The left-wing sports news site Deadspin is under new management as of Monday, and its entire staff is now looking for a job.
The website was sold to a journalism start-up from Europe, and on Monday, staffers were told that the new company would completely clean house and start with all new employees.
Jim Spanfeller, the CEO of parent company G/O Media that sold the sports site, broke the news to employees in a memo that sent them all scrambling. more
Awrighty then! I’m havin doubles!
Musk fired 80% of the Tit-Sucking Assholes and Twitter works just fine!
(and he probably coulda fired more)
100% of these Deadspin Assholes are out de door!
The spin iz ded!!
A half hour severance pay… BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAA!!
The only 2 question relevant to me; how many millions will Holden get in his defamation suit and will the journalist community do the right thing, brand Carron Phillips for the racist he is and remove him from their sight forever.
Must be pretty entertaining to see yer body chasing yer head as it rolls down the stairs of corporate headquarters in NYC!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAA!!
I have a question. So if Lineup Publishing had no interest in Dead Spin personnel, what exactly did they buy? A tarnished name. 12 outdated computers and two printers? A domain? I want to talk to these guys. I have a couple Windows 92 boxes I’ll sell cheap. I’ll throw in a Unix Box.
Now they can all learn to code.
Brad, I’ll take one of those windows 92 boxes. Never heard of that version. Must be a rare breed worth as much as the wooden Apple 1.
guess there might be penalties for trying to label 9-year olds as racists. u useless woketard pedocrat mother*******.
Is this a dead Spin, doctor?
Very dead, Mr. Spin.
Wait! Spin is dead?
It’s dead, Spin.
The Unix was a Silicon Graphics. A bad ass computer by today’s standards. Ah, the good old days.
^ I remember them. Motorola 68000 family microprocessors. Geometry engine on chips developed at Stanford…
“Graphics workstations” – I could only drool.
General Malaise
We purchased a seat of Pro E. The sales reps were telling us it would run on 98 no problem. So we had a box built. Fast Graphics card available. A ton of RAM. It wouldn’t even rotate a small model. So we went out a purchased the SGI. And I went out and purchased UNIX for dummies. LOL. It got me through. I became pretty good on it.
Great story, Brad. I watched that company like a hawk and was crushed when they went away. But hey, math co-processors had transitioned from complex boards to single chips (remember the 8087?) and GPU’s got going strong, actually because companies realized that “If Silicon Graphics can do it, so can we!”
And I’m so old, I can also reveal that I fell in love with early Tektronix “desktop calculators” in the late 70’s and also HP 2000 minicomputers running “NAVSAT” in the early 70’s.
I need a drink.
Mid-70’s – the memory isn’t so good anymore.
General Malaise:
I’m sure you’ll remember these boat anchors. My first Lap Top. It’s amazing that you cold get anything done on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable
Ah yes, the ‘transportables.’ Compaq, Kaypro, Osborne, etc. Great promise in those years.
Wordstar, MailMerge, early Calcstar spreadsheets, etc.! NEC printers. Floppy disks. Booting took awhile. But hey, this baby’s gonna print my letters and envelopes. Whoo hoo!
^ I typed my name and it didn’t take it. General Malaise.
I had a TRS-80 with 4KB (NOT MB) and a tape recorder instead of a floppy disc for storage.
SpeedEYY!
Taught me BASIC, tho.
Used the Boolean it taught me in one way or another the rest of my life.
https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/trs-80-model1.htm
I actually started programing CNC’s on a flex writer that was hooked up to some dudes main frame. You would connect with the hand set of a telephone. Shove it in some plastic receptacle. Gzero I believe the name of the company was. Worked out pretty good for a while. A hell of a lot fast trigging a drawing out by hand and manually writing the code. And the one day I tried to pull up one of my programs and got some one elses. Oh well. Shortly after that PC’s hit the market and it was what I like to call the Etcha Sketch era of part programming.
Feel right at home with my 68000 VME Bus running ATT System 5 Unix
Made embedded controllers using the STD Bus with Zilog Z80’s 8K Eprom and 4k Memory
HP85 and Rocky Mountain basic here. Little B&W crt, built-in tape drive and printer!