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Fucking Friday Five.
Iâve got a 30 minute call at noon. Plus the small amount of work I need to get done means I might only work 1.5 - 2 hours today. If I can focus.
Iâm starting to have to deal with people that are all âhurry up I need an answerââŚor this one âany updates yetâ. Iâm all like âlisten here fuck faceâ, and the other standard response of âitâs been two days, fuck off and check this box next weekâ. Corporate twats are a pain in my balls.
I really need to be more busy than I am. I end up getting lost in this monotony, and the circling indecision. Not to mention having to reschedule this call today 3 times this week, because schedules.
The fact this call doesnât even need to happen is also pissing me way the fuck off. But no, we must pacify everyone and listen to everyone so we can circle the fucking drain on this for another fucking month.
Iâm starting to get really tired of having to plot the course, steer the ship, clean up all the messes, and manage all the expectations, when I canât tell people to fuck off and get out of my way. I was never really good at playing the role and corporate bullshit.
#I need to learn how divide myself from this shit#Iâm just a consultant#a very efficient#worth every goddamn penny you pay me consultant#because your actual employees get bogged down#corporate bullshit#ineffective and inefficient#I think Iâm going to have to raise my hourly rates again
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Youâre gonna want to glaze and/or nightshade your posts.
https://www.tumblr.com/salora-rainriver/743031690655596545/what-is-this-about-the-tumblr-staff-wanting-to
This is only rumors but
thanks for looking out for me!
thing is, a deal between midjourney and tumblr is unlikely and would be bad for midjourney. images on tumblr are already indexable, and likely already in datasets. going back to glaze/nightshade art youve already posted would be highly ineffective, as un-glazed versions already exist in reblogs and cant be edited or removed from the servers without doing a dmca takedown.
heres a good post about other issues with glaze and nightshade, that i think is a worthwhile read:
not as important but i (personally; its a contentious topic and i understand others feel differently) am not particularly invested in preventing generative models from learning from my art. if it was gonna ever happen, then its already happening, and im not bothered by it.
i was instead briefly worried about the future of this site, given the recent outbursts from the ceo and the likelihood of a "pissed off forum mod just shutting down the whole thing after a spat with the users" type outcome, but looks like we're in the clear :3 if anything were to change though: you know my patreon, i would be giving any relevant update over there
#tl;dr its all good folks! Nothings Going To Happen#if youre interested in effective ways to protect yr art from having ai models train on it i believe there Are ways to do it!#its just that glaze/nightshade is ineffective and trivial to bypass and extremely energy inefficient
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can I ask a legitimate question
if the republicans are also not happy with these choices, are they gonna even like...get anything done...
#real life with risa#like are they TOO inefficient and egotistical to pull this off and what they do try to do will just fizzle out with infighting?#Also we know musk doesn't know the law and has gotten fucked by it publicly with twitter#are they gonna try to push things that are just like too easily fought in court and nothing gets done?#I suppose they could certainly clog the courts with bullshit to the point of ineffectiveness#but then we circle back to the infighting thing stopping them again#is...is my 'just stall them for 2yrs' plan actually gonna...work????????????#I'm scared to even say it
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**| Continuing from this post, Voxâs core motivation is always that self interest, and specifically, pride. He wants the eyes of the adoring public on him, and for his name to be on everyoneâs tongueâ and, most importantly, in a positive way. Valentino and Velvette may be more likely to subscribe to the idea that thereâs no such thing as bad press, but for Vox, âbad pressâ would have meant losing more than just some reputation, because those sort of allegations would have been more along the lines of âsodomite and communistâ (one of which was true).
And in many ways, as a result, heâs taking âabsolute power corrupts absolutelyâ as a challenge. In life, when he was human, and had very little actual power, he got ahead through natural talent, lies, flattery, blackmailâ advancing himself was the core goal. In comparison, in Hell where he does have quite a lot of actual power and influence, he doesnât need to worry about charming corporate executives for a raise or a promotion or a chance to appear on screen in a position he wants, he gets to decide that.
Consequently, itâs also easier to toss money at things causing problems, and those problems tend to be larger and affect more people, the scale gets larger. Therefore to eliminate personal inconveniences he actually ends up doing more good as heâs given more power.
This serves the secondary benefit of making people like him and talk about him.
Relics of his previous behaviour remain however, and this can be seen most in his approach to royalty or the other Overlord with whom he tries to keep cordial relationships in case they ever come in use. He does still retain charm as a manipulation tactic, and lies easy as anything, but that tends to be more in his interpersonal relationships rather than large scale acts.
#I have more hc/meta about this topic#but this is a big part of it!#heâs not driven by greed#and thus the being a businessman is more a means to an end#heâs a performer first and foremost#*personnel file (hc)#*no signal (ooc)#he ends up hilariously moral#more so than I ever expected!#because itâs ineffective and inefficient not to be
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Activism is not terrorism, why are you afraid to face our voices? Or because only the dead are silent
And we are still alive to criticise your deficiencies.
#philippines#Politics#It's sad that we have to fight for rights#not against the government#against misconduct and terrible inefficient ineffective officials#no to redtagging#duterte#villar#marcos
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things i need to do by monday night:
run speech before my meeting tmrw
bibliography + add a mention of the army of ghosts soundtrack being the origin of the torchwood theme + maybe make a table of leitmotifs for the murray gold paper
ENTIRE ai paper (ugh) that i havent even started LOOKING at yet
1pg paper on the hs jazz band i saw yesterday (not technically due this weekend so that can be pushed back a bit maybe)
final conducting reflection (due 12:30 pm mon)
clean the rest of my aptmt (kitchen + table + papers all over my floor etc) before tuesday bc thats when snow gets here :)
#tmrws meeting will likely be over 2hrs last year it was FOUR HOURS but we were being inefficient.#it might come close idk#and then i have a thing tonight as well#god#ari opinion hour#fuck at least i only have 2 actual real regular finals. thats never happened.#like half my classes did pre-finals-week finals#damn i could go home by like. well ok i have no idea when my theory final is. god im tired of that professor hes so ineffective
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i'm slowly reinventing the spinning wheel
#i had two one ply yarns i wanted to make into one two ply yarn for strength and thickness and i thought how hard could it be?#things get so tangled. in so many ways. so i started untwisting them by hand#but that was inefficient and felted the fibres in the balls a little bit. so i put them in cups#the cups helped with the felting but were still ineffective so i got a cheap lazy susan (not a lazy kate. we're talking walmart purchases#here) but the cups fell off the lazy susan so i taped them down#now i spin the lazy susan with my foot to untwist the yarn while i ply it by hand and wind it onto my yarn ball winder with my hands#to be clear im having the time of my life this is so brainless and relaxing i can just listen to podcasts or youtube while i do it#yay yippee arts and crafts#eve.txt
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Strong independent woman? More like pathetic dependent woman whoâs flaws counter out any good qualities she has twice over. Iâm still talking about Aqua. I love her so much. Thatâs something I really like about the Konosuba cast in general. Found family without the wholesome. They never leave the first town, theyâre constantly in debt, everyone knows them as those weirdos who cause problems, but they kind of love each other anyway. Theyâre found family because they all suck so much they canât survive without each other. They arenâtin a position to reject each other because of their weird or unlikeable qualities. Theyâre the same. You just kind of accept it. And isnât that what family is?
Iâm not wording this right, but theyâre just such normal people. They like cool stuff even if itâs seen as cringe, they canât help but blow their earnings on nice alcohol, they work a regular job because adventuring doesnât really pay. They adjust to each other. Kazuma taking Megumin out to do her explosions, Aqua and Kazuma being the same fucking person, both irritating each other and understanding each other because of it. Kazuma not wanting to fight the demon king because it sounds like a lot of work. They accept each others weirdness out of necessity. Thatâsmy type of found family.
#idk how to word it#itâs just that they donât have anywhere else to go because theyâre too selfish or cringe or lazy or annoying so they stick together#Itâsa really funny version of my love for the intimacy out of necessity trope#They come to except the weird parts of each other not because theyâre angels but because they just get used to it#Itâs like that concept of all the fun people being in hell#Itâs all the horribly flawed people that stick together and in that way itâs sweet#Aaaaaaa I canât word this right#But Aqua the light of my life#It feels very human#It embraces the parts were meant to shun yk?#Theyâre fully themselves and push a lot of people away because of it but they find each other anyway#Theyâre themselves fully even when itâs detrimental and thereâs something very enticing to me about that#They donât exist to please others ig and they accept the consequences of that because they have to#They contribute nothing to the world around them but they continue to exist in day to day life!#I feel like for me it strips the concept of living from the obligation to be any one thing#Itâs not free of consequence to be themselves but they canât really do much else so they keep on trucking along#Iâm probably reading too deep but it questions the idea that existing and being valuable is tied to being useful or succe#contributor to society#It doesnât idealize living like this but it shows itâs possible#I can live ineffectively and inefficiently and be imperfect and embarrassing and mess up all the time in ways that are my fault and still b#alive#at this point Iâm just psychoanalyzing myself to figure out why these characters appeal to me so much#But they really do#Theyâre not role models or beacons of morality or anything to look up to theyâre just people#Idk I just love them#theyâre cool to me
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i absolutely despise the fact that humans arenât telepathic like bitch what the fuck do you mean i canât project this very specific feeling directly into your soul and i have to use words to communicate
#smh#itâs so ineffective#especially when i forget the vibe iâm trying to send halfway through figuring out how to explain it#humans are inefficient
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I will admit that the back portion of the yard does not get mowed as often as it should. It's furthest away and a low priority in the summer heat when you and the mower are both out of fuel before the yard is done. Naturally this is the only portion that can be seen by the neighbors, who would probably appreciate not looking at our foot tall grass as a backdrop to their lovely yards.
The problem is that among these neighbors are several box turtles that love the long grass, which makes us too nervous to mow, which leads to the grass getting longer and longer as we ineffectively try alternatives like weed wacking and hand tools.
Today I finally attempted to tackle the grasslands (which our 140lb newfoundland can lie down in and disappear) with a method that involved pulling the mower backwards with one hand and digging through the grass with a stick with the other. It was physically difficult, slow, inefficient, and didn't leave the grass looking particularly good.
However, I became set in my ways when I saw 2 separate turtles scooting out of the way. They had the sense to move toward the short grass where I could see them, but I still stopped with about half the yard done just to give everyone's nerves a break (mine included).
Based on his demeanor he did not appreciate the care I was taking to look out for him, though I'd be mad too if someone stole my roof.
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i love it when people apply the whole âhumans are space orcsâ idea to transformer humans.
jack, miko and raf just doing regular, average day things that make the bots both extremely worried and unsettled gives me so much brainrot.
I got you here. I love this kind of lore/reaction ask.
Each of the children have a particular habit that bothers the team more than anything else. Can it be explained? Not really. All humans do the things they do. But for the bots, it is strange and out of sorts all the same.
Miko always carries around a bottle of sparkling water. She adores the stuff. The team, despite knowing it is not what the name implies, are still horrified with her drinking habits. Not to mention, they can't help but wonder where all the liquid goes. She drinks up to three whole bottles of water a day. In her own words "Hydrate or die." That in it of itself is concerning since the team, while well aware that humans need water, do not know how much they need exactly. The team are down right terrified of her ability to down water like a dry sponge. How can such a small fleshy even consume that much? They aren't entirely sure. Not only that, but if she drinks that much, then are Jack and Rafael getting enough? They can't be.
Not only does Miko down water like a bone dry houseplant, she also drinks just about anything else too. The team have seen her chug sodas which contain Primus knows how many strange chemicals and compounds. They've observed her willingly drink things that no other would on bets, including food that has been blended and watered down just because Jack wanted to see if it was possible for her to down hotdog cafeteria milk cheeto apple slurry.
Yes the team are terrified of humans and their ability to put anything inside themselves and walk it off. But more than any other, they fear Miko. Who knows what she's consumed.
All the kids do it, but Jack is the most notable since when he needs to go to the restroom, he makes it loud and clear mainly so that someone knows to keep an eye on Miko. The team are aware that organics have a need to manually handle removing waste since their systems are rather inefficient, however there is a certain level of mysteriousness surrounding the restrooms. The bots don't want to watch or even know HOW the humans get rid of waste, but they do know that THINGS happen in the restroom that seem to either be painful, emotional, refreshing, or aggravating. No one can really be sure what reaction will follow those who enter the space. Sometimes Jack or one of the other kids will go in there seemingly to just be alone.
It is a strange and almost sacred location where strange happenings occur. Miko went in once with bloody clothes and emerged with a fresh set before Ratchet could figure out what was wrong in the first place. Jack went in once and came out an hour later looking like he'd gone to war after he convinced Arcee to let him stop and get takeout the night before. Rafael took his charger and computer in there and hogged the space for a while to get away from the others once. The team does not know what happens in there, but it is mildly concerning since it either repairs or breaks a person.
Bulkhead theorizes that its a pocket dimension like the shadow zone. Ratchet refuses to think about it. Optimus will say nothing about whatever he knows. Arcee and Bee assume its a safe haven or sorts and Wheeljack is almost certain they keep weapons in there. Ultra Magnus and Smokescreen both agree that the restroom is simply a quiet space where a human can deal with personal issues in peace.
No bot is willing to try and confirm anything since humans flip out at any attempts to view the supposedly sacred ground.
Rafael is generally pretty good about flying under the radar most of the time, but he has a habit that has caught the team's attention. Humans have been noted doing what they can to clean themselves on their own. Its rather ineffective to clean one's own venting openings with digits considering the sheer amount of germs involved, but it is not out of the question to do so when a cleaning cloth is not available. Rafael occasionally and quietly trying to clean his nose is not what bothers the team.
No what horrifies them is the goop that he pulls out after his attempt at cleaning. What Ratchet has studied states that the goop is referred to by a number names, but is commonly called snot. Its the natural germ catcher humans have, but it still unsettles the team whenever Rafael quietly blows a few or when one of the others grabs a tissue and makes a rather disgusting sound as they try to clear their airways.
The goop reminds the team of any number of horrible things. But the sheer amount of GROSS within a small amount of the stuff has left the team all gagging whenever they find the stuff around base. Rafael is usually good about being clean, but sometimes he gets lazy and will use his chair to hide his cleaning attempts. Bumblebee has almost purged a few times seeing the marks on the chair from where Rafael may or may not have wiped his fingers.
Is he twelve? Yes. Is he fully mature? No. That much is evident just by looking at his chair.
#transformers#maccadam#team prime#tfp kids#rafael esquivel#miko nakadai#jack darby#cybertronian biology#cybertronian culture#optimus prime#ratchet#bumblebee#bulkhead#arcee#smokescreen#ultra magnus#wheeljack#these kids#humans in general man#we are gross critters and the bots know it
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Whumpee waking up in a hospital or at home, restrained for their own safety.
Maybe they're sick, maybe they are tired and delirious, maybe just horribly thoroughly conditioned. They don't even sit up, just pull a little on the light restraints and look around wildly. They whimper with anxiety at their new surroundings. Maybe they are scared of unfamiliar places, or think they are still back with whumper.
Caretaker is quick to the rescue, yet ineffective and inefficient. No matter what they say, it's like whumpee doesn't even hear them. They just keep making themself smaller, freezing up, watching for threats, babbling and stuttering out words that make no sense.
They are so confused they start crying, and caretaker's heart breaks apart at the sight.
#whump#my writing#whump writing#fear#whump prompt#panic#unreality#i just got absolutely enamored by the thought of confusion tears#just#crying bc of overwhelming confusion#its so lovely for me#whumpee does not know whats happening and does not know how to react any other way than tears#very delicious
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"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 âupstanding citizenâ 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 âscientific managementâ 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 âwasteâ of effort and time hidden within every human movement, particularly when at work. According to Frank and Lillian, âthere 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.â The battle against this âwasteâ 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 âmicromotionsâ 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 âchronocyclegraph,â 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 âwastedâ 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 âcripple,â [...].
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âWhat,â the Gilbreths ask, âis 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?â [...] The âcrippleâ therefore emblematizes the waste of Americaâs âhuman resourcesâ 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 âwasteâ itself. For the Gilbreths, the âelimination of wasteâ is not merely a project of capital. It is a civilization-scale undertaking that benefits all involved in the process: âAll workers are sharing in the savings made possible by the elimination of waste.â [...]
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 whatâs 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.]
#ecologies#tidalectics#amazn cameras detecting two seconds of wasted time or monitoring your face#debt and debt colonies#geographic imaginaries#multispecies
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Some nice and accurate things my phone has autocorrected âineffable husbandsâ to:
Inefficient husbands
Ineffective husbands
Inevitable husbands
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Do you hate the left because of wokeness and/or government ineffieciency? What can you say against the Biden Administration? Why should anyone listen to you?
I don't hate the left. I disagree with the left on most things. There's a very big difference.
Very much not a fan of government ineffectiveness and inefficiency. Spent four years working inside the system and saw firsthand how much it screws over the people it's supposed to help. I have a very hard time seeing how I'm supposed to support a system like that. 'Wokeness' is just annoying for the most part, except where it contributes to the ineffectiveness and inefficiency.
Biden's admin has been largely ineffective or downright damaging on pretty much everything I care about and has made us a joke on the world stage and they think they can distract us with shiny meaningless things like flying the lgbt flag outside the White House. Not sure what that accomplished but I wasn't distracted.
Listen to me for the same reason you'd listen to anyone with an opinion that isn't yours - to understand what the other side is thinking, to spot and fix the pitfalls in your own ideas before they become a downfall, and to understand yourself better. I read and listen to things I disagree with all the time. I've completely changed my mind a few times because of it and I've shifted my thinking a lot of times. Even if I eventually reach the same conclusion I had at the start, it's good to come at the problem from a different angle and consider new information and work it through my core beliefs to see if my conclusion holds up. It's like one of those math problems you can solve multiple ways to check yourself - if I get a different answer, I probably need to check again.
And if you do agree with me, well, I guess listen for the occasional bit of insider knowledge or just pure entertainment. Or don't. I don't really care that much. I just would like it if you stopped saying stupid shit that makes the rest of look like fools.
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The idea that everyone should pay their fair share in taxes for the common benefit of everyone would be a much more compelling argument if the government actually used tax dollars for things that helped US citizens right now.
Maybe when the government stops wasting money on foreign aid, wars that mean nothing, corporate welfare, subsidizing things nobody wants, ineffective and inefficient government programs, straight up corruption, government agencies that exist to curtail civil liberties, making the homeless crisis worse, and welfare for illegals, we can have a conversation about how taxes can be used to help people.
Obviously they donât spend money effectively as it is and you think they should take more of our money?
If you gave a homeless guy $50 and told him to buy food, but instead he bought $25 of food and $25 of drugs is the solution to give him $100 in the hopes he buys $50 of food? Thatâs what people demanding tax increases are asking for.
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