Interesting Links for 30-07-2021
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- 'A nightmare scenario': how an anti-trans Instagram post led to violence in the streets
- (tags:transgender LGBT riots USA OhForFucksSake )
- The Lord of the Rings Almost Killed Off One of the Hobbits
- (tags:lotr )
- I absolutely definitely 100% do not want this job. Or to ever meet these people
- (tags:Jobs interview wtf )
- Virgin Media O2 to Upgrade Existing UK Network with Full Fibre
- (tags:Virgin broadband uk )
- Inside The Cosby Suite From The Activision Blizzard Lawsuit
- (tags:abuse women games OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
- 'Wayward Children' Movie Franchise In Works After Paramount Lands Rights
- (tags:fantasy movies )
- Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney over 'Black Widow' Streaming Release
- (tags:Disney marvel movies law )
- Neil Gaiman on impostor syndrome
- (tags:self-esteem neilgaiman NeilArmstrong )
- Good Omens' Neil Gaiman reveals big hurdle for season 2
- (tags:neilgaiman TV books terrypratchett )
- The fungus and bacteria tackling plastic waste
- (tags:plastic fungus waste )
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Date: 2021-07-30 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-30 11:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-30 11:29 am (UTC)It just seemed really out of character!
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Date: 2021-07-30 11:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-30 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-30 12:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-30 12:12 pm (UTC)It might, if I were to watch it.
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Date: 2021-07-30 12:14 pm (UTC)Imposter Syndrome
Date: 2021-07-30 11:52 am (UTC)Re: Imposter Syndrome
Date: 2021-07-30 12:26 pm (UTC)Another good response, alternate to the one Gaiman gave, might be, "Yes, but they sent you."
Re: Imposter Syndrome
Date: 2021-07-30 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-30 12:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-30 12:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-30 01:56 pm (UTC)And there has been a recent trend in individual complaints leading to some collective action l not ending up in mass firings every time. So people will be emboldened.
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Date: 2021-07-30 02:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-30 03:39 pm (UTC)I think part of what's going on is that some classes of employee feel powerful enough to say "Treat us better or we're outta here" and part of the "outta here" might well include setting up a rival to the current operation.
Johansson v. Disney
Date: 2021-07-30 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-30 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-30 04:28 pm (UTC)The account went private, but someone tracked down the original job advert.
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Date: 2021-07-30 04:31 pm (UTC)I think they sound nice.
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Date: 2021-07-30 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-31 06:09 am (UTC)I did wonder about the size of the intersection of the Venn diagram of "people who will be happy in that culture" and "people with compliance management training". But it won't be a null set, and someone's going to be very happy there who'd have been less so elsewhere.
(My basic problem with this is that they seem to have forgotten that they make wine, and wine is not the spirituality and well-being common good that they appear to think. But I still think they seem rather nice.)
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Date: 2021-07-31 12:44 pm (UTC)I think wine-makers would generally be considered to be a socially beneficial trade, more so than brewers or distillers or arms-dealers, so I'm not surprised they think positively about their own business. How would you expect to see some scepticism about their own organisation come across in their culture?
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Date: 2021-07-31 12:49 pm (UTC)I recognise that I am not a wholly unbiased witness but if I were a wellbeing-obsessed winemaker then I’d be constantly trumpeting about responsible drinking, which they’re notably not. I think there’s some naïveté here.
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Date: 2021-07-31 01:13 pm (UTC)Please enjoy our hippie love fest wine responsibly style of thing.
It does seem a very internally focused culture. There's a bit of mention of upstream but nothing on downstream.
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Date: 2021-08-03 12:52 pm (UTC)I would not want to work there, or be around them.
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Date: 2021-08-03 12:58 pm (UTC)This seems eminently reasonable. If this were everyone’s bag, the world would be a pretty different place.
Plastic Eating Mushrooms
Date: 2021-07-30 06:49 pm (UTC)Pacemaker parts. The nose pads on my glasses. A lot of my CPAP machine (which I'm not currently using, but hey, it's mine). Pill bottles. Containers for receiving human effluvia for testing. Coating on electrical wires for various monitors.
And then there's car parts. Bus parts. Plane parts.
I don't know why "letting the genie out of the bottle" is a metaphor for continuing bad events, but it's probably because we lead with hopefulness instead of thoughtfulness.
Re: Plastic Eating Mushrooms
Date: 2021-07-31 06:52 am (UTC)