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“I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale."

Chicago
Joined December 2008
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In content like Honoré de Balzac's 1831 Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu or George Gissing's 1891 New Grub Street, creatives describe the struggle that fellow creatives face in producing high-quality content.
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Today is @AADowd's last day at @theavclub. A tireless editor and captain, mensch, buddy, traveling companion, and, above all, a writer & critic who cares about the craft and the reader. Alex made the film section into something truly special that I'm proud to have been a part of.
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Though I'm on a general hiatus from basically everything, I (like other freelancers) made it clear that I had no interest in continuing to write for AVC w/o the departing staff. Here's to brighter futures for all.
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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky retweeted
Publicly and officially, my last day at The A.V. Club will be March 2nd. I have a lot of emotions about leaving what’s been a fantastic experience and a dream job, but looking back at the last seven years, what I feel the most is gratitude.
UPDATE: The seven A.V. Club workers in Chicago have decided to take their union-contract-protected severances rather than move to L.A. without a cost-of-living adjustment. A statement from the union (1/X):
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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky retweeted
Well, this is an interesting new chapter in observing my life as if it's happening to someone else. (I have not resigned from my job...that I know of.)
Replying to @OnionIncUnion
The first workers expected to move were told they had until Jan. 15 to decide. None of the seven A.V. Club employees have yet told G/O management their decision. But for some reason, G/O listed three of those positions on its job site last night… boards.greenhouse.io/gomedia 2/X
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My funeral. The door swings open. My glass coffin is very slowly carried in by six shirtless / topless pallbearers in ornate Venetian masks as this blasts at absolutely deafening volume. youtube.com/watch?v=ubUqIo69…
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Everyone's dunked on this because of the billions in gov't subsidies. But it's worth mentioning that the space business is the Pentagon and the NRO, and that military & intelligence is the customer base SpaceX has been after the whole time. teapaw.org/scrowder/status/145314…
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... and paved the way for big-time national security (NRO) contracts in 2017, breaking the ULA monopoly.
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This is the big money. The NASA moon lander contract ($2.9 billion) was the one that got media attention. But SpaceX's most recent national security contract (using Falcon 9s to launch intelligence sats) was worth more, somewhere around $4.2 billion.
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Thinking about this 1984 ad for a chain of carpet stores
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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky retweeted
does anyone know when filmmakers or audiences are going to see any of that money saved cutting costs on the switch from analog to digital, it's been over 10 years, just asking
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Developing a deeper appreciation for historians of the Soviet Union because they have to work in a field where, for decades, someone like Robert Conquest was considered a preeminent figure
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