RubberMullet

Softimage, this is was the first 3D software that I really learned and the UI/UX was way ahead of its time.

Macromedia Director, it was amazing how quickly you could create an interactive standalone app or CD-ROM.

>But mainstream journalists almost to a fault genuinely view their job as bringing important facts to their audience, and they care about getting things right.

What you call "mainstream media" I call "corporate media". And some journalists may feel that way however clicks, eyeballs, and stickiness take priority over their views. There’s too much competition for traditional media outlets to survive without adopting techniques that were once unthinkable. Corrections are rarely issued these days and edits are done in an almost stealthy manner. I had to stop following the Twitter accounts that tracked these changes because it became an endless stream of tweets.

The days of Tim Russert, David Broder, Jim Lehrer, Ted Koppel etc. are long gone. I would consider Matt Taibbi[1] one of the last journalists that followed in their footsteps but he is definitely not corporate and barely mainstream. Taibbi left Rolling Stone and uses Substack which has been attacked by the NYT, and others, as alt-right and misinformation which I find ironic coming from the paper that published Judith Miller’s WMDs propaganda. Even Jason Calacanis referred to Taibbi as a “right guy” on one of the recent All-In podcasts even though Matt is an ardent Sanders supporter. The Blob doesn’t like it when you don’t toe the line.

Corporate media is dead to me even though the vast majority of it is "Left".

>I understand the fight your picking, but really this isn't that much of an argument.

Really? I don't watch Fox News or any corporate media and you assumed I did. You might be shocked to learn that I worked in the Clinton administration and voted for Obama!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrlHnhnmB1A

What concerns me more than the collapse of many of our intuitions is the fact that the Neocons have emerged from the rubble. Regardless of party or political leanings there was a time when Neocons were universally reviled. Watching people like Bill Kristol, David Frum, and The Lincoln Project get so much press and attention makes my blood boil. Heck, they even brought out Dick Cheney(!!!) for the J6 anniversary.

What would you consider good journalism these days? And is the right wing news industry bigger or smaller than the left wing side of things?

Quit my job as the CTO at a small Bay Area startup. One too many failed startups had taken their toll, I felt like a boxer that had lost his chin.

Thought about culinary school and becoming a chef but after reading Kitchen Confidential, I changed my mind. Decided on welding/fabrication and ended up working on a ranch that had a metal fabrication shop. I enrolled in some classes at the local CC so I could improve my skills and ending up getting an AA in welding and a few classes short of one in machining.

Got a part time job teaching metal trades at the local CC which led to becoming a certified welding inspector through AWS, no the other AWS. I accepted a tenure track offer but switched to management after a few years.

I became the director of CTE department that oversaw the creation of a mechatronics and cybersecurity degree program as well as opening up a makerspace. I loved it because it really allowed me to leverage my eclectic skill set. However, due to a staffing shortage I ended having to train, not teach as I wasn't faculty anymore, incumbent workers as part of a industry partnership. So now I was working two jobs, one blue collar and one white collar. This led to working 12+ hour days and coming in on weekends so I could catch up. In a nutshell, my objections to the situation fell on deaf ears so I quit out of frustration.

After a short break I went back to university to finish my bachelor's degree with the tentative idea of pursuing a job in edtech. Right after I graduated lockdowns started so I took the time to explore some other avenues while I looked for a job.

Today, I'm solo dev working on my first indie game funded by selling some Bitcoins I had been sitting on for over a decade. With the current geopolitical situation aside, I couldn't be happier.

Slashdot -> F'd Company forum -> MetaFilter -> HN

Big thanks to dang and everyone involved.

No, he means the raw unedited videos, like the ones on channel he linked. The extensively edited and cherry-picked videos are the ones shown by corporate media and partisans.

All of our problems go away?! Which demographic do you think this policy will affect the most, for example, in California[0]?

[0]: https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/#ethnicity-gender-age

If you wear a seat belt while driving a car do you intend to crash? Do you have any idea how many people were open carrying that night and never fired a shot? Rittenhouse hit every target he aimed at and all whom had attacked him. 100% of the people who didn't attack Rittenhouse were not shot. That is not trigger happy. And Rittenhouse didn't even fire the first shot, Ziminski did.

Who is "normal" at a riot? The people firebombing immigrant owned businesses in the name of justice?

You either didn't watch any of the videos from that night or don't know what trigger happy means. Rittenhouse made a number of mistakes but being trigger happy was not one of them.

And you are ignoring the events that led up to a kid walking around with powerful weapon in the middle of a riot. In your other post, that is now flagged, you talked about how other countries have a "monopoly on violence". That monopoly was lost in Kenosha when the cops didn't intervene and the governor of the state refused to call in the national guard to put in an end to the riots.

Dangerous political gamesmanship between Trump and various mayors and governors got people killed, destroyed a ton of property, and has done permanent damage to the social fabric of this country.

Fond memories of using BDB with Software.com/Openwave's InterMail software, which powered a large portion of the world's email back in the day. The name raised a few eyebrows during meetings with customers.

Given how ridiculous my comment was I didn't feel the need to preface it with any sort of sarcasm warning. My apologies.

>There is little evidence of such analysis being suppressed.

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>Most people who care about this research are indeed crackpots, unfortunately.

Where is the evidence to support this statement?

Not like Snowden, Kiriakou, or Binney. This whole thing has been carefully orchestrated. She probably has a position at the Brookings Institute waiting for her but not before she completes her podcast/talk show book tour.

Insight porn is another way of describing it. And these guests tend to do more than one podcast in a short period of time which, coupled with social media, contributes to the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

So Assange intentionally leaked all the documents in a quasi-suicidal act? Domscheit-Berg had nothing to do with it?

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/leak-at-wikileaks...

Do you believe Assange lied about Daniel Domscheit-Berg being the source for the unredacted cables and his conversation with Cliff Johnson was all for show? Why did he break his own protocol and release so many documents en mass?

I believe this goes way beyond the fear of vaccination. There is rampant distrust in many of our institutions and I would argue this isn't unfounded. We are witnessing profound and fundamental issues that go beyond what some perceive as antiscience and/or racist sentiments.

All this is being compounded by technology in many different ways. Everyone has the ability to create their own version of Malleus Maleficarum and publish it to the world in an instant. Social media, especially with the lockdowns, has demonstrated the limits of our evolutionary biology. Twitter often reminds me of a very crude form of the Babel fish from THHGTG[0]. It's going to take more than love and respect to overcome the effects of the virus and the response to it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuumnjJWFO4

> it's like "racism is great" vs "racism is awful"

Or like "racism is great" vs "racism is awful" vs "this isn't racism".

I'm almost 50 and I've bounced between white collar and blue collar work, union and nonunion, during my professional career. It is indeed depressing and was never more palpable, IME, than in academia of all places. Thomas Frank wrote a great book on this shift in Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

A troll and trolling were already being misused back in the early 90s on Usenet and MUDs. That ship has sailed.

How are you measuring the scale and impact of Qanon? And lets not forget about the red baiting of Tulsi Gabbard.

Watch this video instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPFtUiTncy8

Seth Schiesel, an NYT vet and old school WoW player interviews Morhaime during April of this year.

Fond memories of playing my warrior and cleric at the same time using a program called tintin++. An early form of multiboxing only with unix shells instead. The server was Apocalypse which appears to still be running.

The Evaporative Cooling Effect[0].

[0] https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2015/10/14/the-evaporativ...

115 when logged in, 25 when logged out.

Every time I read about one of these discoveries I'm reminded of Zeugma[1] and the effort to save the artifacts and mosaics[2] discovered there before it was flooded. The BBC made a great documentary[3] about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma,_Commagene

[2] http://cdn.sci-news.com/images/enlarge/image_2307_1e-Zeugma-...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkluUBePzNc

When I lived in Santa Barbara 15+ years ago one of the local barbers I went to claimed that he and a friend, I believe they were eight or nine at the time, were playing at a secluded section of the beach one day when all of a sudden a naked Japanese man ran past them. They immediately ran home and told their parents. Of course no one believed them. A few days later this attack occurred.

The guy had clippings from all the local newspapers of the event posted on the mirror by his chair. True or not it made for interesting conversation.