Wow. RIP.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
this was hardly unforseen but it seems really momentous to me in a way that few celeb deaths really do, RIP
― guh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
(no offense bert jansch)
hmmm
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
local ABC affiliate broke into "Jeopardy" for a special report -- the anchor did a whole like 30 second intro about "the passing of a man who has changed the way we all live our lives" before saying who actually died so it was weirdly anticlimactic like oh really ok. i mean i know he's pretty famous but kinda surprises me how much they built it up.
― nəverDirty (some dude), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
Jjj otm. Shouldn't feel as sad as it does. RIP.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
*bites tongue*
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
i mean RIP obviously, ilu and everything your company makes mr. jobs (xpost)
RIP. An amazing aesthetic and business life.
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
CBS just cut in for special report. Woah at that first Mac ad with the sledgehammer through the screen.
― I just got back from a dream attack (sunny successor), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
takin' them New Balance shoes to Buddhist iHeaven
― Miles "Tails" Davis (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
RIP Big Guy.
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
See, I don't get the sad thing (I rarely do with celebrity deaths), but I totally get the momentous thing.
(a few xposts)
― emil.y, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
willy wonka :(
― remy bean, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
emil.y otm
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
I agree with this btw. xp
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
RIP
also, might be symbolic
― nostormo, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
Sad as hell (and way too early, obviously) but this dude racked up far more than a lifetime's worth of world-changing achievements. Hopefully the overwhelming tragedy of all this is balanced by just how much he got done.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
Wow. A good deal of my friends here have worked under him in some capacity, so this is so weird. RIP
― kinder, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
otm
the world in which I live & the world in which I work bear evidence of his importance - literally every day I'm doing stuff I'd be doing differently had he not lived. also, cancer is a fucking brutal horrible thing and this guy should have lived a lot longer so that's salt in the wound.
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah prob not sad, but R6 have been banging the John Peel drum for a while and this was just thing to set me off. I want to go and watch Toy Story now tbh.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
rip
― Primm Slim, Robot Sheriff (kingfish), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
if you think about it, his final genius act on earth was taking palin out of the news cycle
― Clay, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
speechless
sent from my iPad ):
― ∞th-wave ska (diamonddave85), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
might be the beginning of the end for Apple, too.
― nostormo, Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
fuck cancer you guys
― ilx user 'silby' (silby), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
i'm planning on buying my first ever apple laptop soon. RIP
― queen latifah approximately (donna rouge), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
― at-zing-two-boards (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljhqxelrIO1qam384o1_500.jpg
― joe, Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
Where I'm sitting I can count 6 apple devices. At least he probably had a pretty good life living off of my paycheck. RIP.
― Jeff, Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
"If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
This is so so worth meditating on, always. Death really sharpens the perspective.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno, like most major multinationals apple got rich by manufacturing its products in places where workers are paid shit and don't have rights. i guess we're in the realm of the contradicions of capitalism here.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like the sleekness/minimalist design/logic of personal "productivity" with which jobs so astutely worked to associate apple has kind of shielded apple partisans from recognizing that apple is as implicated in the realities of global exploitation as much or more than the next corporation.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
i mean jobs seems real interesting and important and stuff but people seem to be treating him like he won the nobel prize or something
― nostormo, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 7:01 PM (7 minutes ago)
I'd like to know what orifice you're pulling this out of, but not on this thread. Maybe over here...? New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
also following your heart not always the best idea
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
agree the stuff he says in that speech seems like the same old "carp diem" graduation-speech mush.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
a wife and three kids, and the youngest is 13. and that's the sad thing here.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
carpE
xpost
yes
http://www.classymommy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/sad-mac1.gif
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rco9xujjAak
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
wow, the guardian has gone for an extraordinarily grudging opening to the second par of its obituary:
The iPod, iPhone and iPad were all relatively late to market, were expensive, and, in their initial versions, lacked important features.
a bit lacking in vision, or perspective.
― joe, Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
amateurist pretty otm.
― Sophomore subs are the new Smith lesbians. (the table is the table), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
"Massively Successful Person Tells a Bunch of Mediocre College Graduates to Follow Their Dreams, Seize the Day," News at 11.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
:-(
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
apple.com looks very tasteful at the moment
simple black and white, minimalist
― geeta, Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
mediocre? that's stanford!
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
Er, Walt
― Lava lamp, Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
where's waly 's head
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
NICHOLAS ASHFORD, a former chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health
You can make his name from the letters in his committee
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks, jaymc.
― pplains, Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Since his name was brought up in this thread. Could appear on lots of other threads, too.
'This American Life' Retracts Show on Foxconn Working Conditions over Fabricated Claims
Back in January, popular radio show This American Life aired an episode dedicated to working conditions at Foxconn's factories in China, drawing heavily from Mike Daisey's theater monologue entitled "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs". In the monologue, which has been a notable part of the push to address working conditions at Apple's suppliers, Daisey relates tales from his visit to China where he met with Foxconn workers.
In a remarkable reversal, This American Life has now announced that it is retracting its January broadcast of Daisey's content, citing a number of fabrications discovered in a follow-up investigation on his claims.
The China correspondent for the public radio show Marketplace tracked down the interpreter that Daisey hired when he visited Shenzhen China. The interpreter disputed much of what Daisey has been saying on stage and on our show. [...]Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during the fact checking we did on the story, before it was broadcast. That doesn't excuse the fact that we never should've put this on the air. In the end, this was our mistake.An accompanying press release relates a number of Daisey's claims that were shown to be false, from claims of having met workers injured by use n-hexane to an anecdote in which he described meeting a man who had had his hand mangled in equipment while producing the iPad and showing the man a functional iPad for the first time.
Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during the fact checking we did on the story, before it was broadcast. That doesn't excuse the fact that we never should've put this on the air. In the end, this was our mistake.An accompanying press release relates a number of Daisey's claims that were shown to be false, from claims of having met workers injured by use n-hexane to an anecdote in which he described meeting a man who had had his hand mangled in equipment while producing the iPad and showing the man a functional iPad for the first time.
Daisey reportedly lied to This American Life's staff when asked for contact information for the interpreter he used during his travels, but once the interpreter was found through other means his story began to come apart.
For his part, Daisey acknowledges that some of the information he presented was not entirely truthful, arguing that his monologue was created for theater. Consequently, he agrees that it should not have been presented as journalism, although he stands behind the intent of his work.
I stand by my work. My show is a theatrical piece whose goal is to create a human connection between our gorgeous devices and the brutal circumstances from which they emerge. It uses a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license to tell its story, and I believe it does so with integrity. Certainly, the comprehensive investigations undertaken by The New York Times and a number of labor rights groups to document conditions in electronics manufacturing would seem to bear this out.What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism. For this reason, I regret that I allowed THIS AMERICAN LIFE to air an excerpt from my monologue. THIS AMERICAN LIFE is essentially a journalistic - not a theatrical - enterprise, and as such it operates under a different set of rules and expectations. But this is my only regret. I am proud that my work seems to have sparked a growing storm of attention and concern over the often appalling conditions under which many of the high-tech products we love so much are assembled in China.
What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism. For this reason, I regret that I allowed THIS AMERICAN LIFE to air an excerpt from my monologue. THIS AMERICAN LIFE is essentially a journalistic - not a theatrical - enterprise, and as such it operates under a different set of rules and expectations. But this is my only regret. I am proud that my work seems to have sparked a growing storm of attention and concern over the often appalling conditions under which many of the high-tech products we love so much are assembled in China.
This American Life is devoting the entirety of this week's episode to discussion of the fabrications present in the original report.
― butvi wouls (Phil D.), Friday, 16 March 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Dear Friends,
As you may have read by now, the radio program This American Life—which aired a segment of Mike Daisey’s theatre monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs—has retracted the story due to what it calls fabrications in Mike’s tale. We wanted to let you know that The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs will run at Woolly Mammoth as planned from July 17-August 5, 2012.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 March 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
there's a big talk about this on the this american life c/d thread
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 19 March 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://l.yimg.com/cv/ae/us/audience/120319/300x250lkledw9xw.jpg
― buzza, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 07:09 (twelve years ago) link
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― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4f747d98ecad045f51000029/steve-jobs.jpg
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-29/apple-s-war-on-android
― markers, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/12NLh.jpg
― dayo, Monday, 2 April 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
chance i'll actually end up watching the movie too
― markers, Monday, 2 April 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
revenge of the nerds
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 2 April 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
actually, young jobs REALLY looks like a young howe gelb
― Nascar Pony (stevie), Monday, 2 April 2012 06:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OnLAr.jpg
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
The only thing I see now is that disgusting foot.
― this will surprise many (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57584072-10391709/bill-gates-on-steve-jobs-we-grew-up-together/
― markers, Monday, 13 May 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
Trailer looks bad
http://youtu.be/SH1jKZwcS9Y
― hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Saturday, 22 June 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
yeah i'm guessing the sorkin one is going to be "better"
― caek, Saturday, 22 June 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
What I'm getting from that trailer is that Steve Jobs was a big fan of pussy.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 22 June 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
THE ORIGINAL REBEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR6yMl2FZSQ
1:59 y'all
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 2 August 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
PLUS: MACKLEMORE
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 2 August 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link
lol @ Josh Gad as Wozniak
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Friday, 2 August 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link
Also I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance with "Can't Hold Us" in the trailer for a Steve Jobs biopic, since my primary association with that song is the Windows commercials that it scores.
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Friday, 2 August 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link
they're reclaiming macklemore!
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 2 August 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
they should just redo this and leave it at that: http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1371446
― markers, Friday, 2 August 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
Hah "It only takes one person to start a revolution".
Yeah Steve Jobs should've ditched that loser Wozniak guy, amiright?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 2 August 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
i think so
― markers, Friday, 2 August 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
I'd watch the Rifftrax version of it with suitable chemical augmentation.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 August 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
that christian bale meltdown on the set of terminator convinced me he's the one who should have had this role.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 2 August 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
are you implying you are not fully satisfied with their choice of ashton kutcher??
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 3 August 2013 02:30 (ten years ago) link
Sorkin/Fincher, bevare
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/david-fincher-in-early-talks-to-re-team-with-aaron-sorkin-for-steve-jobs-biopic
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
wow this movie has the potential to be even more boring and less cinematic than The Social Network!!
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Friday, 28 February 2014 07:25 (ten years ago) link
how was The Social Network not cinematic? did you want car chases?
― The Buzzing of Summer Tweets (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 February 2014 07:33 (ten years ago) link
yes. yes i did.
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Friday, 28 February 2014 07:45 (ten years ago) link
Lol
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/ex-iphone/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Mr. Jobs was notorious for throwing his weight around however he could. One person on the iPhone design team was also named Steve, which caused some confusion in meetings. Mr. Jobs sought to change this.“At some point Steve Jobs got really frustrated with this and said ‘Guess what, you’re Margaret from now on,’” Mr. Tolmasky said. From there on, members of the team would always address the designer Steve as Margaret.
“At some point Steve Jobs got really frustrated with this and said ‘Guess what, you’re Margaret from now on,’” Mr. Tolmasky said. From there on, members of the team would always address the designer Steve as Margaret.
― CarlosDP, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:48 (ten years ago) link
haven't gotten around to reading that yet, but good story
― markers, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:59 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/business/steve-jobs-a-genius-at-pushing-boundaries-too.html?hp&_r=0
― sktsh, Sunday, 4 May 2014 13:13 (ten years ago) link