#bad data

[you-need-not-apply]

I’m currently on a camping trip in the middle of goddamn no where so I’m doing this on 1 bar and 3G

Kill me now

[tenth-sentence]

Just to be sure that Fate did not muddle through to a victory, he arranged to have false data inserted in the Purgatory computer.

"Incarnations of Immortality: For Love of Evil" - Piers Anthony

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[procurement-insights]

Are You A Victim of Data Delinquency?

EDITOR’S NOTE: A few days ago, SPICE Technology Group’s Neel Sharma wrote a post on LinkedIn titled “Vendor Item Data, New Item Setup Process and the Impact on Procure-to-Pay.” Check it out using the link above – it is an interesting read. As usual, articles like the one above bring back memories of real-world examples that I use to create context and, hopefully, greater understanding. I am…

[hoerbahnblog]

SF & more: “Bad Data" von Tanja Binder

SF & more: “Bad Data” von Tanja Binder (Hördauer 31 Minuten) https://literaturradiohoerbahn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bad-Data_Tan-ja-Binder_upload.mp3 © Jackie Niam/stock.adobe.com Die Arbeit von übermorgen – 15 Kurzgeschichten aus der Zukunft Wie werden wir in Zukunft arbeiten? Herausgegeben von Lars Schmeink und Ralf H. Schneider Wie werden wir am Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts arbeiten?…

[lieu-rey]

first meeting

[jayblanc]

The reason I'm getting terrible GPS directions for cycling in my local area, is because someone was editing OSM and just adding in cycle paths where they guessed they were from looking at the sat view on Google Maps.

I discovered the mapping error when I turned into a down sloped path the GPS said was a cycle path, with momentum plus gravity carrying me forward, to discover that actually it was a series of long shallow steps.

I now have actual internet butt hurt.

[hollis-art]

Ode to Spot, by Data Soong

[starkville-diy]

Bored to Tears:

[aviralz]

The Impact of Bad Data in the CRM on Business Growth

It's important to engage prospects by utilizing  the right content at the right moment. Businesses must effectively use their customer  data to get there. Even though CRM data shouldn’t be the only tool businesses  should be leveraging to make better marketing decisions, its value is indisputable. 

Using a CRM for sales and marketing is not  its only benefit. However, if it's effective, it can greatly help in the lead  generation efforts. Businesses can get a better, more complete understanding  of who their customers are, what their challenges are, and what they need  from a service or product solution by looking at the CRM data. From there,  businesses can work backward from this data to improve how they approach and  market to potential new customers.

 Also Read: Outreach Appoints Nick Bowles as Vice President, Sales and Strategy, EMEA

Fortunately, bad data can be prevented.  Marketers must continuously update. They are more likely to overlook anything  crucial the longer they put off updating CRM data. As soon as they have new  information on their prospects, they must update it. They can be sure their  data is as accurate as possible in this way.

 Full Article: The Impact of Bad Data in the CRM on Business Growth

 Click on the link to find out more:  

[yridenergyridenergy]

Vicious August 1998

[tanadrin]

"the lunatic fringe on my opponents' side fundamentally taints their entire movement, which is therefore obviously morally bankrupt and should be ignored. the lunatic fringe on my side is an unrepresentative minority and anybody paying attention to them is a fool/bigot/liar." <- depressingly common pattern. you can't have it both ways!

[tenth-sentence]

The committee concluded that the thousands of records, along with the elaborate indexing system, concerning family heredity were "unsatisfactory for the study of human genetics."

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[petraforgedyke]

i’m seeing a lot of fear today about Tumblr Shutting Down (Real) (Actually True) today and let peepaw seg tell you a story

i’ve been on this webbed site for fifteen years, believe it or not, since way back in the days of Tumblarity. now i was but a wee lad at the time, so i don’t remember the fine details, but rest assured, it doesn’t matter much for the story i’m about to tell you.

you see, i remember when tumblr was owned by tumblr. folk called its ceo (david karp) “daddy”, and were enthusiastic about his communications, even if on our own blogs, we’d bitch and moan about tumblr making changes to things we were used to. i remember the hubbub when tumblr removed tumblarity, and how this was surely going to be the end of tumblr.

all those fifteen (though it might be sixteen) years ago.

layouts changed, and we’d bitch and moan, and tumblr’d get sold, and we’d know for sure that This Was The End Of Tumblr, For Real This Time. this happened again and again and again, because this webbed site, you see, it makes no money, and companies, greedy things as they are, like money.

the porn ban, under the reign of YaHoo that was, was seen as another death knell. tumblr was going to die, for real, for sure, and i’m not proud to say that i was one of the ones who fell for it. peepaw seg needed to sow hir wild oats on other platforms.

now, i say this happened under yahoo, but it’s important to remember that this ban came in the wake of both the apple app store banning the tumblr app on account of real life csem being hosted on tumblr, and the new usamerican law SESTA-FOSTA being implemented, which made it so that companies such as tumblr would have to moderate the explicit content on them to make sure none of it breached sesta-fosta. tumblr, being a small fish in the grand scheme of thing, didn’t warrant that amount of financial effort on yahoo’s part, as the site was still not making any money, and it’s easier and cheaper to blanket ban than it is to moderate. all this to say, it’s important to vote, because if you don’t, your internet freedom will be curtailed.

and now we’re here, some sixteen years on, and i’ll say automattic has been not all good, but definitely not all bad for the site. they changed stuff we liked to our discontent (layouts), and added stuff we hated (live), but they also gave us stuff we like (polls) and an amount of open communication about tumblr’s inner workings not seen since the days of david “daddy” karp. and now they’re putting just a skeleton crew on the tumblr project.

and that’s going to be The End Of Tumblr For Sure For Real Actually This Time. Really. Promise. Abandon Ship.

and we come to the crux of this story.

which is that this has happened before, and it will happen again, because tumblr is surprisingly immune to making any money.

what we’re likely to see in the coming time is no new features (that’s reserved for projects that make money), and an increase in ads, until one day, and this might be in a few months, and maybe in a few years, there’ll be an announcement that tumblr’s been sold to one direction to a new company.

and we’ll start the whole rigmarole again. and this company might be good for tumblr’s userbase, or it might go against everything the tumblr community holds dear. no way of knowing which way it’ll go.

until one day, some parent company will have had enough, and will pull the plug.

but for now… well, i’m gonna sit here on my porch (blog), and we’ll see what happens. i'm not worried, tumblr’s survived worse things.

[spookyshoosh]

Happy Birthday Data!! ✨🥳

Here’s Data in a bunch of different outfits I would’ve loved to see him in, including civilian and holodeck clothes. I was absolutely determined to finish this in time for his birthday, so here it is!

[project-sekai-facts]

Here's Vivid BAD SQAUD's new artworks from the third anniversary site!