#camera monitor

[greentrapped]

Feels nice to finally get back into modelling

GEM's Captain 64 PDA 1991 Model is a portable, handheld computer. It is designed to perform virtually any task, if provided with appropriate software through one of it's 'Instruction' Universal Serial Bus ports (marked with blue plastic). It features a digital display and a 16-bit Audio card (both of which can process and play inputs from their appropriate cables). Device also features 5 programmable buttons on the right side, all of which have a corresponding status indicator on the left side.

[nightshade86]

DPXDC PROMPT

Danny and Danielle are sitting on opposite ends of a room full of people, with the only exit being the middle of a 10-foot high ceiling.

The Gotham rogue who captured them is getting increasingly irritated that their trap to move the walls closer isn't working while the Bats are getting closer.

[geekanoids]

Just the right size!

[kyr0v]

hi i wont post like anything here but hello nonetheless

[jkvjimin]

(87/∞) the perfect nose for butterflies to land on it ♡

[ask-zombie-kid]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR @jump-city!!!

I'm your secret santa!! Here's the hall monitors very hard at work with Smokey the cat

[jacky93sims]

The Bay-B monitor for The Sims 2

This is a functional baby monitor+baby camera. It's cloned from Gammi Baby Monitor and works just like it, so you can always be aware of your babies motives and sims will wake up when babies cry. Plus I add the option to make it available also for Toddlers and to change the monitor displays. I provided different monitor options based on the babies skin (from light to vampire) and a "generic" option with the image of a sims 4 baby, like the original object, which is from Sixam CC, low poly. You can choose the version you like directly from the game, when the monitor is turned on. Plus they are bright at night, like the tv's when they are on. 8 colors included. Camera has to be put in the nursery while the monitor in any other room you want. Found in the Kid section of Buy Mode. Like the original objects, I didn't change the guid so you can have only one version of these items in your game.

DOWNLOAD HERE

[fatehbaz]

"Industry" as a frame of meaning is [...] relevant from the beginning of [modern-era labor advocacy and the general practice of intentionally "taking it easy" or "slowing down" while at work in order to advocate for and take care of oneself] [...], a form of "working badly" [...]. This close link is understandable given the absolute focus on efficiency that marks management thinking - Taylorism [Frederick Taylor's time studies and his support for using stopwatches to micro-manage in the workplace], the Gilbreths' time and motion studies [...]. [W]e can feel that trace of disgust, a certain sneering affect [...]. The sneer gathers around the word "motionless," [...]. The promise of the “upstanding citizen” is posed against the figure of the cripple, etymologically bound to the one who creeps, who stays low, to the one who is not proud and erect and in public view. In this way, that figure - along with the hobbled, the mute, the blind, the mad, the deaf, the chronic, and, of course, the paralyzed - becomes the exemplary negative definition. [...] [T]he only culturally sanctioned options are to be hidden from public life or recuperated [...]. That [...] fantasy of [a] return to previous levels of mobility that aligns easily with ableist conceptions of normal function and health [...] is also grounded in the specific idea of a return to ["productivity"] [...].

We can find this dynamic in especially dramatic form in the influential work of early twentieth-century “scientific management” theorists Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, known both for their time and motion studies of labor processes [...]. [T]he Gilbreths are relentlessly devoted to the reduction of inefficiency in labor to save energy, reduce unnecessary fatigue, and, above all, neutralize the fundamental “waste” of effort and time hidden within every human movement, particularly when at work. According to Frank and Lillian, “there is no waste of any kind in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions, and their resulting unnecessary fatigue.” The battle against this “waste” gets posed as a civilizational battle stretching back across human history, only now conquerable with modern means, yet theirs is also a project with explicitly nationalist overtones that can be strategically couched to suit a war economy and a desire for American imperial hegemony.

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The solution they propose is a total analytical dissection of labor processes, breaking single tasks into discrete parts to detect the little gaps in time that could be closed. Such minute lags and “micromotions” will necessarily get missed without the tools the Gilbreths turn to, like moving picture cameras - turned to face workers with chronometers in front of the lens and reticular grids on the wall behind for scale - and a “chronocyclegraph,” which allowed them to zoom in on a single gesture to see its tiny deviations and wasted movements frame by frame. In their methodology, delays and breakdowns take a form almost directly counter to simple malingering or the kind of willful self-stasis that Spargo denounced. Rather, what causes the inefficiency that the Gilbreths target is too much movement, an excess of animacy and motions that need not be done to complete a task, resulting in unnecessary fatigue and wasted opportunities for profit.

Yet at the heart of this, there is one figure seen to most embody this “wasted” energy and time in full - not in a specific action, badly choreographed task, or laziness, but in their entire being. This is what they designated as the “cripple,” [...].

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“What,” the Gilbreths ask, “is to be done with these millions of cripples, when their injuries have been remedied as far as possible, and when they are obliged to become again a part of the working community?” [...] The “cripple” therefore emblematizes the waste of America’s “human resources” for the Gilbreths. It manifests a physical limit - the body that is conventionally seen to be unable to do productive work - but also a political one that they cannot even fathom, or at least allow publicly: the idea that anyone might challenge either the supposed utility of this frenzy of streamlined work or the very category of what constitutes “waste” itself. For the Gilbreths, the “elimination of waste” is not merely a project of capital. It is a civilization-scale undertaking that benefits all involved in the process: “All workers are sharing in the savings made possible by the elimination of waste.” [...]

It is not mere surveillance, increased policing, or something that openly oppresses and invites a revolt. Instead, it is a mode of management and control that seeks to saturate every step of the process, all the while insisting that what’s good for profit is good for those whose stolen time generates that profit.

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All text above by: Evan Calder Williams. "On Paralysis, Part 3". e-flux Journal Issue #147. September 2024. Published online at: e-flux dot com slash journal/147/624989/on-paralysis-part-3/. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Text within brackets added by me for clarity/context. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism.]

[spark-circuit]

IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE 🫂💙✨️

[of-fear-and-love]

Technology from The Saint (1997)

[starmocha]

Holy shit he looks so hot wdym it's only an ER karma

[zootzar]

waiting.

[gothhabiba]

"children should not be on social media. parents should not allow their children to be on social media. I had the best childhood of anyone I know,"

yes. we can tell.

[yoylechess]

meeeee :3

[endrimer]

hes such a loser (i love hihm)

i hc that!!! every demon has quirky horns ala homestuck. some of them have different colors though.

jodie's horns r blue probably

i think its more of a personality thing than a genetic thing, but also taylor with blue horns is funny i should do that. he thinks theyre gonna be red but they arent which is LAME!!!!! so he paints over them to look cooler

glenn's horns are red. idk about morgan honestly

nick's horns are blue but if you cut into them theyre red. idk i think that woud be cool

hermie's are purple. scam likely genes. i think his horns would be a swirly shape.

all the horns start out as little nubs!!!! they only get bigger and quirkier when demon puberty hits. your personality and self is basically more developed by then so the shape and color r like. more defined. do you get me. it’s like a cutie mark but for demons which is very funny to me. im unsruer if hermie 2 would have the same horns but i think it would be funny if they were slightly different. or the same. who knowzs.

[sae-mian]

then VS now

(nira'sae edition)

i only made this character initially as a vessel through which to play the game - my friends at the time wanted a healer for their static, so i was bullied into playing and just... sped through the game as quickly as possible to get to "current" content. wasn't until endwalker was on the horizon that they really started to develop some lore and personality (and an abundance of anxiety).

(fun fact - their name, when i made them, was Nanette Bastien.)

don't worry, they still have an abundance of anxiety! as well as hundreds of pages of prose, 6GB of screenshots, and more AUs than they have teeth.

they've also, somewhat accidentally, been the catalyst to the creation of dozens of additional characters, each with little lives and stories of their own, so... good job, nira'sae! that's pretty cool!

tagged by: @mimble-sparklepudding !

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