[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 48 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Which is still weird.

Alexander Sawchuk, then an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California ... along with a graduate student and the SIPI lab manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image to scan for a colleague's conference paper. ... Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy. The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

Everything about the story sounds like it was a rush job, a decision made on a whim, after exhausting their existing catalog of test images. And who bring a Playboy mag to their university's computer lab, and advertises their possession? They don't even say who it was, probably to protect them from any embarrassing professional consequences. To me, that's probably the strongest reason to retire it: it's unprofessional.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 35 points 9 months ago

Better yet. For the price of 2 portal recolors, you can get 1 Baldur's Gate 3.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 40 points 9 months ago

The irony of this being crossposted from ML.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 41 points 9 months ago

Can't speak for OP, but I don't look at the 401k as a stable retirement vehicle. It's a vehicle to pump "dumb money" (read: casino chips) into the stock market. If the stock market downturns just before you retire, if the firm managing your 401k makes bad investments, if another 2008-style real estate collapse happens, your retirement fund suddenly has less money in it than you hoped, so you're gonna have to work longer.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 35 points 11 months ago

Slap this right into Urban Dictionary. Great explainer.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Your 1-sentence answer to understanding Gamergate has less to do with any of the people involved or a timeline of events. Gamergate, more than anything else, was an opportunity. A springboard to indoctrinate people into far right politics by playing to people's fear of the Other, mistrust in media, and stoking anger at a perceived scandal.

If it never happened, if it wasn't video games, it would just as well be something else. It would be music or sports or anything that people are passionate about. Right wingers were running out of steam with the Tea Party, and Gamergate was in the right place at the right time.

EDIT: Some contemporary discussion on GG actually, prophetically, supports this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/2k0bpi/why_gamergate_is_a_rightwing_movement/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstGamerGate/comments/2km45o/a_few_days_ago_i_said_that_gamergate_was_a_right/

As someone on another forum said, the GG movement is primed to be the next young Republican demographic, and all of the pieces have been put into place to subvert the Authoritarian revolt into a rabid conservative base. So next year when all of the GGers (who remain) go from moderate liberals to Tea Party advocates, you can say you were at ground zero.

https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/comments/l3fq6t/the_tea_party_and_gamergate_were_things_i_was/

That got me thinking about my Q/MAGA following father and how both being indoctrinated into Tea Party politics as a teenage boy on top of Evangelical Christianity as well as being sucked into Gamergate and Sargon of Akkad's whole "classical liberalism" grift for a while. I see a lot of that same outrage and ingroup-outgroup clashing being taken advantage of by Q and MAGA.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago

“This is really a disaster situation for us given all we’ve invested in content across studios at our GP [Game Pass] content fund,” ... “We set a very high bar in 2021 on quality and pacing of content which was awesome to see,” he continued. “But to come off of that year with no big exclusives launching in 2022 is a portfolio planning miss that we can’t afford. If we need to delay launches (understanding there is a financial impact of that) to create more regular beats for us we need to do that. We have to all understand that the situation we are in now is a failure of our planning and production execution.”

My corporate speak is a little rusty, but if I understand the gravity of this statement correctly, is Spencer implying that GamePass is a house of cards that is only supported by the regular timing of new exclusive releases? It seems like that's a very risky business model then, and the consequences of GamePass folding would be consumers lose access to a truly massive number of games. This statement would basically make me lose a ton of confidence in the service, and I'd be looking to take my library (and money) elsewhere.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 44 points 1 year ago

Basically how I used the Reddit Enhancement Suite tag manager.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

he doesn’t even present any evidence that this was caused by some failing of the schools

The cynicism I've gained over the last 7 years tells me that there's an agenda being pushed there.

EDIT: To elaborate. I'm not arguing whether "the agenda" the author has is good or bad, but it's off-base. If you're reporting on a story, you really should leave your feelings about the story at the door. It's not like the story isn't interesting enough! If this were an op-ed, then that's one thing. But the "sensationalist reporting aside" and "we can't help feeling sad" and then pointing to... the UK's education system... it's clearly not objective. You're not presenting facts and facts alone, you're presenting facts with your opinions mixed in.

Just look at what the author invited into his comment section with that:

Not enough male teachers for these lads to confide in and see as role models.

Blatant sexism.

Yes, keep male teachers who are not woke away from kids.

Groomer accusations.

If I had to guess I would pick serious mental illness rather than a failing by the schools.

Disparaging of neurodivergence (neurodiversity? IDK if that's still the right term). Hacking into companies and bragging about it is something even neurotypical teenagers do.

bigfoot, the loch ness monster, a functional education system. list of things that don’t exist.

Anti-education screed.

As for the energy, I suspect actually getting laid, probably for the first time, would likely help.

Do I even need to say anything about this one?

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

But many bosses are getting impatient, and many are using the approaching Labor Day holiday as an occasion to officially put “work from anywhere” policies to bed, whether workers like it or not.

Oh the irony.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago

You posted this to programmerhumor, am I to assume this site is satire? The site doesn't look like it, so if I'm taking you at face value, I couldn't disagree any harder about your mission. What makes you think anyone wants "2 right leaning" sources? Breitbart, OANN, Newsmax, New York Post, and Fox News are all pushing fascism narratives, to say nothing of the mockery you are making of professional journalism. You gonna start writing articles with them as your sources?

Shut your doors.

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