Nothing has ever given me a "the simulation is breaking down" feeling more than learning, only last year, that a guy I mostly knew when I was 9 as "Mrs. Freudenberger's husband", a member of the community where I grew up and whose house I spent many hours at as a child, is literally the guy who invented burnout <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Freudenberger#Burnout>.
He was a pretty cool guy and his family helped mine during some tough times and more people should know about him, though.
@rstevens I thought his main contribution was study of health care workers, psychologists and psychiatrists? Most of what I know of his contribution was that he was working with people with substance-abuse problems in the 1970s, and he experienced a breakdown himself, then thought that would be worthwhile to study. If you've got a link to the relevant ATC study I'd be interested though
This is … just amazing. The pace drags a bit and is repetitive in places but it is worth bearing with it when that happens because (a) this is a very important thing that western audiences should know about absolutely wildly extreme racism in our media, and (b) the ‘orientalist’ composition of “William Wallace music” had me laughing until I cried https://youtu.be/LR511iAedYU
This is really bugging me now that I'm thinking about it. Screenshot-don't-link is common "don't boost bad people" advice… on Fedi it's less of an issue, because screenshot-with-caption is … fine, I think … but in general, how does one make Discourse About Crappy People accessible? If we can't figure out a way to accessibly talk about line-steppers without boosting their engagement, we leave potentially extra-vulnerable people out of crucial warnings about bad actors. https://toot.cafe/@matt/112549564106609279
I seem to have accidentally discovered a new Fucking Guy that the leftist podcast/blog/youtube-o-sphere has not yet found, who writes and streams and podcasts about the usual garbage ("IQ", race science, misogyny) it is very frustrating, because he has a tiny audience and I don't want to give him more attention, but the fact that only his grifting victims have discovered his books on Amazon means that his reviews are all 4-5 stars.
@jason@matt if his point here is “maybe you should post less” he is absolutely living that vision
(Not actually sure what he is doing these days. He used to be more of a radio DJ than a youtuber, but he left WBAI in 2018, so that hasn’t been true in a while.)
@glyph BTW, I thought, while listening to the video you linked, that maybe the music video itself was just a stand-in for the more serious things that people discuss.
For OPSEC reasons I cannot disclose whether I recently had, or may soon have, a birthday, but I probably was born at some point. In honor of that fact and inspired by @mcc's excellent #Glitch4Andi hashtag, if you are so inclined, please post a story about or picture of a time (ideally in the last ~year) that a computer did something cool and fun and improved your life in some way, using the hashtag #FunTech4Glyph .
(Bonus points if it looks cool and/or uses Python, but very much not necessary.)
@glyph@mcc I have been developing in Python over 20 years but have always been leery of UI work due to the complexity of Tkinter and GTK APIs. Last year I surveyed the options for RAD GUI tools and landed on #PySimpleGUI. Over a few months I was able to iteratively develop and enhance a SQL query tool of modest complexity and found joy in accomplishing the task. No longer intimidated I am now exploring other options such as #Streamlit and #Textual
okay so for no particular reason I'm watching way more MSNBC today than I normally would, and I just have one question: do they have a gofundme to crowdfund some sound treatment for their studios or what
like this is a major news network, right? they could afford a carpet, maybe even a few panels. is "glass walls and concrete floors" a deliberate acoustic aesthetic? are they doing a bit?
You are about to sit down at a computer to work for about 4 hours, to accomplish something. You don't know exactly what you are about to do; you'll need to look at your to-do list for that. But you know you're going to spend about 4 hours doing it.
What is a noun or noun phrase that describes that 4-hour period of time?
I keep wanting to experiment with VLANs but I cannot get them to work. I make one in the Unifi UI, I make sure that my port's "Tagged VLAN Management" setting is "Allow All", then I go into the local Network system settings pane on my mac, create a VLAN with the tag on the HW interface, it creates a new interface (and I see vlan0 in the terminal too) but dhcp just never acquires an address. Network engineering friends, is there something obvious I'm missing here?
@glyph whenever I'm out of my depth with network stuff, @jafo is my escalation path. I have yet to stump him. If I could get him entirely into the Unifi ecosystem (because you have to be all-in), I'd probably never use Google again.
Apropos of nothing I really wish that somebody would acquire the rights to Volition’s “Summoner” series and just do straight remakes of the first 2 entries (and maybe a Summoner 3, the ending felt a bit rushed and like they were clearly building to something bigger that never happened). Their reach exceeded their grasp by so much, and the pretty great story could easily be massively enhanced by modern graphical capabilities.
@glyph This is an absolutely amazing idea. "They" did it for Homeworld and Star Control, so why not Summoner?!
(Sidenote: Volition being shut down really sucked here in Champaign-Urbana. It was a really high-profile local company that had an impact on UIUC's game studies program, local events, etc.)
@powersoffour That’s a bummer. They were really creative, those two games in particular really showcased such a thoughtful approach to traditional fantasy storytelling. A pity we never got to see how they could evolve.
I'm writing something about … sigh, god help me … "free speech". This is a draft I've been attacking off and on for years, and as I review my notes and citations from the last time I dug into it, I'm realizing that my "list of times somebody prominent was a deliberately obtuse, sophomoric dipshit about a serious 'free speech' issue, it's… literally just Matthew Prince running interference for Nazis over and over. Surely, at least Elon did something dumb in an identifiable cultural moment?
@dreid okay yeah these are good examples. Prince did me the favor of arranging all his pudding-brained ideas into a series of C- social studies essays, but I am going to have to weave together more of a narrative of the timeline of Musk’s hypocrisy and vileness on my own