Urban v's the Commentariat

[Theisticle]

It's some really quite astonishing stuff. It's almost too perfect.

Karnythia is her twitter name if any rubberneckers want to watch the carnage

The most sophisticated surveillance state in human history, a system that would make the Stasi blush with envy but apparently Snowden is the enemy because he's libertarian. At this point, I don't care for his political allegiance, the story is simply too big and important for us not to know.

As disgusting as COINTELPRO was, throwing in identity politics about the most egregious form of civil liberties invasion is really quite insulting.

 

[Balbi]

sci fi is pretty mainstream now. OK so you aren't going to see people weilding the latest Alistair Reynolds novel much, but as a genre it is fine now. No longer are we only basement dwelling serial masturbators the only people who enjoy Battlestar Galactica! the wheel has turned and now my furtive habit is cool once more. Like what it was in the 70s when even playboy would publish sci fi amongst the tits.

Your poor eyesight.

 

[rekil]

A stone cold classic.

 

[cesare]

 

[butchersapron]

Got to to be a glimpse of crowd sourced humour.

 

[cesare]

It's just such a fucking stupid thing to say.

 

[rekil]

Someone ask me about my in depth critique of mainstream media sometime. But no! I'm just that lady who writes about lady things.

She was asked a few times here was she not? And the response was "For fucks sake, I work for a living"

 

[butchersapron]

I can't even get what the frig their joke is about this time.

 

[J Ed]

monetize your made up background, monetize your friendships, monetize your sexuality, monetize the books you haven't read - monetize your life

 

[J Ed]

She was asked a few times here was she not? And the response was "For fucks sake, I work for a living"

Good media on the right side of history:
See union-hating, ex Daily Mail journo run New Statesman

Bad media:
Anyone who refuses to employ Laurie.

 

[butchersapron]

Yeah?

That’s key: political economy. And you use the word “egalitarian.” That’s sort of what’s completely missing today. All of these victories on these other fronts, largely matters of identity politics, and where is the egalitarian left?

Right, and my friend Walter Michaels has made this point very eloquently over and over again . . . that the problem with a notion of equality or social justice that’s rooted in the perspectives of multiculturalism and diversity is that from those perspectives you can have a society that’s perfectly just if less than 1 percent of the population controls 95 percent of the stuff, so long as that one percent is half women and 12 percent black, and 12 percent Latino and whatever the appropriate numbers are gay. Now that’s a problem.

I wonder how her and her classes economic dominance would be adequately represented? Maybe by majority ownership/control and content provision? So what's the prob - you got it already?

 

[Pickman's model]

monetize your made up background, monetize your friendships, monetize your sexuality, monetize the books you haven't read - monetize your life

that's like prostituting yourself, right?

 

[Pickman's model]

A stone cold classic.

the minute you start talking about building a brand you know you're doing something wrong. oh - and crowdsourced reporting sounds very much like getting other people to do the work for you.

 

[weepiper]

that's like prostituting yourself, right?

Yeah but that's not a bad thing in commentariat world. "I really like sex and I'm writing my sex-poz blog about how I like sex and how empowered I am WITH MY SEX". Not being a woman with a fierce drug addiction and a criminal record selling sex to get by and hating every minute of it.

 

[rekil]

Maybe personal brand building is a key part of that "autonomist tradition" LP claims to come from. Poor Naomi Klein. She warned us.

 

[seventh bullet]

Fingers crossed I won't come across someone in real life who talks about 'building' their 'personal brand.'

 

[butchersapron]

Fingers crossed I won't come across someone in real life who talks about 'building' their 'personal brand.'

If you do, get it on your phone please.

 

[J Ed]

How come LP is the one who gets paid for 'crowd sourcing' 'journalism' and not the actual members of the crowd who do the work?

 

[butchersapron]

How come LP is the one who gets paid for 'crowd sourcing' 'journalism' and not the actual members of the crowd who do the work?

Same reason facebook get all the money for their members content. They're enclosing thieves.

 

[equationgirl]

I love the way she was doing that in 2007 though. Twitter only launched in July 2006 - was she really using it right at the start?

Also, the NUJ asked her to promote them to students of journalism (a simple retweet, no presentations or anything) yet she didn't according to her twitter profile. Not cool.

 

[rekil]

Laurie's alma mater doing a spiffing job.

In 12th place this year, Brighton is ahead of many much more selective schools. This large improvement from entry at Year 7 or Year 9 to the final public exams is reflected in some of the best value-added scores in the country.

All of this is down to the school's recruitment and retention of truly outstanding teachers who inspire children here to achieve more than anyone thought possible.

Almost all leavers progress to university in the UK, though the number of pupils applying to universities in the USA and Europe is increasing.

I suspect that.small class sizes, massive resources, and exclusive entry procedures that keep the undesirables out might also have something to do with it.

 

[weepiper]

Laurie's alma mater doing a spiffing job.


I suspect that.small class sizes, massive resources, and exclusive entry procedures that keep the undesirables out might also have something to do with it.

Not to mention a much higher proportion of parents who can afford to pay university fees.

 

[DotCommunist]

Fingers crossed I won't come across someone in real life who talks about 'building' their 'personal brand.'

my brother does this. I'm selling a person not a service etc. He cleans half a dozen local pubs and estate agents. Most nauseating of all is the phrase on his latest glossy leaflet 'We don't claim to be the cheapest. But we do claim to be the best'

which nobhead has he sourced that line from. Oh that'll be me.

 

[butchersapron]

Almost all leavers progress to university. Almost all leavers progress to university. Almost all leavers progress to university. Almost all leavers progress to university. Almost all leavers progress to university

Jesus, i thought i was angry an hour ago.

 

[butchersapron]

my brother does this. I'm selling a person not a service etc. He cleans half a dozen local pubs and estate agents. Most nauseating of all is the phrase on his latest glossy leaflet 'We don't claim to be the cheapest. But we do claim to be the best'

which nobhead has he sourced that line from. Oh that'll be me.

Probably why my own dabble in the entrepreneurship world failed - i said we're not the best but we are the cheapest. I got 2 grand to do that for agreeing to be taken off the unemployment stats.

 

[chilango]

Laurie's alma mater doing a spiffing job.


I suspect that.small class sizes, massive resources, and exclusive entry procedures that keep the undesirables out might also have something to do with it.

recruitment and retention of truly outstanding teachers?

hmmm.

 

[butchersapron]

recruitment and retention of truly outstanding teachers?

hmmm.

Contract not renewed?

 

[rekil]

What's going on at the Abu Dhabi Brighton College? Teachers on scooters!? Wacky tie at 4:34? The wee fellow at 1:55 will be trouble in 20 years time mark my words.

 

[chilango]

Remember, I've experienced seldon's recruitment process first hand.

I've sat in enough of these posh school staffrooms too.

truly outstanding, my arse.

 

[equationgirl]

my brother does this. I'm selling a person not a service etc. He cleans half a dozen local pubs and estate agents. Most nauseating of all is the phrase on his latest glossy leaflet 'We don't claim to be the cheapest. But we do claim to be the best'

which nobhead has he sourced that line from. Oh that'll be me.

He's building a business brand though, not a personal brand of Dave Communist.