Interesting reads
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I read this in the newspaper yesterday. The story of the Kiwi WWII hero that nobody knows about.
https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/waikato-times/20191005/282226602467583
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@Bovidae said in Interesting reads:
I read this in the newspaper yesterday. The story of the Kiwi WWII hero that nobody knows about.
https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/waikato-times/20191005/282226602467583
I read that too , very cool . There was a few kiwis that stayed behind in Greece and Crete to get up to mischief. The locals helped them at great cost to themselves.
After the war Freyberg and other officers and veterans went back and thanked them in person for their sacrifices. According to Kippenbergers biographer a transcript of the thank you speech is in a frame on the wall of the mayors office in even the smallest town on Crete to this day. -
How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat
https://publicdomainreview.org/2019/01/10/how-the-pre-raphaelites-became-obsessed-with-the-wombat/
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The Asia-Pacific region is awash in crystal meth. A multinational task force is on the trail of a China-born Canadian national who, police tell Reuters, is the suspected kingpin of a vast drug network that is raking in up to $17 billion a year.
The syndicate, law enforcers believe, is funneling tonnes of methamphetamine, heroin and ketamine to at least a dozen countries from Japan in North Asia to New Zealand in the South Pacific. But meth – a highly addictive drug with devastating physical and mental effects on long-term users – is its main business, they say.
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Finished Igguldens War of the Roses
As with most of his stuff, well written, obviously historical characters, events mixed with fiction to provide a great read.
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@MN5 said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@Chris-B said in Interesting reads:
@dogmeat Reminds me of Barry Crump's ex-wife Robin's book. Her concluding paragraph that I just dug out was:
I'm sure Barry was unaware he taught me the greatest lesson for my entry into middle-age - when he was alive and I looked at his well-lived face etched with deep lines and skin burned too many times I realized exfoliation was never high on his list of priorities. I'm reminded to reach thrice daily for the moisturizer, so there is much wisdom he's left me.
No letting bygones be bygones there.
I loved that guys books as a kid, after working with his nephew and reading the book written by Barrys brother I'm not surprised she still loathes him.
Remind me.....what did he do that made him such a prick ?
I mainly remember him from the Hilux ads.
Beat up women he was in relationships with, abandoned a bunch of his kids. He was pretty fucked up, his dad used to beat him pretty badly and he figured out not crying or showing pain used to wind his dad up and that was his best way of getting back at him .
My father-in-law had same experience but promised himself he'd be the opposite and was a top bloke.
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Background to this, this company fired a journalist yesterday who was told to talk about sports because he worked for a sports website. This was his last article
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/three-good-dogs-i-met-1839442469
Now another employee is writing articles slagging of their bosses on their own site
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Background to this, this company fired a journalist yesterday who was told to talk about sports because he worked for a sports website. This was his last article
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/three-good-dogs-i-met-1839442469
Now another employee is writing articles slagging of their bosses on their own site
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584
So they were obviously looking to get fired. I never understand how this is news.
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@Hooroo said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Background to this, this company fired a journalist yesterday who was told to talk about sports because he worked for a sports website. This was his last article
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/three-good-dogs-i-met-1839442469
Now another employee is writing articles slagging of their bosses on their own site
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584
So they were obviously looking to get fired. I never understand how this is news.
They weren’t looking to get fired though , they are looking at going to court for unjustified dismissal.
The reason I posted it here is there’s a scrap going on between the new owners of the site who want to make money and their writers who want to write shit that gets lots of clicks and twitter followers for them .
A lot of these digital media sites have been laying off lots of people because its becoming more difficult to make money out if digital media and now we have a company who’s employees are actually working against management using their own website.Didn’t know where else to post it , it doesn’t really fit in any another thread
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@Hooroo said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Background to this, this company fired a journalist yesterday who was told to talk about sports because he worked for a sports website. This was his last article
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/three-good-dogs-i-met-1839442469
Now another employee is writing articles slagging of their bosses on their own site
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584
So they were obviously looking to get fired. I never understand how this is news.
They weren’t looking to get fired though , they are looking at going to court for unjustified dismissal.
The reason I posted it here is there’s a scrap going on between the new owners of the site who want to make money and their writers who want to write shit that gets lots of clicks and twitter followers for them .
A lot of these digital media sites have been laying off lots of people because its becoming more difficult to make money out if digital media and now we have a company who’s employees are actually working against management using their own website.Didn’t know where else to post it , it doesn’t really fit in any another thread
I'm not criticising you posting, don't get me wrong. Just the nothingness of it (to me)
Do I have it right in saying that the sports journo wasn't doing the job he was paid to do and was let go and is now fighting it?
If so, I don't understand why he feels so entitles to do as he wishes with others money.
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@Hooroo said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@Hooroo said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Background to this, this company fired a journalist yesterday who was told to talk about sports because he worked for a sports website. This was his last article
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/three-good-dogs-i-met-1839442469
Now another employee is writing articles slagging of their bosses on their own site
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584
So they were obviously looking to get fired. I never understand how this is news.
They weren’t looking to get fired though , they are looking at going to court for unjustified dismissal.
The reason I posted it here is there’s a scrap going on between the new owners of the site who want to make money and their writers who want to write shit that gets lots of clicks and twitter followers for them .
A lot of these digital media sites have been laying off lots of people because its becoming more difficult to make money out if digital media and now we have a company who’s employees are actually working against management using their own website.Didn’t know where else to post it , it doesn’t really fit in any another thread
I'm not criticising you posting, don't get me wrong. Just the nothingness of it (to me)
Do I have it right in saying that the sports journo wasn't doing the job he was paid to do and was let go and is now fighting it?
If so, I don't understand why he feels so entitles to do as he wishes with others money.
Not just him, most of the employees at the company seem to feel the same way and are acting against the companies owners . I find that sense of self destructive entitlement bizarre.
Most if not all of my posts are fairly pointless, this is not a new thing .
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@Tim said in Interesting reads:
@jegga Important to remember that Deadspin was a Gawker website ...
They were behind a significant part of the hyper-politicization of everything in internet media.
Yeah its hard to feel sorry for ex Gawker staff considering the awfulness of most of them . Splinter couldn't make money off them and now the new owners are finding out what entitled whiny narcissistic children their staff are .
Today six of them resigned in solidarity with the guy who refused to write about sports on a sports site and earlier this week there were articles from them whining about how their auto play ads sucked which resulted in Farmers insurance pulling a million dollar ad campaign from the company because Deadspin staff took the piss out of them in their article.They must be incredibly self absorbed to not notice Buzzfeed, Vox and Vice have all had mass layoffs, there can't be many places that would hire someone who actively and publicly worked against their own employer.
Peter Theil couldnt ruin their careers completely so they decided to do it by themselves .
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there needs to be a movie about this guy.
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This is a fascinating read I thought about the interview with Shamima Begum. Arguably the most hated person in GB
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Random 24 year old man spontaneously raises millions for charity , gets interviewed by local paper which digs up tweets from when he was 16 . Paper and journo gets massive blowback , journos identity is discovered, turns out he has said awful shit on twitter too and paper sacks him . Journo still doesn’t seem to understand what happened
https://www.cjr.org/first_person/aaron-calvin-viral-story-tweets.php
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Random 24 year old man spontaneously raises millions for charity , gets interviewed by local paper which digs up tweets from when he was 16 . Paper and journo gets massive blowback , journos identity is discovered, turns out he has said awful shit on twitter too and paper sacks him . Journo still doesn’t seem to understand what happened
https://www.cjr.org/first_person/aaron-calvin-viral-story-tweets.php
This was definitely an interesting read but your description implied (or I misread it's intention) that the journalist was setting out to set him up ... when (and this is in his own words obviously) he was a writing a series of articles about him due to the charity work.
I can kind of understand why the journo doesn't understand what happened. The newspaper posted an editorial explaining the rationale for why 'they' were chosing to include the info about the tweets but were preempted by the guy himself. And the kid himself tweeted that he didn't have an issue with the reporter.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/09/24/carson-king-des-moines-register-how-reported-tweets-iowa-state-gameday-busch-venmo-children-hospital/2437436001/ -
@Nepia said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Random 24 year old man spontaneously raises millions for charity , gets interviewed by local paper which digs up tweets from when he was 16 . Paper and journo gets massive blowback , journos identity is discovered, turns out he has said awful shit on twitter too and paper sacks him . Journo still doesn’t seem to understand what happened
https://www.cjr.org/first_person/aaron-calvin-viral-story-tweets.php
This was definitely an interesting read but your description implied (or I misread it's intention) that the journalist was setting out to set him up ... when (and this is in his own words obviously) he was a writing a series of articles about him due to the charity work.
I can kind of understand why the journo doesn't understand what happened. The newspaper posted an editorial explaining the rationale for why 'they' were chosing to include the info about the tweets but were preempted by the guy himself. And the kid himself tweeted that he didn't have an issue with the reporter.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/09/24/carson-king-des-moines-register-how-reported-tweets-iowa-state-gameday-busch-venmo-children-hospital/2437436001/I don’t think I implied he was setting him up . He says in the first sentence he saw his job as to make sure his stories went viral so he included the tweets. He obviously never anticipated that it would massively backfire on him .
I followed the story when it first broke and the guy who raised the money is obviously a good sort so I guess having some understanding of what the journo is going through he wouldn’t wish it on anyone .
I thought it was an interesting story about social media and how what you say on it can come back to haunt you.
I don’t have much sympathy for the journo , he reminds me of Sarah Jeong he just didn’t have the high profile supporters she did .
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@Nepia said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Random 24 year old man spontaneously raises millions for charity , gets interviewed by local paper which digs up tweets from when he was 16 . Paper and journo gets massive blowback , journos identity is discovered, turns out he has said awful shit on twitter too and paper sacks him . Journo still doesn’t seem to understand what happened
https://www.cjr.org/first_person/aaron-calvin-viral-story-tweets.php
This was definitely an interesting read but your description implied (or I misread it's intention) that the journalist was setting out to set him up ... when (and this is in his own words obviously) he was a writing a series of articles about him due to the charity work.
I can kind of understand why the journo doesn't understand what happened. The newspaper posted an editorial explaining the rationale for why 'they' were chosing to include the info about the tweets but were preempted by the guy himself. And the kid himself tweeted that he didn't have an issue with the reporter.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/09/24/carson-king-des-moines-register-how-reported-tweets-iowa-state-gameday-busch-venmo-children-hospital/2437436001/I don’t think I implied he was setting him up . He says in the first sentence he saw his job as to make sure his stories went viral so he included the tweets. He obviously never anticipated that it would massively backfire on him .
I followed the story when it first broke and the guy who raised the money is obviously a good sort so I guess having some understanding of what the journo is going through he wouldn’t wish it on anyone .
I thought it was an interesting story about social media and how what you say on it can come back to haunt you.
I don’t have much sympathy for the journo , he reminds me of Sarah Jeong he just didn’t have the high profile supporters she did .
All good, must have just been my interpretation. I don't know who Jeong is but I guess we have to agree to disagree on the journo, he seemed pretty supportive of the guy to me - but I didn't follow it at the time, only just did some research after reading your link.