Choire Sicha Joins CNN As Senior VP Of Features Editorial
#News #Politics #ChoireSicha #CNN #ElectionLine #Gawker
https://deadline.com/2025/05/choire-sicha-cnn-features-1236386869/
#Gawker
Almost ever since I hear about #Pewdipie, I had a bad feeling about him.
Maybe it's cause I used to hang around #Gawker (during the good old days before #PeterThiel sued them into #bankruptcy) and they were trying to warn about him even before the #Christchurchshooting.
Point is, when people say he's mixed up in #WhiteSupremacy, I believe them.
I'm confused about why he's suddenly switching to Linux though. Did he give a reason?
Desperately looking for any actually useful facts or reporting in Conspiracy by Ryan Holliday amid the weirdly flowery, self-important verbiage Does anyone have recommendations for better books on the Thiel-led destruction of #Gawker?
Here's the link if you're interested.
https://www.avclub.com/ryan-coogler-x-files-reboot-gillian-anderson
#Gawker reported that someone wants to reboot the #XFiles again, and when I pointed out that the show, which I loved, was at least partially responsible for the popularity of #AlexJones and #QAnon, people freaked.
Maybe Mastodon is the wrong place to ask, but it's not just me, right?
I can't be thew only one seeing the correlations between a popular show about a government conspiracy and the rise of belief in an #Illuminati like society of "elite globalists," can I?
Just discovered Hearing Things - a worker-owned, curated and considered music journalism publication.
Check them out, if that sounds like something you want to support.
🎵 ✍️ 🆗
#HearingThings #Journalism #Music #MusicDiscovery #MusicJournalism #Ghost #Pitchfork #Spin #Gawker #Jezebel #Complex #DJBooth #CBS
I used to write for Gawker Media, working under AJ Daulerio. AJ and Nick Denton (founder of GM) lost in court to Hulk Hogan* who was funded by Peter Thiel, so I'm basically four degrees of separation from the GOP's VP Ghoul #Gawker #PeterThiel #JDVance #uspol
*AJ published Hogan's affair with the wife of DJ "Bubba the Love Sponge," noting Hogan's steroid-shrunken wang and his use of the N-word. Thiel was outed years before by Denton's Defamer blog. He took down Gawker as a result.
@mishi@kolektiva.social @stevesilberman @shansterable@c.im
Gawker lost only because they ignored repeated requests to remove a #sextape of #HulkHogan and one of the most #disgusting #radio “personalities” of all time #BubbatheLoveSponge ‘s wife. This gave that piece of shit #PeterThiel the opening he was looking for. #Gawker had reported on his #homosexuality in #Valleywag which greatly upset him.
Ben Affleck, Matt Damon Developing Hulk Hogan Movie About Gawker Case
#MovieNews #Movies #ArtistsEquity #BenAffleck #Gawker #HulkHogan #MattDamon
Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker Film in Active Development With Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Artists Equity
#Variety #News #ArtistsEquity #Gawker #HulkHogan
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/hulk-hogan-gawker-film-artists-equity-1236096091/
The payoff from Thiel’s early gamble in Trump is a lesson that has not passed others by.
As with their other obsession, #crypto, the best time to have invested in Trump was 2016,
and the second best time is today.
We already have a word for what we’re watching now:
it’s #oligarchy.
And we’ve already seen how this plays out.
In Putin’s Russia, political and commercial interests are one and the same.
Thiel is betting
– again
– on the same phenomenon in America.
Betting that he will be first among a new breed of tech bro oligarchs
– a new super-class of #broligarchs.
In Trump’s America, there will be hard choices for everyone, including the billionaires. --
Though it may be less hard for them.
Vance has said he wants to #deregulate crypto and
unshackle AI.
He’s said he’d #dismantle Biden’s attempts to place safeguards around AI development.
And while he has it in for the #legacy #monopolies of Google and Facebook
– the platforms that his ideological bedfellows in the “new right” see as part of the “censorship industrial complex” suffocating rightwing speech
– Silicon Valley is betting on a gloves-off, regulation-free, pro-business #goldrush.
Another Peter Thiel acolyte was on stage at the Republican National Convention last week,
electrifying the crowd:
#Hulk #Hogan.
Hogan is less well known as one of Thiel’s longterm bets, though in some ways he’s even more instructive than Vance.
In 2007, the online magazine #Gawker outed Thiel and ran a series of unflattering articles about him.
It took him years, but he ultimately got his revenge, covertly funding Hulk Hogan to the tune of $10m to sue the publication for invasion of privacy and forcing it into #bankruptcy.
On stage at the RNC, the wrestler, a permatanned orange, ripped off his shirt for the man who increasingly looks like he’ll be America’s next president.
Or, if JD Vance, is correct, the man who will prove to be the #Caesar he says America needs.
A man who he has already urged to fire the nation’s civil servants to
💥 “replace them with our people”,
to defy the courts and rule his own way.
Or, to put this in simple terms:
to foment a #coup.
Thiel knows what every investor knows. That a crisis is an opportunity.
And that if Trump succeeds in tearing up the federal administration,
there is not only billions to be made in the ensuing market #turmoil but that a new breed of oligarchs,
close to Caesar’s throne, will be the first to share the spoils.
And chief among them will be Thiel.
It’s not a stretch to see how #Palantir, his data-mining company
– that under the Conservatives got its teeth into the NHS
– will profile and surveil and target Caesar’s enemies.
And Thiel’s track record in winning, in successfully betting on the longest of odds, on biding his time, is maybe the most chilling of all the factors in a fortnight that has started to feel like the start of a run on the bank.
Biden’s debate disaster,
Trump’s victorious assassination survival,
and now Silicon Valley’s ascension to the presidential ticket.
The broligarchs have made their move
– and the rest of us need to understand exactly what that means.
#tech #elite #Sandberg #Page #Bezos #Peter #Thiel #tech #bro #Vance #Elon #Musk #Marc #Andreessen #Ben #Horowitz #Winklevoss #Chamath #Palihapitiya #David #Sacks #Palantir #Vance #Mithril #Capital #Narya #Capital
⬆️ @GreenFire
Because #vengeful people like #PeterThiel have hulking elephantine memories, as the above #HulkHogan story shows, the #Gawker Media bankruptcy offers one explanation for #mainstreamMedia paying obeisance to #Trump and the #oligarchs.
They are doing this to insure against #retribution in case #GOP wins.
What they don't understand is that once they submit to pressure and blackmail, they can NEVER recover, and that reporting truthfully about Trump and #Project2025 is for their best
⬆️ @GreenFire
Second #Trump term will be pure #Retribution as this retribution story involving #PeterThiel shows.
It used #HulkHogan in a #sexTape to bankrupt #Gawker Media in 2016 after one of their rags outed #Thiel in 2007 as #gay.
Gawker’s tech blog #Valleywag published a post under the headline “Peter Thiel is totally gay, people,” ending with the sentence, “I think it's important to say this: Peter Thiel, the smartest #VC in the world, is gay."
Sordid details at https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/hogan-thiel-gawker-trial/554132/
The #HulkHogan intro to #Trump's #RNC speech is 100% a Peter Thiel production. #Gawker #kayfabe
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/peter-thiel-donald-trump-vance-hulk-hogan/
@InaeOh: #HulkHogan to take center stage at MAGA-GOP-fest-finale…
…Hogan's appearance may have less to do with the former pro-wrestler than it does with #PeterThiel, the right-wing billionaire and #GOP kingmaker…
…a decade after #Gawker outed #Thiel that he secretly financed Hogan's lawsuit against the media site (…who published a sex tape of Hogan) and effectively killed the media company…Now, with Thiel's protege #JDVance on the GOP ticket…
I'm as scared of people underestimating #Trump (AGAIN) as anyone, but that doesn't mean I won't call him dumb. If anything, it reminds me that we frequently underestimate dumb people to our detriment.
As #DietrichBonhoeffer said; "Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."
A dumb person will do or say things a smarter person would never think of, because a smart person would know better. Dumb people don't, or care.
https://www.theroot.com/y-all-need-to-stop-calling-trump-dumb-he-s-dangerous-1851452415
"14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday's Endless Appetizers" by Caity Weaver.
A classic Gawker article from the archives...
In this epic journey, a Gawker reporter investigates TGI Friday's bottomless mozzarella sticks — in exchange for a week's vacation. A fun read, loved every moment of it!
Original link (gone, domain sold):
https://www.gawker.com/my-14-hour-search-for-the-end-of-tgi-fridays-endless-ap-1606122925
#gawker #TGIFridays #TGIFriday #mozzarellasticks #CaityWeaver
A quixotic enterprise backed by investors including oligarch Peter Thiel seeks to end discrimination against "brave" and oppressed steroid users.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7emq7/tech-libertarians-fund-drug-fueled-olympics-where-doping-is-a-slur?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#VC #venturecapitalism #olympics #PeterThiel #gawker
#Queenmaker: #MakingOfAModernItGirl, #Hulu, is uneven and unfocused but offers a good review of the too often toxic nature of the #blogosphere of the 2000's many on #Mastodon tout uncritically, which seeded the toxicity of #Twitter, et. al in the 10's and 20's.
The myth of #whiteInnocence (especially #women) is also (unintentionally) highlighted with the inclusion of a once key writer for #Gawker who, in an ironic, fair, and just way, became subject to the harms she helped make "acceptable".
Weeks After Shutdown, Digital Media Brand Jezebel Is Acquired By Paste Magazine Along With Long-Dormant Politics Site Splinter
#News #Digitalmedia #GOMedia #Gawker #Jezebel #Pastemagazine
https://deadline.com/2023/11/jezebel-acquired-by-paste-magazine-splinter-digital-media-1235642351/
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