So a few days ago, Vanity Fair published this piece
It’s pretty scathing. And a genuinely good restaurant review piece.
Then, about 14 hours later, our president-elect (who’s too busy to go to security briefings), took to Twitter to respond
Vanity Fair took it and ran with it.
When you click that banner?
So, of course, I subscribed. And I bought the $5 gift subscription for my mom, who’s…VERY republican.
I’m going to be spending the next 4 years supporting every publication that speaks out in any way against Trump. Yeah, that means Vanity Fair and Teen Vogue (if you haven’t read their article on how Trump is gaslighting America, you need to get on it). And if that means also getting some fantastic articles on pop culture and skin care, I’m on board.
Fun fact, Vanity Fair is edited by Graydon Carter, who has a longstanding feud with Trump. In fact, he was one of the first people to note how tiny pawed Trump was when he called him a “short-fingered vulgarian” in Spy back in 1988.
So the review was totally a hit piece meant to improve sales and poke fun at a long term nemesis.
What is REALLY cool is how VF, Carter, and Conde Nast in general handled things for Tina Nguyen, the writer of the piece.
Naturally writing something as savage as her review was going to invite hate, which any journalist is familiar with and well inoculated to.
So good guy Carter and friends actually went out of their way to protect Nguyen. They screened calls to her office line and set the whole VF PR team on a mission to find and stop any attempts to dox Nguyen.
And this is so so so vital. Generally speaking writers are expected to deal with the hate themselves unless it’s life threatening. They’ve had the luxury of decades of dealing with US Presidents who’s nastiest response would be to kick someone out of their press pool or deny access.
Trump AGGRESSIVELY pursues journalists who personally insult him or his “policies.” He won’t necessarily send police to their homes (we hope), but he will mobilize his few million followers, and as we’ve seen with Gamergate–a bully movement that absolutely fed into Trump–that’s a VERY DANGEROUS THING.
That’s how to support your people. Well done, Vanity Fair!
even with those four numbers there are countless possible combinations good luck with figuring out which one is the right one you punk
*straightens calculator*
It’s pretty likely that it’s a four digit number, and as there are four digits chosen there, that means that there cannot be any repetition. This mean that there are:
n!/(n-4)! possible orders. As ‘n’ is 4 (number of digits available). 4!/0! which becomes 4x3x2x1/1 which simplifies to 24. That means that there are 24 possible combinations of codes. This would take you about two or three minutes to input all possible codes.
Unless an alarm goes off if you don’t get it right in 3 tries
*straightens calculator again*
Kick the fucking door in
well ‘technically’ the code is most likley 1970. statistically, a majority of people, when told to choose a 4 digit code will choose their birth year. and this key pad is obviously a few years old to put it nicely, thats most likley it.
some sherlock holmes shit just went down over here
No, no, no. Don’t base your deductions of psychology. Let’s talk chemistry. When you first press a button, there’s more of the natural oils on your skin, and therefore it wears down the numbers on the keys faster. Obviously 0 is the first one, then. Try 0791 first.
Sherlock out.
woah.
it got better
and this is why the sherlock fandom could either rule the world or end it….
Those deductions are great and all, but unnecessary.
Have you heard about the Women’s March on Washington on January 21st?
We stand together in solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families – recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country.
First of all, I hope you come to DC and march. If you can’t march, please think about kicking a few pennies over to the march effort. Every cost of this event must be funded through donations. We’re talking renting port-a-potties, bus parking fees, safety and security personnel, staging and sound equipment, etc. Contributions go directly to paying these expenses.
I don’t mean to sound negative as shit, but EVEN HERE most people don’t understand that there are multiple types of orca. They don’t know about the issues, other than maybe in abstract. A distressing number of people think that ACTIVISTS have doomed the orcas because of Seaworld’s cessation of breeding. I’ve seen a number of discussions in which people have already written the SR’s off.
These aren’t pro-caps, they’re just casual observers. That’s bad.
While there’s a big group of cetacean enthusiasts here, and a huge number of conservation-focused orgs (they do great work!), it’s actually distressingly small in the big picture. And while I hate to bring this up for the thousandth time, this shit is a huge part of why I have so much vitriol for places like Seaworld and now VanAq because they aren’t really helping. They could do so much more. They should be. Lip service, from them, from politicians, from people who don’t change their habits, voice their opinions, DO something, is what gets us to this dreary point of despair in which it’s literally just a relative handful of people against the apathetic horror which is most of humanity.
If the numbers we were told at Superpod are correct, something like 97% of charity (and attention) goes to human issues. That leaves the minuscule rest for the environment and animals. That’s awful.
This is what we’re up against. How do we fix it? What do we do?
I’ve been wondering about this too (in general, rather than in orca-specific, terms). I think one solution is to have different modes in which you operate, different communities, with an understanding that you’ll be code-switching and adjusting your ideas of goals and victory based on context.
You can build a community of people who get it, and work with them to share ideas and plan and talk in-depth. And then you can engage with a larger community of people who are concerned but for whom it isn’t as central, and help to correct their worst misunderstandings and lay down a path for those who might move out into the first group. And then you have the big mass of mostly unaware folks you can try to influence and (hopefully) shift some of the percentages around in terms of support for legislation and countering the bullshit PR from the other side. But when you engage with that last group you’ll be aware that you’re not going to move the whole mass of it very much, but that will be okay because you’re sustained by the experience of working with the first two groups.
Is how I’m seeing it for myself, at least, these days.
When we evolved the project I could never imagine that as we enter 2017, my state, North Carolina, would perform so badly on this, and other, measures that we are no longer considered to be a fully functioning democracy. In the just released EIP report, North Carolina’s overall electoral integrity score of 58/100 for the 2016 election places us alongside authoritarian states and pseudo-democracies like Cuba, Indonesia and Sierra Leone. If it were a nation state, North Carolina would rank right in the middle of the global league table – a deeply flawed, partly free democracy that is only slightly ahead of the failed democracies that constitute much of the developing world.
Indeed, North Carolina does so poorly on the measures of legal framework and voter registration, that on those indicators we rank alongside Iran and Venezuela. When it comes to the integrity of the voting district boundaries no country has ever received as low a score as the 7/100 North Carolina received. North Carolina is not only the worst state in the USA for unfair districting but the worst entity in the world ever analyzed by the Electoral Integrity Project.
That North Carolina can no longer call its elections democratic is shocking enough, but our democratic decline goes beyond what happens at election time. The most respected measures of democracy — Freedom House, POLITY and the Varieties of Democracy project — all assess the degree to which the exercise of power depends on the will of the people: That is, governance is not arbitrary, it follows established rules and is based on popular legitimacy. The extent to which North Carolina now breaches these principles means our state government can no longer be classified as a full democracy.
To @dontbesoevil my wonderful Poe Party Secret Santa giftee who I have loved talking to!
I thought I’d make something physical for you, since words do not come as easily to me. Here’s a very smol HG! My plan was to also make you George Eliot, Lenore, and Oscar Wilde, but I hope you enjoy HG :)
It’s been very lovely to be your Secret Santa :) Merry Poe Party Christmas!
h.g. court wizard, castle inventor (time on his heels & a head full of planets)
lenore lady ghost, seamstress to the queen (quick fingers & a quicker tongue)
h.g. arrives in summer. they don’t meet until autumn, until lenore follows the smell of burning and drags him out of his smoke-filled chamber, only half-awake and choking, but alive. that night, amongst potions and bandages, she makes him laugh. he thinks she’s like moonlight. she hopes he’ll stay.
(he does.)
their lives slowly become intertwined. he bakes and blackens bread and she embroiders the constellations into his cloaks. they laugh and slow dance and speak spells into the air. they give each other their stories.
(h.g. stirs honey and indigo spice into lenore’s tea, as she tells him of her lost love, sir guy de vere. when her voice wobbles, he hands her his cat, emily, who curls up warm and soft in lenore’s lap.)
#tbt To the four posters that literally kickstarted a wild year with #PoeParty. What a year, what a show! So proud of @shipwreckedcomedy and the work they’ve put in to make this a reality in the time they did. Definitely one of the top highlights of my year!
“When President Barack Obama signed an update to U.S. law protecting religious freedom late last week, one provision drew special attention: U.S. law now recognizes non-believers as, in essence, a religious group. Obama’s signing of amendments to the International Religious Freedom Act on Friday wasn’t widely noticed — except among the community of atheists, agnostics and others who categorize themselves as “humanists.” For the first time, the law — which was originally passed in 1998 — specifies that “the freedom of thought, conscience, and religion is understood to protect theistic and non-theistic beliefs and the right not to profess or practice any religion.””
