#magazine events

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2022 Red Carpet Best Dressed 291/365

Anne Hathaway in Ralph Lauren at ELLE Women In Hollywood Celebration

#anne hathaway #ralph lauren #magazine events

[raccocoo]

Jennifer Coolidge for Paper Magazine

#they ate she ate we are all eating good today #Jennifer coolidge #aesthetic #cottagecore #cottagecore aesthetic #paper magazine #photography #photoshoot #fashion #fashion magazine #2 broke girls #the white lotus #legally blonde #a series of unfortunate events #seinfeld #promising young woman

[mostlysignssomeportents]

2600’s amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down under enshittification

Catch me in Miami! I'll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM.

It's been 40 years since Emmanuel Goldstein launched the seminal, essential, world-changing 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. 2600 wasn't the first phreak/hacker zine, but it was the most important, spawning a global subculture dedicated to the noble pursuit of technological self-determination:

https://www.2600.com/

2600 has published hundreds of issues in which digital spelunkers report eagerly on the things they've discovered by peering intently at the things no one was supposed to even glance at (I'm proud to be one of those writers!). They've fought legal battles, including one that almost went to the Supreme Court:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

They created a global network of meetups where some of technology's most durable friendships and important collaborations were born. These continue to this day:

https://www.2600.com/meetings

And they've hosted a weekly radio show on NYC's WBAI, Off the Hook:

https://wbai.org/program.php?program=76

When WBAI management lost their minds and locked the station's most beloved hosts out of the studio, Off the Hook (naturally) led the rebellion, taking back the station for its audience, rescuing it from a managerial coup:

https://twitter.com/2600/status/1181423565389942786

But best of all, 2600 gave us HOPE – both in the metaphorical sense of "hope for a better technological tomorrow" and in the literal sense, with its biannual Hackers On Planet Earth con:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_on_Planet_Earth

For decades HOPE had an incredible venue, the Hotel Pennsylvania (memorialized in the phreak anthem "PEnnsylvania 6-5000"), a crumbling pile in midtown Manhattan that was biannually transformed into a rollicking, multi-day festival of forbidden technology, improbable feats, and incredible presentations. I was privileged to keynote HOPE in 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1D7APjmVbk

But after the 2018 HOPE, the Hotel Pennsylvania was demolished to make way for the Penn15 (no, really) skyscraper, a vaporware mega-tower planned as a holding pen for luxury shopping and empty million-dollar condos sold to offshore war-criminals as safe-deposit boxes in the sky. The developer, Vornado (no, really) hasn't actually done all that – after demo'ing the Hotel Pennsylvania, they noped out, leave a large, unusable scar across midtown.

But HOPE wasn't lost. In 2022, the ever-resilient 2600 crew relocated to Queens, hosted by St John's University – a venue that was less glamorous that the Hotel Pennsylvania, but the event was still fantastic. Attendance fell from 2,000 to 1,000, but that was something they could work with, and reviews from attendees were stellar.

Good thing, too. 2600 is, first and foremost, a magazine publisher, and these have been hard years for magazines. First there was the mass die-off of indie bookstores and newsracks (I used to sell 2600 when I was a bookseller, and in the years after, I always took the presence of 2600 on a store's newsrack as an unimpeachable mark of quality).

Thankfully for 2600, their audience is (unsurprisingly) a tech-savvy one, so they were able to substitute digital subscriptions for physical ones:

https://www.2600.com/Magazine/DigitalEditions

Of course, many of those subscriptions came through Amazon's Kindle, because nerds were early Amazon adopters, and because the Kindle magazine publishing platform offered DRM-free distribution to subscribers along with a fair payout to publishers.

But then Amazon enshittified its magazine system. Having locked publishers to its platform, it rugged them and killed the monthly subscription fees that allowed publishers to plan for a steady output. Publishers were given a choice: leave Amazon (and all the readers locked inside its walled garden) or put your magazine into the Kindle Unlimited system:

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/arp/B0BWPTCP4K?deviceType=A1FG5NAKX0MRJL

Kindle Unlimited is an all-you-can-eat program for Kindle, which pays publishers and writers based on a system that is both opaque and easily gamed, with the lion's share of the money going to "publishers" who focus on figuring out how to cheat the algorithm. Revenues for 2600 – and all the other magazines that Amazon had sucked in and sucked dry – fell off a cliff.

Which brings me to the present moment. After 40 years, 2600 is still at it, having survived the bookstorepocalypse, the lunacy of public radio management, the literal demolition of their physical home by an evil real-estate developer, and Amazon's crooked accounting.

This is 2600, circa 2024, and 2024 a HOPE year:

https://www.hope.net/

Once again, HOPE has been scheduled for its new digs in Queens, July 12-14. Last week, HOPE sent out an email blast to their subscribers telling them the news. They expected to sell 500 tickets in the first 24 hours. They didn't even come close:

https://www.2600.com/content/hope-ticket-sales-update

It turns out that Google and the other major mail providers don't like emails with the word "hacker" in them. The cartel that decides which email gets delivered, and which messages go to spam, or get blocked altogether, mass-blocked the HOPE 2024 announcement. Email may be the last federated, open platform we have, but mass concentration has created a system where it's nearly impossible to get your email delivered unless you're willing to play by Gmail's rules:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/

For Emmanuel Goldstein, founder of 2600 and tireless toiler for this community, the deafening silence following from that initial email volley was terrifying: "like some kind of a "Twilight Zone" episode where everyone has disappeared."

The enshittification that keeps 2600's emails from being delivered to the people who asked to receive them is even worse on social media. Social media companies routinely defraud their users by letting them subscribe to feeds, then turning around to the people and organizations that run those feeds and saying, "You've got x thousand subscribers on this platform, but we won't put your posts in their feeds unless you pay us to 'boost' your content":

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first

Enshittification has been coming at 2600 for decades. Like other forms of oddball media dedicated to challenging corporate power and government oppression, 2600 has always been a ten-years-ahead preview of the way the noose was gonna tighten on all of us. And now, they're on the ropes. HOPE can't sell tickets unless people know about HOPE, and neither email providers nor social media platforms have any interest in making that happen.

A handful of giant corporations now get to decide what we read, who we hear from, and whether and how we can get together in person to make friends, forge community, rabble-rouse and change the world. The idea that "it's not censorship unless the government does it" has always been wrong (not all censorship violates the First Amendment, and censorship can be real without being unconstitutional):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/04/yes-its-censorship/

What can you do about it? Well, for one thing, you can sign up for HOPE. It's gonna be great. They've got sub-$100 hotel rooms! In New York City!

https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv

If you can't make it to HOPE, you can sign up for a virtual membership:

https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv-virtual-attendee

You can submit a talk to HOPE:

https://www.hope.net/cfp.html

You can subscribe to 2600, in print or electronically (I signed up for the lifetime print subscription and it was a bargain – I devour every issue the day it arrives):

https://store.2600.com/collections/subscriptions-renewals

2600 is living a decade in the future of every other community you care about, weird hobby you enjoy, con you live for, and publication you read from cover to cover. If we can all pull together to save it, it'll be a beacon of hope (and HOPE).

I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/#hack-the-planet

#pluralistic #2600 #hackers #magazines #publishing #kindle unlimited publishing #kindle #enshittification #monopoly #end to end #competition #events #nyc #hope #hackers on planet earth #amazon

[avi-on-jumblr]

absurd and ridiculous tweet warning:

this is so fucking stupid on so many levels. first is that time magazine makes this decision in SEPTEMBER. this is not a global conspiracy to silence palestinians. it's just not how the magazine works. they choose the person who "for better or for worse… has done the most to influence the events of the year".

who do they want on the cover? hamas? fucking yahya sinwar? can any of them name a single palestinian? can any of them name a single person working for peace? doubt it! because this is a trend for them and they only care about generating outrage to get likes.

but. most glaringly. it is insane that they think that israel/palestine is the Biggest Thing Happening In The World. yes, it is obviously extremely significant. in terms of media attention it's basically the only thing people are talking about at all. in terms of global impact to jews in the diaspora it is fucking terrifying to see the rising antisemitism and for a lot of us it is the biggest thing happening right now. BUT for random-ass americans (et al) with zero connections to the region, this should not be more important than crises in ukraine, or iran, or pakistan, or yemen, or china, or sudan, or armenia, etc, etc, etc. in terms of scale, if we go by number of deaths, or number of displacements, there are so many things happening that are so much worse. the only reason it's receiving such an insanely disproportionate amount of attention is, of course, that this is the thing involving jews.

and like. it is genuinely fucking insane that people legitimately think that every single thing in the world revolves around this. the spotify and black friday conspiracies were baseless and delusional enough. genuinely can we not go five fucking seconds without a new one?

#this is super disjointed because i am so tired #israel #palestine #israel palestine conflict #i/p #antisemitism #jumblr #current events #time magazine #avi posts

[paracunt]

Hayley Williams at a cocktail celebration for Sandy Liang’s new jewelry collection and zine with Dariah Ritch. Photo by Maya Spangler for Wonderland Magazine

#Hayley Williams #new york fashion week 2023 #nyfw 2023 #nyfw #new york fashion week #sandy liang #wonderland magazine #event 2023

[blackpinkofficialupdates]

Jennie at the Chanel SS24 show in Paris

#jennie #events #chanel #magazine #vogue korea #231009 #blackpink #jennie kim #blackpink updates #fashion week

[witchern]

i know it's hard to trust information right now, but if you're looking for sensible, on-the-ground reporting about israel + palestine from an independent organization, +972 magazine has been a truly incredible resource, especially this past week.

from their about page: "+972 Magazine is an independent, online, nonprofit magazine run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. Founded in 2010, our mission is to provide in-depth reporting, analysis, and opinions from the ground in Israel-Palestine. The name of the site is derived from the telephone country code that can be used to dial throughout Israel-Palestine."

some pieces of note:

israel's government has nothing to offer but revenge by orly noy

in this war, palestinians in israel are trapped between two painful realities by samah salaime

gaza's shock attack has terrified israelis. it should also unveil the context by haggai matar

thousands fleeing, a deadly explosion: my drive through gaza's escape route by mohammed zaanoun

#israel #palestine #current events #news #972 magazine

[oldschoolfrp]

I think we're being railroaded (Michael Scott's cover for Dungeon 44, Nov/Dec 1993, featuring Timothy Ide's AD&D adventure "Train of Events")

#D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #Michael Scott #Dungeon magazine #dungeon #railroad #train #fantasy train #Timothy Ide #Train of Events #dnd #Dungeons and Dragons

[sincericida]

ANDREW GARFIELD

for Vanity Fair - Red Sea International Film Festival 2023.

#andrew garfield #absolutely stunning #unreal #he's so fucking hot #the things i'd would let andrew garfield do to me #god i need to [redacted] with him so much #vanity fair #vanity fair magazine #photoshoot #events #closing night #red sea international film festival #red sea international film festival 2023 #red sea #peter parker #spider man #the amazing spider man #tasm #tasm peter parker #tasm peter #andrew peter parker #andrew peter #b&w #b&w portrait #sincericida

[kinokoshoujoart]

I saw the lack of Rock in skirts reblog and

maybe you should 👁️

you got it🫡 💕

by popular demand: rock wearing a rock

in the jp version he says he mentions he intends his hypothetical book about fashion and stuff for a gyaru audience

and i personally suspect rock also plans to model for every single photo in the book himself since he’s, you know, the ideal man and all

#thank you youhavetofarmatleast for the german lesson. i am in your debt #der rock = the skirt. and it’s a masculine noun #thank you also tomato for the inspiration that caused this to exist to begin with #by pointing out that rock meets all the requirements for a gyaruo #he would have subscription to egg magazine. i think #rock tumbling (sos) #my art #fanart #sos awl #bokumono #hm rock #rock (awl) #featuring cute outfits i saw on pinterest #also some slutcore y2k bimbo elements because rock is kind of all over the place #rock dies of hypothermia trying to be the most fuckable man in the one horse hick town #this is also inspired by my favorite scene in anwl where rock thinks about what it means to be a real man #followed by the most bimbo housewife utterance of all time #need to unpack my wii so i can get screenshots of that scene (it’s a chapter 5 event…) #story of seasons #felt cute ​might do more later idk idk. my man has one outfit and that is extremely funny but he would also want to be put in every outfit #asks #thank u for causing me to stop being a coward and post it #asks … my one weakness …

[ukgk]

#the mayura interview is like 90% translated but give me a few days to do the rest #i hope i didnt forget to scan page 6 #mine:scans #my scans #ukagaka #ukagaka history #magazine #event #mayura #sakura #nini-tan #mukei #coco mix #y2k #guide #ukgk tutorial #old tech #retrocomputing

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2022 Red Carpet Best Dressed 312/365

Margot Robbie in Proenza Schouler at WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards 2022

#MARGOT ROBBIE #Proenza Schouler #magazine events

[ritz-regrezzez]

25 days of moodboards day twelve! (nostalgia)

#i have a lot of general nostalgia boards already so i mad this one library themed! #we didnt go to our public library a lot when i was younger (moved around too much and my brother was a loud kid) #but i loved my school library and little free libraries! #anyways all of this to say SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY #GET A CARD #YOU CAN CHECK OUT E-BOOKS AND DVDS AND CRAFT KITS AND MAGAZINES AND GO TO EVENTS #DO IT #moodboard #books #nostalgia #agere #mine #library #dear america #chronicles of narnia #<< i loved both of these series #i wanted to put the royal diaries and fairy rainbow magic on here too but i couldnt find any good pictures

[akkivee]

arb isn’t slick lmao

#this is vee speaking #the arb chronicles #what is this event idk!!!!!! but it was the teased event in the hypster magazine so i’m excited to eventually check it out lol!!!! #but i’m on to you arb lmao don’t think i don’t know what ichijiku’s hell flames and otome’s hair look like lol #ALSO??????? DID JIRO GET TO PUNCH A SHARK???????? #IT IS IMPORTANT TO ME TO KNOW IF JIRO GOT TO PUNCH A SHARK (⬅️❓) #c: ramuda

[fat-fem-and-asian]

dagmara domińczyk and patrick wilson in 2013

 When I first introduced him to my mother, he gave her a bouquet of flowers and said in Polish: "Flowers for you!". Then my mother and I talked about it. I asked her, "He's handsome, isn't he?" and she nodded, "Oh, very handsome." Patrick stood and smiled and understood nothing. [Original interview translated from Polish to English, may be inaccurate]

#love them <3 #patrick wilson #dagmara dominczyk #their 2013 slay is nuts #also i cannot tell if this was just a photoshoot or for an event? #or like. what the name of the magazine that's interviewing them is called #they're promoting the movie jack strong #any polish ppl PLEASE send help #my posts

[8ightisfate]

#stray kids #i.n #yang jeongin #elle hong kong #magazine #events #alexander mcqueen #sean mcgirr #instagram #instagram reels