as we know from portlandia, a decade ago "quirky" gift shops used bird motifs on everything. now, quirky gift shops use mushrooms motifs. to me, this is a sign of the decay of the imperial core. we go from flight/escape to now the notion of waiting out the collapse and then thriving on the decay.
@nrchtct@Birdbassador A push for greater transparency? ๐ชผ Or perhaps... ๐ a longing for a more interconnected community, with emergent bodies representing a deep underground network of mutual aid
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The BELIV workshop is returning this year! The theme this year is "Rethinking Design, Evaluation, and Ethics in Visualization in the Era of Generative AI," but we are always looking for work on research methods in visualization in general.
now that most of the major conferences i submit to have anywhere on earth (AoE) deadlines i think somebody needs to mention that these are "courtesy" deadlines, to give you a few hours of grace so you're not having to wake/stay up at odd hours to turn something in just because you're in an inconvenient time zone. you can work until 6 AM your time or whatever, but you shouldn't have to, and you will regret doing so. maybe not this deadline, but some deadline, and soon.
you burn the midnight oil and the paper still doesn't get in, in which case you've wasted all that effort
you sprint and it /does/ get in, and then you've convinced yourself and your collaborators that that kind of effort is normal/expected/"worth it", in which case good luck ever sticking to a schedule or setting work/life boundaries ever again
@Birdbassador or, 2b), youโll do it one too many times and one of your internal organs more or less gives up the ghost a couple of days after the deadline, and you need emergency surgery
sheriff ed tom bell, putting down the newspaper and taking off his reading glasses, letting out a deep sigh as he thinks of the bloody vengeful darkness at the heart of the american experience and how, sooner or later, those debts will come due:
"they're saying that a shrimp fried that rice. now how does that make a lick of sense? how do we go to church on sunday and think that the Lord is sitting on His throne when, over in hudspeth county, there's a shrimp going around frying rice?"
Here's a blog post about a paper we got accepted into #chi2024 that blows away my previous personal record for "number of direct marx quotes I shoehorned into a computer science venue":
i don't think i've actually ever won an award for anything (my ego-saving rationale is "well, i just don't do the kind of work that wins awards") but apparently i have to care about awards now, so if anybody is in academia and wants to come up with some meaningless awards for me to win that would be nice.
the more impressive sounding the better, but don't actually ask me to have to do anything exemplary, thanks.
even if you did manage to track down carmen sandiego, what are you supposed to do if she resists arrest? like she apparently has a vast criminal network and can move thousands of tons of objects without detection, you think she's just going to give herself up because you remembered that the capital of mali is bamako? she is gonna make your next of kin sort carribbean islands by population just to find your body, friend-o.
academics complain about how tough it is to be interdisciplinary but my friend you are the one who went to grad school to specialize in one subject, then went to a job that evaluates you on how well you teach and research in that one subject, based on input almost exclusively from other people also in that one subject
it's like choosing to live over a mcdonalds, working at mcdonalds, choosing to get paid in mcdonalds gift cards, and then complaining that people eat too much fast food
@Birdbassador I am being specific about the situation here for a reason, to be clear. Aside from some chair-shuffling, I have seen this, very precisely...
tarkovsky's wile e. coyote props up a box with a stick and puts a sign next to it labeled "your innermost desire" pointing to it but is thwarted when the roadrunner merely sits outside of it in total despair, defeated by an unwillingness to come to grips with the objet petit a
after all these years i'm still not 100% on what "data science" is. is it just a way to trick people who think they are going to be doing machine learning into downloading excel files like all the rest of us?
@scheidegger i was going to suggest "data science is when computer sciences want to do statistics but also don't want to talk to statisticians, and also want to trick students into thinking ML solves everyday problems" but that seemed too cruel
bothers me that my brain immediately goes to "haha it's like silent hill out today or "haha n64 render distance much" or "haha am i in a stephen king novel" some other mediation of my experience through pop culture. gotta return to the simple truths that a) sea witches are real b) they haunt the mists