medium.com: reddit for the coastal elite

A personal note on that, because it really shook me: I don’t care how much you hate me, how much it irks you that I was able to raise money from my “rich friends” to start a company, or the extent to which the prospect of my personal failure brings you to the brink to schadengasm. I don’t care about any of that. No amount of animosity towards me personally can excuse the vile gloating I saw from some writers at “rival” publications at the prospect that a dozen fine journalists, developers, illustrators, and support staff – several with young children to support — would soon be out of work.

Salon’s Alex Pareene, on hearing that we may have to lay off our staff, tweeted a single word in response: “aahahaha.” Gawker’s deputy editor, Max Read described the news as “BEAUTIFUL” (emphasis his).

If I should run into messrs Pareene or Read, perhaps while taking a late night stroll through the lowest circles of hell, I’ll be sure to ask them how they’d have felt reading Tweets like that about their colleagues and friends. But of course, the answer to that question presupposes a capacity for empathy or even basic humanity.

To quote one member of the NSFWCORP editorial team when he read those Tweets: “those fuckers had better hope we don’t survive.”

lol pwned

medium is about balloons https://medium.com/beautiful-stories/8d615d86ac04

i still dgi

imagining the post-antibiotics future, in which all of our children die before reaching their teen years.

wtf is medium is becoming a platform of it own https://medium.com/nelsons-errata/c100ebe0158f

Gruber is a sharp cookie, one of the sharpest in the design blogger set

^^delete humanity

http://pando.com/2013/12/30/what-if-we-are-really-in-a-matrix-like-simulation/

Thirty years from now a Sony PlayStation should be able to compute 10,000 human lifetimes simultaneously and in real time, or about a human lifetime per hour. Between PlayStation 1, PS2 and PS3 there are about 100 million devices in the world. If each held 10,000 humans, more people would reside in Sony PlayStations than maintain a corporeal existence on earth.

http://i.imgur.com/j74SykU.gif

reality is basically just one of those tv shows inside a tv show

i remember when the medium was just a bunch of racist freshmen complaining about their roommates

(the porn industry is constantly innovating)

http://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/897/1*-xYcdg-uXIQlyXBemICiEQ.png

meh, try here: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/897/1*-xYcdg-uXIQlyXBemICiEQ.png

https://medium.com/@reifman/5ebf4e53294c

disgusting

men... men... what are we, anymore? what the fuck? get so mad at shit like this

saw someone i knew state intentions to pick up and move from (neglected blogspot/wordpress/whatever blog) to medium 'for longer pieces', it seems like part of the pull is the idea that people might pay attention to your writing.

the world of blogs out there away from the high-profile frequent-post buzzy-newscycle many-commenters model that apes web 2.0 journalism pioneered by i dunno sullivan and yglesias or whoever - it is a desolate wasteland compared to what it was like say 10 years ago. it seems like most writing is not being read, or being read and responded to in a kind of pings-in-the-void fecklessness that is probably not very stimulating for the writers.

throw in feely uplifty 'mattering' dimension to it, and welp.

damn goole that shit is a 14 minute read can a brother get a pullquote or what

what the fucking fuck

here's the deal: not all people want to be your friend or communicate with you after a relationship ends. if they don't want to, you respect their wishes.

I've been the persistent person when it came to talking to an ex before and I was completely in the fucking wrong. This dude, wtf.

a guy got dumped, and it's a problem for him

xp

dude dated someone for four months and has been dwelling on it for two years

Breakups are often hard for me, but hardest when there is cutoff. For me, Emma’s flip from care and openness to withdrawal and, ultimately, hostile rejection mirrored my mom’s behavior and re-opened deep wounds from my past.

Following her withdrawal, I cried nearly every day and struggled with sleep for months. People often see me as a successful technologist, an ex-Microsoft millionaire, but I can attest to the capacity for trauma to upend your emotional stability and make life a living hell.

Often, the partner doing the cutoff may also have experienced trauma. Cutting off may be a way to avoid pain — or it may be a way to exercise power to feel in control. Anderson says that for serial abandoners, “Creating devastation is their way of demonstrating power.”

Cutoff culture is violent in its own ways. The person cutting ties gets what they want, but the person getting cut off is left in a situation where what they need or want doesn’t matter.

and he's painting her as an emotionally-stunted person on medium, because she doesn't want to hang out with some dude she dumped and "resolve emotions"

serial abandoners YOU MEAN HUMAN BEINS

man this thing is long as shit

my amateur psychological analysis tells me this guy has a codependency issue

CUTOFF CULTURE!

why do you guys read this crap

some cutoff culture for ya
http://cdnl.complex.com/mp/620/400/90/0/bb/1/ffffff/d56d0ee52fb0f5ce73af9c216bbfd8cf/images_/assets/CHANNEL_IMAGES/STYLE/2012/09/dappy-like-pappy-50-style-tips-you-can-learn-from-your-dad/dadjorts_318743.jpg

medium, that's where successful technologists livejournal!

so the eighth circle then

i am very proud of this thread title

http://i.imgur.com/0PGvHas.png

Is this a piece of original art by Jeff Riefman???

she doesn't want to hang out with some dude

lol at cutoff culture lol at the trend of adding culture to the end of another word and declaring it a thing

this relationship isn't over until i say it is

http://youtu.be/dCPWlF_ZjU8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCPQZ1Le6dg

it seems like it's becoming more of a legit thing and less stupid

don't really appreciate how it gives the livejournals of any random who happens to get an account an excess of gravitas

like you could paste timecube into that template and give it some parallax-scrolling stock photographs of educated stupid one-day nonbelievers and it'd look reasonable

i have never looked at this website before. https://medium.com/@byroncrawford/blue-ivys-hair-is-perfect-good-hair-is-just-more-perfect-43145b2984dd wtf is this

silby tom the more of a legit thing medium gets the worse it gets

damn autocorrect silby OTM

like you could paste timecube into that template and give it some parallax-scrolling stock photographs of educated stupid one-day nonbelievers and it'd look reasonable

― heck (silby), Thursday, August 28, 2014 3:48 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

This was a claim too bold not to be tested

https://medium.com/@fldlxnc/time-cube-4ce-c5347e6b0068

if you deleted those linebreaks we'd be on to something

needs parallax, that is the key UX feels maker

h8 parallax such pointless garbage

What's parallel scrolling

lmao at the recent extremely long medium article about underlining ad typography

and typography