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@Pat idk. i tend to think it's less that Hollywood producers and executives, as a class, are racist, but more that they're cynical and think the public at large holds racialized stereotypes about people, so they play to those to make money.

@izaya thanks. it turns out my power company actually has a website where they provide the data

@izaya that's for your house? If so, that's pretty neat. I'd be curious how you set that up. It only recently occurred to me, since I've been visually checking my meter on a regular basis, that I don't know how my electricity company actually reads my meter, so I've been reading up on it. I would like to have the kind of data your showing without needing to go out and look at my meter.

@yapo I doubt there are many setups as nice as yours. I think @izaya posted some photos of their desktop a while ago. I think of it as more functional that aesthetic though.

@trinsec I'm not sure I understand what this is. A collaborative drawing where what you draw gets erased after some time?

@trinsec well, I didn't know about the RSS feed. I've just looked now, and I only see it from looking at the <link> tags in HTML.

I suppose I don't really mind since I make most of my posts to be public. Still, architecturally, I prefer the application to make subscription where both people know about it the easier option. Often, folks who are interested in me are interesting to me, so I like to follow back: I think that's typical on social media unless you're famous or something like that.

@trinsec thanks. I'm not sure I like that: I'd rather know when someone's keeping tabs on me, even if it is only public posts

I see a thing about "subscribing" on my #mastodon profile now. don't we already have "following" what is this?

been listening to a series of podcasts about the DISC model of behavior. it's bullshit, full of stereotypes, and even if it measures accurately, it literally only tells you about two dimensions of a person's behavior*, but there are at least a couple ways it's useful anyway. If you're dealing with people who actually have these stereotypes in their head and use them as communication tools, you can probably switch them over to more useful ways of communicating, depending on the situation. Second, if you're not use to thinking about how other people communicate and are motivated differently from yourself, DISC is decent crutch to get further along in that direction.

* Thinking about this geometrically, I think there's also a property of the "points" in this 2d space that they aren't describable in two dimensions because the DISC "point" is really a shadow of a higher dimensional behavioral description.
(I think of a point as a description of a person's behavior over a certain time span)

#management #communication

I really like listening to podcasts and watching videos at ~1.7x speed. Won't speculate why, but it seems like my retention is better and I can focus better on the content rather than drifting off.

https://twitter.com/pushmatrix/status/1511331419896913920?s=20&t=Wc4W9z1zrkat1LFBqEsn2A
this is actually kinda dope. with a few tweaks to give the shavings more dimensionality, it would be even better. would be nice it see how this technique is used in a video game.

actually, makes me think of something like, you carve, sculpt, or draw something in a video game; the game has an image recognition AI; the AI recognizes an animal or something (has to be constrained to some extent) and a second, generative algorithm creates usable, in-game resources based on the thing you drew. some really neat story-telling potential in something like that

just saw this movie, and the rock scenes, particularly the ones where they move, definitely have me Marcel the Shell vibes after they had just shown a preview for that movie

Maximum Film!: Episode 240: Everything ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once,’ All At Once
Starting from: 00:41:18

Episode webpage: https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/untitled-project/

Media file: https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/14b6b0e5-c464-47a0-b4db-776fc7c7223b/episodes/48795cca-4677-4eaf-a666-305c9940b5e4/audio/0f07564c-9cc7-4003-8015-3578dc7ba1d3/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=3vVrWdfk#t=2478

#movies #cinema #film #podcast #Marceltheshell #daniels #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce #jennyslate

@lupyuen oh. I am sad to see that. although I've never read Doraemon, it's influence is definitely visible (explicitly, by reference, and more subtly) in a number of my favorite manga and anime. I'm glad to be reminded of the work though.