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And the proof….one, two. They are dumping employees right and left and saying nothing about the resultant scandals. Many former Gizmodo, AV Club, and other site “reviewers” are ending up elsewhere (Ars Technica, Verge, etc) to write their pissy little complaints about crappy TV shows/other trivia. And two of them went off and started The Autopian, a thing even worse than the thing they left. And are now forced to constantly beg people to buy memberships. Wonder what all these “blogging geniuses” will do when their new employers decide to ALSO ditch the humans.

Speaking of OCD (which is inevitable on the internet)….consider the long, long rant Tyler Vigen posted about an old pedestrian bridge in the Minneapolis suburbs. He beat it into submission. Did anyone need that?

Haven’t bitched about Gitlin lately. This and this aren’t bad and showcase actual technical innovation. But he also had to go off and jack it over an absurd “hypercar thing”.

“News flash”: not only is the Pentagon a big turd. It has taken to bitching about the poor quality of recent recruits. Cheap labor is cheap, assholes.

Ever heard of author Roy Parvin? Neither did I. And after seeing this smug little article, I’ll continue to ignore his writings.

Australia! Trying to pass a copyright law that Google really hates!

Take it from digerati and “asshole god” Ethan Zuckerman: The MIT Media Lab is a joke.

“Anecdotal information would appear to support the idea. According to multiple media reports, Bill Gates, Walt Disney, Richard Branson, Cisco Systems CEO John T. Chambers, actor Jim Carrey and Hollywood personality Howie Mandel all have ADHD. They are recognized impresarios who have significantly impacted their industries.“ So don’t work for “visionaries”. They are awful employers.

And speaking of arrogant jerks, James Altucher (who openly edited his own Wikipedia biography) has now “had it” with New York City. If only one of those crazy street people would take James Altucher off the internet and into the food chain, then maybe NYC would “improve”. A tiny bit.

If watching disabled people obsessively complaining about “ableism” really bothers you, then amuse your miserable ass with the Twitter of Alex Dacy. Or you could watch Frank Zieger slowly turn from a cars’n’bitches douchebag into an ADHD solar-energy-powerwall douchebag. Dude sure mumbles like a stoner, eh? Take “advice” from Frank at your own risk.

For a fine example of why Brooklyn Hipsterville is an evil place to live, consider this charming couple. Gen-Xer fake hippies trying to stick it to the millennials etc. And if not yet disgusted to an optimal extent, consider Douglas Rushkoff’s smug friends “bailing” on the USA. They’re the ones dooming it but they don’t care.

Insane Artist Corner: Nellie’s Nest, hidden in a crack in Reddit and unknown to the masses. Until someone memes one of his cartoon-things. “Lucky him”. (?)

Whoever does this shit really needs some punishment.

Don’t consider California as the “future of America”. Most other states are not lucky enough to burn up in wildfires. Instead, look to Orlando as your future.

Ever heard of a women-only social network called Giggle? This week they had not one, but two major media scandals. Nice.

Anyone wanna buy DirecTV? Thought not.

It does not exist. You are hallucinating. STFU.

On October 4, within a few minutes of each other, Cowwy and Rob posted almost identical stories to Boink Boink. And none of their “dedicated fans” said anything (or at least, any complaints were censored instantly). I suspect BB is goin’ the way of Twitter traffic-wise; which is why you see almost no comments posted on any recent entry. (Get a real job, Cory, you narcissistic little shitweed.)

I’ve stumbled upon the perfect firearm for assassinations. Tiny, easy to conceal, holds only one shot, simple, can’t jam. Of very dubious value for self-defense. And I have the perfect blog to go along with it. It’s the moronic shit you deserve, gun lover.

FINALLY, the fucknozzles in and around Colorado Springs are starting to realize that the US Air Force is not a “good neighbor”. Only took them 70 years.

Think law enforcement people are always using public databases in a fully honest and businesslike capacity? Think again, buttplug. Plus, let’s not forget that the NSA abuses every capability it has. (Also note that one of the complainants was the Wikimedia Foundation; and that the district court threw the suit out. For “lack of standing”.)

Have you been buying meal kits from Blue Apron? Well, don’t.

Bloomberg has the bestest 404 page evar. :P

Fuck Pennsylvania, from turd to shining turd. (Hi Greg!)

You Facebookie shitasses! Stop spreading garbage like the “Peruvian stargate” dammit. I do not give you permission to share anus-splurtings.

And speaking of Twitter….Jack Dorsey=cumsack. ha ha. Ha.

How about Angela Corey?

“ Sending 12-year-old Cristian to an adult prison certainly numbers among Corey’s many troubling decisions. Because children and teens are in such danger of being raped or physically assaulted, federal law formerly required that juvenile inmates be kept in complete isolation. “

“Corey, 61, has made her reputation, in part, by winning verdicts that carry the death pen­alty. She has one of the highest rates of death sentences in the country, with 24 (19 in Duval) in the eight years since she was elected.“

“Last December when I wrote a column critical of how she handled the Cristian Fernandez case, she fired off a two-page, single-spaced letter on official state attorney letterhead hinting at lawsuits for libel.“

Is that mean enough? And for the capper, her Wikipedia article was created in 2009 by someone called Mgreason, who might have a personal or professional connection to Corey. And Mgreason, who strove to make Corey’s article as “reader-friendly” and bland as possible, was complemented for it—by none other than WMF employee Maggie Dennis. (Who had previously unblocked Mgreason after a block for copyright violations. Only later did the article start to accumulate the negativism it is currently swamped with. Which Corey btw seems to deserve.)

Does that rustle your Jimbos sufficiently? Now to change the damn subject.

Should you require more proof that the NSA is a vile, disgusting, slimy outfit, read this. Get back to me later. After you have another Fiji water.

“What is Breitbart News?“ Nothing of consequence, okay?

The Congressional Budget Office published a study showing that the top 10% of Americans control 76% of the country’s wealth. And Forbes promptly ran a spluttering Tim Worstall editorial denying it. (Worstall thinks all forms of public assistance should be abolished and everyone should get a job. And they should also kiss his fat pink ass.)

“Awaiting their September 7 trial, the pair has been incarcerated for several months at Multnomah County Detention Center, which they seem to believe is a Motel 6 that isn’t quite earning its 2 ½ stars.“ Vomit.

If rich-asshole snobbery hasn’t reached its peak of freshness for you, please consider this, about the “most exclusive restaurant in America”. Which turns out to be a private kitchen run by an apparent ADHD victim who takes random stuff from the woods and makes it into “food”. And lies constantly. “His father was a Nassau County cop“ explains many things. Maybe he should take drugs.

News flash: craft beer is in trouble. Not because sales are bad, because too goddamn many middle-aged manchildren started craft breweries. And the market is horribly saturated.

If you still don’t think Walmart is “all that bad”, consider this: Walmarts attract more crime than any other business in Tulsa. The Walton family wants to “keep profits up”.

“Almost all of my friends do some sort of sex work,” says Katie, 23, a visual artist in New York. “It’s super-common. It’s almost trendy to say you do it—or that you would.” Just another kiss-your-mighty-empire-goodbye item. Ho hum.

NOW all the old links are used up. Trashed all the Metafilter stuff because fuck them with an ice bucket. Ha ha ha ha ha.

Oh, now she has “regret”. Fool.

Such wonderful and charming things happen in Alabama.

Indiegogo is such a rich source of human idiocy and lies. Consider the Triton “artificial gill” device for an example. Such a device is simply impossible yet the blindly optimistic continue to “believe”.

Talcum powder can damage the lungs. And putting it in one’s uterus is probably a bad idea. But don’t ask Johnson & Johnson, because they’ve spent decades marketing baby powder – to black people.

““I HELD THE DOOR OPEN FOR A CLOWN THE OTHER DAY,” the woman said in a loud, slow monotone. It took us a moment to realize that her voice was emanating from the black speaker on the kitchen table. We stared slack-jawed as she—it—continued: “I THOUGHT IT WAS A NICE JESTER.”“ Well then don’t use it, asshole!

Should you ever watch an episode of the old UK sitcom The Young Ones, and decide it would be a great, great idea to call your next band “Bastard Squad”…. you should know that I’ve discovered four different bands called “Bastard Squad”. And there might be others.

“I wake up in a hotel bed I don’t remember. A man’s hand is inside me, jabbing and painful. I try to scream but nothing comes out. I try to move but I cannot. After what feels like a lifetime, I stagger away, ripping his hand out of my jeans. The convention whirls around me like a nightmare kaleidoscope as I beg for help. Eventually, someone takes me aside.“This is a safe convention. We have a reputation to protect. If you go to the police, we’ll say you were never here.”I nod numbly. I think I am crying, but no tears fall. I stumble into a bathroom in the lobby coffee shop and sob until I can’t breathe. When I am calm, I call the police and report the attack.“You sound drunk. Were you drinking? I’m not filing a report for some drunken slut.” The officer hangs up.“

Remember pinup cartoonist Callmepo, from this 2013 post? Well, he’s been banned from DA again, “forever”. He posted another cartoon hottie showing off her slit, and DA’s admins took total vengeance this time, claiming the cartoon was “underaged” and cheerfully destroying every possible trace of him on DA. Judging from what little I can find, anyone who asks DA’s management why he was banned gets the usual stony silence. And a lot of people asked.

Every online community becomes like that, and Web communities are the worst of all – once the operators have built up a large userbase and can make good money from ad revenues, they become power-mad little tyrants. Shitting on heads is encouraged. Hell, the added dramah probably increases their traffic.

And speaking of power-mad, I keep seeing blog posts like this, claiming that “Reddit is doomed” and such. Not so sure. Once they get to that level of traffic, they are like banks. “Too big to fail”. (Yeah, I know the same was said about Livejournal and Myspace and Digg before. They are still in business, in case you hadn’t noticed.) And by the by, did you know that Reddit has an area called r/kn0wthingsucks? Claimed to be a place where you can attack Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian with impunity? And if you actually post anything there, it is removed instantly? The internet even has Potemkin villages.

Could be worse. You could be working for this outfit.

Petty and vindictive is everywhere. Ask Laura Poitras.

Journalists fuck up routinely. Do not assume anything you see in a “major media outlet” is factual. Consider this Guardian story, which became the butt of a million astronomer jokes.

Still think Silicon Valley is a magical place with a clean industry? Um, no.

Some families are composed of scary, scary people. Consider the Gorcycas of Oakland County, Michigan. I feel sorry for their children – if any.

Some women have a self-abuse streak a mile wide. Consider this nice lady. And such nice ladies seem to really have great and abiding love for Hello Giggles, one of the dumbest, sappiest and most vapid blogs I’ve ever seen. Thanks a whole lot, Zooey!

Anyone wanna talk about eating ass?

And fuck Comic-Con.