Wikilego Meltdown
Oh, this is delicious. Wikileaks is imploding under the weight of its collective vanity:
A purported transcript of the chat provided to Wired.com by a WikiLeaks insider shows the conversation grew heated.
Assange: If you do not answer the question, you will be removed.
Domscheit-Berg: you are not anyones king or god
Domscheit-Berg: and you’re not even fulfilling your role as a leader right now
Domscheit-Berg: a leader communicates and cultivates trust in himself
Domscheit-Berg: you are doing the exact opposite
Domscheit-Berg: you behave like some kind of emporer or slave trader
Assange: You are suspended for one month, effective immediately.
Domscheit-Berg: haha
Domscheit-Berg: right
Domscheit-Berg: because of what?
Domscheit-Berg: and who even says that?
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“I am the heart and soul of this organization, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier and all the rest,” Assange wrote Snorrason. “If you have a problem with me, [expletive] off.”
The wonderful thing about people like this is that they always end up this way.
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May '10
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Insert Peter and Rob for Assange and Domscheit-Berg and the exchange is really funny.
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Insert Claire for Assange, however, and it is not funny at all.
May '10
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It does have that Jim Jones vibe.
Aug '10
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Hubris, meet Nemesis.
Sweet.
May '10
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So where does it say "spare us our tree-fitty!"? Man, I hate to think of the dossiers Claire has amassed.
Sep '10
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You know Steyn kept going on and on during the Ricochet podcast about what a great job Claire Berlinski was doing blogging up a storm, and I thought he'd had a little too much high altitude air while jetting back and forth to his secret Ian Fleming Fortress of Solitude submerged beneath the Caspian Sea, but after joining last night and reading the formidable output (fonts?, wikipedia?) I must agree.
Mark who? Hail to the New Chief.
May '10
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On a (very) slightly serious note, this is not an uncommon personality trait in founder/entrepreneurs and I have worked for one or two narcissists that could easily have engaged in a dialogue like this. The fact that state secrets are involved makes him more villainous of course but I suspect that Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, et al have all come reasonably close to this level of inanity at times. The challenge of course is whether an individual like this has enough self-awareness of their shortcomings to loosen up the reins enough to allow the organization to scale. Sounds like Assange maybe a bit too delusional for that.
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It surely is. You're absolutely right.
May '10
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Edited by author. Attacking websites that try to get troops killed, OK. Attacking websites that don't try to get troops killed, in poor taste.
Edited on Sep 30, 2010 at 8:43amMay '10
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Just heard your comments on Sarah Palin today. They were entirely fair, and you kept your calm. I think Drill, Baby, Drill is one issue that I am totally with Sarah on and she does know it cold. That doesn't apply to today's unique geopolitical struggle.
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Pseudodionysius: You know Steyn kept going on and on during the Ricochet podcast about what a great job Claire Berlinski was doing blogging up a storm, and I thought he'd had a little too much high altitude air while jetting back and forth to his secret Ian Fleming Fortress of Solitude submerged beneath the Caspian Sea, but after joining last night and reading the formidable output (fonts?, wikipedia?) I must agree.
Mark who? Hail to the New Chief. · Sep 29 at 5:45am
I like this fellow. Let's make sure his bid for Ricochet government tenders are treated with particular fairness.
Sep '10
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
like this fellow. Let's make sure his bid for Ricochet government tenders are treated with particular fairness. · Sep 29 at 6:58am
In my Plan for World Domination, there really is No Alternative.
Sep '10
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To turn somewhat serious, I thought Claire (Lady Berlinski? The Right Honorable Member for Anatolia?) solidified her doubts about Sarah Palin by drawing such a sharp comparison with Lady Thatcher (though I understand she is fond of Sarah) rather than coming across as catty like so much of the chattering class has done in the past.
I suppose that the difference between the Reagans, Thatchers and the Palins is the difference between popular and populist.
Sep '10
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coming across as catty
Pun was purely unintentional, please forgive me.
Sep '10
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And also, I note in passing, it looks like I dropped my Thatcher comments in the wrong thread. Astigmatism.
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Her Most Serene Majesty. And her riding is in Thrace. Interestingly enough, she won it by packing the district with her cats.
Sep '10
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Rob Long might as well face the fact that Claire is now running this place and we all remain here at her whim. I have a sneaking feline suspicion that Long is hatching some kind of Berlinski v Steyn Superfight II Thrilla in Vanilla cage match where we all have to pay USD $44.95 on pay per view. Steyn has been too quiet and that worries me.
Edited on Sep 29, 2010 at 11:24amMay '10
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I'd like to see Mark Steyn post something, anything, on Ricochet and then see how fast the comments stack up. He may just become the Emperor of Ricochet.
Oh, the thread subject... uh, yeah. Whatever Claire said. Actually, I agree with Claire, people like Assange always get exposed in the end. And when you think of it, Assange shouldn't be one bit surprised that employees in his organization have a problem with keeping secrets. They work for a company that thrives on leaks!
Sep '10
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FeliciaB: I'd like to see Mark Steyn post something, anything, on Ricochet and then see how fast the comments stack up. He may just become the Emperor of Ricochet.
Sep 29 at 2:41pm
Only if, when we reply, the theme from an old Bond movie comes up. Perhaps GoldFinger.
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Good point!