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- neverscared8
News of the day...
Massive Attack Say They Turned Down Coachella Due to Festival’s Environmental Impact
“It’s a golf resort built on a desert, run on a sprinkler system, using public water supplies. Mental.”—Robert “3D” Del Naja- OK, boomer.palimpsest
- boomer vs. doomerneverscared
- It’s true though.instrmntl
- It's hosted on a polo club lot, but close enough, surrounded by golf resorts tfs... when you aerial zoom out it's a patch of green surrounded by pricey dirtprophetone
- virtue signaling at it's finest.hotroddy
- those public water supplies wouldn't exist without the taxes on the insane property values and the money that comes in from tourists.hotroddy
- poor hotroddy, can't go see a foreign band in his foreign country.uan
- https://www.youtube.…
they are fighting for a bunch of right causes. even if you like their music, they don't like your ideology.uan - poor poor knobby dobby... cant read, cant count, knows no geography...neverscared
- palm springs wouldn't exist without rich white guys converting deserts into golf courses. the kind of guys neverscared calls, 'white monkeys'hotroddy
- Daft Punk accepted $350,000 plus airfare and accommodations to play one set at Coachellanb
- and rumors are they'll send 2 actors to push the play button to start their set. les french :-)uan
- knobby knobby dobby... now u start hallucinating.... time for you medicine and back to your cell in arkham...neverscared
- u have the wrong username knobby...when will your brain ever work... never obviously..neverscared
- https://i.haasie.com…hotroddy
- lol, you are insane ... show me this on the website..in the post .. u must have it, otherwise u cant screenshot itneverscared
- u cant coz its not real...its photoshoped... u are really in the insane asylumneverscared
- knobby dobby .. such an easy mistake.. no one will believe u if u cant show it on the site...neverscared
- Suddenly, 30 years later, they care about the environment. I wonder what their collective global carbon footprint has been over the decades?utopian
- i bet 1 trillion $ , u cant follow up ... but since u cant count its probably useless to bet...neverscared
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that's massive!Squiddy - I'll share a link but first how can they object to using the city’s water supply for a concert...hotroddy
- when the entire water infrastructure was originally built to irrigate a desert paradise?hotroddy
- If you help me understand I'll share the link. you know deep down you said it.hotroddy
- Do we get rid of the golf courses? When the homes and hotels become worthless, how is the city going to keep operating?hotroddy
- u cant share the link coz it doesnt exist....neverscared
- moderators should be alarmed that u use the plattform to fabricate and spread missinformation with their visual aesthetics...and follow up yourneverscared
- misdeed and ban you immediately .. its no easy offense.neverscared
- WTF?! what's wrong with their decision?oey_oey
- BonSeff4
Work Blog
Had to leave a perfectly fine job of 3 years due to a toxic director.
There were 2 UX squads working independently on two totally different products, lots of momentum on both, work wasn't exciting but moral and enjoyment was up. I led one of the squads. Then C-suite decided to create two new positions, a UX director, who would merge both squads and a VP of UX & Product. The VP was fired shortly after his hire because he didn't disclose his SEC trading violations from a former endeavor where he tried to cheat investors. And the Director absolutely murdered the vibe across two squads. I had never seen anything like it before, absolutely no interpersonal skills. Everyone looked to me to be a change agent and try to reason with the director, the director looked to me to reason with the squads. It totally drained me.
So I spent about 4 weeks coding a portfolio, curating a decade and a half of work, writing case studies, and putting together a resume that would hopefully compete in this landscape. Once ready, then applied like hell and had about a dozen interviews and countless rejection letters just from those that actually took the time to send them.
Finally found something that I think I am going to be really happy with, doing something very similar as the place I left. But starting over.
I feel terrible for those still there at the old place and see them all leaving in the next 90 days. It's really a shame. We made noise, voiced our concerns and went completely ignored by management. Hate to see it because it is a really talented team of UXers in the weeds. But any care for quality has been tanked due to one guy who couldn't read the tea leaves.
- I went thru an eerily similar thing a few years ago. (I actually got fired by the toxic leader the morning before I was asked to do provide feedback on him.)nb
- And I can totally relate to the point about feeling terrible for the people who still work with him.nb
- Craziest thing: him firing me turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to my career. like Top 3. Ironic!nb
- I am glad things turned around for you, and I hope I am as lucky. I have a good feeling about it. It sucks seeing your workmates deflated.BonSeff
- mort_8
- reminds me of a song...rzu-rzu
- well, a book, in factrzu-rzu
- https://petapixel.co…Krassy
- https://www.bbc.com/…Krassy
- hans_glib1
- terrifyingIanbolton
- Mr. Chuckle TeethDanish
- at mar-a-lago?neverscared
- definitely from floridaPonyBoy
- Freaky!monospaced
- Jeff Goldblum has really let himself go.wagshaft
- PhanLo12
- Gardener6
Punches For:
Dominique Pelicot: Guilty of aggravated rape on his ex-wife, Gisèle. Also guilty of the attempted aggravated rape of the wife of one of the co-accused, Jean-Pierre Marechal, Cillia, and taking indecent images of his daughter, Caroline, and his daughters-in-law, Aurore and Celine. Sentenced to 20 years. He is 72.
Jean-Pierre Marechal: Guilty of attempted rape and aggravated rape of his wife, as well as drugging her. Sentenced to 12 years. The only one of the 51 who was not accused of raping or attempting to rape Gisèle, the 63-year-old admitted to following Dominique Pelicot's lead, drugging his own wife for five years, raping her and inviting Dominique to rape her too.
Charly Arbo: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 13 years. He is 30 years old.
Cyrille Delville: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. He is a father-of-two.
Christian Lescole: Guilty of aggravated rape. Acquitted of having child abuse imagery. Sentenced to nine years. He is a volunteer firefighter and father of two daughters. He has been in jail since 2021.
Lionel Rodriguez: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. The 44-year-old was an employee in the same supermarket where Dominique Pelicot got caught upskirting in 2020, leading to the rape investigation.
Nicolas Francois: Guilty of aggravated rape and having child abuse imagery. Sentenced to eight years and banned from working in jobs with children for several years. He is a 43-year-old freelance journalist.
Jacques Cubeau, 73, lorry driver: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to five years. He is a divorced father-of-two.
Patrice Nicolle: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. The 55-year-old father-of-two is an electrician.
Thierry Parisis: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. He is 54.
Simoné Mekenese: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to nine years. The 43-year-old construction worker and father-of-six lived next door to the Pelicots.
Nizar Hamida: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 10 years. The 40-year-old had worked as a hairdresser, builder and delivery driver.
Boris Moulin: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. He is a 37-year-old delivery driver.
Jerome Vilela: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 13 years. The 46-year-old former firefighter and supermarket employee is divorced with two children. He has been in jail since 2021.
Didier Sambuchi: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to five years. The 68-year-old is a retired lorry driver and father-of-two.
Quentin Hennebert: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to seven years. The 34-year-old former prison guard now works as an ambulance driver.
Philippe Leleu: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to five years of which two are suspended. He is a 62-year-old gardener.
Jean-Luc LA: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 10 years. The 46-year-old has four children. He has been in jail since 2023.
Fabien Sotton: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 11 years. He has three children. His criminal record includes domestic violence and sexual assault of a minor. He has been in jail since 2021.
Karim Sebaoui: Guilty of aggravated rape and having child abuse imagery. Sentenced to 10 years. The 40-year-old is an unmarried IT specialist.
Joan Kawai: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 10 years. He went to the Pelicots' the same night his daughter was born. He has been in jail since 2021.
Jean-Marc LeLoup: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to six years. The 74-year-old is a retired driver.
Andy Rodriguez: Guilty of attempted rape and aggravating factors. Sentenced to six years. The 37-year-old has already spent several months in jail on domestic violence charges.
Vincent Coullet: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 10 years. He is 43 years old and already detained for domestic violence.
Adrien Longeron: Guilty of aggravated rape and child abuse imagery. Sentenced to six years. The 34-year-old was jailed in 2020 for raping and stalking three former girlfriends.
Hughes Malago: Guilty of attempted rape and two aggravating factors. Sentenced to five years. The 39-year-old is a tiler and biker.
Ahmed Tbarik: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. The 54-year-old plumber who set up his own business, as well as a boxing club, had been married for 30 years when he went to the Pelicots' home.
Husamettin Dogan: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to nine years. The 43-year-old builder is married and has a child. He had precedents for drug trafficking.
Romain Vandevelde: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 15 years. He is 63 and HIV-positive. He has been in jail since 2021.
Joseph Cocco: Guilty of aggravated sexual assault. Sentenced to three years. He is a 69-year-old divorced father of one.
Saifeddine Ghabi: Acquitted of rape and attempted rape. Guilty of sexual assault. Sentenced to three years. The 37-year-old lorry driver is a father-of-three.
Jean Tirano: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. He is a 52-year-old roofer.
Mohamed Rafaa: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. The 70-year-old worked as a DJ and club manager. He has been in jail since 2021.
Ludovick Blemeur: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to seven years. The 39-year-old former firefighter and warehouse worker had a three-month-old baby daughter when he visited the Pelicots.
Patrick Aron: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to six years, but walks free today as he has medical issues and will need to be placed in a special jail, according to the judge. The 60-year-old was married for 25 years with two kids.
Abdelali Dallal: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years, but walks free today due to medical issues and will need to be placed in a special jail, according to the judge. He is 47.
Grégory Serviol: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. The 33-year-old is a painter and decorator.
Cedric Grassot: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 12 years. The 50-year-old is a delivery driver.
Cendric Venzin: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to nine years. The 44-year-old worked a series of odd jobs and at the time he was arrested in 2022 was managing a hotel in Corsica.
Mahdi Daoudi: Guilty of mass rape and drugging. Sentenced to eight years. The 36-year-old is married.
Thierry Postat: Guilty of aggravated mass rape and drugging, and possession of child pornography. Sentenced to 12 years, and banned from working with children for life. The 61-year-old refrigeration specialist is divorced with three grown children. He has been in jail since 2021.
Florian Rocca: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to seven years. The father of three daughters was already convicted of theft, driving without a license and drug-related offences.
Dominique Davies: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 13 years. The 45-year-old is a lorry driver.
Cyprien Culieras: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to six years. He is 45 and has eight prior convictions.
Mathieu Dartus: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to seven years. The 53-year-old former baker raised two children after his wife died.
Cyril Beaubis: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to nine years. The 47-year-old is a lorry driver.
Paul-Koikoi Grovogui: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. He is 31.
Omar Douiri: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years. The 36-year-old was married and employed by a cleaning company.
Redouane Azougagh: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to nine years. The 40-year-old father of four kids from two different wives has prior convictions for domestic violence.
Hassan Ouamou: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to 12 years. The 30-year-old is currently on the run in Morocco and has told investigators he has no intention of returning to France.
Redouane El Farihi: Guilty of aggravated rape. Sentenced to eight years.
- Truly sickening behaviour all round.mort_
- jesus fucking christContinuity
- How did any of them think this was ok, that this was normal? What happened to morals, ethics and human decency? What a fucked up world we live in._niko
- Punches? How about life in jail?jagara
- Supremely awful, this.jagara
- Oh my... It makes my stomach turn just thinking about it, true evils.OBBTKN
- I've been following this since the first news broke. Its like the plot of the worst horror movie, only its real and happening IRLDaveO
- grab em by the pussy...neverscared
- The only way I can think of this - it's such a tiny tiny group of bad eggs in a fucked up world filled with naturally altruistic, often loving human beingsIanbolton
- It's truly fucked up though. So gross.Ianbolton
- I think it's significant to choose eggs over apples.palimpsest
- have a look at the woman. it was a Shrek fan club. i have hard time beliving that anyone would touch her.pr2
- ^ Has anyone ever told you're a really disgusting individual, and an utter waste of DNA? Because you are.Continuity
- @ian - there were fifty bad eggs in her vicinity that wiillfully and guiltlessly engaged in this horror. Altruism can't trump base male shitism.Nairn
- Males are a horrid abhorrence upon our species, and I say this as one.Nairn
- Not one of the plus-fifty men,when approached thought "huh, this is a massively-fucked up pile of shit, I should report this".Nairn
- Put it in RoI terms - what was the overall engagement rate here, if there were fifty paid-up subscribers?Nairn
- "create a lie so bombastic, everyone will assume it s true" - from a propaganda manual.pr2
- https://en.m.wikiped…pr2
- Akagiyama4
- I'm down!Nairn
- Looks better than the super man with Richard Pryor._niko
- 4-5 hours?grafician
- This could easily be a series...grafician
- not bad, liked the doggie.thenohero
- Bless DC, they keep trying.i_monk
- R E B 0OOO O O O 0 TPhanLo
- oh i'm not sure I like the look of thisrobthelad
- More overtly comic book than MCU realism maybei_monk
- ok, I'm signed in to YouTube already, why can't I play this here?monospaced
- Superman is an ass character snd this looks stupidcannonball1978
- lex luthor that bitch...neverscared
- Snooooozevillenb
- Prompt?utopian
- Not bad for generative AIyuekit
- @monospaced Usually that means you're on a VPN. YT has seemingly cracked down on this of late.evilpeacock
- idk.. James Gunn knows his shit but i think Zack Snyder already did the property best with Justice League (dir cut)plash
- As long as we get an origin story...lemmy_k
- Crap tonightMrT
- It’s a different take on it supposedly. Based on grant Morrisons limited series all-star superman which was great, so I’m willing to give it a shot_niko
- snyder cut... lol..https://www.for... all star superman is fantastic though...neverscared
- https://www.forsnyde…neverscared
- rebel moon was great too...lolneverscared
- that looks terribleHAL9001
- "Teaser"kaiyohtee
- Friendzone hug near the end, eh?ideaist
- mort_7
- I genuinely can't tell if that's AI or not. Arms/hands at far right seem off, so I think it is.. but the details otherwise? ffuuuu.Nairn
- Won’t be long now until it’s indistinguishable.mort_
- QBN legacy designers celebrating their last Christmas together.utopian
- AI.
Also, we are fucked.monNom - This year, to save me from tears I'll give it to someone special.mort_
- We're brown-noising ourselves into a fucktitude of a predicament.Nairn
- "I saw mommy calling 9 1 1"Akagiyama
- ^lol, that works, too! :)Nairn
- haha Akagifuturefood
- Gardener6
blog
I won the local pub quiz with a bunch of 80+ year old a few weeks ago and it was 52 years ago last week that I won the inter-schools
competition with my classmates. I am on the right hand shoulder of the teacher - see if you can spot who was to become the big school bully who terrorised the pre-teens until he hit the secondary!- First top right, with the stoned girl next to himOBBTKN
- YupGardener
- Bingo!OBBTKN
- Obviously I won't name him but he was a right bastard to so many kids, he went on to become an estate agent.Gardener
- Every school had its cunt child of satan didn’t it? At least one. May they all be estate agents lol.mort_
- Or bank / insurance commercial, car sellers, politicians... There is always a pattern at the level of personality and the profession that is performed.OBBTKN
- sarahfailin0
- illegitimate childdbloc
- Who cuts a straight line in their beard? It always looks drawn onmisterhow
- Optimus Vancetank02
- the toad kingneverscared
- the olligarch tribune has the highest fun...neverscared
- Who tans their face orange? It always looks crayoled onwagshaft
- mush tans him... rumours is with his own feces...dont quote me on it though...neverscared
- mg3321
Work Blog
I'm a month into my new job as a lead ux strategist / designer in the corporate world for an international financial business. I've been in the agency world for most of my career, but for the last nine years that was an independent agency that morphed from UX/creative work with enterprise businesses, to content marketing and advertising where I was leading B2B and B2C web projects, wearing way too many hats, and generally being concerned with every single aspect of what went into web projects. So much "get it done yesterday," so few concrete processes, too few people who knew how to run web projects, too many opinions, too much eccentricity, too many egos, too much of the "this work is AMAZING and we're the best in the business" ethos for work that was good, but average.
When I got laid off in March, my fork in the road was to either continue pursing the kind of work I was doing, kind of XD creative direction which I'm really suited for, or, going in house and finding a more narrowly focused role in a mature UX / tech / design department where I can see a path towards defined career growth, great learning opportunities, and something that reduced the number of hats I had to wear.
I chose the latter when an opportunity came to me and while I'm still early in new projects, the difference between what I was doing, and this, is so night and day it's as if I went to a different planet altogether. So many new things to be exposed to from massive high quality design systems, to defined processes for getting work done, to business teams that know what they're talking about, to UX colleagues who are kind and knowledgable and helpful. I'm putting in a more focused day each day than I think I did in the past five years, and I'm finishing my work day not feeling exhausted creatively and affected by the stress of off-the-rails projects, creative indifference, and know-it-all crap that can come in the agency world. I'm not burning myself out using that part of my brain all day, which makes it so much more enjoyable to spend my evenings on my own creative projects, whether that's the album I'm working on, the generative art tools I've been building, or making art on the pen plotter I got over the summer.
So glad I took this path instead of holding out for agency opportunities. It's been so refreshing - it's still UX work but for enterprise applications, and I don't have to worry about so many of the things I used to. It's a proper UX role whereas my previous role was so much more than that.
My eight months off were nice, but damn am I glad to be working again, and enjoying it.
- Congrats! I miss the benefit of in-house ux of really digging into the tools and having a longer-term vision.akiersky
- I happy to hear this.utopian
- Awesome congrats!YakuZoku
- Very happy to hear this.monospaced
- I've experienced the exact same thing this last year contracting w/a major corpo (evil insurance co)—Ridiculously organized, no egos, very kind, helpful folks.PonyBoy
- ^ the banality of evilmonNom
- Thanks! Really apprecate it. :)mg33
- I feel your gain :) Made a similar move on a smaller scale 8 years ago.mort_
- Made similar move 5 years ago from ad/web/brand world (of 20 or so years) to UX in a tech company. Best move ever,microkorg
- better work life balance, no egos, back stabbing nonsense etc.
I do miss photo/video shoots and sh*t like that but the higher salary makes up for that haha.microkorg - Its not as 'creative' a job, but with me having evenings and weekends always free from work I do art/music and that exercises my creativity.microkorg
- Very true microkorg. Some of the creative aspects I really miss are little things like picking fonts and colours.mort_
- happy for you mg! :-)
congratsHAL9001 - Micro and mg33 and others, been thinking about doing something similar, getting tired of wearing 100 hats, getting tired of working around the clock_niko
- Getting tired of no work life family balance, and getting tired of the little reward at the end. It sounds like blue chip tech and financial companies are the_niko
- Way to go. Are you guys doing product development UX? Are you leading a team? Curious what your role entails._niko
- Thanks again! microkorg, we could probably have a long convo about everything you said.mg33
- _niko - I'm leading enterprise application projects, working with big teams of BAs, product owners, devs, etc. There's a lot of ambiguity in the project I'm onmg33
- but I've always enjoyed that sort of thing. I like making sense of things that are a big puzzle and since this is so much more narrowly focused than what I'mmg33
- used to, it just feels... relaxing. A lot more process, more use of Jira, more meetings, but nothing feels like a surprise and it's nice to not be evaluatedmg33
- constantly on the advertising/marketin... aspects of things because that's not involved at all. It feels more analytical, yet with it's own kind of creativity.mg33
- Truth is, for several years, I wasn't doing projects where I could even interview users. Our clients had research, personas, and for content-centric sites wemg33
- didn't need user feedback. But it was so much intuition and guessing, which we were good at, but just totally different UX than what I'm doing now.mg33
- I can be a bit OCD and probably have undiagnosed ADHD, so to be more focused is a really nice thing.mg33
- I also came in at the tail end of a migration to Figma from InVision, so that's been fun as well.mg33
- cheers mg, very insightful._niko
- Great post! Happy things are going wellstoplying
- So... sounds like your getting old? Good stuff. Love it.falcadia
- fooler4
RIP of the day
Slim Dunlap, The Replacements guitarist who replaced founding member Bob Stinson in 1987.
- neverscared3
- tears for fearshans_glib
- The ChristiansMorning_star
- The Charlatans ;)OBBTKN
- Simon & GarfunkleGardener
- anti socks believers..neverscared
- Beige jeans with a crease down the front? Ooo gurl, no you didn't.Akagiyama
- Grifters gonna grift...dee-dubs
- "I wear my khakis with a cuff and a crease"mort_
- the whole no socks thing looks woke to me..lord in heaven please no more socks...neverscared
- yuekit0
Midjourney AI
Are there any AI models that are good at graphic design?
It seems like a weakness of Midjourney, it can produce amazing photographic imagery but the design abilities (i.e. precisely rendering logos, icons or layouts) are just OK by comparison.
- The issue mainly lies in the reliability of textkalkal
- I think it's a bigger than that...you'll notice most of these models are not great at creating icons either for instance.yuekit
- It improves with input, iteration and training as expected.monospaced
- No, not really.grafician
- All of them are fairly lacking in design capabilities, but ideogram.ai appears to be the best for generating text and typography.utopian
- I had some limited success at crating a logo in ChatGTP/Dall E. I was crating a fruit sticker style logo.Chimp
- I had to clean it up quite a bit in illustrator afterwards.Chimp
- Recraft has some "features" but I didn't use it so Idk the limits:
https://www.recraft.…grafician - @Chimp Yeah it can be used for brainstorming but what's missing is precision. I think because these AIs are just being trained on bitmap images.yuekit
- They don't have any understanding of concepts like a grid or composition, they can only approximate the output.yuekit
- @yuekit, yep I think you’re right. They seem to very hacked together. Good at random textures but bad at precise geometry.Chimp
- _niko5
Dr. Dre--AC/DC
ACϟDC are touring North America again and I’m dying to go.
They’re one of my guilty pleasures.
Juvenile, moronic lyrics, they only play 3 chords, it all sounds roughly the same but I fucking love them lol!Anyone see them live?
- Yep, they’re fun live. Massive stage props and Angus cuts about shredding amongst the crowdsausages
- Check out the huge crowd in this Argentina gig all bouncng in sync. Nuts. https://youtu.be/3tO…mort_
- Saw them in the 90s. Loved them as a kid.mort_
- My wife is going to let out a huge 'Grosssss!!' when I tell her I want tix... AC/DC is like a can of Moxie to her — she'll be alright if she chugs it. <3PonyBoy
