When we signed up as a Gawker commenter ten years ago, we needed a persona — a screen name and avatar. Our own name is terribly dull and terribly common, so we chose an in-joke nickname we had been using among friends. And for the avatar, we cropped a low-rez webcam photo showing us wearing old-school 3D glasses while leaning over a battery hamster. The combination pleased us.
Gawker was already on its third blogger by the time we discovered it — Elizabeth Spiers and Choire Sicha were gone, leaving Jessica Coen to toil in their wake — but what attracted us to it was the feeling of yet another attempt at reviving Spy, the satirical magazine we had called Mad for grownups. Like Spy, Gawker covered the Manhattan media scene with a jaundiced eye and healthy wit. And like Spy, Gawker would stray outside those bounds if something sufficiently amusing merited the attention.
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NOJO • Say Polycule Again @JNOV: Retweeted someone else, actually, but it was the one that sent me over the top after seeing…
JNOV • Welcoming Our New AI Overlords @nojo: Yeah. Duck Duck Go app breaks sites sometimes.
JNOV • Say Polycule Again @nojo: Did my kid say that? We’re going to need to talk…
NOJO • Say Polycule Again After years of preparation, I’m now entering my Andy Rooney phase.
NOJO • Welcoming Our New AI Overlords @JNOV: Jeez, thought I fixed that. I wish browsers would agree on return characters!Add: I lead a…
JNOV • Welcoming Our New AI Overlords nojo, I will pay your hourly rate so you can give me back some white space.
JNOV • Welcoming Our New AI Overlords @nojo: <3 In other news, Warnock! In other other news, MAGA Kent who lost WA-3, is fundraising…
NOJO • Welcoming Our New AI Overlords @JNOV: Oh god, Node. Tool of choice for geeks who hate webpages.
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