up with likely narratives for reporting & commentating on the election so everyone could have an angle heading into the big night.

Perhaps he was actually jacking it while browsing ILXor on a different computer and forgot which was which. Happens to me all the time.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you said this was the erection stimulation call!"

Wanking at the wonkfest

conde nastay

GOLD

lol

Best joke I've seen on Twitter:

New Yorker sub-editors forced to correct every instance of it to "zoömdick".

— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) October 20, 2020

This thread is gold:

This seems to have been an accident not an intentional act. Of course I would react differently to an in person transgression

— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) October 20, 2020

I mean honestly I have rubbed one out in the work bathroom a few times in my life, p sure I’m not a sexual predator. And anyone who refers to being at home as being “at work” just because of WFH can go lick a boot.

Jeff Toobin does in fact have some creepy tendencies but let’s not use that to support some new kind of hyper- capitalist Puritanism.

But have you ever excused yourself early from a meeting just to go do that?

Gender breakdown on my FB feed:

Women: WTF IS WRONG WITH MEN
Men: erm well

And anyone who refers to being at home as being “at work” just because of WFH can go lick a boot.

...

I take you're the guy who shows up on videoconference calls shirtless?

xp tipsy: Mitchell and Webb touched upon this a decade ago.

I don’t think toobin was shirtless for the whole call

lol this thread sucks

are you all like.... kidding?

And anyone who refers to being at home as being “at work” just because of WFH can go lick a boot.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, October 20, 2020 6:06 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

having... work boundaries... is bootlicking... ok

But have you ever excused yourself early from a meeting just to go do that?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 13:09 (one hour ago) link

lol of course not. I'm just saying let's not leap from Jeff Toobin is a creep to "Throughout the entirety of working hours, you must act as though you are at work even when you are at home" just to have a righteous take on twitter.

I have to laugh because this:

"Throughout the entirety of working hours, you must act as though you are at work even when you are at home"

is nearly verbatim from our company's HR department about their expectations for us WFH during the pandemic.

man i take showers in the middle of the day when i work from home but i do not jack it directly at the camera

Especially in the kind of job such as journalism where "working hours" are not some clearly defined thing where you punch a clock at 9 and punch out at 5

psyched we have developed a righteous class critique around dude jacking it at the camera

i'm with ymp on this one tho, he wanted to be caught

I mean... it is not unreasonable to say that one should refrain from masturbating in the middle of a work call. Dude was LITERALLY working when he decided to, well, put in some work. This merits all the mocking in the world and is not a slippery slope you know what, I would like to retract that last phrase given the context