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Yay - I get to share my love for tidbit Hazbin lore while sharing knowledge that makes me look like a millennial boomer XD ahem... Alastor, our favorite overlord, for all intents and purposes, is a fucking elemental. His abilities are absolutely terrifying from a scientific standpoint. Okay, so remember how during the "Stayed Gone" number, Vox starts glitching out and "loses his signal" - and then the Pride ring subsequently has a blackout? That is entirely Alastor's (or whatever the fuck is benefactoring him) doing. Radio can do that. No horseshoe magnet required. IRL stuff. Despite being digital enough to render a bluescreen when compromised, Vox may still have older hardware from his former days as a rabbit-eared, thick cathode-ray tube.

And Alastor is our radio demon. Keep this in mind. IRL, once upon a time, during the 1940s - before digital television - there was no "Channel 1". That's because in the US, a very long time ago, both radio and TV shared the band that we call "Channel One":

"Until 1948, Land Mobile Radio and television broadcasters shared the same frequencies, which caused interference. This shared allocation was eventually found to be unworkable, so the FCC reallocated the Channel 1 frequencies for public safety and land mobile use and assigned TV channels 2–13 exclusively to broadcasters. Aside from the shared frequency issue, this part of the VHF band was (and to some extent still is) prone to higher levels of radio-frequency interference (RFI) than even Channel 2 (System M)." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_1_(North_American_TV))

Then for a short stint, Channel One was exclusively reserved for radio:

Channel 1 was allocated at 44–50 MHz between 1937 and 1940. Visual and aural carrier frequencies within the channel fluctuated with changes in overall TV broadcast standards prior to the establishment of permanent standards by the National Television Systems Committee. In 1940, the FCC reassigned 42–50 MHz to the FM broadcast band. Television's channel 1 frequency range was moved to 50–56 MHz. Experimental television stations in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles were affected. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_1_(North_American_TV))

Every local TV channel and radio station has a frequency range on the electromagnetic spectrum. For those who still listen to radio on non-internet-reliant radios devices, those funny little numbers next to a station's name are a ballpark number for the frequency the station broadcasts in the Hertz unit. A Hertz (Hz) is one wave per second. A KiloHertz (KHz) is 1,000 waves per second. A GigaHertz (GHz) is 1 billion waves per second. Modern AM radio stations are 535-1605 kHz Modern FM radio stations are 88-108 MHz  TV VHF Channels 2 thru 13 are 54-216 MHz TV UHF Channels 14 thru 36 are 470-608 MHz And no, that's not a discrepancy between VHF and FM radio: the frequencies designated for FM radio are nestled right in there with TV ones. FM radio is between Channels 6 and 7.

(chart from http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Audio/radio.html) Even today, radio and TV are slightly shuffled in there in regards to designated frequencies. That implies that depending on Alastor's band of preference, Vox could theoretically hear Alastor's broadcasts of screaming victims without an actual radio nearby. This would be especially true if Vox still has some of his older hardware. In fact, in older televisions where a knob is used to change channels, much of the static you'd hear in-between channels is actually background radiation from deep space - along with any interference from man-made sources. No wonder Vox is obsessed with Alastor. Alastor can torment him in an in-between realm-channel like Freddy Kruger.

Yet, if radio signals were only a Vox problem, why did nearly every light and electronic device go out in the Pride except the emergency lights at the Heaven embassy?

It might depend on how we define the word "radio". Is it radio, as in "those radio stations we can listen to without the internet"? Maybe radio, as in any frequency utilized in modern communications, including TV and Radio? Or is it radio, as in "almost any signal on the electromagnetic spectrum with a frequency lower than friggin' heat?" People, below is an over-simplified chart of the electromagnetic spectrum and usages.

When radio is defined as a specific part of the electromagnetic spectrum, it is literally any frequency below infrared. *** Cellphone service and WiFi use radio signals within this range. Most cellular services are between 600 MHz and 39 GHz WiFi routers are about 2.4-5 GHz (6 GHz in newer models)  That's where the "G" in "4G" and "5G" come from - the "G" stands for "Gigahertz" Radio, local television, cellphone service, WiFi, and basically any point in the internet that isn't linked by a landline - these are all safely within the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that the scientists would call "radio". If Hell's technology mirrors the real world, all electronic devices need radio frequencies in order to communicate. The VVV's empire is truly fucked, should Alastor so choose. The only plot hole I'm seeing in this explanation is why all the lights went out. These devices don't run on radio - they communicate using it. My best-educated guess is that the on/off switch for Hell's power grid is on an open network and at least part of it wireless. Or maybe Alastor's radio attack work like general EMP and just breaks stuff. I'm not an expert on these sorts of things. I politely ask that someone in the comments, please enlighten me U.U ------------------------------------- Also, when taking screenshots, I realized that Cannibal Town and the Heaven Embassy were the only places with lights on during the blackout.

is that...?

Cannibal Town?

If this is, in fact, Cannibal Town, then my only guess is that the Cannibals are so hipster, that most of them light their homes and businesses with candlelight and leviathan whale oil. Neither of which rely on wifi. Only some of their region's light was lost in the blackout. They might use some electricity, but they don't rely on it. This suggests that Alastors friendship with Rosie might be less of an organic friendship and more like a strategically slick alliance. Rosie's territory is one part of Pride that Alastor can't completely shut down (other than the Embassy). But, who knows?

Alastor's derision of modern tech now seems to have more merit than just being "hipster" or avoiding a digital footprint (which I used head-canon). Alastor can literally just shut that crap down. This might also suggest why Alastor is homies with Zestial - another old-timey prick.

Alastor makes alliances with demons he can't easily overpower with his abilities. This might look self-contradictory considering Alastor felt comfortable teasing Lucifer - until you realize Alastor did so only after he knew angels could be killed. (And yes, I know what I wrote about Alastor a couple of notes back with the "popsicle" evaluation. I don't consider flip-flopping a moral issue if done so by epiphany. That one stays, because it's funny XD ) ----------------------- Another theory! Ok, so this theory isn't entirely my own-own, I'm just building off of it based on what I've said (mostly Roo stuff). So, IRL scientists decided to take an image of the observable universe in the microwave range. Microwave energy is in the upper ends of radio, but just below infrared in frequency. What they found was cosmic background radiation - a lot of energy which isn't coming from the stars themselves.

(Image source: https://www.space.com/33892-cosmic-microwave-background.html) Some scientists theorize this is because this particular energy is left over from the formation of the universe. So about Roo:

In the first non-pilot episode, The Story of Hell as read by Charlie, states that the angels of pure light "worshipped good and shielded all from evil." During this line, imagery of two faces are shown before the angels: one face of light and another face of twisted red and black.

Subsequent lines and imagery in the episode suggest that this "evil" existed before Lucifer fell or Eve allowed this evil to enter the world - even before the Earth was created. Some Tumblrs who have been in this fandom longer than I have will know of Roo, a character that appears in VivziePop's older works. Some of Roo's monikers include "The Root of All Evil" and the "Tree of Knowledge". I'm wondering if in the Hellaverse, cosmic background radiation of the universe is a manifestation of Roo when she isn't bound to a tree. Did Alastor bite the apple the second third time for mankind? XD

------------------------------------------------- While researching for this paper, I learned that microwave ovens and 2G cell phones operate within the same frequencies at around 2 GHz. Apparently, the only reason the cell phone doesn't cook your brain is because the wattage is too low. I dunno what that means. I'm not a scientist. But now, Alastors singing lines in S1E8 have me thinking: "The constraints of my deal surely have a back door  Once I figure out how to unclip my wings,  guess who will be pulling all the strings" Knowing what Alastor's abilities are capable of, this has me wondering whether Alastor is being empowered by one cosmic entity, while being chained by someone else entirely. Someone might have gone out of their way to get Alastor into a contract, if only to keep him from cooking the universe for his viewing pleasure... on a glass plate.

Cooking souls in microwaves would require that they be at least partially made of water, however. Buuuut... I guess if there are working ACs in Hell, I really shouldn't read too much into it XD -------------

Do you think the mad scientists from Helluva Boss ever chat over coffee about the abilities of the overlords based on casual observation? Then one time, Alastor's name comes up... ...and after four minutes, they're both just like "Nope"?

{END} *** Note: Googling "Electromagnetic Spectrum charts" will yield different results. Some charts will have different designations frequencies lower than radio, like Extremely Low Frequencies (ELF). I do not know whether this difference is a reflection of a newer categorization, or if most charts online are made for laymen such as myself. Most charts I saw years ago only designated "radio" as "everything below microwave". I want to assume that the "only radio below microwave" categorization went into the writer's designing of Alastor's character simply because it is more common while making for a more interesting power scaling.

______________ Disclaimer: I am composed of chauffeur knowledge. I know nearly nothing about communication science little about radiation stuff. I just took an astronomy elective once, so I sorta knew where to look. I have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about. I know that I confused frequency and wavelength somewhere. Please, #sciencesideoftumblr feel free to correct me. ----------------- TLDR: Most tech IRL use radio waves to communicate. That Includes TVs, WiFi and cell phones. Radio Demon can make the Pride Ring go kaploowee just looking at it funny.

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[bethestaryouareradio]

UFO... Contact from the Pleiades

"In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves." - Carl Sagan, an American astronomer and planetary scientist

Welcome, cosmic explorers, to this week’s edition of "Space Spotlight," with host Saanvi Phaneendra!  UFO sightings have been a source of fascination and mystery for decades, sparking the imaginations of enthusiasts and skeptics alike. Reports of unidentified flying objects range from mysterious lights zigzagging in the night sky to detailed encounters with spacecraft of seemingly extraterrestrial origin. These accounts come from all corners of the globe and from credible witnesses, including pilots, astronauts, and military personnel, who describe experiences that challenge our understanding of technology and physics. The persistent question remains: Are we truly alone in the universe, or is there evidence of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence?

Saanvi interviews documentary filmmaker and investigative author, Brit Elders about her two photo journal volumes of UFO…Contact from the Pleiades. This photo journal presents the unique contact case of a Swiss farmer, Billy Meier, who claims to have met with the Pleiadians hundreds of times, compiling many layers of evidence including notes on their conversations, hundreds of photographs, movie footage, audio recordings of the craft, landing tracks of the spaceships, dozens of witnesses, and even metal samples of the craft itself. UFO…Contact from the Pleiades takes the reader back to a time before home computers, digital photography and easily accessible photo enhancement programs. Yet the evidence—analyzed in laboratories around the world—could not be easily dismissed and supported the claims of the contacted, Billy Meier. The breath-taking images, profound words of the Pleiadians, and the extensive investigation that spanned seven years are as relevant today as they were forty-five years ago.

Join Saanvi and Brit on this mysterious journey through the cosmos filled with wonders that surpass our wildest imaginations, including UFOs and other galactic civilizations.

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Bio: Brit Elders

Brit Elders is an investigative author and documentary filmmaker who traveled the world exploring a variety of topics including the mysterious world of UFOs. She has participated in several in-depth investigations, including the Billy Meier case and the waves of UFO sightings in Mexico, which began in 1991 and continue today. The CEO of ShirleyMacLaine.com, Brit continues to research and write for herself and others. www.Britelders.com

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Listen at Voice America Network, Empowerment Channel: https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/149696/ufo-contact-from-the-pleiades

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Pod-Alization: Spotify Releases Fan Study For Podcasters: Top Five Podcast Networks & Shows

Spotify releases its second Fan Study for Podcasters The study is a collection of data-driven insights about fan listening behaviors. This year, the data showed everything from video podcasts growing in popularity to over two-thirds of listeners craving interactivity with their favorite hosts. According to Spotify, "Fan Study for Podcasters arms creators with big-picture, industry-level insights – and in addition to these insights, Spotify has provided actionable recommendations for creators. So, creators can both understand more about listening trends and make more informed decisions about how to grow their show on Spotify." The full Fan Study is available HERE, below is a summary of the key insights from Fan Study 2023: Being Seen · Video podcasts are growing in popularity across the spectrum, with comedy (27.55%) emerging as the top category. · During the daytime (1am to 5pm), audiences are more likely to listen to the audio-only experience of video podcasts. But, when evening rolls around (6pm to midnight), fans tend to watch video podcasts. Being Heard · In 2022, people were more likely to start listening to new shows during January, March, July, and October. · Audiences listen to podcasts more often during the weekdays, with 78% of consumption taking place Monday to Friday and 22% on Saturday and Sunday. Commutes are prime time for podcasts during the week, with listenership spiking at 8am and 5pm. Being Connected · 73% of listeners said they are interested in finding more opportunities to interact with their favorite podcast hosts. · The number one way people find new podcasts is by hearing about them on a show they already listen to (54%). This is closely followed by recommendations from friends and family (53%) and browsing Spotify (50%). · Discovery patterns vary depending on demographics. Gen Z are more likely to use social media in their search - 1.5x more likely compared to Gen X or Boomers, who are more likely to turn to articles, blogs, and newsletters.

**************************************************************** Podtrac reveals the top five podcast networks and Shows

Podtrac is an independent source for tracking the downloads of podcasts. For podcast fans, here are the top five podcast networks and top five podcast shows for October 2023.

The top five podcast networks are:

1. iHeart podcasts

2. Wondery

3. NPR

4. New York Times

5. NBC News

 It's interesting that, of these top five networks, one is a newspaper (New York Times), one is a broadcast network (NBC), one is owned by an ecommerce company (Amazon), and two began as radio stations (NPR and iHeart).

The top five podcasts for October 2023 are:

1. The Daily

2. Up First

3. Dateline NBC

4. NPR News Now

5. Morbid

 Of these five shows, three are primarily news shows, and two are primarily true-crime shows with admittedly disparate tones. 

Showing true resilience and long-standing appeal, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, the NPR Quiz show, still attracts plenty of listeners, coming in at an impressive #20 after 25 years as a radio show / podcast.

#podcast #podcasting #data

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Increased use of social media in younger generations is leading to negative impacts on social, mental, and physical health. Kylie Fontaine reports.

NATS :07 Sound of notifications going off.

TRACK:

GENERATION Z IS TURNING AWAY FROM TELEVISION, AND INSTEAD LOOKING TO SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ENTERTAINMENT. OVER HALF OF GEN Z ADULTS SPEND MORE THAN THREE HOURS A DAY ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AND NEARLY 90 PERCENT SPEND AN HOUR OR MORE.

SOT: Zachary Taylor :23 (@ :25 CLIP 02)

“I don’t think there’s really any problem with what I’m doing. There’s people around me, mainly like family and a bunch of Boomers that are telling me it’s bad, but outside of that I don’t see any problems.”

TRACK:

ZACHARY TAYLOR IS PART OF GEN Z, AND HIS SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION HAS BEGUN TO AFFECT HIS RELATIONSHIPS WITH HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY. NOT ONLY HAS IT BEGUN TO AFFECT THESE RELATIONSHIPS, BUT IT HAS ALSO TAKEN A TOLL ON HIS GRADES, HAVING NEARLY FAILED A CLASS LAST FALL.

SOT: Mark Roskopf :55 (@ :26 CLIP 01)

“He spends too much time focused on it, not enough time interacting with his family.”

TRACK:

MARK ROSKOPF HAS SEEN FIRSTHAND HOW DEEPLY A SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION CAN AFFECT SOMEONE, HAVING WATCHED ZACHARY BECOME SUCKED INTO TIKTOK OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS. AS SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION CONTINUES TO GROW, SOME WONDER IF SOCIAL MEDIA REGULATIONS MAY NEED TO INCREASE. REPORTING FROM VANCOUVER, I'M KYLIE FONTAINE FOR THE MURROW COLLEGE.

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Glossary of Terms:

SLUG = the name given to your story in the newsroom

SUGGESTED ANCHOR LEAD-IN = if a radio broadcast piece rather than a web piece the anchor would

need to introduce you, the reporter before he played it.

NATS = natural sound gathered on location

TRACK = voice track recorded by reporter (you)

SOT = Sound on tape – which means the voice clip of your interview subjects

ACTUALITY = Please note that actuality means the same thing as SOT in radio broadcasting

Sources:

Zachary Taylor interview

Mark Roskopf interview

#social media #social media addiction #tiktok #instagram #snapchat

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" I think I was far too forgiving of Depp in my previous post on this." no offence, but i think you should read up more on legal documents from both sides, rather than diving in some personal interpretation of texts between two edgy boomers, because it gets you into allegation zone rather than facts. just imo

Something tells me you don't think Depp's UK defamation trial against The Sun is one of the things I should be focusing on, which found that 12/14 incidents that Heard alleged did occur

(see also https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2020/2911.html )

I also think conversations between best friends is one of the best sources of how one genuinely is, eg one of the most truthful, uncensored, complete. And why wouldn't communications such as these be valid sources of forming views on both parties (well, in this case his texts with other men are rather damning, including of his views of his first long term partner Vanessa, racial epithets & violence, etc so I guess that's why? When really, men are more truthful about how they see women, racialized others, etc to their male friends than they are to women & the general public.

That you call Mansion a, and dismiss their texts of that of mere "edgy boomer/s" is an... interesting choice. And unwittingly revealing. (Curious as to what you think of Mansion, in part considering there is heavy overlap between those who think Depp and Mansion were framed by evil gone girls. In Manson's case especially, he is accused of doing much of what his "edgy boomer" texts w Depp say eg emulating de Sade's sexuality, violence. (The Marquis De Sade is where we get the term sadism from.))

And those texts *were* in court documents the 6000 pages Depp fans paid to get and post. Unfortunately for Depp and them, they reflected poorly mostly on Depp. Including the unwitting whoopsie where his lawyers argue precisely that Heard did not abuse Depp eg "Mr. Depp Is Not Alleging Harm Based On A Specific Physical or Mental Injury", no infliction of emotional distress (to deny independent medical examination inc mental). And that he/his team provided obviously edited audios to the court.

I do think it quite plausible at times, emotion got the better of Amber (exaggeration, dramatization, remembering things unobjectively but subjectively, which everyone does the latter), but to assert that because she was 95%, 90% or even 80% truthful (no one truly knows precisely how truthful, other than substantially), that somehow Depp had a genuine case for libel against her is truly bizarre, and seeing with blinders (eg all she had to prove was that he abused her at some point, in some way, so the fact that the jury found she defamed him, & maliciously at that, is frankly astonishing eg the blood and paint messages or the threatening to cut himself in themselves are forms of abuse, but not surprising because of how the general public sees intimate male violence (eg only sees the worst as actual abuse, thinks false accusations by named women are far more common than they are, thinks a woman's self defense cancels out his abuse). Not to mention, public reaction to this trial proved most of what her op ed was about ie that she faced our cultures' wrath for speaking out about male violence. I've honestly never seen the cultural tearing down of a woman be this mainstream and bad combined, and I've looked into Monica Lewinsky, Anita Hill, Linda Lovelace, Lorena Bobbitt, Andrea Dworkin, Robin Givens, Jennifer Levin, Cheryl Araujo, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Kesha, Lindsey Lohan, Rose McGowan, Evan Rachel Wood even (although if Manson fans had their way...), etc. It FAR surpasses any tear downs of men too, even serial abusers like R Kelly, Cosby and Weinstein, to say nothing of Manson. I think the witch hunts, that visceral, gleeful, cruel, sexualized, feverdream woman hatred is still with us and was on full display here).

I think the fact he focused on the feces incident for example (which truly had fuck all to do with anything substantive either way), to say nothing of wanting to "reserve the right" to show nude photos of her, tell the jury she was stripping and claim she was in escort prostitution before they even met (imagine using what's most likely a young woman's economic need & exploitation against her like that aka using misogynist tropes of the powerful manipulative maneating "whore"), and the fact he wanted it all recorded and aired, including the sexual assault testimonies, is proof that the trial was about trying to *humiliate her*, including in particularly sexual ways. as he said she was begging for. It was far beyond just getting people to think she was a liar. And this tells us something about him. Something disturbing, misogynist.

And here's him on the humiliation thing, in Aug 2016 (to Christian Carino). He's clearly angry at her, and even her new boyfriend (ranting that he'll cut his dick off). it is "heat of the moment" ranting, but it is all utter misogyny, attacking her for her sexuality, genitals, past in stripping, having a new man and *gasp* having fellatio with another man after they broke up, while implying it was a prostitution transaction, in hateful pornographic terms. Now if she were actually abusive to him, wouldn't that have been even mentioned, or elided to, and it not all been his disgust for her vulva, her having sex, her being a stripper before they met, his porn fantasies of her getting men off... Why is she a "cum guzzler", not a cruel, abusive woman? Why does she have an "overused fish market" for genitals, not, say, violent hands, or even a violent cunt? Why is him wanting her dead all mixed in with these misogynist pornographic rants, not him saying she's, oh, demeaning or controlling or violent? Why does he want to cut off Elon's dick for being with her, not warn him of, or even feel bad for him for being with, the mentally ill volatile abuser Amber? Could it be that his later story of she was the abuser, not me, is just that, a story he made up later on?

(and needless to say if Amber had ranted about Johnny's genitals, anus, mouth, perceived sexuality in reversed ways eg homophobic references, only good for servicing clits/vulvas & overused, worthless at it, even "finding a little Russian," we'd have never heard the end to how horrible she was for it and how this obviously proves she was the abuser and was never abused)

"She's begging for total global humiliation. She's gonna get it...she sucked Mollusk's crooked dick... this gold digging, low level, dime a dozen, mushy, pointless dangling overused flappy fish market ... I'm so fucking happy she wants to fight this out!!! She will hit the wall hard!!! And I cannot wait to have this waste of a cum guzzler out of my life!!! I met fucking sublime little Russian here ... Which makes me realize the time I blew on that 50 cent stripper ... I wouldn't touch her with a goddam glove. I can only hope that karma kicks in and takes the gift of breath from her ... Sorry man ... But NOW I will stop at nothing!!! Let's see if Mollusk has a pair ... Come see me face to face ... I'll show him things he's never seen before ... Like the other side of his dick when I slice it off.'"

I've only come across parts eg 1-3 pages at a time of the actual 6000 pages (eg twitter threads have posted screenshots), but here's one of the first news outlets that reported on it. If anyone has a link, I'll gladly post it and do a deeper dive.

[worklabournewsresearch]

Tech Talent Tectonics: Ten New Realities for Finding, Keeping, and Developing Talent

Blumberg, S., Kouba, R. R., Thareja, S., and Wiesinger, A. (2022, April 14). Tech talent tectonics: Ten new realities for finding, keeping, and developing talent. McKinsey & Company. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/tech-talent-tectonics-ten-new-realities-for-finding-keeping-and-developing-talent

Sven Blumberg, et al. write: “Despite the formidable challenges in finding tech talent, incumbent companies cannot expect to succeed in the digital world without being technologically strong, which is simply not possible without a deep bench of tech talent. In fact, developing robust people and talent strategies are among the highest-value actions a business can take. Tech talent, therefore, should be a CEO’s top priority. Based on our work on more than 80 technology-talent transformations, we have identified a set of ten realities companies need to face and what they can do to address them.”

1.       “You can’t be good at just one aspect of talent management and expect to succeed”

2.       “Close your talent gap; it’s wider than you think”

3.       “Think candidate experiences, not recruiting process”

4.       “Top talent is interviewing you, not the other way around”

5.       “You can’t hire or outsource your way out of your talent problems”

6.       “Build small, empowered teams with a clear mission, and let them execute”

7.       “Eliminate meaningless toil and bad practices—top talent won’t put up with it”

8.       “Focus on developer happiness, and productivity and performance will follow”

9.       “Stop turning great engineers into bad managers”

10.   “Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are strategic necessities, not special initiatives”

Additional Information

Dhasarathy, A., Frazier, R., Khan, N., & Steagall, K. (2021). Seven lessons on how technology transformations can deliver value.  McKinsey & Company. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/seven-lessons-on-how-technology-transformations-can-deliver-value

De Smet, A., Dowling, B., Mugayar-Baldocchi, M., & Schaninger, B. (2021). ‘Great Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The choice is yours. McKinsey & Company. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/great-attrition-or-great-attraction-the-choice-is-yours

O’Kane, J., & Lundy, M. (2022, March 26). From ‘boomer’ companies to encroaching giants, Canada’s tech sector has a labour problem. The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canadian-tech-companies-in-a-global-struggle-to-attract-and-hang-on-to/ UTL Link: http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fnewspapers%2Fcanadian-tech-companies-locked-global-struggle%2Fdocview%2F2643163862%2Fse-2%3F

Bernstein, A. (Host). (2022, April 4). The Essentials: Retaining Talent. [Audio podcast episode]. In Women at Work. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/podcast/2022/04/the-essentials-retaining-talent

Photo Source: [Photograph]. McKinsey & Company. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/tech-talent-tectonics-ten-new-realities-for-finding-keeping-and-developing-talent

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[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

One of my CBC podcasts is called Power and Politics. It’s a condensed version of the audio from a TV news program that airs every weekday evening (condensed because they turn the two-hour TV show into a podcast that’s about 50-70 minutes). I’ve listened to every episode, five days a week, for almost three years now, and I like that keeping up with those keeps me fairly informed about the news.

I respect the CBC has resisted the trend of blending news with entertainment, and throwing away standards for views. They do their best to present the news in a way that’s unbiased and fair, even if that makes for less exciting television shows and podcasts. Obviously they’re not perfect at that; perfect journalistic integrity is a platonic ideal. But at least they’re trying, which is more than I can say for a lot of news sources.

So I really like that the CBC tries not to sensationalize things, but they still have pundits who will editorialize (after fully declaring all personal conflicts of interest with the issues at hand and while being prepared for the host to fact check them, because that’s how the news is supposed to work) and let their own personalities colour the way they talk. Sometimes they even try to make jokes, which I often find a bit endearing. The jokes range from terrible to slightly funny, and they’re always at least a little awkward, but they do give it a sort of fun feel of “all us political nerds in this together, tackling these depressing and serious issues, why not occasionally lighten the mood with a pun?”

Anyway, I’m listening to tonight’s episode of Power and Politics, and for the first time, I’m feeling the need to quote some of it on this blog. This is the first time I’ve done that, because CBC is my news source of choice because it’s fucking boring. That’s a feature not a bug; news should be delivered in a boring way that tells you facts instead of sensationalizing everything. But it does mean it’s not great fodder for my blog that’s mostly about comedy.

But I do want to share this exchange, between the show’s temporary host Paul Hunter and pundit Tim Powers, while discussing the Prime Minister’s announcement today of tighter COVID restrictions due to the spread of Omicron.

Paul Hunter: You may have heard Justin Trudeau saying, ‘This sucks.’ But it is what it is. Tim Powers: Yeah, I would use a… I may substitute the S with an F and put something else in there. Paul Hunter: [laughs awkwardly] You’re live on TV, Tim. Tim Powers: I didn’t say the word, Paul! Didn’t say the word. Paul Hunter: Good for you, uh, so far.

Right, okay. So I like an appropriately timed and tasteful joke to liven up a news show as much as the next person, but… two things, Tim:

1) I’d never thought before about the fact that there’s overlap in the Venn diagram between boomer humour and small child humour. But I guess “pretend to say a swear word without actually saying that swear word” is right in there, so good job hitting that spot.

2) I realize you were live on TV and in the middle of discussing an important political issue and you are far from a professional comedian, so it isn’t fair for me to expect you to think through all your jokes before you say them. But I would really like to dive into the meaning of this particular joke with you, because... are you saying you wish The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau had stood up at that press conference today to announce that the Omicron COVID-19 variant fucks?

[andersfels]

sometimes i really do wanna leave tumblr bc despite being here for 10 years everyone on here is beginning to literally feel too old for me in how they refuse to understand current humor from other sources (like tiktok) and choose to take offense to it rather than try to understand the context. like yall sound like the fucking crotchety boomers that I've seen get pissed about whatever meme went over their heads, except y'all milennials add the flavor of discourse to it. it genuinely bothers me how many tumblr ppl i see getting mad over tiktok audios or trends without understaning, like at all, their meme nature or how they're used without being meant literally. and you literally cannot explain it to them they refuse to understand

[0w0tsuki]

So I as an only English speaker have some questions about SDRA2

So I have watched through as much translated content I can find for SDRA2/SDRA which consists of all of Joey Youngsters translations, the videos on that translations to Spanish channels videos that had correct English auto translations (some of them fucked up and only translated the audio which meant all I got was [Music], the content that TempAccounts has put out, and the livestreams that Joey Youngster did of chapter 5 and 6.

Now that last source is where most of my questions come from. Because it was his first run through and he was only giving summaries of what was happening as it was happening. So I have a gist of what's going on but I feel like I'm missing out on some key details.

So the first thing that confuses the hell out of the is the whole Yuki and Utsuro thing. What is Yuki's actual relation to him besides just being a look alike? Why is he needed to make Utsuro if he doesn't actually BECOME Usturo. Why was making Yuki just a brain important to anything? Usturo mentions when Mikado resurects him that "He had always been trying to kill himself but his Ultimate luck wouldn't let him" but this implies that he had always been Utsuro. But the reason they give in the first game is that Yuki was Yuki before he became Usturo because his memories were erased. Which doesn't line up with the idea that Usuro had always been aware of his luck of the heavens and had been trying to kill himself. Also wouldn't the lucky option in this case would be for him to succeed. And then he mentions that he gave his luck to Akane which if that's something he could do then why didn't do it earlier if he wanted to kill himself so badly.

Why wasn't Rei aware of the fact Sora was Akane? Like I understand cop boy didn't tell her but like. Akane was in one of the machines. There this mysterious extra student there. It seems like you should be able to put 2 and 2 together. Or maybe she did and it just wasn't mentioned.

The program they used was the same as the second from the Canon games. And we know that Hajime is eventually able to free everyone including those who died. But in SDRA2 they say that they will stay dead. Is there a reason for this? Because the whole boomer Shinji scene implies that they are at least mentally active. Is it just because they are unaware of Hajime's progress so they just assume it's impossible?

Why was Yoruko initially imprisoned when they first got out of the simulation before they had to go back in? I understand Iroah. Did they not know who the members of void were at the time?

During chapter 0 Kokoro asks Mikado if he knows what the "Most primal human emotion" is and he just blows that question off so he can talk about what he wants to talk about. I feel like that was pretty important so did they ever go over that later on?

Did Mikado have a plan for if everything worked as intended? Like what did he want to do when he was out in the real world? Because it just seemed like his plan was 1. Kill Utsuro and take his Ultimate Luck 2. Hijack a body and get into the real world 3.????? 4. Profit

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