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picturebookshelf Ā· 2 years ago
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Stop! Look! (1974)
Story: Priscilla M. Maynard -- Art: Joan Paley
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thenewsfactsnow Ā· 1 year ago
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Xerox Announces 15% Job Cut, Leadership Shuffle Ahead
Xerox, renowned for its digital printing and document management technologies, has unveiled plans to downsize its employee count by 15%, marking a significant step in its broader strategy aimed at restructuring its organizational framework and operational model. The restructuring initiative includes not only a substantial reduction in the workforce but also a comprehensive leadership reshuffle,ā€¦
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newshare24 Ā· 10 days ago
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ROSEN, TRUSTED INVESTOR COUNSEL, Encourages Xerox Holdings Corporation Investors to Secure Counsel Before Important Deadline in Securities Class Action
New York, New Yorkā€“(Newsfile Corp. ā€“ December 13, 2024) ā€“ WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Xerox (NASDAQ:) Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: XRX) between January 25, 2024 and October 28, 2024, both dates inclusive (the ā€œClass Periodā€), of the important January 21, 2025 lead plaintiff deadline. SO WHAT: If you purchased Xerox securities duringā€¦
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lizardsfromspace Ā· 1 year ago
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The backlash to kid's horror media is embarrassing Boomer nonsense, and it's funny how it's bifurcated between "this is inappropriate for children, they shouldn't make horror for kids" and "this isn't real horror, kids need adult horror", and it's odd how we all acknowledge kids lack spaces online then bash ones that do exist, but my fave reaction is the people pointing out "they're only making it for money"
Unlike...unlike when exactly. When you were a kid did you think Goosebumps was a tiny indie project someone xeroxed in their backyard shed. Especially weird as a gripe when these works are, by and large, far less corporate than before, as they're mainly from random indie devs and people making videos online. "They're making it to get attention and make money" Oh...no...?
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tabootabletalk Ā· 10 months ago
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100 work from home job opportunities
1. Live Ops- www.liveops.com
2. TeleTech-TeleTech.localjobster.com
3. Amazon-Amazon.JobsOnline.com
4. Sutherland Global Services- http://www.sutherlandglobal.com/careers.aspx
5. UnitedHealth Group-https://careers.unitedhealthgroup.com/career-areas/customer-service-and-claims/customer-service-and-call-center
6. Dell-http://jobs.dell.com/north-America-jobs
7. IBM-www.ibm.com/employment
8. U.S Department of Agriculture www.usda.gov
9. Working Solutions- http://workingsolutions.com
10. Humana- www.humana.com
11. Aetna- https://www.aetna.com/about-us/aetna-careers.html
12. Intuit- www.Intuit.com
13. Kaplan- kaplan.com/work-with-us/our-culture
14. Kelly Services- www.kellyservices.us/US/Careers/KellyConnect/Kelly-At-Home
15. Cactus Communications- https://www.flexjobs.com/jobs/telecommuting-jobs-at-cactus
16. Westat- https://www.westat.com
17. Salesforce- www.salesforce.com/company/careers
18. PAREXEL- https://jobs.parexel.com
19. CyberCoders- https://www.cybercoders.com/jobs/work-from-home-php-developer
20. American Express- https://jobs.americanexpress.com
21. Vmware- telecommuting-jobs-at-vmware
22. SAP- www.sap.com/career
23. Xerox- https://www.xerox.com/en-us/jobs/work-from-home
24. First Data- https://www.firstdata.com/en_us/about-first-data/careers
25. US-Report- www.us-reports.com/jobs
26. Oracle- Oracle-Work.Jobsgalore.com/Jobs
27. CACI International- careers.caci.com/key/work-from-home-jobs.html
28. A Place for Mom- www.aplaceformom.com/jobs
29. Anthem,Inc- careers.antheminc.com
30. DellSecureWroks- telecommuting-jobs-at-dell_secureworks
31. World Travel Holdings- www.worldtravelholdings.com/careers,work-home
32. ADP- www.adp.com/careers.aspx
33. Aon- telecommuting-jobs-at-aon
34. University of Maryland University College- www.umuc.edu/visitors/careers
35. Allergan Inc.- www.allergan.com/careers
36. K12- www.k12.com/careers
37. U.S. Department of Transportation- https://www.transportation.gov/careers
38. CSI companies- thecsicompanies.com/candidates
39. Robert Half- www.roberthalf.com
40. Nielsen- sites.nielsen.com/careers
41. Red Hat- www.redhat.com/en/jobs
42. Adobe Systems- www.adobe.com/careers
43. Overland Solutions, Inc.- overlandsolutionsinc.com
44. BCD travel- www.bcdtravel.com/get-to-know-us/careers
45. Connections Education- www.connectionsacademy.com/careers
46. Deloitte- www.deloitte.com/careers
47. Apple- https://jobs.apple.com
48. Mckesson Corporation- https://careers.mckesson.com
49. Thermo Fisher Scientific- corporate.thermofisher.com/en/home.html
50. Precyse- careers.precyse.com
51. Haynes & Company- www.haynesandcompany.com
52. Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc- www.ppdi.com/careers
53. IT Pro Philadelphia- www.phillymag.com/property/2013/10/22/live-work-homes
54. Cingna- www.cigna.com/career
55. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt- careers.hmhco.com
56. Sungard Availability Services- sungardas.com
57. Infor- www.infor.com/company/careers
58. Sodexo- www.sodexousa.com/home/careers-usa.html
59. About.com- About.com/Can I Work From Home
60. Altegra Health- altegrahealth.com/careers
61. GE- jobs.gecareers.com/
62. Western Governors University- www.wgu.edu/about_WGU/employment/work_remote
63. Grand Canyon University- jobs.gcu.edu/admissions-enrollment-jobs
64. Walden University- https://www.waldenu.edu
65. Vivint- www.vivint.com/company/careers
66. BroadSpire- https://www.choosebroadspire.com
67. Covance- careers.covance.com
68. Ellucian- www.ellucian.com
69. HD Supply- hdsupply.jobs
70. Perficient Inc.- www.perficient.com
71. Teradata- https://www.teradata.com
72. Wells Fargo- https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/careers
73. Symantec Corporation- www.Symantec.com
74. Real Staffing-www.realstaffing.com/en
75. Science Applications International- www.saic.com
76. AmerisourceBergen Company- www.amerisourcebergen.com
77. Appen- www.jobs.net/jobs/appen/en-us
78. Hartford Financial Services Group- https://www.thehartfordatwork.com
79. RetailDatat- retaildatallc.com
80. SYKES- www.sykes.com/Careers
81. CARA- www.jobbankusa.com
82. Citizens Financial Group- citizensbank.jobs/work-at-home
83. CVS Health- cvshealth.com
84. Healthfirst- https://healthfirst.taleo.net/careersection/hf_ext_cs/jobsearch
85. American Heart Association- careers.heart.org
86. BMC software- www.bmc.com/careers
87. Hibu- https://hibu.com
88. inVentive Health- www.inventivhealth.com/careers
89. Rosetta Stone- jobs.jobvite.com/rosettastone
90. Erie Insurance Group- https://www.erieinsurance.com/careers
91. Deluxe- https://ww.deluxe.com
92. Clevertech- https://weworkremotely.com/jobs
93. Achieve Test Prep- www.achievetestprep.com
94. Worldpay- www.worldpay.com
95. DataStax- https://www.datastax.com/
96. CDK Global- www.cdkglobal.com
97. Teleflex- www.teleflex.com/en/careers/workingAtTeleflex
98. Aquent- aquent.com/find-work
99. Parallon- www.parallon.com/careers
100. U.S Department of the Interior- https://www.doi.gov/careers
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animebw Ā· 1 month ago
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Every time. Every time I think Love Live Superstar is finally going to buckle down and do something interesting, it chooses the cheapest possible resolution. Natsumi's sister wants her to give up on being an idol so she doesn't get hurt again? Natsumi just needs a pep talk to shake off all her worries and give a big speech about how everything's gonna be okay. Keke's torn between her feeling of obligation to her parents and wanting to keep singing? Kanon just gives her a pep talk and everything resolved without a single argument from her mom and dad (Hell, they don't even show up on screen!) Kanon and Margarete team up as a rival to Liella that will challenge them both in competition against their friends? No worries, they're totally gonna get back together someday and we spend like five minutes every episode re-affirming how basically nothing has changed since the separation. This was the big interesting thing that Season 3 was setting up and it feels like the show has been actively rejecting it ever since it was established. Because god forbid we get a single atom of genuine interpersonal conflict.
As I said way back while I was watching School Idol Project, what makes Jukki Hanada's writing special is that he's not afraid to let his characters be messy and make mistakes. Honoka's outburst at the end of SIP season 1, the long drawn-out graduation goodbye in season 2, Mari and Kanon's tearful reconciliation in Sunshine, forcing Aquors to lose their school... as exaggerated and idealized as Love Live has always been, it's never been afraid to let its characters- and its audience- hurt in meaningful way (At least not until Nijigasaki, but at this point I barely consider that soulless cash grab part of this franchise anyway). But I already thought Superstar was pulling its punches back in season 1, and it's only gotten worse with time. This series has become so terrified of narrative friction that it's collapsed into a formless, shapeless blob of bland niceties where no one has any meaningful character growth, no worthwhile ideas can risk being explored, and every potentially interesting conflict is flattened into wallpaper paste by the relentlessly chipper drumbeat of the corporate kawaii machine.
At the start of this year, I began my journey into this wild, wacky franchise called Love Live, and it proved my preconceptions of idol anime wrong. It showed me these kinds of shows can be beautiful, can be meanginful, can inspire genuine joy and wonder and make you want to chase your dreams with all your heart. Now, as the year comes to its end, I'm forced to stare in abject misery as this once-special series devolves into exactly what I was afraid it would be at the start. Empty, shallow, pandering Product(tm), selling a hollow fantasy designed to challenge its audience as little as possible because it's too chickenshit to actually try. Something once so beautiful reduced to a xerox of a xerox of a xerox with all its original magic bled dry.
The series I fell in love with is gone.
Love Live is gone.
It's time to leave its corpse behind.
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yesterdays-xkcd Ā· 1 year ago
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For the IPv6 map just imagine the XP default desktop picture.
Map of the Internet [Explained]
Transcript Under the Cut
Map of the Internet The IPv4 Space, 2006This chart shows the IP address space on a plane using a fractal mapping which preserves grouping--any consecutive string of IPs will translate to a single, compact, contiguous region on the map. Each of the 256 numbered blocks represents one 8 subnet (containing all IPs that start with that number). The upper left section shows the blocks sold directly to corporations and goverments in the 1990's before the RIRs took over allocation.
Diagram showing IP ownership:
0: Local
1-2: Unallocated
3: General Electric
4: BB&N INC
5: Unallocated
6: Army AISC
7: Unallocated
8: BB&N INC
9: IBM
10: VPNs
11: DoD Intel
12: Bell Labs
13: Xerox
14: Public data nets
15: HP
16: DEC
17: Apple
18: MIT
19: Ford
20: CSC
21: DDN-RYN
22: DISA
23: Unallocated
24: Cable TV
25: UK MoD
26: DISA
27: Unallocated
28: DSI
29-30: DISA
31: Unallocated
32: NORSK
33: DLA
34: Halliburton
35: Merit
36-37: Unallocated
38: PSI
39: Unallocated
40: Eli Lily
41: ARINIC
42: Unallocated
43: Japan INET
44: HAM Radio
45: INTEROP
46: BB&N INC
47: Bell North
48: Prudential
49-50: Unallocated
51: UK Social Security
52: duPont
55: Boeing
56: USPS
57: SITA
58-61: Asia-Pacific
62: Europe
63-76: USA & Canada (contains: UUNET, Google, Digg, Slashdot, Ebay, Craigslist, XKCD, Flickr)
77-79: Europe (unused)
80-91: Europe
92-95: Unallocated
96-99: North America
100-120: Unallocated
121-125: Asia-Pacific
126: Japan
127: Loopback
128-132: Various Registrars
133: Japan
134-172: Various Registrars
173-189: Unallocated
188: Various
189-190: Latin America & Caribbean
191-192: Various (contains Private (RFC 1918))
193-195: Europe
196: Africa
197: Unallocated
198: US & Various
199: North America
200-201: Latin America & Caribbean
202-203: Asia-Pacific
204-209: North America (contains Suicide Girls, BoingBoing)
210-211: Asia-Pacific
212-213: Europe
214-215: U.S. Department of Defense
216: North America (Contains Myspace, SomethingAwful)
217: Europe
218-222: Asia-Pacific
223: Unallocated
224-239: Multicast
240-255: Unallocated
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germanpostwarmodern Ā· 9 months ago
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In 1935 Helmut Hentrich and Hans Heuser by founding an architectural office lay the foundation for what is still one of Germanyā€™s largest architecture firms: Hentrich, Petschnigg & Partner (HPP) based in DĆ¼sseldorf, Germany. The firmā€™s current name dates back to 1953, the year Hans Heuser suddenly died and Hubert Petschnigg joined the office as partner. This change in the firmā€™s structure coincided with the accelerating German ā€žWirtschaftswunderā€œ which brought about a boom in (re)construction from which also HPP profited: buildings for banks, corporations, government institutions as well as churches and apartment buildings made up a great deal of the firmā€™s commissions and soon catapulted it to the forefront of the industry.
In 1985, on the occasion of HPPā€™s 50th anniversary, the firm self published the present retrospective volume which contains a cross section of the firmā€™s projects: the Aluminium- and Drahthaus in DĆ¼sseldorf, early 1950s examples of transparent office building architecture, the Dreischeibenhaus for the steel company Thyssen also in DĆ¼sseldorf but also first international steps in South Africa. Since the book doesnā€™t include plans and sections the target audience probably was long-term customers and associates: excellent photographs capture key projects and demonstrate the firmā€™s capabilities. At the same time they show that HPP kept pace with the changing currents in architecture as e.g. the Rank Xerox administration in DĆ¼sseldorf represents their take on brutalism. Accordingly the volume first and foremost is a nicely illustrated picture book that shows several highlights of German postwar modern in beautiful black-and-white photographs.
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religion-is-a-mental-illness Ā· 2 years ago
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By: Joseph (Jake) Klein
Published: Apr 13, 2023
Segregation has a new brand name: racial ā€œaffinity groups.ā€ Race-based ā€œaffinity groupsā€ have exploded in prevalence across the United States over the last few years, moving from workplaces intoĀ schools,Ā religious congregations, and other organizations all across the country. Affinity groups can also be organized around other identity categories such as gender, sexuality, disability, and religion, but affinity groups were first created around racial identity.
In 1969,Ā Xerox employeesĀ based in San Francisco launched the Bay Area Black Employees (BABE) caucus, the first known workplace affinity group ("caucus," "employee resource group," and "affinity group," are all terms that have been used to describe the same idea).Ā  Overall, Xerox's chairman at the time, Joseph C. Wilson, was an important leader in driving workplace integration. He reacted to race riots in the 1960's with a mission to increase integration and hire African-Americans who had previously been denied employment opportunities, and took numerous concrete actions to do so.
However, as has happened on numerous occasions to other well-intentioned leaders (including in response toĀ other 1960ā€™s race-riots), Wilson chose to take advice not just from integration-oriented civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., but from theĀ Black PowerĀ activists responsible for the riots. Wilson enlisted the counsel of a group called ā€œF.I.G.H.T.ā€ While much of F.I.G.H.T.ā€™s activism was productive and aimed at pushing back on genuine and oppressive racism, it was also aĀ ā€œdecidedly militantā€Ā organization that ā€œalienated much of the black middle classā€ andĀ worked closelyĀ with theĀ explicitly anti-integrationistĀ founder of the Black Power movement, Stokely Carmichael.
Today, more than 50 years later, affinity groups have spread toĀ 90% of Fortune 500 companies. These companies sometimes claim that racial affinity groups helpĀ foster communicationĀ and help bring new ideas to leadership. Corporations also point out that membership in racial affinity groups is usually voluntary, and therefore it cannot be a form of racial discrimination as banned under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.Ā 
However, despite these claimed positives, many corporations have also found that affinity groupsĀ polarize employees, and many people of color areĀ reluctantĀ to join such groups for ā€œfear of being reduced to their racial identity.ā€ Even when they are organized and advertised as voluntary, the social pressures on individuals to join racial affinity groups are substantial. And although some data supports companiesā€™ intuitions that affinity groups are helpful idea generators, these positive results may be better explained by the existence of a group creating increased discussion time, rather than the racial makeup of that group.
With affinity groupsā€™ recent spread throughout K-12 schools, higher education, religious groups, and many other key institutions throughout our society, we face an even worse danger. While businesses are beholden to the profit motive, schools and other non-profit institutions are not. This creates more opportunities for affinity groups in non-profit institutions to advance aĀ fanatical ideology, since organizational leadership doesn't need to worry, as businesses do, about the possibility that a Marxist ideological agenda would compromise their ability to operate in a financially viable manner.
Advocates of racial affinity groups claim they are not racist or segregationist, but do so while practicing racialĀ segregationĀ and making explicitlyĀ racistĀ claims. For example,Ā Truss Leadership, a so-called ā€œracial equityā€ consulting group that works with numerous school districts, declares that ā€œRacial Affinity Groups are NOT ā€¦ Racist or segregationist,ā€ but also says they are a place where white people can ā€œreckon with their Whitenessā€ and non-white people can ā€œtake care of themselves and one anotherā€¦in the absence of Whiteness.ā€
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FAIR ally Ye Zhang Pogue hasĀ written beautifullyĀ for this Substack on how affinity groups in schools can harm our society by needlessly pitting people against each other along racial lines. What advocates of affinity groups often ignore is how prejudice and discrimination is oftenĀ caused by diminished contactĀ between groups, and can be overcome byĀ increasingĀ thatĀ contactĀ and having group members work cooperatively instead of separately (one of psychologistĀ Gordon Allportā€™s four conditionsĀ for reducing racial prejudice). This insight into the power of contact is the same idea that has driven FAIR Senior Fellow Daryl Davisā€™s pioneering efforts to get Klan members and neo-Nazis to give up their lives of hate.
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Even racial affinity groups' most extreme and vocal advocates haveĀ acknowledgedĀ that ā€œCaucusing can generate anxiety even at a visceral level for some. For people of color, history has shown that real harm can come from spaces exclusively reserved for white people. ā€¦ People of color may also experience racial anxiety and stereotype threat, the fear of being viewed through societal stereotype ā€˜lensesā€™ by white colleagues and supervisors.ā€ These are not ungrounded fears. Corporations seeking to pursue effective anti-racist strategies would do well to remember the horrors of theĀ interoffice segregationĀ of Americaā€™s past.
Segregation in the form of racial affinity groups today is disturbingly similar in concept to the separate bathrooms, water fountains, bus sections, and other spaces in generations past. Then as now, we ought to remember the worldchanging verdict fromĀ Brown v. Board of Education, that ā€œSeparate [is] inherently unequal.ā€ As Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred M. Vincent explained in the Courtā€™s also unanimous decision forĀ McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, which was cited in Brown v. Board of Education, ā€œTo separate [children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their-hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.ā€
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The KKK must be beaming with pride at the outright enthusiasm of re-implementating segregation.
Were it discovered that they were shadow-funding this, I would be incapable of feigning any amount of surprise.
Wokeness divides and destroys.
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That's so weird. We keep being told that "cRt iS nOt iN sChOoLs." And yet, here we find out that not only is it in schools, but it's a good thing, because "opposing" - as ominous, authoritarian, and nigh on DiAngelo-istic choice of words as I've ever heard - is wrong. Gee, when did that happen? They must have done that really quickly. /s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM2JvQVXWQg
"DiAngelo's essay doesn't talk about disagreements or debates, but only about those who 'practice' social justice, and those who, quote, 'resist' it."
To actually tell people "[not to] entertain this blog or its opinions" or "don't read the post" has really strong religious blasphemy overtones. Like the priest telling the congregation not to read Harry Potter.
Still, the very first thing the kids do when they get home from church after being told not to read Harry Potter is to read Harry Potter. So sermonizing people on how to close their ears to maintain their moral purity usually doesn't work out that well for the clergy. So, thank you for dangling an irresistible temptation for them, like the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden..
P.S. Opposing gay conversion therapy and child mutilation is a hill I'm willing to die on. Line in the sand. Pretty comfortable there. The latter, at least, used to be a self-evident taboo: you don't tattoo kids, you don't cut children's testicles or breasts off, you don't drug girls by flooding their bodies with quantities of hormones their body is not equipped to handle so they're balding and infertile at 16. Despite pretence to the contrary, these positions aren't the slightest bit controversial.
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warningsine Ā· 1 year ago
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Google laid off hundreds of workers in several divisions Wednesday night, seeking to lower expenses as it focuses on artificial intelligence and joining a wave of other companies cutting tech jobs this year.
The Silicon Valley company laid off employees in its core engineering division, as well as those working on the Google Assistant, a voice-operated virtual assistant, and in the hardware division that makes the Pixel phone, Fitbit watches and Nest thermostat, three people with knowledge of the cuts said.
Several hundred employees from the companyā€™s core engineering organization lost corporate access and received notices that their roles were eliminated, two of the people said. Google said that most of the hardware cuts affected a team working on augmented reality, technology that combines the real world with a digital overlay.
ā€œWeā€™ve had to make some difficult decisions about ongoing employment of some Google employees and we regret to inform you that your position is being eliminated,ā€ the company told some workers in the division, according to the text of an email reviewed by The New York Times.
Google confirmed the Assistant cuts, earlier reported by Semafor, and the hardware layoffs, earlier reported by the blog 9to5Google.
ā€œWeā€™re responsibly investing in our companyā€™s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead,ā€ a Google spokesman said in a statement. After cuts throughout the second half of 2023, ā€œsome teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally.ā€
The cuts continue a trend ofĀ tech layoffs, after large companies such as Google, Meta and Amazon laid off thousands of workers last year. Ten days into this year, more companies have announced job cuts. Earlier Wednesday,Ā Amazon shed hundreds of workersĀ from its Twitch streaming service, Prime Video and MGM studios.Ā Xerox said this month that it would cut 15 percentĀ of its 23,000-person staff, and the video game software providerĀ Unity Software said it would eliminate 1,800 roles, or 25 percent of its work force.
At Google, Sundar Pichai, the chief executive, has pushed the company since July 2022 to sharpen its focus and to reduce expenses as global economic conditions deteriorated. In January 2023, Google shed 6 percent of its work force, or 12,000 people, in the largest layoffs that the company has conducted. Since then, executives at the company have said they would try to significantly reduce costs, as it focuses on the growing field of generative artificial intelligence.
Google, which had 182,000 employees as of Sept. 30, said the layoffs on Wednesday were part of a set of reorganizations that were made in the normal course of business.
The Alphabet Workers Union, a group representing more than 1,400 workers at Googleā€™s parent company, Alphabet, described the layoffs as ā€œneedless.ā€
ā€œOur members and teammates work hard every day to build great products for our users, and the company cannot continue to fire our co-workers while making billions every quarter,ā€ the group said in a post on the social media site X.
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thefollows Ā· 5 months ago
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@everythingyelloww tagged me to answer w/three random facts about myself and then tag the last seven people in my notifications!
1. College was a bit crazy for me. Parents moved while I was in my first year of school (NMSU-Go Aggies!). I caught up with them the following summer in AL and they moved nine months later. I finished up my school at UA, Roll Tide! Multiple jobs while going to school full time. Lots of "just trying to survive", paying for it all myself. The transition from the desert to the Deep South was jarring.
2. No tattoos! All my friends seemed to get them just before tattoos were cool, early 90s. I looked strangely "normal" next to them at concerts.
3. Iā€™ve work at my current company for 26 years! Moved to Dallas in '98 and got a temp job working for Xerox that led to a salary position. But before I got that job, I was offered a part-time position at a retail store for my current company. I need money so I didn't accept the offer. But, in the fall of that first year, I applied at a new retail location and ended up working part-time for 7.5 years while employed at Xerox. Dallas is expensive! My manager at my store kept submitting my name to the corporate office to work in IT over those years and I kept declining. One day, I decided to entertain their offer and happily moved to a single job!
Tagging my last 7 6 - @wittyclitty @causticgrip @millerflintstone @stephiehell @reheatedmicrowavecoffee @itsbadno
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foundationhq Ā· 11 months ago
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PROFILE.
Dependable and unwavering, [š‘†š‘€š‘‚š‘‚š‘‡š» š‘‚š‘ƒšøš‘…š“š‘‡š‘‚š‘…]ā€™s recruitment to the Foundation could be considered a ā€œhappy accident.ā€ Originally rescued from anomalous location [DATA EXPUNGED] during the initial exploration into SCP-ā–ˆā–ˆā–ˆā–ˆā€™s domain, he was initially stated to be terminated at the end of the mission ā€” however, [š‘†š‘€š‘‚š‘‚š‘‡š» š‘‚š‘ƒšøš‘…š“š‘‡š‘‚š‘…] proved vital in containing the entity responsible for the phenomenon. In order to avoid potentially losing a valuable asset to the Foundation, the Ethics Committee decreed that he would be spared. In the years after this event, [š‘†š‘€š‘‚š‘‚š‘‡š» š‘‚š‘ƒšøš‘…š“š‘‡š‘‚š‘…] has proven himself to be invaluable and his appointment as the commander of MTF Chi-00 shouldnā€™t come as a surprise to anyone. While he surely will be missed in ā€œLawā€™s Left Hand,ā€ it seemed only right that Themis should be given MTF Omega-1ā€™s best blade. The Ethics Committee is certain that The Broken Scales of Themis will flourish under the steady guidance of this operative. Indeed, there are very few who represent the mission of the Ethics Committee as well as [š‘†š‘€š‘‚š‘‚š‘‡š» š‘‚š‘ƒšøš‘…š“š‘‡š‘‚š‘…], and even fewer who could say they have sacrificed as much as he has for the success of the Foundation. Though some of the research staff at Site-Ļ† may feel uncomfortable seeing [š‘†š‘€š‘‚š‘‚š‘‡š» š‘‚š‘ƒšøš‘…š“š‘‡š‘‚š‘…]ā€™s face after the Xerox Revision, we are certain his excellent interpersonal skills will ease any concerns that may arise. ā€” Internal Memo from the Ethics Committee.
LAST ASSIGNMENT.
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INTERRELATIONS OF NOTE.
š‘‚šæš· š‘†š‘ƒš‘‚š‘…š‘‡. If the Ethics Committee had given you the option to select your teammates, š‘‚šæš· š‘†š‘ƒš‘‚š‘…š‘‡ would have been at the top of the list. You wouldnā€™t say you two are anything close to friends ā€” youā€™re barely acquaintances ā€” but you know enough to admire his track record and diligence. Still, youā€™re surprised the Foundation willingly sent you their best dog and youā€™re ill-prepared for the awkwardness of holding his leash. The weirdness will hopefully go away once youā€™ve gotten to know him better. Hopefully.
š‘‰šøšæš‘‰šøš‘‡ šŗšæš‘‚š‘‰šø. Youā€™ve seen their type before and youā€™re not impressed. More importantly you refuse to be a stepping stone for anyone more interested in climbing the corporate ladder than staying true to the core values of the Foundation. If the Committee wants you to put š‘‰šøšæš‘‰šøš‘‡ šŗšæš‘‚š‘‰šø in their place, they donā€™t have to ask you twice.
š¾š¼š‘šŗ'š‘† šŗš“š‘€šµš¼š‘‡. There was a second after Site-Ļ† Director Buckley Osterholz handed you š¾š¼š‘šŗ'š‘† šŗš“š‘€šµš¼š‘‡ā€™s photo where you thought a new kill command had come down directly from the Ethics Committee. Youā€™re not sure if youā€™re relieved that you were mistaken or are just waiting for the other shoe to drop. You wonder if the feeling is mutual.
š‘…šøš‘‰šøš‘…š‘†šø šøš‘šŗš¼š‘šøšøš‘…. Another familiar face, but one youā€™re less uneasy about encountering again. However, youā€™re certain the same canā€™t be said for them ā€” because while you havenā€™t seen them in person since the final development stages of the Xerox Revision, theyā€™ve certainly seen yours enough to be sick of it.
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altvibesmaster Ā· 1 year ago
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Rekomendasi Mesin Fotocopy Terbaik Tahun 2024
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Menemukan mesin fotocopy yang sesuai untuk kebutuhan kantor atau bisnis Anda bisa menjadi tugas yang menantang. Mengingat variasi jenis, ukuran, dan merek yang ada di pasaran. Baik untuk beli atau rental.
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Fuji Xerox ApeosPort series adalah rekomendasi tipe mesin fotocopy Xerox yang menawarkan kecepatan, resolusi tinggi, dan fleksibilitas dalam penggunaan.
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thenightlymirror Ā· 1 year ago
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Trying to unpack today
Was supposed to be off at some meeting all day. They decided I didnā€™t need to go. I didnā€™t. But I was sort of looking forward to seeing some old friends. They said they missed me. That was nice.
Started work and all management and admin staff were at the meeting. The sales manager was late. Two counselors werenā€™t coming in, and the others were late. The superintendent was asked to help at another cemetery.
Two burials were basically ready for tomorrow.
Irina calls me to say that a big stone they were waiting until today to install for the family has a giant scratch in it. $25,000. Something like that. I get there and the superintendent is filling it in with black marker. Sheā€™s watching.
I call the engraver to see what he can do. Heā€™s out somewhere else all day. Heā€™ll come in tomorrow.
No one is doing the paperwork Iā€™ve asked them to. And now there are suddenly two more burials for tomorrow. (Guess it was a good thing I was there.)
Ricky is missing a permit for the burial that is about to happen that he isnā€™t here for. Nice. Also, he has a signed document with no space number on it. Also for tomorrow. He sends me a cellphone pic of the document via text message. I print it out on the Konica.
I come over to help the sales office and get stuck there for the rest of the day.
Iā€™m mostly trying to get the burial paperwork finished, but if they make me wait, they can also make me do their jobs as I wait. Bit of a pickle.
Family comes in and their marker is backwards. Woman comes in to yell at me because her monument isnā€™t installed. Who said it would be? New guy. November 2nd. Amazing guess. Wrong.
A woman calls and says she needs proof her mother and grandmother were buried in the Jewish parts of the cemetery. I can tell her where theyā€™re buried, but she canā€™t have our documents. What the hell for? Rabbi needs them or else her daughter canā€™t get married. She just keeps telling me to xerox some legal documents ā€œfor Jewish purposes.ā€ Oh. Well if you put it that way.
The thing is, I want to just make her a map, and maybe say, yeah theyā€™re here. Signed, Me. But I cannot find documentation for her mother anywhere. Fucking anywhere. I try fucking everything. Finally, she just goes to work. I say Iā€™ll call her tomorrow. Iā€™m going to have to get up on this ladder and just go through interment books to find her.
So of course thereā€™s a line now. Itā€™s only me in this office. I have a totally different job that is managing the headstones in this giant cemetery, which would just be a golf course, except for all the headstones. But Iā€™m here. Woman wants to by evergreen grave coverings, for a couple people. A little cash. A couple credit cards. Wants to see the silk flower collection. Itā€™s in the back and no oneā€™s pulled them out in a month.
Sometimes people come in asking about markers and, I swear to fucking God every time, yes, they bought one, but they never designed or ā€œorderedā€ it. Itā€™s just money sitting in a bank. Every fucking corporation these days is just the First Bank of Starbucks. So theyā€™re like ā€œWhere is it?ā€ and itā€™s like, Did you say Simon says? Iā€™m sorry. Then it doesnā€™t exist. Itā€™s still just frog eggs in the swamp.
They arenā€™t doing my blind checks still, theyā€™re out standing services.
A woman comes from Arizona having a panic attack and wants her motherā€™s unused plots. Just because. Maybe she could have called for a thing like that. Sheā€™ll wait for the manager.
I end up staying an extra hour. One file for a burial tomorrow just hid on a counselorā€™s desk for hours. Woops.
One still isnā€™t done. The other never got dug. Itā€™ll get done tomorrow. Instead of getting more stones in.
New guy said ā€œā€¦Youā€™re so calm.ā€
I donā€™t show my face much in the other office, because they just expect me to be the receptionist when Iā€™m there. New guyā€™s never seen someone in that space not writhe in hysterics immediately. I was. I was.
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procrastinatorproject Ā· 1 year ago
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Tell them about the time the German Federal archives digitized a bunch of stuff and destroyed the originals - only to learn the Xerox machines they'd been using swapped around numbers and letters when scanning to PDF...
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(The talk is in German and doesn't have subtitles, sadly, but just google "Xerox bug" to have your faith thoroughly eroded...)
To be fair: I have heard talks by professional archivists about this issue. And sometimes, they simply do not have the money to care for all of their collection and have to make truly heartbreaking decisions about what to keep and what they simply cannot preserve.
And they do put A Lot of thought and effort and pain into finding ways of digital archiving that aren't just a shitty PNG on some dingy hard drive somewhere. Like... this is a full academic field and these people aren't idiots.
But that doesn't mean that digitization is always the right way forward. Especially not if there was a way to get more funding to these institutions but the people in power prefer to spend it on tax cuts for rich people and large corporations and the like...
So, by all means, write and tell them they'd better fund the archives properly so this measure won't be necessary! I just want to make it explicit that the fault here lies with the politicians and that archivists know what they're doing. And know why they would also prefer to keep the paper records, honestly, but at least they aren't complete rubes about digital preservation.
You're a reasonably informed person on the internet. You've experienced things like no longer being able to get files off an old storage device, media you've downloaded suddenly going poof, sites and forums with troves full of people's thoughts and ideas vanishing forever. You've heard of cybercrime. You've read articles about lost media. You have at least a basic understanding that digital data is vulnerable, is what I'm saying. I'm guessing that you're also aware that history is, you know... important? And that it's an ongoing study, requiring ... data about how people live? And that it's not just about stanning celebrities that happen to be dead? Congratulations, you are significantly better-informed than the British government! So they're currently like "Oh hai can we destroy all these historical documents pls? To save money? Because we'll digitise them first so it's fine! That'll be easy, cheap and reliable -- right? These wills from the 1850s will totally be fine for another 170 years as a PNG or whatever, yeah? We didn't need to do an impact assesment about this because it's clearly win-win! We'd keep the physical wills of Famous Peopleā„¢ though because Famous Peopleā„¢ actually matter, unlike you plebs. We don't think there are any equalities implications about this, either! Also the only examples of Famous Peopleā„¢ we can think of are all white and rich, only one is a woman and she got famous because of the guy she married. Kisses!"
Yes, this is the same Government that's like "Oh no removing a statue of slave trader is erasing history :(" You have, however, until 23 February 2024 to politely inquire of them what the fuck they are smoking. And they will have to publish a summary of the responses they receive. And it will look kind of bad if the feedback is well-argued, informative and overwhelmingly negative and they go ahead and do it anyway. I currently edit documents including responses to consultations like (but significantly less insane) than this one. Responses do actually matter. I would particularly encourage British people/people based in the UK to do this, but as far as I can see it doesn't say you have to be either. If you are, say, a historian or an archivist, or someone who specialises in digital data do say so and draw on your expertise in your answers. This isn't a question of filling out a form. You have to manually compose an email answering the 12 questions in the consultation paper at the link above. I'll put my own answers under the fold. Note -- I never know if I'm being too rude in these sorts of things. You probably shouldn't be ruder than I have been.
Please do not copy and paste any of this: that would defeat the purpose. This isn't a petition, they need to see a range of individual responses. But it may give you a jumping-off point.
Question 1: Should the current law providing for the inspection of wills be preserved?
Yes. Our ability to understand our shared past is a fundamental aspect of our heritage. It is not possible for any authority to know in advance what future insights they are supporting or impeding by their treatment of material evidence. Safeguarding the historical record for future generations should be considered an extremely important duty.
Question 2: Are there any reforms you would suggest to the current law enabling wills to be inspected?
No.
Question 3: Are there any reasons why the High Court should store original paper will documents on a permanent basis, as opposed to just retaining a digitised copy of that material?
Yes. I am amazed that the recent cyber attack on the British Library, which has effectively paralysed it completely, not been sufficient to answer this question for you.Ā  I also refer you to the fate of the Domesday Project. Digital storage is useful and can help more people access information; however, it is also inherently fragile. Malice, accident, or eventual inevitable obsolescence not merely might occur, but absolutely should be expected. It is ludicrously naive and reflects a truly unpardonable ignorance to assume that information preserved only in digital form is somehow inviolable and safe, or that a physical document once digitised, never need be digitised again..At absolute minimum, it should be understood as certain that at least some of any digital-only archive will eventually be permanently lost. It is not remotely implausible that all of it would be. Preserving the physical documents provides a crucial failsafe. It also allows any errors in reproduction -- also inevitable-- to be, eventually, seen and corrected. Note that maintaining, upgrading and replacing digital infrastructure is not free, easy or reliable. Over the long term, risks to the data concerned can only accumulate.
"Unlike the methods for preserving analog documents that have been honed over millennia, there is no deep precedence to look to regarding the management of digital records. As such, the processing, long-term storage, and distribution potential of archival digital data are highly unresolved issues. [..] the more digital data is migrated, translated, and re-compressed into new formats, the more room there is for information to be lost, be it at the microbit-level of preservation. Any failure to contend with the instability of digital storage mediums, hardware obsolescence, and software obsolescence thus meets a terminal endā€”the definitive loss of information. The common belief that digital data is safe so long as it is backed up according to the 3-2-1 rule (3 copies on 2 different formats with 1 copy saved off site) belies the fact that it is fundamentally unclear how long digital information can or will remain intact. What is certain is that its unique vulnerabilities do become more pertinent with age."Ā  -- James Boyda,Ā On Loss in the 21st Century: Digital Decay and the Archive, Introduction.
Question 4: Do you agree that after a certain time original paper documents (from 1858 onwards) may be destroyed (other than for famous individuals)? Are there any alternatives, involving the public or private sector, you can suggest to their being destroyed?
Absolutely not. And I would have hoped we were past the "great man" theory of history. Firstly, you do not know which figures will still be considered "famous" in the future and which currently obscure individuals may deserve and eventually receive greater attention. I note that of the three figures you mention here as notable enough to have their wills preserved, all are white, the majority are male (the one woman having achieved fame through marriage) and all were wealthy at the time of their death. Any such approach will certainly cull evidence of the lives of women, people of colour and the poor from the historical record, and send a clear message about whose lives you consider worth remembering.
Secondly, the famous and successsful are only a small part of our history. Understanding the realities that shaped our past and continue to mould our present requires evidence of the lives of so-called "ordinary people"!
Did you even speak to any historians before coming up with this idea?
Entrusting the documents to the private sector would be similarly disastrous. What happens when a private company goes bust or decides that preserving this material is no longer profitable? What reasonable person, confronted with our crumbling privatised water infrastructure, would willingly consign any part of our heritage to a similar fate?
Question 5: Do you agree that there is equivalence between paper and digital copies of wills so that the ECA 2000 can be used?
No. And it raises serious questions about the skill and knowledge base within HMCTS and the government that the very basic concepts of data loss and the digital dark age appear to be unknown to you. I also refer you to the Domesday Project.
Question 6: Are there any other matters directly related to the retention of digital or paper wills that are not covered by the proposed exercise of the powers in the ECA 2000 that you consider are necessary?
Destroying the physical documents will always be an unforgivable dereliction of legal and moral duty.
Question 7: If the Government pursues preserving permanently only a digital copy of aĀ will document, should it seek to reform the primary legislation by introducing a Bill orĀ do so under the ECA 2000?
Destroying the physical documents will always be an unforgivable dereliction of legal and moral duty.
Question 8: If the Government moves to digital only copies of original will documents, what do you think the retention period for the original paper wills should be? Please give reasons and state what you believe the minimum retention period should be and whether you consider the Governmentā€™s suggestion of 25 years to be reasonable.
There is no good version of this plan. The physical documents should be preserved.
Question 9: Do you agree with the principle that wills of famous people should be preserved in the original paper form for historic interest?
This question betrays deep ignorance of what "historic interest" actually is. The study of history is not simply glorified celebrity gossip. If anything, the physical wills of currently famous people could be considered more expendable as it is likely that their contents are so widely diffused as to be relatively "safe", whereas the wills of so-called "ordinary people" will, especially in aggregate, provide insights that have not yet been explored.
Question 10: Do you have any initial suggestions on the criteria which should be adopted for identifying famous/historic figures whose original paper will document should be preserved permanently?
Abandon this entire lamentable plan. As previously discussed, you do not and cannot know who will be considered "famous" in the future, and fame is a profoundly flawed criterion of historical significance.
Question 11: Do you agree that the Probate Registries should only permanently retain wills and codicils from the documents submitted in support of a probate application? Please explain, if setting out the case for retention of any other documents.
No, all the documents should be preserved indefinitely.
Question 12: Do you agree that we have correctly identified the range and extent of the equalities impacts under each of these proposals set out in this consultation? Please give reasons and supply evidence of further equalities impacts as appropriate.
No. You appear to have neglected equalities impacts entirely. As discussed, in your drive to prioritise "famous people", your plan will certainly prioritise the white, wealthy and mostly the male, as your "Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin and Princess Diana" examples amply indicate. This plan will create a two-tier system where evidence of the lives of the privileged is carefully preserved while information regarding people of colour, women, the working class and other disadvantaged groups is disproportionately abandoned to digital decay and eventual loss. Current and future historians from, or specialising in the history of minority groups will be especially impoverished by this. Ā 
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animebw Ā· 4 months ago
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Man, what a shitty way to end the season.
Well, that's Superstar Season 2 finished. And for whatever reason, the thought I keep coming back to is this one line from Bojack Horseman where he calls himself "A xerox of a xerox of a xerox." When something is copied over and over again, each new copy gets a little duller, a little vaguer, a little less certain of what it used to be in the first place. Love Live has been going on for over a decade now, with new installments almost every year. It is no longer the firework bursting spectacularly in open air; it's the leftover ash from that fireworks as it descends of the sky, still vainly trying to shine just as brightly as before.
And it feels tired.
For all the wonderful energy of Superstar, all the gorgeous art direction and animation and direction, it feels so, so tired.
There are absolutely things I like about this season. Even things I love. Keke and Sumire's episode alone prevents me from calling this a bad season of Love Live. Not to mention how wonderful Shiki and Mei are. But every new iteration of this series feels like more and more of its magic is draining away. School Idol Project was nothing short of a miracle, a lightning-in-a-bottle conflagration of optimistic euphoria that made me believe in the power of idols like nothing had ever done before. But Sunshine struggled all throughout its run to match up to that miracle, and it only really managed to do so when its movie finale came around. Nijigasaki swung for the fences to try something fresh and interesting, but all it resulted in was a crushingly hollow disaster. And even with Superstar bringing back SIP's director, Jukki Hanada in the writer's chair, it only ever feels like it's playing the hits without justifying its own existence. It has no idea how to make this new self, this new chance, a worthy contender to stand on the same stage as its ancestors. And if even the best creative team to ever work on Love Live can't figure out how to keep Love Live from stagnating... then what hope is there for anyone else?
Truthfully, part of me wonders if Hanada is just tired of it all. He's been writing original scripts for this franchise for over a decade, and even with someone else handling Nijigasaki, there are still very few gaps between the entries he has a hand in. That's a long time to write the same kind of story, trapped in the same kind of formula, no doubt with countless corporate mandates to prioritize lest he "tarnish" the pristine image of idols with anything too dangerous or exciting. As much as I love Hanada's work, I can't help but think that sounds like the most soul-crushing cycle to be stuck in. And if you think that's just me projecting, well... do you remember that other original music anime Hanada just came out with? The one that's all about angst and punk spirit and shouting in defiance of society's norms? A series that, in contrast to Superstar, feels truly electric and explosive and bursting with the undeniable spirit of something born of passion too powerful to contain? Where one of the co-protagonists' backstory is her old band was forced to rebrand with specifically idol aesthetics to stay marketable in a world with little place for the scrappy, raw, unapologetic honesty of the rock music they started out with?
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Yeah, suffice to say, I wouldn't be surprised if Hanada saved all his best ideas and creative passion for the start of something new and special instead of spending it all on his third rodeo at a steady paycheck.
So where does Superstar go from here? I honestly don't know. We've got a third season coming up just this October- a first for this franchise- so there's no telling what to expect. Personally, I hope it leans fully into that cartoon-world magical-girl energy I talked about before; the more it can stake its own identity, the better chance it will have to justify itself when all is said and done. But more than anything, I wonder how long it will be before Love Live just... stops being special entirely. Until the magic is truly all used up and the horrific emptiness of Nijigasaki becomes the rule rather than the exception. Until this series that truly made me believe in something starts to leave me feeling just as hollow about idols as I was before I picked it up.
And that is far too tragic a fate for me to accept.
The first Love Live was special. It will always be special. And I think Sunshine was, eventually, able to earn its place by SIP's side. But Muse themselves knew that sometimes, the only way to be special is to put everything you have into a single beautiful moment and leave everything else behind when you're done. I'll still watch Superstar season 3, and hopefully it's good, but after that? It might be time for me to leave this franchise behind. The memories of this series at its best will always matter more then endless failed attempts to measure up to that high bar. Cherish the magic we've made, and don't let time and exhaustion steal that away from you.
To those who found me through my Love Live posting, thank you for being here. I hope you enjoyed my thoughts, positive and negative alike, and I hope you stick around as my journey through anime's history continues. I will always celebrate Love Live for what its best efforts mean to me; whatever the future holds, that will never change. I can only hope whatever comes next for these creators will be just as singular and special. But Superstar season 2, for all its charms, is getting no higher score than 5.5/10 from me. The dream is coming to an end soon; and I, for one, am ready to wake up and see what new sights await in the light of day.
Speaking of, I think I have another poll to make...
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