#designbycommittee — Public Fediverse posts

"A Story Of [The US States To Two (2) Capital Letters] Abbreviations” [(slightly) NSFW]
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https://youtube.com/shorts/u29XFwhHtC0?si=y_NJ-RCO06alkBjG  <-- shared (slightly) NSFW video
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As spatial data professionals- indeed as data professionals generally - we have all been in similar situations, either inside or looking in… so VERY relatable!
(note that the “98 minute documentary…” “about the men - and one woman” he mentions was – so very sadly! – a fiction generated for his routine…)
#comedy #garygulman #USStates #abbreviations #designbycommittee #USPS #abbreviation #task #consensus #spatial #organisation #states #USA #CONTRACTor #data #database #consistency #humour

"A Story Of [The US States To Two (2) Capital Letters] Abbreviations” [(slightly) NSFW]
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https://youtube.com/shorts/u29XFwhHtC0?si=y_NJ-RCO06alkBjG  <-- shared (slightly) NSFW video
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As spatial data professionals- indeed as data professionals generally - we have all been in similar situations, either inside or looking in… so VERY relatable!
(note that the “98 minute documentary…” “about the men - and one woman” he mentions was – so very sadly! – a fiction generated for his routine…)
#comedy #garygulman #USStates #abbreviations #designbycommittee #USPS #abbreviation #task #consensus #spatial #organisation #states #USA #CONTRACTor #data #database #consistency #humour

"A Story Of [The US States To Two (2) Capital Letters] Abbreviations” [(slightly) NSFW]
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https://youtube.com/shorts/u29XFwhHtC0?si=y_NJ-RCO06alkBjG  <-- shared (slightly) NSFW video
--
As spatial data professionals- indeed as data professionals generally - we have all been in similar situations, either inside or looking in… so VERY relatable!
(note that the “98 minute documentary…” “about the men - and one woman” he mentions was – so very sadly! – a fiction generated for his routine…)
#comedy #garygulman #USStates #abbreviations #designbycommittee #USPS #abbreviation #task #consensus #spatial #organisation #states #USA #CONTRACTor #data #database #consistency #humour

This is a beautiful bit of prose talking a bit about the state of Western cinematic art.

(from the description of Best of The Worst: Plinketto #12 by Red Letter Media (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGki5Lr_ISw).)

As the age of movies draws to a close, the boys at RLM are happy to have a very large collection of trash films that have been produced and released in the decades past. Films made by weird independent studios, cheapskate con-artists, and legit insane people. Exploitation films, movies with confusing plots, weird filmmaker visions that make no sense, embarrassing performances, terrible films made for the sole purpose so a perverted old man can open-mouth kiss an uncomfortable and disgusted young woman, awful discount and often reused visual FX, and some of the world’s ugliest people. Needless to say, unless you’re Donald Farmer, they don’t make them like they used to. Films today are made by Studios, Netflix, Amazon, etc and undergo a rigorous procedural vetting process. Algorithm compliance, plot beats calculated by computers to maximum engagement statistical sever product farming, actors and actresses that are “comfortable” and “safe” on set (if there is a set). Committees of lawyers, writers, producers and input content analytical engineers who have MBA and degrees from MIT to computer calculate the ultimate streaming product that will provide maximum efficiency for the data and number crunchers to release and stream said products to shareholder satisfaction.

Thankfully, time has not eroded away our VHS and DVDs that showcase a magical time when artists took risks. Made a movie based on a singular weird idea that wasn’t tested before a focus group. These movies are real, raw, and disturbing, but often magical. When we pop a tape in or a DVD we never really know what’s going to happen. I’m glad you are all here to join us on this seemingly never-ending adventure into 1s and 0s and magnetic tape stock to discover what humans have created before the dark times. Before the Empire.

Also Rich Evans is now wearing a toupee. Now THAT’S embarrassing.

#artisdead #baldies #consolidation #corpos #designbycommittee #groan #hrisintheroom #movies #murikanpuritans #pearlclutching #prigs #puritans #redlettermedia #rlm #sigh #suits

@lps I don't think so. If it touches anything YOU are invested in you instantly see the problem of #DesignByCommittee and avoid it. So do developers don't even start that shit.

Seeing design from a distance as "eyecandy" makes people think - "hey I can put up some sweet colors!" – and a #DCB suddenly looks like an great way to combine taste and consensus. BAM!

Designers already left the process when a project makes clear how their expertise is valued.

So ironically, a vote among non-designers isn't a bad approach. Best of all: anybody can really shine with half-assed skills without being "contested" – collaboration full speed ahead!!! YAY!! XD

@lps I don't think so. If it touches anything YOU are invested in you instantly see the problem of #DesignByCommittee and avoid it. So do developers don't even start that shit.

Seeing design from a distance as "eyecandy" makes people think - "hey I can put up some sweet colors!" – and a #DCB suddenly looks like an great way to combine taste and consensus. BAM!

Designers already left the process when a project makes clear how their expertise is valued.

So ironically, a vote among non-designers isn't a bad approach. Best of all: anybody can really shine with half-assed skills without being "contested" – collaboration full speed ahead!!! YAY!! XD

I found one of those image memes where you draw something based on input by commenters, and came up with... this. This is a fae dragon which preys on those with an irresistible sweet tooth by using its ice-cream-cone-shaped tail like an angler fish. Here's the input I received to come up with this idea:

Eyes: octopus
Horns: corkscrew
Colors: tortoiseshell cat
Wings: "scrungly"
Mane: pleather
Tail: waffle cone with ice cream on the end
Skin texture: yellow ball pyton
Body type: chonker cat

#Monster #MonsterArt #Creature #CreatureArt #Dragon #DragonArt #DesignByCommittee

#KatyPerry had been hyping last Thursday's release of her new single "Woman's World" with a tease that sounded pretty good, so I looked forward to it.

Laura Snapes with The Guardian summed it up nicely with "this garbage has six writers" (at https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/12/katy-perry-womans-world-review ).

If you're morbidly curious about how destructive #DesignByCommittee can be, see the video at https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=EVIJUH29pjU

I kinda hope that someone might save the underlying tune with a remix. Either way, I hope to forget its video.

#WomansWorld could have been good dance #music

#KatyPerry had been hyping last Thursday's release of her new single "Woman's World" with a tease that sounded pretty good, so I looked forward to it.

Laura Snapes with The Guardian summed it up nicely with "this garbage has six writers" (at https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/12/katy-perry-womans-world-review ).

If you're morbidly curious about how destructive #DesignByCommittee can be, see the video at https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=EVIJUH29pjU

I kinda hope that someone might save the underlying tune with a remix. Either way, I hope to forget its video.

#WomansWorld could have been good dance #music

@ardalis I’d say make a poll asking if they should have more than four or is four enough :D #designbycommittee

@ardalis I’d say make a poll asking if they should have more than four or is four enough :D #designbycommittee