Miscellaneous Articles You Should Read (6 Viewers)

[pete]

I think we can all agree that it's BIZARRE.

 

[nooleen]

i hope it turns out some disgruntled orphans or a random hillbilly dunnit

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? – Phenomena: Curiously Krulwich

 

[Scientician 0.8]

If you were to ever read just one piece on Michael Jackson let it be this

The Pale King - The New Yorker

technically a book review but i've read the book and this piece is about a 1000 times better.

Beautiful.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Beautiful.

I got a second of excitement when I thought that this was written by Mandy Smith's ex-husband.

 

[pete]

Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? – Phenomena: Curiously Krulwich

So I trolled the internet

trawled

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

trawled

Ha. That's brilliant.

 

[pete]

Email from a Married, Female Ashley Madison User

 

[nooleen]

i don't understand the rationale for the ashley madison hack. the reasons seem pretty tenuous.

“Too bad for those men, they’re cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion. Too bad for ALM, you promised secrecy but didn’t deliver.”

are the people responsible meant to be crusaders against infidelity? i can't imagine anyone giving that much of a fuck about other peoples' relationships.

and you're going to publish private info on 40m people (or whatever) because you're annoyed by the terms & conditions of a site they're signed up to?

 

[Lili Marlene]

Yes i've been wondering about that myself, have they responded to the reported suicides yet? Presumably they're delighted with them.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

It's a completely disingenuous trolling exercise.

The judgey-fest online has been hilarious. Everyone's always such an expert on how everyone else should live.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Email from a Married, Female Ashley Madison User

Sounds bogey. The women I know on there have not used a credit card. It is free for them.

And there are many legitimate reasons for seeking intimacy outside one's marriage other than your spouse having cancer.

 

[pete]

San Francisco Magazine | Modern Luxury | I Know Several Ashley Madison Users. They’re All Women. And They Don’t Deserve Your Scorn.

 

[nooleen]

"it is gradually becoming clear that many men were advertising themselves as women on AM in countries where homosexuality is illegal"

combined with this:

"Out of 5.5 million female accounts, roughly zero percent had ever shown any kind of activity at all, after the day they were created."

um

what the hell was going on?
sounds like a giant game of pretend

 

[pete]

Allegedly

1. AM management had an organised programme of creating thousands and thousands of fake female accounts ("angels") tailored to different markets / countries
2. Men would be notified that these angel accounts matched their profile / locations
3. Men would then pay to send messages to the fake accounts
4. Profit

It's fucking genius really.

 

[sleepy]

Allegedly

1. AM management had an organised programme of creating thousands and thousands of fake female accounts ("angels") tailored to different markets / countries
2. Men would be notified that these angel accounts matched their profile / locations
3. Men would then pay to send messages to the fake accounts
4. Profit

It's fucking genius really.

So there isn't hot girls in Dublin 15 dying to meet me

 

[nooleen]

so why are all the feckin' colour pieces focusing on the approximately two dozen women who actually used it then

 

[pete]

so why are all the feckin' colour pieces focusing on the approximately two dozen women who actually used it then

Because there were thousands of actual people on there, sometimes for possibly good, possibly understandable, but definitely none of our business, reasons. The impact on them is one story. The scumbags angle is another story. The "pay us to delete your info (and then we won't) scam they were apparently running is another story. And the alleged mass fraud they were perpetrating by faking user accounts is another. They've all been reported.

 

[nooleen]

none of that answers the question i actually asked

 

[Scientician 0.8]

so why are all the feckin' colour pieces focusing on the approximately two dozen women who actually used it then

Titillation and faux-bewilderment that a normal woman would use such a service, or perhaps need to.