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Teri_Kanefield, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

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w7voa, 9 months ago to random

Free Beacon: Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday appeared on a podcast hosted by an anti-Semitic YouTuber who has accused Jews of having "dual loyalty" and claimed that Zionists "worship the nation of Israel over America & are willing to infringe on their own country's values to serve that agenda." https://freebeacon.com/elections/good-to-be-on-ramaswamy-appears-on-anti-semitic-youtubers-podcast/

cstross, 9 months ago to random

Pub! In Brussels.

ai6yr, 9 months ago to BurningMan

Wow, they've turned the clearly defined exit roads into 25 lane freeways there at #BurningMan trying to not drive in the #mud. Looks like a mud gauntlet here caused everyone to widen out the road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6INIzHP3Q-o

futurebird, 9 months ago to random

Whenever I listen to Leonard Cohen I like the songs a lot but I also keep thinking "dude what did you do to get so deep in the dog house?"

Dude is exploring regions of the dog house never seen by man before given the size of all the apologies.

jmcrookston, 9 months ago to random

If you exercise some degrees of freedom in conducting your experiment, you can make almost any stupid hypothesis p<0.05.

False positive rates can be as high as 60%.

These researchers proved, to p<0.05, that listening to kids music made participants 1.5 years younger.

lauren, 9 months ago to mastodon

Every so often I take a serious look at the code running my #Mastodon instance and I start to get a headache so I stop looking at it.

jimcarroll, 9 months ago to random

Daily Inspiration: "Every great failure was preceded by a reign of error!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

I just saw the Blackberry movie - it's pretty good, although the acting seems a bit forced and the story a bit pushed. Give the trailer a watch - and you'll probably find it on your streaming service of choice soon.

The movie did hit home, though, in more ways than one. As I noted in my post on CEO hubris:

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Google Maps tells me that my home office, where I am writing this post, is exactly 23.49 km (or 14.60 miles) from the Headquarters of Research in Motion in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Remember them? The maker of the ubiquitous Blackberry of the early 2000s. It was the leading communications device, owning the world - until the firm spectacularly imploded and failed because of the hubris and arrogance of the two founders, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie

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It also hits home because, like many Canadians in and around the tech industry, we've seen this type of failure before - Nortel being the most famous. Sadly, the implosion of the organization took away a huge amount of equity.

I told the story of both organizations in a talk the other day, in a new section I've introduced to my slide deck, Lessons in Leadership - "What went wrong? What went right?" It's an overview of things I've seen in my career with my clients on how some organizations have responded - or haven't - to dramatic, disruptive change.

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2023/08/daily-inspiration-every-great-failure-was-preceded-by-a-reign-of-error/

ai6yr, 9 months ago to music

To wind down for the evening... #WeWillRockYou played on some random electronic devices #music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh9pm9yjmLs

rodhilton, 9 months ago to random

I dunno how much less interested you could make me in a new TV show than requiring I watch over 76 hours of cartoons first.

Ahsoka is like the mirror-dimension evil inverse of Andor, as large a leap in the wrong direction as someone could construct.

I'd rather watch a Jar Jar Binks origin movie, I'd rather sit through the 4-hour Abrams cut of Rise of Skywalker.

I am fully convinced everyone saying they like Ahsoka is a bot, I refuse to believe real humans could enjoy this.

ai6yr, 9 months ago to Terminator

I posted this screenshot from Terminator 2 a few years ago, and it seems even more true today: you should be preparing kids for an uncertain future (not the blowing things up and weapons, but disaster preparedness and survival skills). "Here's how to perfect your golf game" isn't gonna do it. #DisasterPreparedness #Terminator #SkynetDay

cuT TO: A106 INT. WEAPONS CACHE Terminator returns from carrying out several cases of ammo. John is selecting rifles from a long rack. Jomy See, I grew up in places like this, so I just thougat it was how people lived... riding around in helicopters. Learning how to blow snit up. John grabs an AK-47 and racks the bolt with a practiced action. Inspects the receiver for wear. Doesn't Like what he sees. Puts is back. fis movement are efficient. Professional. Uninterested. Jomy Then, when Mom got busted I got put in a regular school. The other kids were, like, into Nintendo. Terminator has found a Vietnam-era "blooper” M-79 grenade launcher. A very crude but effective weapon. He opens the breech and inspects the bore. Jom Are you ever afraid?

ZhiZhu, 9 months ago to politics

"For decades, Farris — a conservative Christian lawyer who is the most influential leader of the modern home-schooling movement — had toiled at the margins of American #politics. His arguments about the harms of public education... had left many unconvinced.

Now, speaking on a confidential conference call to a secretive group of #Christian millionaires seeking, in the words of one member, to “take down the #education system as we know it today,”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/29/michael-farris-homeschoolers-parents-rights-ziklag/

#USPol #USA #News

timbray, 9 months ago to random

One common symptom of Long Covid (these days I hear “Post-Covid Syndrome”) that a loved one is experiencing: Sleep is no longer refreshing.

Think how that would feel.

Stop pretending Covid is over.

shoq, 9 months ago to random

Yep, now he can legitimately claim to be a true original. For once.

Source: @Green_Footballs
https://mastodon.social/

tzimmer_history, 9 months ago to random

This is precisely it. And I will add: The “compromises” people like Yglesias are demanding wouldn’t just entrench injustice, but actively roll back civil liberties and basic rights.

timbray, 9 months ago to fediverse

Moderator lesson: It's OK to site-block someone from another instance for being randomly shitty and mean-spirited to more than one person on your instance. Don’t need any specific "…isms".

#fediverse

Chris, 9 months ago to random

Why do Mastodon clients not let me mute anybody permanently? I want to remain a follower of some people, but I don’t want their stuff in my feed. Seven days? What’s even the point?

maxleibman, 9 months ago to random

My wife's iMac went down after a heat-wave related power blip yesterday. It's a 2017 Intel model. It has a slow-as-molasses Fusion drive inside, so we've been booting is off of external drives for the past few years (most recently a 2 TB Samsung X5 external SSD).

The last time we lost power yesterday, the iMac reverted to booting off the internal drive, and none of the Macs or PCs in the house could read (or even format) the external disk.

edsuom, 9 months ago to random

When people get older, they’ve tended to talk about how hard things were for them back in the day, how these spoiled youngsters have it so easy.

I’m not doing that. I grew up in a green and vibrant world alive with possibilities, where nature was not lashing out at us and withering before jaded traumatized eyes trying their best to look away. Where we breathed each other’s air without a second thought.

Where companies were places to build careers and products people needed.

Things are not OK.

timbray, 9 months ago to photography

So, I never use the selfie-cam on my phone, except when I’m trying to figure out how that damn fitting is fastened onto that damn fiberglass where I can’t see it, so I can replace that frayed line. Of course, will it focus on the fitting? It will not, but I learned enough.

#photography

lowqualityfacts, 9 months ago to random

Twitter will soon introduce an auto-harrass feature, so you can save time by automating your harassment of those who post woke (compassionate, empathetic, etc.) content.

warmapper, 9 months ago to random

I'm going away for a planned break with family until the end of the month.

I'll be back to posting again from September 2nd.

See you then 👋