Who Killed Paulina Borsook's Career? (ired.com)

32 points by danielmorozoff 2 days ago

8 comments:

by oumua_don17 13 minutes ago

Apparently, there's also an illustrated childrens' book by another author Sandra Peterson based on cyberselfish by Paulina [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HF8QPPLS

edit: update to mention the new book's author.

by viceconsole an hour ago

Firefox reader mode displays the full article perfectly.

by throwaway81523 2 hours ago

This is a pretty interesting article. Firefox shows the first paragraph for a second and then blanks it, but lynx -dump manages to get the text. There's an audio too but I ignored that.

by self_awareness an hour ago

> Ok, but first I have to tell you about Dick Pick. Literally his name. Richard A. Pick. Went by Dick.

How Americans keep straight face in such situations?

by ben_w 13 minutes ago

Not an American, but this reminded me of Randy Baumgardner and Foggy Bottom.

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

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

by wmf 37 minutes ago

Often they don't and it's kind of the point. You could go by Rich, Richie, Rick, Ricky, Dickie... if you choose to call yourself Dick, you know you're going to cause some amount of snickering and you're doing it on purpose.

Also I remember men called him Richard Feynman but a lot of women called him Dick. That's sending a different message.

by comrade1234 an hour ago

There was about a paragraph and then nothing but ads. Don't bother clicking.

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