justin from the internet

Well I didn’t miss a calling.

holy shit

fun fact: this is how I learned that I am (or at least was, in my youth), uncannily good at assessing the degree of rotation on a line

one of my favorite professors was working at the edge of acoustic / auditory perception and had wild stories about designing methodology for the deconflation of perception, awareness, and ability to respond

I used to do perception testing in college as part of my psych courses and something that stuck with me was that at a certain level of perception you're testing the equipment's ability to be perceived and your ability to record results more than the ability of the perceiver to perceive

imagine what we could all be doing if we weren't screwing up our eyes every day staring into the Glaring Rectangle of Poasts

it's true though I do get into arguments with people about how two colors are not in fact the same color, and I have been told my color perception is "odd" — I got great grades in the advanced color theory seminar I took senior year

might think about actually calibrating my display just to shift the score another 0.0002 or so 😂

same!!!

not to brag but I should probably clean my monitor and dim the background glare and try this again lol

Ron Cobb, near-forgotten genius political cartoonist.

He also did visual design of technology for the first Alien film and countless other scifi movies in the 70s/80s. Including the Weyland-Yutani Semiotic Standard - a visual language used for Nostromo signage.

fuck that’s good

my neighbor told me trollies keep running over his vulnerable groups so l asked how many vulnerable groups he has and he said he just goes to the people and finds a new group afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding vulnerable groups to trollies and then his daughter started crying.

sovereign citizen, in the sense of being a citizen through title awarded by the sovereign.

a sovereign’s citizen, if you will

... this is probably why marathon is the first shooter to catch my interest since I was a halo-playing youth lol

realized that a lot of my gaming™ tastes (animal crossing, stardew valley, fallout, death stranding, assassin's creed), while maybe eclectic, might be summed up as "walking around and doing errands and chores (with danger and/or combat)"

I have a lot of trouble seeing how or why so many of these Fake Person for Research tools have emerged (there are so many) — while I'm opposed to them on principle I also don't know who is buying: "hi I heard you're skipping lunch because it's too much hassle and too expensive, have some cardboard?"

the number of times I, a researcher who loves to do research especially for the sake of research, have talked teams out of doing research because their risks were low enough, confidence high enough, or burden of evidence needed for anything uncovered via research to be useful so high

the most baffling thing about watching these tools pop up is that we already have so many strategies for not talking to real people when doing research

for example, in an approach favored by many you can simply skip research entirely, or you can be slightly more responsible and purchase reports

when these “tools” started popping up in earnest, my initial thought was they were an opportunity to objectivity-wash the hippo… but experience says that isn’t the case: you use the fake user slop machine and someone still says “well my fake users say something else” and hippo stays winning

i get that i’m maybe a bit academic with my talk of grounded theories and epistemological confidence and whatever but i genuinely don’t understand why people love the idea of making up a guy to tell you things about your product. we already have that, it’s called executives.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

also, to your point about cases where deadlines are a bit more real, like “game out by christmas”, software is in my experience rather terrible about identifying critical paths or dependencies so “by christmas” = “in time for marketing to sell it” without really framing that dependency

whereas i find useful “if i don’t get x done by [date] maybe i should pause and consider if it’s because just i don’t care to be doing it” (often the answer is yes) or “let’s see where we are by [date] and evaluate whether this is viable within a relevant horizon”

one of the things i think about a lot in my own work is the concept of checkpoints and stage-gates in places where deadlines would typically be used for the reasons you’ve got here. arbitrary “it absolutely has to be completed by this date” are too artificial for me to take seriously in most cases

They should invent a Daylight so strong that it doesn't need to be saved every year

i genuinely don’t know when we decided that having cameras off (or just talking in the actual phone) was such a bad thing

this is the way

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Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.

Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.

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