calliope

You’re doing a wonderful job! I find you a pretty constant inspiration, I’m sure I’m not the only one.

I seriously love that community, it’s probably my favorite one on the fediverse. I love seeing people make and share art (and art supplies it seems!)

Genuinely my pleasure! Thank you for sharing your work and interests.

I hadn’t seen the blueberry paint yet (I forgot to subscribe on this account!) and it looks absolutely beautiful

I am not OP, I just think they’re cool (and have quiet enthusiasm for their project).

Oh hell yeah they do, they have a whole palette of handmade colors! It’s been really cool to watch on the art alchemist’s guild!

It’s been absolutely mind-blowing to see the progress.

Oh for sure, they’re taking big tech’s lead.

Tech has been blaming AI for layoffs for a couple years now, when they hired an insane number of people during and after COVID. They literally hired to lay off. I found this graph illustrative of the boom and bust.

The people in this administration love when tech can get away with something (see the Cambridge Analytica scandal around 2016) because they will too.

It makes a lot of sense that they would.

Especially since I believe other major social media companies (Facebook; the service formerly known as Twitter) don’t care at all about bots and seem to want to use them as valid replacements for swathes of users or content generators.

Your rm -rf reminded me of one of my mistakes.

I know everyone’s probably already heard about stories like this, but one terrifying mistake I made in college was a fat-fingered rm -rf / home/whatever.

I didn’t notice the space before hitting enter, so it started happily deleting system files from /.

I killed it pretty quickly, and then was able to re-download the files I accidentally deleted by hand, one by one, while the computer was running. It felt like I was changing a tire of a car while it was driving.

So I try to think of that kind of thing as a sharp knife. Cut carefully.

Doesn’t mean I didn’t also delete an entire customer database a few years later but at least that one was backed up! Horrible feeling. lol

And the budget they announce usually doesn’t even include the marketing budget, which is also millions of dollars.

It’s seriously incredible how much money they waste on vanity projects.

I’ve been wondering the same thing since I heard about it. News articles were like “we had to remove some of the black vomit.” Who wants this?

It honestly feels like hubris from everyone involved, but I imagine eventually it will find an audience and they’ll pretend it was a cult hit all along.

I also hadn’t seen that the poster says “Here comes the mother f*%#ing bride!” Which is quite cringey. Hello fellow kids!

Is Hot Topic selling merch, by any chance? Edit: No! They really thought this was a movie for adults??

The first article I saw about it was quite recently too: “Frankenstein Couldn’t ‘Lick Black Vomit Off The Bride’s Neck’ And Other Wild Studio Notes Maggie Gyllenhaal Received.”

It genuinely just sounds like a spoiled Hollywood baby getting to do their silly dream project:

I loved working with Pam Abdy, who runs Warner Bros. with Mike De Luca. She understood me and understood what I was saying. And there would be times where she would be like: ‘Maggie, you cannot have Frankenstein lick black vomit off the Bride’s neck. It’s just too much.’

It’s telling that it could have been worse. Ma’am, you are 48 years old, why do you sound like a high schooler?

Incredibly, it’s a painting from 1880.

I honestly didn’t know this kind of landscape realism existed in 1880!

Yep. Or, at least the one who has an LLM girlfriend(?) he thinks is fully conscious.

When the Iraq war started, Sony embarrassingly trademarked “Shock and Awe” based on the bombings on TV to use in a video game. They were criticized and never used it, but the phrase was everywhere in 2003… because of popular news coverage of the bombings.

[NBC TV reporter Peter] Arnett was not alone in calling it “shock and awe.” That term, which had burst suddenly into public awareness in January, was by then in near-universal usage to describe the US strategy for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

“Shock and awe” was repeated endlessly. In the week the war began, more than 600 news reports around the world referred to “shock and awe,” according to a count by the Washington Post.

I would actually bet that this is a major reason Trump is doing it. For the ratings.

The first thing that came to mind was the online obsession around “hot Israeli female soldiers,” which started ages ago.

Hands are also full, no? I usually need a free hand to hold an umbrella

No you’re actually spot on. Douche bag was even talking to a conservative paper.

Docter told the Wall Street Journal bluntly of the reasoning behind the creative overhaul, in which the Walt Disney Studios subsidiary found that some parents didn’t want media to broach topics they weren’t ready to discuss with their children

It’s really not hard to discuss someone being gay with your kids… unless you’re a bigot.

I did some searching and found exactly one website that defines it as a role. I think in the graph it’s a catch-all for tangential “making sure software is ready for consumers” roles (QA, release management, technical program managers, etc.) that don’t write code as the main aspect of their job.

This site defines it as kind of a nightmare hybrid Quality Assurance-engineering manager role.

• Hire and manage blended team, design and implement test lab leveraging existing infrastructure and execute application test plans.

• Institute prioritization of backlog and re-organization of JIRA so developers know their priorities and ensure most important features are addressed.

• Coordinate system architecture definition, system specification, testing, debugging, validation, vendor relations and customer interaction.

I assume this type of job has become more important since everyone is being forced to use AI to write code, ignoring that it puts way more pressure on QA.

The recovery recently for certain jobs makes me a little optimistic.

The slight recovery of “Software Publishers” and “Custom Computer Programming Services” is a good sign to me. The continued decline specifically of “Computer Systems Design” makes some sense too. They hired like crazy for that role, and unlike the programming or publishing roles, I think “systems design” is a more difficult position to hire well. It seems like a bad sign to me that so much of the over-hiring was for that role. Just hiring to hire. So that one might struggle for a long time but the Publisher and Programmer jobs will recover sooner.

I think a lot of companies jumped on the AI trend as an excuse to let go of people (and improve their short-term bottom line). Inevitably, they’ll need to hire again.

Yep, and it gives them an out

“An important caveat, however, is that the acceleration may prove temporary”

Oh I bet

The stickers don’t actually work super well unless you cover your windows with them.

According to the Audubon society:

Window decals may help, but they must be placed no more than 2-4 inches apart in order to be effective. Birds will try to fly through larger gaps. This means that on large windows, many closely spaced decals may be necessary to deter bird collisions.

4 inches is about 10cm

There are more tips in the article but stickers don’t help nearly as much as people want them to.

There are companies that are experimenting with whole window films, but when I looked a bit ago they didn’t seem to be widely available to consumers.

Oh my god the design is so old! Incredible, like a blast from the past.

It almost looks like an old Angelfire site.

Good news! They mention it right in the article.

We found that people are generally overconfident in their political knowledge, especially those who truly don’t know much about politics (the classic Dunning-Kruger effect),” the researchers detailed. The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where people with limited knowledge in a specific area greatly overestimate their own competence, often because they lack the expertise needed to recognize their own mistakes.