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I know it's a big show and everyone and their mum has to throw in a bit of effort to keep it light and entertaining, but this interview was pointless and ludicrous. (Yeah, Hugh, tell us about those three seconds in Glass Onion. Wow, what was filming like?) I simply don't see what made him rude here.
Between storms in a teacup like that, and Jimmy Kimmel, it make me wonder what exactly the point of the Oscars is. I imagine sitting through Jimmy Colbert Fallon Kimmel's inane jokes, is worse than having to smile through not winning an Oscar.
Hugh Grant did nothing wrong, I would react the same way, if I were asked a series of dumbass questions. I don't know if there is a school for interviewing, but might I suggest she try again? Good lawd.
Been interviewed today, two more interviews tomorrow. I think I did okay. But now I think I caught my son's cold. So I might not be at my best when I'll be interviewed this week.
Are you Cate’s PR person?
Nope I just admire her a lot.
That girl interviewing him didn’t have a clue what she was doing. Giving a pretty girl a microphone doesn’t make her a journalist.
I shouldn't, but it's still meant to be a prestigious reward.
Anyway,,I had my first job interview of the day, my sixth or seventh since I've been made redundant.
Thanks. It went fairly well I think. Not my top choice as an employer, but a good package.
Good luck with your job search, @Ludovico. Hopefully with that many interviews there's bound to be something turn up!
Good luck to you sir! Looking for a job is always the hardest job; hope someone realizes your value soon!
Thanks. I did it went fairly well, but beware the Ides of March.
I think of the Ricky Gervais quote, that goes something along the lines of "imagine the arrogance to think you deserve to go through life not hearing or reading anything you don't like, or anything you disagree with".
It's a very interesting problem, because this is the intersection of content moderation and censoreship. On the one hand, we've by now realized - or rather it's accepted in a large swath of academia on the topic. I'm not sure what the view in wider society is - that completely unmoderated algorithmically selected social interaction is net negative. It leads to extreme positions being pushed to the top, because they generate attention and it can lead to people being drawn into negative spirals. Teens suddenly getting a rush of posts about eating disorders and suicidal ideation is one of those things. But how do you do that without being overly censorious and also without giving these social media companies the power to dictate what can and cannot be talked about? This is a problem in any situation, which becomes much more obvious - at least in the eyes of western societies - when the company and app in question has very, very strong ties to an autocratic foreign government.
Imagine if we start censoring things that are deemed unhealthy, like s*gar, s*lt, tr*nsf*t, or alc*h*l.
My old Hotmail (Outlook) email account which I've had since 2001 is bringing up something similar. It says I'm running out of space for messages and it's wanting me to buy more storage. I'm still able to send and receive emails but I could probably do with deleting a load of the useless messages that come in.
Have you tried really and completely deleting them (Shift+Del) rather than just sending them to your recycle bin (Del)? If the stuff is still in there, it remains on your allotted volume. If you don't want to delete things entirely, store them on you drive and delete them completely on your server/mailbox.
Mine too, apparently.
‘Digitalization’ is the hip new thing where I live – or rather, digitalization 2.0 (since it’s not like we never used computers before in our classrooms, evidently.) Every Flemish high-schooler has his own laptop now, courtesy of our ministry of education. And so schools are asked to put the machine to good use, understandably so. However, two recent trends, which I am under severe pressure to follow myself, annoy the hell out of me:
I am, for the record, not a technophobe. Digital tools can be very useful indeed. But an overreliance on them can also do a lot of damage. More and more am I getting this awkward feeling that laptops and “apps” are replacing us, teachers. But these things have neither my experience nor my understanding of (and love for) my students. I teach because I bloody know what the hell I’m talking about and because I can make difficult concepts in chemistry and physics more accessible to young people. I didn’t enter this profession with a passion and a vocation simply to shout instructions and then passively watch while my students are playing around with computer programs.
Again, a little goes a long way. And if given enough freedom to pick the tools I like and dismiss the ones I don't, I wouldn't complain. But today I was told that tests "should be more digitalized from now on", with the added bonus that "the program can check the answers for you." Apart from the fact that that's not true except in the case of multiple-choice questions or questions that demand a precise number, word or name, I primarily object to the notion that it's a good thing to delegate the evaluation of my students to a machine. I want to check their answers! I want to see what progress they are making. I care less about the points than I care about how today's test compares to the previous ones.
"You're getting old, Dimi! It's called the future so get used to it." Yes, thank you. Again, I have nothing against digital work in school. But I firmly believe that helpful tools are only helpful to those who have already mastered the basics. Think of it this way: a word processor makes life easier for someone who knows how to write; but in the hands of someone who can't even put a few decent sentences together, a word processor is meaningless. School is where you first learn to cover the basics. Let's try to focus on those (again) before we let a program do it for us. Pocket calculators are great, but let's learn some basic arithmetic first. Wikipedia is convenient, but let's memorize some historical and geographical facts first.
Or have I really become a relic of the pre-Internet age? ;-)
I don't know if it's any help, but in my mail program I can sort the mails by data size and then easily delete those with sizeable attached files.
Maybe that's somehow possible with your program, too.
That's all I need. Not sure how this is going to work out. These obstacles and tragedies are building up to the point I'm getting depressed
That said. I have been questioning my own mortality lately. Considering the vast amount of loved ones I've lost the past 3 years, I'm becoming aware of the possibility my number could be up.
So I need to concentrate on the postiive and eliminate the negative. What of the future and what could that look like? My late, great better half would want me to find happiness and live life to the fullest.