The neighborhood internet is down so setting this up on a phone.
20 thoughts on “January 6, 2022: Outage”
I noticed starting yesterday IMDB no longer gives ages for their daily birthday scroll, including whether they're living or not. There is barely anything worthwhile leftover on the site as it is. Thanks, Amazon.
Goodreads has gone downhill under Amazon’s management, too.
oh yeah, exactly
Agree. It was such a good resource to see who was in what movie, when it was released etc. (you know a data base of movies that can be accessed via the internet). Now it's so hard to navigate and so many prompts to sign up (for what I am not sure).
I subscribe to The Athletic but not NYT. I wonder if they'll offer a deal to combine for current subscribers.
If so, that’s the only reason I’m subscribing to the NYT. I prefer the Guardian‘s US Edition; I recognize the NYT as a paper-of-record, but I don’t love the NYT’s politics, I dislike its platforming of nincompoops like David Brooks, and I find general media fetishism of New York/coastal elites tiresome. I worry that a mega-conglomerate NYT/Wirecutter/The Athletic is unhealthy for journalism and mid-size, regional outlets that we all rely on for trustworthy news on the thousands of stories outside the metropole’s notice.
I am going to opine that the NYT will probably structure things so that NYT subscribers only have a very short window in which to read any Athletic articles, and that a separate subscription will be required otherwise. Like they do with cooking articles/recipes.
Which irritates me to no end. I pay for a NYT digital subscription, but would have to pay AGAIN for content I've already paid to read? I get that they need to monetize their content. But goddamn it, I'm already a paying subscriber. What next, separate subscriptions for archival access to each section?
That’s what Cook’s Illustrated does. You pay them to send dead trees to your house, and then pay them again for access to the digital archive of dead trees online.
The thing that bothers me about the NYT is that they have some really great stuff and some awful stuff. By awful, I mean poorly researched and lazy.
That, and some really turrible hot take opinion writers.
Without those opinion clowns, the NYT pitch bot in the Twitters wouldn't be nearly as funny
Kermit & Jim Henson: both southpaws, but apparently Henson wore Kermit on his right hand and performed his limbs with his left. When Steve Whitmire took over Kermit, he maintained Kermit’s left handed trait despite being right-handed himself.
All lefties in that picture.
Good catch — a southpaw backstop! Given that Fozzie takes three hands to perform, that’s a really interesting choice.
I noticed starting yesterday IMDB no longer gives ages for their daily birthday scroll, including whether they're living or not. There is barely anything worthwhile leftover on the site as it is. Thanks, Amazon.
Goodreads has gone downhill under Amazon’s management, too.
oh yeah, exactly
Agree. It was such a good resource to see who was in what movie, when it was released etc. (you know a data base of movies that can be accessed via the internet). Now it's so hard to navigate and so many prompts to sign up (for what I am not sure).
NY Times buying The Athletic.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nyt-to-buy-the-athletic-for-550-million
Maybe I'll hold on to that NYT subscription. 🤔
I subscribe to The Athletic but not NYT. I wonder if they'll offer a deal to combine for current subscribers.
If so, that’s the only reason I’m subscribing to the NYT. I prefer the Guardian‘s US Edition; I recognize the NYT as a paper-of-record, but I don’t love the NYT’s politics, I dislike its platforming of nincompoops like David Brooks, and I find general media fetishism of New York/coastal elites tiresome. I worry that a mega-conglomerate NYT/Wirecutter/The Athletic is unhealthy for journalism and mid-size, regional outlets that we all rely on for trustworthy news on the thousands of stories outside the metropole’s notice.
I am going to opine that the NYT will probably structure things so that NYT subscribers only have a very short window in which to read any Athletic articles, and that a separate subscription will be required otherwise. Like they do with cooking articles/recipes.
Which irritates me to no end. I pay for a NYT digital subscription, but would have to pay AGAIN for content I've already paid to read? I get that they need to monetize their content. But goddamn it, I'm already a paying subscriber. What next, separate subscriptions for archival access to each section?
That’s what Cook’s Illustrated does. You pay them to send dead trees to your house, and then pay them again for access to the digital archive of dead trees online.
The thing that bothers me about the NYT is that they have some really great stuff and some awful stuff. By awful, I mean poorly researched and lazy.
That, and some really turrible hot take opinion writers.
Without those opinion clowns, the NYT pitch bot in the Twitters wouldn't be nearly as funny
They found the deeper pockets to buy them out.
Looks like a Tony Fiore palmball
And looks like Kermit ate Miss Piggy, too.
Kermit & Jim Henson: both southpaws, but apparently Henson wore Kermit on his right hand and performed his limbs with his left. When Steve Whitmire took over Kermit, he maintained Kermit’s left handed trait despite being right-handed himself.
All lefties in that picture.
Good catch — a southpaw backstop! Given that Fozzie takes three hands to perform, that’s a really interesting choice.