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Surfer gal ✓
Bespoke motorcycle guy ✓
Ridiculously energetic sign-dancing guy who had WAAAAAY too much caffeine ✓
Wall mural guy ✓
Woman Scientist (presumably) & bionic 3D printed hand guy ✓
Girlfriends having fun at the funfair ✓
Yoga-mom staying fit while toddler plays with her ✓
97-year old party on lady at her birthday ✓
Boxing gal ✓
Ridiculously energetic dancing troop ✓
Surfer gal again ✓
The late-night-at-the-office girl & guys ✓
KIDS! ✓
Glass-blowing guy working ✓
Army mom emotional when Skype-calling family ✓
Eating behind-the-desk girl ✓
Eating at the desk guy ✓
Freaking skyflying in a wingsuit guy ✓
Climbers ✓ (Hey, this is way too 90s, it's 2016 people)
Collage of people selfies ✓
Ridiculously energetic dancers literally bouncing off each other ✓
Hula hoop in the park guy ✓
Girl garage band. ✓
Seemed more like a withdrawal dream. And that would make sense. Seriously, the one thing that bothered me was the walkie-talkie callback. He's tripping as he has tequila at the bar, which is shown as a hunt for the great tequila. But the walkie-talkie got annoying.
One more, Fusion / Felix Salmon: "Peter Thiel just gave other billionaires a dangerous blueprint for perverting philanthropy". Because nuking the blight on modern journalism from orbit is not doing good, according to Fusion. Because in their minds, Woodward and Bernsteins tape that toppled a president and Hogan's grunting on a sex tape are totally the same thing.
Thiel’s tactics in going after Gawker are very, very frightening for anybody who believes in freedom of speech; they’re also extremely effective, in an evil-genius kind of way.
There it is again, the "freedom of speech" dog whistle. The trial was about right to privacy, but a mass of journalists - mainly in NYC - have decided that this is about freedom of speech and they'll keep saying that until it becomes true. Completely oblivious to the fact that the press itself is a branch of power that often beats money. The press is the fourth estate. They can start revolutions, expose corruption and expose government spying, but I guess they're too busy defending revenge porn right now to do any of that.
The argument that citizens (individuals) financially helping other citizens afford lawsuits can bring a "chilling effect" on news reporting and is an attack on the first amendment is delusional to me. First off, judges throw frivolous lawsuits out of court before cases are even heard, be they buddy-sponsored by a billionaire or not. The system is designed to take care of that. What difference does it make if it was Hulk, his fans, his insurance company, or a billionaire benefactor that helped him finance the case that he won? None. Gawker had legal insurance and deep pockets, the playing field was just evened out. It's funny to me how people are upset a billionaire is sponsoring cases, instead of being upset that one needs millions to take a case to court.
Second, confusing free speech and the right to privacy like this is ridiculous. Invading peoples bedrooms for sex tapes is not the hill journalism should die on. Though some Editors, like Nate Silver from FiveThirtyEight seem to think they should. The irony that this is posted on Facebook does not escape me.
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