#14/04/2023

[vhscorp]

Ce qui donne du sens à nos existences, ce sont les rencontres que l’on y fait…

V. H. SCORP

[gecenindelimavisii]

o kadar acı ki nasıl üstesinden gelinir bilmiyorum sanki biri kalbini söküyo, paramparçasın ama elinden hiçbir şey gelmiyor sadece ağlıyosun, söylenecek hiçbir şey yok çünkü düzelmeyecek hep o eksikliği hissedeceksin...

[d-e-s-c-o-o-r-d-i-n-a-d-a]

Me encontraba trabajando en distintos oficios; entre esos, en una cafetería, como vendedora freelancer para una boutique de vestuario. Todos ubicados en providencia, una comuna muy bonita, elegante y central de la capital.

Mis días comenzaban después de la 4pm, cerca del atardecer, la parte favorita del día donde puedes ver la transición de colores en el cielo adornado por las luces dinámicas de las calles y edificios que estimulaban mi mente para comenzar a laburar.

Uno de los lugares donde trabajaba, el café bistró, se ubicaba en la base de un rascacielos que me gustaba subir para contemplar la noche de luces dinámicas.

Por mis trabajos solía relacionarme con mucha gente, con algunas tenía más confianza, aunque la relación no pasaba más allá de lo que se intercambiaba.

Era un día cualquiera. Me dirigía a la boutique, cuando había visto a una actriz, pero con lo creídos que son los actores, no pesqué. Al terminar la jornada de trabajo, me tocaba ir al café bistró. Fue en el trayecto donde me intercepté con tres personas full producidas, entre ellas, un hombre que me miraba con familiaridad y me dijo que desde hace un par de días quería contactarme para ofrecerme un papel secundario en una teleserie, luego de haber escuchado sobre mis características de una clienta del bistró quien me recomendó. Le pregunté si tenía que aprender varias líneas, si tenía que actuar, ya que nunca lo había hecho, y eso me emocionaba aún más. Después de haber concordado, el hombre, productor de la serie, me compartió la dirección del lugar al que tuve que ir ese mismo día.

Ya me encontraba en el set, una casa antigua que colindaba con un edificio y una plazoleta cerrada para la actuación. El productor apenas me vió, me indicó el lugar para cambiar mi vestuario y después presentarme en el punto de filmación. Camino a cambiarme, comenzó a subirme la adrenalina que me provocaba pensamientos autoboicot, y me hacían cuestionar si me encontraba en el lugar correcto, hasta que me encontré con la clienta del bistró, resultó ser la guionista de la serie, quien muy cálida me instó a atreverme a actuar.

Estaba lista en el set, en el que se encontraba también la actriz que me crucé el otro día. Ciertas personas me entregaban las indicaciones para desenvolver mi papel un tanto espontáneo. La escena comenzaba bajando las interminables escaleras de emergencia expuestas a un costado del edificio con el cielo estrellado de fondo...

[burain]

[bajecna]

rain, monster ultra paradise, garmin quick release band (20mm) in berry, pruning, chakotay's girl, mechanical keyboard

[glimmerofawesome]

Hayley Raso v. Katie McCabe - July 20 2023

[georgenotfound-archive]

George was in Dream's Snapchat 2023/04/14

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Jack Royston in Newsweek: Prince Harry's Big Project Doomed to Fail Because He Is 'Deeply Unpopular' by author: Von_und_zu_

Jack Royston in Newsweek: Prince Harry's Big Project Doomed to Fail Because He Is 'Deeply Unpopular' A bit surprising from Jack since he usually is so pro Sussex. https://archive.ph/NNP57"The problem is Harry and Meghan, or specifically Harry, is not the person to achieve change in the media landscape. The reason for that is quite simple, he is deeply, deeply unpopular in the U.K. " quoting Edward Coram James, chief executive of PR agency Go Up. https://ift.tt/yIKqFC5 Von_und_zu_ submitted June 14, 2023 at 04:32PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

[elicatkin]

[alligator-dreaming]

04-14-2023

Had a dream that I was playing Metal Gear Rising Revengeance and I beat a boss and then Senator Armstrong came out except he was Jerma985

[wordpressinfluencer]

Minecraft-magic/Q&A

What is your favorite drink Minecraft potion?Please comment down below for your Minecraft answer 👇

[alpha-mag-media]

Horoscope today, December 14, 2023: Daily star sign guide from Mystic Meg | 258JDM9 | 2024-01-04 09:08:01 | January 04, 2024 at 10:08AM

Horoscope today, December 14, 2023: Daily star sign guide from Mystic Meg | 258JDM9 | 2024-01-04 09:08:01 Read More … Check full articles at Source: ALPHA MAG

[heybrine]

Crystal Clutters Pack

Heeeey people! Crystal Creations came out (bugged as hell) and I loved these bookcases sooo much but it desperately needed changes, atleast for me. The *dust* two colored wood tones needed to go and it surelly needed the ladder for both sides! And so I did that!

I went even further making more swatches and making two swatches for each wood color, one with a version already with books in and one without anything! And also I made some clutters to put on your new bookcases!

Oh and all items in this pack are Base Game Compatible, so you dont need crystal creations to use this.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I do! 📚💛

You can see more info on my patreon here!

And if you wish, you can get early access here! -- *available for everyone 04/14/2023*

[jius-sims]

Children's shoes collection 04

[Jius] Ankle Boots 01 ( Toddler&Child )

25 swatches

3k+ Polygons

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[Jius] Mary Jane Flats 01 ( Toddler&Child )

30 swatches

7k+ Polygons

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[Jius] Touch-Strap Sandals 01 ( Toddler&Child )

25 swatches

9k+ Polygons

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[Jius] Low Top Sneakers 11 ( Toddler&Child )

25 swatches

5k+ Polygons

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[Jius] Platform Sandals 14 ( Toddler&Child )

28 swatches

7k+ Polygons

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[Jius] House Slippers 06 ( Toddler&Child )

1 swatches

2k+ Polygons

HQ✔️ Custom thumbnail✔️ All lods✔️

 Patreon ( Early access )

❤️Public release on 30 November, 2023 ❤️

[fernand0]

Una hoja y plantitas. 

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

Tesla's Dieselgate

Elon Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a “utopian socialist.” He lies about being a “free speech absolutist.” He lies about which companies he founded:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cofounder-martin-eberhard-interview-history-elon-musk-ev-market-2023-2 He lies about being the “chief engineer” of those companies:

https://www.quora.com/Was-Elon-Musk-the-actual-engineer-behind-SpaceX-and-Tesla

He lies about really stupid stuff, like claiming that comsats that share the same spectrum will deliver steady broadband speeds as they add more users who each get a narrower slice of that spectrum:

https://www.eff.org/wp/case-fiber-home-today-why-fiber-superior-medium-21st-century-broadband

The fundamental laws of physics don’t care about this bullshit, but people do. The comsat lie convinced a bunch of people that pulling fiber to all our homes is literally impossible — as though the electrical and phone lines that come to our homes now were installed by an ancient, lost civilization. Pulling new cabling isn’t a mysterious art, like embalming pharaohs. We do it all the time. One of the poorest places in America installed universal fiber with a mule named “Ole Bub”:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us

Previous tech barons had “reality distortion fields,” but Musk just blithely contradicts himself and pretends he isn’t doing so, like a budget Steve Jobs. There’s an entire site devoted to cataloging Musk’s public lies:

https://elonmusk.today/

But while Musk lacks the charm of earlier Silicon Valley grifters, he’s much better than they ever were at running a long con. For years, he’s been promising “full self driving…next year.”

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

He’s hasn’t delivered, but he keeps claiming he has, making Teslas some of the deadliest cars on the road:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/24/no-puedo-pagar-no-pagara/#Rat

Once you start unpacking Tesla’s balance sheets, you start to realize how much the company depends on government subsidies and tax-breaks, combined with selling carbon credits that make huge, planet-destroying SUVs possible, under the pretense that this is somehow good for the environment:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy

But even with all those financial shenanigans, Tesla’s got an absurdly high valuation, soaring at times to 1600x its profitability:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#intangibles

That valuation represents a bet on Tesla’s ability to extract ever-higher rents from its customers. Take Tesla’s batteries: you pay for the battery when you buy your car, but you don’t own that battery. You have to rent the right to use its full capacity, with Tesla reserving the right to reduce how far you go on a charge based on your willingness to pay:

https://memex.craphound.com/2017/09/10/teslas-demon-haunted-cars-in-irmas-path-get-a-temporary-battery-life-boost/

That’s just one of the many rent-a-features that Tesla drivers have to shell out for. You don’t own your car at all: when you sell it as a used vehicle, Tesla strips out these features you paid for and makes the next driver pay again, reducing the value of your used car and transfering it to Tesla’s shareholders:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21127243/tesla-model-s-autopilot-disabled-remotely-used-car-update

To maintain this rent-extraction racket, Tesla uses DRM that makes it a felony to alter your own car’s software without Tesla’s permission. This is the root of all autoenshittification:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

This is technofeudalism. Whereas capitalists seek profits (income from selling things), feudalists seek rents (income from owning the things other people use). If Telsa were a capitalist enterprise, then entrepreneurs could enter the market and sell mods that let you unlock the functionality in your own car:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/11/1-in-3/#boost-50

But because Tesla is a feudal enterprise, capitalists must first secure permission from the fief, Elon Musk, who decides which companies are allowed to compete with him, and how.

Once a company owns the right to decide which software you can run, there’s no limit to the ways it can extract rent from you. Blocking you from changing your device’s software lets a company run overt scams on you. For example, they can block you from getting your car independently repaired with third-party parts.

But they can also screw you in sneaky ways. Once a device has DRM on it, Section 1201 of the DMCA makes it a felony to bypass that DRM, even for legitimate purposes. That means that your DRM-locked device can spy on you, and because no one is allowed to explore how that surveillance works, the manufacturer can be incredibly sloppy with all the personal info they gather:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/29/tesla-model-3-keeps-data-like-crash-videos-location-phone-contacts.html

All kinds of hidden anti-features can lurk in your DRM-locked car, protected from discovery, analysis and criticism by the illegality of bypassing the DRM. For example, Teslas have a hidden feature that lets them lock out their owners and summon a repo man to drive them away if you have a dispute about a late payment:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

DRM is a gun on the mantlepiece in Act I, and by Act III, it goes off, revealing some kind of ugly and often dangerous scam. Remember Dieselgate? Volkswagen created a line of demon-haunted cars: if they thought they were being scrutinized (by regulators measuring their emissions), they switched into a mode that traded performance for low emissions. But when they believed themselves to be unobserved, they reversed this, emitting deadly levels of NOX but delivering superior mileage.

The conversion of the VW diesel fleet into mobile gas-chambers wouldn’t have been possible without DRM. DRM adds a layer of serious criminal jeopardy to anyone attempting to reverse-engineer and study any device, from a phone to a car. DRM let Apple claim to be a champion of its users’ privacy even as it spied on them from asshole to appetite:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

Now, Tesla is having its own Dieselgate scandal. A stunning investigation by Steve Stecklow and Norihiko Shirouzu for Reuters reveals how Tesla was able to create its own demon-haunted car, which systematically deceived drivers about its driving range, and the increasingly desperate measures the company turned to as customers discovered the ruse:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

The root of the deception is very simple: Tesla mis-sells its cars by falsely claiming ranges that those cars can’t attain. Every person who ever bought a Tesla was defrauded.

But this fraud would be easy to detect. If you bought a Tesla rated for 353 miles on a charge, but the dashboard range predictor told you that your fully charged car could only go 150 miles, you’d immediately figure something was up. So your Telsa tells another lie: the range predictor tells you that you can go 353 miles.

But again, if the car continued to tell you it has 203 miles of range when it was about to run out of charge, you’d figure something was up pretty quick — like, the first time your car ran out of battery while the dashboard cheerily informed you that you had 203 miles of range left.

So Teslas tell a third lie: when the battery charge reached about 50%, the fake range is replaced with the real one. That way, drivers aren’t getting mass-stranded by the roadside, and the scam can continue.

But there’s a new problem: drivers whose cars are rated for 353 miles but can’t go anything like that far on a full charge naturally assume that something is wrong with their cars, so they start calling Tesla service and asking to have the car checked over.

This creates a problem for Tesla: those service calls can cost the company $1,000, and of course, there’s nothing wrong with the car. It’s performing exactly as designed. So Tesla created its boldest fraud yet: a boiler-room full of anti-salespeople charged with convincing people that their cars weren’t broken.

This new unit — the “diversion team” — was headquartered in a Nevada satellite office, which was equipped with a metal xylophone that would be rung in triumph every time a Tesla owner was successfully conned into thinking that their car wasn’t defrauding them.

When a Tesla owner called this boiler room, the diverter would run remote diagnostics on their car, then pronounce it fine, and chide the driver for having energy-hungry driving habits (shades of Steve Jobs’s “You’re holding it wrong”):

https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/

The drivers who called the Diversion Team weren’t just lied to, they were also punished. The Tesla app was silently altered so that anyone who filed a complaint about their car’s range was no longer able to book a service appointment for any reason. If their car malfunctioned, they’d have to request a callback, which could take several days.

Meanwhile, the diverters on the diversion team were instructed not to inform drivers if the remote diagnostics they performed detected any other defects in the cars.

The diversion team had a 750 complaint/week quota: to juke this stat, diverters would close the case for any driver who failed to answer the phone when they were eventually called back. The center received 2,000+ calls every week. Diverters were ordered to keep calls to five minutes or less.

Eventually, diverters were ordered to cease performing any remote diagnostics on drivers’ cars: a source told Reuters that “Thousands of customers were told there is nothing wrong with their car” without any diagnostics being performed.

Predicting EV range is an inexact science as many factors can affect battery life, notably whether a journey is uphill or downhill. Every EV automaker has to come up with a figure that represents some kind of best guess under a mix of conditions. But while other manufacturers err on the side of caution, Tesla has the most inaccurate mileage estimates in the industry, double the industry average.

Other countries’ regulators have taken note. In Korea, Tesla was fined millions and Elon Musk was personally required to state that he had deceived Tesla buyers. The Korean regulator found that the true range of Teslas under normal winter conditions was less than half of the claimed range.

Now, many companies have been run by malignant narcissists who lied compulsively — think of Thomas Edison, archnemesis of Nikola Tesla himself. The difference here isn’t merely that Musk is a deeply unfit monster of a human being — but rather, that DRM allows him to defraud his customers behind a state-enforced opaque veil. The digital computers at the heart of a Tesla aren’t just demons haunting the car, changing its performance based on whether it believes it is being observed — they also allow Musk to invoke the power of the US government to felonize anyone who tries to peer into the black box where he commits his frauds.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

This Sunday (July 30) at 1530h, I’m appearing on a panel at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, CA, to discuss the wonderful, award-winning “Ghost Post” Haunted Mansion project I worked on for Disney Imagineering.

Image ID [A scene out of an 11th century tome on demon-summoning called 'Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere.' It depicts a demon tormenting two unlucky would-be demon-summoners who have dug up a grave in a graveyard. One summoner is held aloft by his hair, screaming; the other screams from inside the grave he is digging up. The scene has been altered to remove the demon's prominent, urinating penis, to add in a Tesla supercharger, and a red Tesla Model S nosing into the scene.]

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