Via janus.bsky.social @janusrose 10:09 AM · Feb 22, 2024
"#VICE has shut off our ability to download our emails after we received an anonymous tip that they’re going to be deleting our entire website today.
fun times in the media death spiral!!! will update once i know whether or not we’re all fired"
11:09 AM · Feb 22, 2024
"hey guys what’s everyone up to today? i’m just backing up 14 years of my professional work onto an external hard drive"
Via Aaron W. Gordon @a_w_gordon
10:27 AM · Feb 22, 2024
"If you have ever written for #VICE Media and have clips you want to save, I highly recommend PDFing and Internet Archiving those bad boys right now. (FYI: Saving to PDF cuts off the top line on each page because well because of course it does.)"
"Vice writers - https://authory.com/ will back up the text of everything you write, it's really good and it sucks that it has to exist"
"also: is this #vice rumor...confirmed? because it seems insane they'd delete the entire website, four letter domain, vice's twitter has nearly 2 million followers. something does not add up"
Via Trone L. Dowd @theloniusly 12:13 PM · Feb 22, 2024
"Word on the street is they're deleting the #vice
website.
This means that as of later this week, all three publications where I accrued thousands of bylines since the very start of my career will no longer have an online presence.
Yes, I've saved the majority of my stories from @VICENewshttp://www.queenstribune.com/ and The Messenger, but their non-existence on the internet will irrevocably damage my online presence as a reporter."
Via karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet
12:54 PM · Feb 22, 2024
"Save all the media you can from #vice but from other sources as well. We need to try to keep as much continuity as we can in our records of #reality it’s imperative we preserve records of the present and recent past."
"Just spent two hours saving choice cuts from my many years of writing about metal, country, and various weird stuff for #VICE. Boosting so that other folks can do the same!
It was really nice to revisit some of my old work, though it would’ve been even nicer to go through those 72 PAGES OF ARTICLES without the undercurrent of panic and despair!"
If #Vice really does shut down its website and all its subsidiaries, what ⬆️ Karl is saying is super important.
Fascism is always about erasing history, erasing the reporting of reality, it's a systemic-level gaslighting telling you your memory of their misbehavior and abuse isn't real, things are fine, and just get back in line.
"In a memo to staff, #Vice CEO #BruceDixon announces hundreds of layoffs and that the company will no longer publish on Vice dot com. He also says #VMG is in advanced talks to sell #Refinery29"
"A few years ago, #Vice was valued at $5.7 billion. They published some of the smartest, most interesting, and fearless #journalism of the last decade.
And now private equity is going to strip it for parts to make a bunch of outdated nostalgia meme pages. Unspeakably grim shit."
Via Wajahat Ali @wajahatali
6:02 PM · Feb 22, 2024
"Right before an election, #journalists are being fired and media is being consolidated by people who only care about the bottom line. What could go wrong? Meanwhile right wing money pouring millions into their #radicalization media outlets."
I've been online since the early 90's essentially and I have files going back to 95 or so. I did that because Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston where I worked pulled the plug in the VAX machine I'd been using for years and killed a bunch of personal stuff I'd stored on it. At that point I started backing up EVERYTHING electronic, friggin 5 1/4 disks and eventually floppies and never, ever disposing of HDs until they were backed up.
Not counting movies, photography and music my digital life since 1997 or so weighs in at 39 gb give or take. Music doubles that, photography and images X 10 or 15 pushing a tb, and movies and shows clock in at 9-10 tb.
Long way of saying that I never trusted online storage and still don't (looking at you #geocities). My digital life and presence are manageable given a NAS and sets of backup drives because online business is not held accountable for maintaining promises they make to users. Never have been really so I do it myself!
@_L1vY_@janusrose Jesus fuck that sucks. This same thing happened to me in 2010 when the AV Club shut down all its city-based local sites. Honestly that was the beginning of the end for me and journalism as a profession.
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