DOXMAGEDDON: CNN Blackmails Reddit Creator for Forbidden Trump-Wrestling GIF
Posted: July 4, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: #CNNBlackmail, Barack Obama, CNN, Donald Trump, Doxing, Melania Trump, Mika Brzezinski, President of the United States, Reddit, Twitter, WWE Leave a comment
Bradford Richardson reports: CNN has come under fire for suggesting it will publish the identity of a private citizen if he behaves in a way that displeases the network.
Andrew Kaczynski, senior editor of CNN’s KFile, discovered the identity of the Reddit user who made a short video of President Trump tackling a man with CNN’s logo superimposed on his face to the ground.
CNN is withholding the man’s identity “because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again,” Mr. Kaczynski wrote in an article published Tuesday night.
“CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change,” he continued.
The video, taken from a 2007 World Wrestling Entertainment show in which Mr. Trump made an appearance, caused a firestorm when it was posted to Twitter by the president Sunday morning… (read more)
Source: Washington Times
Lisa de Moraes reports: If you too guessed the Redditor who had boasted he originated the CNN-bashing GIF used by President Donald Trump suddenly apologized for same because he found out CNN knew who he was — congratulations!
And, if you also guessed “HanA**holeSolo” has pleaded with CNN not to reveal his identity because he’s scared for his personal safety, and because it would embarrass him to be outed as the person behind the GIF and various anti-Semitic and racist Reddit rants – go to the head of the class.
CNN reported Tuesday night it has agreed not to reveal the guy’s name, but reserves the right to do so should he ever repeat his “ugly behavior on social media.”
“HanA**holeSolo” initially boasted he originated the GIF behind Trump’s tweet in which Trump is seen pounding on the head of a man whose face has been swapped for the CNN logo.
HAS first shared the GIF last Wednesday; CNN reports it could find no earlier instance of the GIF that subsequently was edited to add sound before being tweeted by Trump on Sunday.
After Trump’s tweet, “HanA**holeSolo” took a victory lap, via Reddit:
“Holy s—!! I wake up and have my morning coffee and who retweets my s—post but the MAGA EMPORER himself!!! I am honored!!”
CNN reports its KFile identified the man, using information he had posted on Reddit and Facebook. On Monday, KFile reached out to the man by email and phone, but he did not respond. Read the rest of this entry »
OH YES THEY DID: #BlackLivesMatter Subreddit Turns Private After Sanders Rally
Posted: August 10, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BowDownBernie, 2005 anti-Japanese demonstrations, Anti-Free Speech, Bernie Sanders, Blue-on-Blue, Democratic Party (United States), Los Angeles, Marxism, Pacific Northwest, Portland, Progressivism, Reddit, Seattle, Socialism, subreddit, University of Washington, Westlake Park, Westlake Park (Seattle), white supremacist liberals Leave a comment
A Black Lives Matter’s subreddit turned to private after it got overwhelmed with criticism for what happened at the Sanders event.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke to a packed crowd Saturday night at the University of Washington campus about his commitment to criminal justice reform as 
well as addressing income equality.
“When the crowd asked the activists to allow Sanders to speak, one activist called the crowd ‘white supremacist liberals,’ according to event participants.”
Sanders gave his talk to a cheering audience of about 12,000 inside a university pavilion a few hours after he was shoved aside by several Black Lives Matter activists who are calling for changes to the criminal justice system. The women were screaming at Sanders to let them speak. Sanders eventually left the Saturday afternoon event at Westlake Park in Seattle without giving his speech.
A Black Lives Matter’s subreddit — r/BlackLivesMatter — turned to private after it got overwhelmed with criticism for what happened at the Sanders event.
[Activists who hijacked Bernie Sanders’ Seattle rally push #BowDownBernie hashtag]
[Also see – SEATTLE: Bernie Sanders Loyalists Captured, Imprisoned, Sent to White People’s Reeducation Camps]
[More – Seattle Says #BowDownBernie (Not Parody)]
“We are not the BLM. We are a sub aggregating links about BLM. What do we have to do with BLM organization/media or the events in Seattle? Nothing. Read the rest of this entry »
A Message from Ellen Page, Actress
Posted: July 10, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: Ellen Pao, Hollywood, media, Movies, news, Reddit, satire, Show Business, Silicon Valley, Twitter Leave a comment
Two Down: Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Resigns
Posted: July 10, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Alzheimer's disease, Art Deco, Board of directors, Brandon Belt, Ellen Pao, Internet, Internet forum, Reddit, resignation, Silicon Valley, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Steve Huffman Leave a comment
Reddit CEO Ellen Pao has resigned after a week of uproar over the company’s firing of long-time staffer Victoria Taylor. Pao, who was serving as Reddit’s interim CEO, is leaving the company and also resigning her seat on Reddit’s board…(read more)
The news of Pao’s resignation comes only hours after OPM Director Resigns over Hack. Who will be #3? Would Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake‘s resignation be too much to hope for?
Pao Out as Reddit CEO; Co-Founder Huffman Takes Over
Re/Code‘s Kara Swisher reports:
Ellen Pao is stepping down as Reddit’s CEO, a move that comes amid mounting pressure after a series of management mishaps that has angered its very vocal online community. Steve Huffman, Reddit co-founder and its original CEO, is 
taking over immediately.
In an interview this afternoon, Pao said the departure was a “mutual decision” with the board, due in part to different views on growth potential. “They had a more aggressive view than I did,” she said.
When I asked her directly if she was fired, Pao laughed and said, “Thanks for getting right to the point,” but again underscored that she resigned. Reddit board member and Y Combinator head Sam Altman answered more definitively about whether she was ousted: “No.”
Perhaps it is a matter of semantics, as it seemed that Pao — who has been interim CEO at the company — was inevitably headed for the exit after the ire over the firing of a support staffer for the site’s many moderators morphed and mutated into loud and sometimes vile calls for her ouster….(read more)
Chart: The backlash against Reddit CEO Ellen Pao
For Quartz, Alice Truong reports: Ever since a popular moderator was fired July 2, users have been taking aim at Ellen Pao, the social message board’s interim CEO. They’ve shut down hundreds of forums in protest, abandoned the site for new competitors, and called for Pao’s resignation with a Change.org petition (211,000 signatures and counting)…
…The chart above created by Imgur user fantasia123, which was shared on Reddit, charts Pao’s comment karma. (A bit of background: On Reddit, accumulating karma is akin to collecting points in a video game. Users get karma when their posts or comments are upvoted by other community members, and they lose it when they are downvoted. Though karma can’t be redeemed for anything, it’s like a badge of honor and publicly displayed next to people’s usernames.) Read the rest of this entry »
Reddit Revolt: ‘AMA’ Moderator Sacked the Day After a Disastrous Jesse Jackson Q&A
Posted: July 3, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Embassy of Ecuador, Jesse Jackson, Julian Assange, London, Reddit, Southbank Centre, Tim Berners-Lee, Twitter, United States, World Wide Web, World Wide Web Foundation Leave a comment
Reddit is in Meltdown
Allum Bokhara writes: The hugely popular link-sharing site is in a state of virtual lockdown after the volunteers who run some of the site’s biggest communities (known as “subreddits”) went on the digital equivalent of a general strike. This followed the sacking of Victoria Taylor, a popular site admin, after a Reddit Q&A with the Rev. Jesse Jackson went badly for the activist preacher.
“The collective shutdown has rendered Reddit virtually unusable. In the space of a single evening, over 100 subreddits with tens of millions of subscribers have gone dark.”
High-traffic subreddits dedicated to movies, gaming, videos, history, science and art have been voluntarily locked by their moderators as an act of protest against the decision, which they saw as a symptom of an increasingly overbearing management that takes its users and volunteer moderators for granted.
“It’s another blow for interim Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, with users dubbing her ‘Chairman Pao’ ever since the June crackdown.”
The collective shutdown has rendered Reddit virtually unusable. In the space of a single evening, over 100 subreddits with tens of millions of subscribers have gone dark. Users are now flocking to Reddit’s competitors, such as Frizbee and Voat, the latter of which is struggling to accommodate its latest spike in traffic.
This is not the first time Reddit has seen a revolt against its management. Around mid-June, users waged a week-long rebellion against the site management after Reddit shut down a number of “politically incorrect” subreddits. But this is the first time that so many big moderators have simultaneously shut down their subreddits.
It’s another blow for interim Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, with users dubbing her “Chairman Pao” ever since the June crackdown.
[Read the full story here, at Breitbart]
The current revolt was triggered by the sacking of Victoria Taylor, a veteran administrator on the site who specialized in arranging high-profile Reddit Q&As, known as “Ask Me Anything” or “AMA” sessions. Ask Me Anythings are probably Reddit’s best-known feature and are known for featuring world-famous guests including Barack Obama, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Julian Assange. Read the rest of this entry »
[PHOTO] Steampunk Artist Dr. James Avelgaard’s Playable Battle-Axe Bass Guitar
Posted: April 29, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Adventure Time, Archie McPhee, Axe, Axe Bass, Bass Guitar, Cosplay, Dr. James Avelgaard, Etsy, Music, Reddit, Steampunk 1 Comment
What is that, some kind of lute? Nope. It’s an awesome, completely playable reproduction of the battle ax-turned-Ax Bass belonging to Marceline, our favorite Vampire Queen, from Adventure Time. It was handcrafted by San Francisco-based steampunk artist Dr. James Avelgaard.
This is actually the second working Ax Bass that Avelgaard has made. The first one was made as a working cosplay accessory. Click here to listen to it play(and while you’re at it, here’s Marceline playing hers).
Click here for additional photos of this fantastic instrument. It’s currently available for purchase via the Avelgaard Etsy shop.
[via Reddit]
[PHOTO] STS-98 Atlantis
Posted: November 23, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Reddit, Space Exploration, STS-98 Atlantis, Tumblr 1 Comment
A Reddit Gun Lover Has A Hilarious Present For Anti-Gun Mother Jones
Posted: March 1, 2014 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere, Science & Technology | Tags: 3-D, 3-D printing, AR-15, Conde Nast, Giun-control, Gun rights, Guns, Humor, Lower Receiver, Mother Jones, Reddit, WarFairy Leave a comment
One gun lover at reddit decided to 3D-print his own homage to Mother Jones: a homemade lower receiver for an AR-15-style rifle, complete with serial number. And just for kicks, he made sure the serial number matched the phone number for the main office at Mother Jones. The redditor even printed the Mother Jones logo on the receiver.
Canadian Neo-Cubist Braves Sub-Zero Temperatures to Build a Giant Colored Ice Fort
Posted: January 15, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Art, Canada, Cubism, Environment Canada, Ice, Northwestern Ontario, Ontario, Reddit, Sculpture, Thunder Bay 1 Comment
Construction of this amazing wall took 5 to 6 nights in temperatures ranging from -28 to -35C. Unspeakablefilth / Reddit
While it’s certainly been a cold winter stateside, our neighbors to the north know what a real chill actually looks like. Reddit user Unspeakablefilth lives in Northwestern Ontario, where the averaged a daytime high was -25 degrees celsius or colder for about a month.
[GALLERY OF FROZEN NEO-CUBIST LUMINOUS WONDER]
Friday News Dump
Posted: January 10, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere | Tags: media, National Weather Service, New York City, news, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Reddit, Twitter 2 Comments
- Christie And The IRS
- Steyn:Global Warmings Glorious Ship Of Fools
- The Decay Of The Profession Of Arms
- Gillespie To Challenge Warner In Virginia
- VA Dem Compares Tea Partiers To Rapists
- Appalacha, The White Ghetto
- This Seems Like A Bad Choice
- Man Kills Stepfather With An Atomic Wedgie
- Obama Opposes Weekly Reports On Obamacare
- Caleb Jacoby Was Found Safe
- CNN Eyes Primetime Shake-up
- Reddit Gun Lover Has A Hilarious Present For Mother Jones
- NHL Outselling More Arenas Than The NBA
- For The First Time The Majority In Congress Are Millionaires
- Rep Turner Seems Like A Good Bloke
- Here Are Some Links
- A Polar Bear’s First Steps
- There Are Times When I Hate My City
Thanks to Gabe, JohnE, Doreen, Zakn and others for a few of those links.
Follow BenK on twitter and feel free to tweet links between 10-11pm on weekdays.
‘No Herb Is Safe:’ Portland’s Urban Gardeners Can’t Keep Chefs From Stealing Their Crops
Posted: October 29, 2013 Filed under: Art & Culture, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Chef, Food, Foodie, Gardening, Harvest, Herbs, Portland, Portland Oregon, Portlandia, Reddit, San Pellegrino Leave a commentFOODIE CRISIS: This is not an episode of “Portlandia.”
Katy Steinmetz reports: The thread started with a simple, if bizarre, question: How do you keep local sous chefs from harvesting urban edibles on your property? The frustrated query came from a resident in Portland, Ore., a foodie mecca that’s generally proud of its alternative, steampunky ways. Posted on Reddit earlier this week, the plea for advice generated hundreds of comments, and a local news outlet soon uncovered another tale of herbal thievery. Read the rest of this entry »
Everyday Heroes: Dairy Queen employee’s honorable actions praised online
Posted: September 19, 2013 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Entertainment | Tags: Customer, Daily Mail, Dairy Queen, Hopkins, Minnesota, Prusak, Reddit, Yahoo News Leave a comment
Joey Prusak (photo: Joey Prusak)
When a visually impaired customer accidentally dropped a $20 bill at a Hopkins, Minn., Dairy Queen, employee Joey Prusak said he was shocked by what happened next.
“The lady behind him just picked it up and put it in her purse,” he told Yahoo News. “As if no one saw it.”
What Prusak did inspired another customer to write an email to the store manager praising the 19-year-old for his calm and kindness. The email went to Reddit, was picked up by the Daily Mail and quickly turned Prusak into a nominee for the Nice Guy Hall of Fame (if only such a place existed).
Prusak, who has been working at Dairy Queen since he was 14, told Yahoo News that he recognized the visually impaired customer. “He’s a regular and he always pays with a debit card,” he said. “He doesn’t use a wallet, so when he pulled out his card, the cash fell to the ground.” Read the rest of this entry »
pundit from another planet 