The news thread

[Psy-Fi]

Banana artwork worth $120K eaten by 'hungry' visitor at South Korea museum

I'm not sure which is more ridiculous. A banana taped to a wall being valued at $120k or someone pulling it off the wall and eating it.

Pretty funny but I'm guessing it was a performance art/publicity stunt.

[Trollheart]

Well somebody was obviously monkeying around. I'm not sure that aping art like that is acceptable really; if you're going to be an artist gorilla into it and don't make howlers like that. It's bananas, innit?

[Trollheart]

News Alert: Hollywood writers go on strike, bringing production on many television shows to a halt


More than 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America are set to go on strike Tuesday morning for the first time since 2007, a move that could bring an immediate halt to the production of many television shows and possibly delay the start of new seasons of others later this year.

"Though we negotiated intent on making a fair deal ... the studios' responses to our proposals have been wholly insufficient, given the existential crisis writers are facing," said a statement from the union leadership.

"Existential crisis"?? What the hell are they talking about? I wonder does this affect the likes of Netflix, Amazon et al? If there is one important story in the news today, this is it. I may have to consider whether I want to continue living, if my favourite shows are stopped/delayed. I mean, what would be the point? 

[Psy-Fi]

News Alert: Hollywood writers go on strike, bringing production on many television shows to a halt


More than 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America are set to go on strike Tuesday morning for the first time since 2007, a move that could bring an immediate halt to the production of many television shows and possibly delay the start of new seasons of others later this year.

"Though we negotiated intent on making a fair deal ... the studios' responses to our proposals have been wholly insufficient, given the existential crisis writers are facing," said a statement from the union leadership.

"Existential crisis"?? What the hell are they talking about? I wonder does this affect the likes of Netflix, Amazon et al? If there is one important story in the news today, this is it. I may have to consider whether I want to continue living, if my favourite shows are stopped/delayed. I mean, what would be the point? 

Definitely won't affect me in any way. I think the last TV show that I watched regularly when it was still in production was 'Seinfeld' and that show ended in 1998.

[Rubber Soul]

News Alert: Hollywood writers go on strike, bringing production on many television shows to a halt


More than 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America are set to go on strike Tuesday morning for the first time since 2007, a move that could bring an immediate halt to the production of many television shows and possibly delay the start of new seasons of others later this year.

"Though we negotiated intent on making a fair deal ... the studios' responses to our proposals have been wholly insufficient, given the existential crisis writers are facing," said a statement from the union leadership.

"Existential crisis"?? What the hell are they talking about? I wonder does this affect the likes of Netflix, Amazon et al? If there is one important story in the news today, this is it. I may have to consider whether I want to continue living, if my favourite shows are stopped/delayed. I mean, what would be the point? 

Definitely won't affect me in any way. I think the last TV show that I watched regularly when it was still in production was 'Seinfeld' and that show ended in 1998.

Somehow,I think I'll live

[Psy-Fi]

Man from Dildo discovers iceberg shaped like giant penis

[Nimbly9]

Man from Dildo discovers iceberg shaped like giant penis

According to the story, it didn't even last five minutes. 

[Nimbly9]

NYT - Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy

[Toy Revolver]

NYT - Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy

honestly lol

they couldn't leave well enough alone

they were doing fine but got sucked into the neo-liberal obsession with growth

unfortunately for them you can't out-greed texas billionaires

those good old boys down there are taking their new york asses down to the woodshed

they're gonna be a subdivision of newsmax by the time it's over

all they had to do was stay cool and stay in control of their assets

the article is painting it like they lost $5 billion but nah they were already balls deep in unpayable debt by that time

they ran some sensationalist yellow journalism anyway

i don't feel sorry for them at all they got too big for their britches and thought they could be big boy capitalists when they needed to be safe guarding their independence which was the cornerstone of their brand

they thought they were so smart - shit, if they hired me to run the place in 2016 they'd still be in control and doing something worthwhile instead of sell out bullshit

[Toy Revolver]

btw

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-secret-history-of-gavin-mcinnes

In the '90s, he played punk rock and helped create Vice magazine. Five years ago, he founded a very different organization: the Proud Boys, the far-right group that came to personify the vilest tendencies of Trump's America. A former Vice editor interviews one of our era's most troubling extremists.

[Nimbly9]

Sounds like their punk rock credentials dropped off the face of the Earth when that guy left lol

[Lexi Darling]

Nazi punks fuck off, I always say.

[Trollheart]

Man from Dildo discovers iceberg shaped like giant penis

This is only the tip.

[SGR]

VICE did make some pretty interesting video documentary journalism from what I remember though.

[Jwb]

They used to be good when they would just send some college kid over into an active african war and just cover that one conflict. My favorite episode of "this week in africa" was the one they did on liberia.

Once they changed their format to the HBO style where its a mish mesh of stories lumped together into a 30 minute broadcast, i stopped watching.