kontextmaschine:

I’m a little impressed I haven’t seen anyone going around saying that “donor class” is really code for “Jews”.

There we go.

I knew the incest porn boom wasn’t just in my head

kontextmaschine:

oh fuck

this election’s going down with the safety off

6/24/15

kontextmaschine:

4chan accidentally the discourse, didn’t it?

kontextmaschine:

91625:

kontextmaschine:

So I guess I should put it on record, my prediction for Trump’s VP is Newt Gingrich.

Doubling down on the old white guy thing?

Trump needs someone who knows where the levers of party and government power are yet is willing to associate w/ him, also his valuations of public figures’ reputational position seem based largely off the experience of the ‘80s/‘90s.

Gingrich still feels the mantle of destiny upon him but has no clear conventional route back to power, values the “eccentric genius’ thunderbolts” style of leadership, and has been talking Trump up in public for a while now.

Well, if I want credit for my correct predictions I should take my lumps for wrong ones.

Nick Denton’s brilliant stroke, going all the way back to Gawker’s origins as Gawker Stalker, was to not even make pretense to the American tradition of Sulzbergerian evenhanded postwar monopoly journalism, but to go the British competitive no holds barred venomous one, all taking shots at each other, stirring up witch hunts to boost circulation….

There’s a reason British libel law is so strict, and that’s to create some leverage to tamp things down when they start stepping on toes that matter.

(13/11/14)

Interesting, might give off enough heat to make popcorn, who knows.

The pullquote:

So it’s hard to be mad at anyone specific, because these men who are nurtured within a system of wildly pervasive but wholly tacit male favoritism get the best of both worlds. They get to make a show of being progressive and they also get to reap the benefits of a system they’re supposedly fighting against.”

Here’s a thought: a year ago, circa Gamergate, I predicted that while Gawker wouldn’t apologize they would quietly back off the culture war stuff now that they were taking lumps for it, and said Pareene would be a better custodian of the brand voice.

So reading this I discover they installed Pareene last month, and then this:

In January, a black senior editor at Gawker.com, Jason Parham, wrote a post on his personal blog called Gawker Media’s Responsibility to Diversity, one that later inspired Cook’s release of Gawker’s diversity statistics. He was concerned in part by the creation of a new executive editorial team — cheekily called the Politburo, and featuring five male editors and two women editors — reflected a waning interest in editorial diversity. Nick Denton responded in a comment on Parham’s post with this:

“Let’s welcome, if not out-and-out racists, then at least the wide array of people with whom a conversation is possible: national greatness conservatives, Burkean Tories and business pragmatists, for instance; Christians and other spiritual people; economic liberals, libertarians and techno-utopians; and black and other social conservatives.”

Instead of focusing on a simple request, one familiar to any self-aware media company in 2015 — a commitment to “publishing and hiring more Latina voices, queer voices, black voices, and marginalized voices across its core sites” — Denton waved his hand and advocated for more or less the opposite.

So, was I wrong?

kontextmaschine:

(donglegate and Sarkeesian and dickwolves and whatnot aren’t the infection, they’re the inoculation)

…and this is the immune reaction. Just realized I called it a year ago.