#error humanisation

[justuart]

[hygmoss]

one more rarity

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: After the events of Portal 2, GLaDOS brings Wheatley out of space to keep her company. Through trial and error and revelations, their friendship grows into an undeniable connection that they just might be able to call love. No androids or humanisations.

Author: @canadian-riddler

Note from submitter: very long (132 chapters), marked as unfinished, seems to no longer be updating.

[my-deer-friend]

Jeanne du Barry: A review

I watched it, so you don’t have to!

There was a preview screening of Jeanne du Barry that coincided with a presentation on 18th century fashion and hygiene, so I figured that would make for a pleasant Sunday. The lecture by Marta Veil was splendid.

The movie was… not.

I wasn't expecting greatness, really, but I also wasn't expecting it to fail in quite so many ways. Shall we count them?

First, it falls flat as a piece of cinema. The ponderous shots just scream second-year-film-student-auteur. The narration, usually a gimmick, is critical because the directorial vision seems to have been “tell, don’t show”. It’s all glamour with no heart, a faux-profound fashion parade that fails to let its consequential story beats resonate on any emotional or narrative level. Despite being told about the constant danger than Jeanne is in, we never feel it. Despite witnessing her tragedies, we don't empathise.

The lead actor-director gives du Barry none of the wit, charm or depth you would expect of the subject of a biography, and most characters are either outrageous caricatures (the evil, Alice in Wonderlandian step-daughters, complete with heart-shaped perms) or have the nuance and magnetism of an untoasted slice of white bread (the Dauphin, a key side character, shows not a single discernible character trait besides “aloof”).

Second, it fails as a biography. Maïwenn, the woman responsible for this mess, has apparently been trying to bring this story to life for over a decade - and then manages to give us nothing more than the blow-for-blow you can get from the du Barry Wikipedia article - dryness and all.

(It’s also exceedingly clear that Maïwenn got more than a little 'inspired’ by Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, and ironically - given their historical rivalry and the way Coppola's Antoinette was lifted wholesale from her film - the Dauphine outshines du Barry completely here.)

Despite being a biography, the movie devotes very little attention to Jeanne’s coming of age - and almost no time (literally, a 30-second narration) to the 12+ years of her life after Louis’ death, which include such dramatic things as her being betrayed by her servants, tried and executed in the wake of the French Revolution. Very little of her internal world is explored - so we don’t really understand what drives her, and even when she expresses her goals it comes across as insincere.

The bulk of the movie focuses on Jeanne’s time as Louis XV’s lover. That’s understandable, I guess - people want the sexy, sparkly intrigues, not the convent drudgery - but the movie doesn’t do any work to embrace the politics and scandal surrounding her on more than the meanest surface level. I mean - "this is Versailles!" (A line that’s cribbed verbatim from Coppola.) Where are the machinations, the manoeuvres? The only meaningful drama we get is domestic. Louis’ daughters don’t like his mistress. They’re mean to her. And… that’s it.

Most egregiously, the movie makes the unrecoverable error of losing grasp of its own point of view. We ostensibly follow Jeanne for most of the movie, in what is made out to be a limited first-person perspective. But when she’s banished from Versailles, we get to witness the unfolding events without her. After all, the death of Louis XV is surely more interesting than some woman bundled off to a convent (wait— who is this movie about…?) and so we stay with him - and miss the opportunity to follow Jeanne and empathise with her isolation, fear and grief.

If the goal of the movie was to humanise and rehabilitate du Barry, then maybe she shouldn’t have been made so vapid, boring and lacking in agency that her own biography lost interest in her.

Third, it fails as a historical piece. Not entirely - some of the men’s fashions are sumptuous and on point, Marie Antoinette is chef’s-kiss, and Versailles looks splendid on screen - but that makes the rest worse, somehow.

Again, we get Coppola plagiarism, in the form of Louis’ morning dressing routine (with the same comical play on the endless steps and bored attendants), as well as in many of du Barry’s fish-out-of-water moments.

But the movie forgets its own rules and context. For example, we’re told that “no one except the Dauphin is allowed to turn their back on the king” - a rule that’s respected until about midway in the movie, at which point, its plot purpose exhaused, it's forgotten entirely. Jeanne is also surprisingly enlightened about racial equality, showcased in painful scenes with Zamor, her black… servant? slave? Although it’s not really clarified on screen, the former is heavily implied, which would be gross revisionism.

Even Louis is treated with a strange sort of familiarity, left to mill around with his guests in the hall of mirrors or stroll the gardens with his hair undone.

As for the clothing… I can’t bear to deep-dive into the entirety of the mess, but here are a few examples of just how lazy the styling is.

Now, when he’s done up in his finery, Louis XV actually looks grand - and even (what a rarity) has very decent period men’s make-up. But then it’s clowns all the way down. Take this shot.

Just behind him is his daughter, sporting a top-of-the-pops 1980s crimped blowout, and beside her is the Dauphin of France - though you could be mistaken for thinking he’s some fella getting to pose for a romance novel cover in the world's most ill-fitting suit. (I don’t recall this man tying his hair up one single time for the duration of the movie.)

Some of the critique is a little nitpicky, yes - for example, du Barry wears this outfit to be formally presented to the king:

The big hair and ostrich feathers are a decade too early (stop trying to be Marie Antoinette: The Unauthorised Prequel already), the makeup is mid 2000s, and the necklace... the less said about it, the better. But at least an attempt was made!

But this?

And this???

0.5 out of 5 stars. It would have been zero on account of all the plagiarism, but a half-star is given for the cameo of Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun.

[iwonderwh0]

I want them to malfunction in a way that would make their cooling system roar like an old gaming pc, I want them to have some seizure-like error that'd make them move in a way no human can, I want their voices to crack into mechanical noises no human can make, I want their skin to glitch, eyes to reveal the underlying layer of cameras

I want their humanisation filters to slip enough for the illusion of their humanity to crumble. And I want a human character who truly believes in androids as being alive to see that for the first time in their life. I want them to be unnerved and internally terrified, questioning their whole life, world and belief system in general. I want to see what will they do with that knowledge next. How will it affect them? What will they conclude from that revelation? What will they do next...

[ethicaltreatmentofcowplants]

I made the mistake of mentioning to @akitasimblr that I could write a whole teal deer about this scene, so she of course enabled me.

cw: i'm discussing my thought process behind it and what i was bearing in mind as i set it up and wrote it, so this does deal with consent in more depth, and in much less vague wording, than in the actual scene. proceed with caution. and stay safe out there, everyone.

As I’ve said, initially it was intended to be something light and silly about Araminta’s “oops” moment where she sent an ‘r u up’ style text to the bachelor’s identical twin instead. But when I thought some more about Araminta’s inexperience and personality, and where her state of mind was at that point in the gameplay, I realised just how anxious she would have been when she realised her error. 

And while Leo is very clearly “if it’s not right for both of us, then it’s not right for either of us” when it comes to sex, Araminta doesn’t yet know that. What she does know is that he flirted with her during her introduction, he accepted her offer, he has a reputation of being a Del Sol Valley villain that he seems to revel in, and that he is the director and creator of the show she is about to become a contestant in. 

While I try to keep real world prejudices and issues away from the Sims since the game doesn’t have those features itself (apart from classism and rich versus poor), as we all know Hollywood and other such industries do have a history of powerful men abusing their influence, which tragically continues to this day. So given their relative positions and the imbalance of power, once I started writing the scene, that became part of the undertone too. 

(For the record, Araminta never thought that the very bad thing would happen - and I didn’t want to touch that. At all. Rather she was convinced that he would develop a grudge against her and spoil her time on the show. And since part of the reason she applied was that her trainer suggested it might boost her profile and help her land sponsorships as a rising star on the professional equestrian scene, she was worried about that too.)

So when she finally enters Leo’s hotel room, I figured that it may take him a while to deduce exactly why she’s being so quiet and nervous, given that he is a five star celebrity and in his mind, perhaps she became a little starstruck once she was in the same room with him. He therefore tries to put her at ease, humanising himself by reminding her that he’s a regular person too (if - in his mind - a completely amazing and perfect one), joking about the chardonnay and encouraging a feeling of intimacy by treating her as a confidant with his Thorne Bailey gossip. Had he actually been ‘just some guy,’ he likely would have realised what was wrong far, far sooner.

Crucially during this, he doesn’t touch her nor otherwise tries to physically initiate things.

However, once he realises that she doesn’t want to have sex with him at all (or as he understands it at the time, has changed her mind), he takes the initiative and attempts to make things easier for her by asking her straight out if that’s the case. She’s still too nervous to speak, so he takes the lack of an absolute ‘yes’ when it comes to sex (in his words, shoving him onto the bed) as a ‘no.’ He then comes up with an excuse to leave the room, which does several things. It physically distances Leo from Araminta, thus hopefully easing her worries and assuring her that nothing is going to happen unless she wants it to. It also - as he suggests - gives her a moment to gather herself and regroup.

And at this along with the “if I end up having the entire bottle to myself, then that’s okay” comment, he’s actually putting in her head that it’s fine to entirely leave the hotel room and go back to her lodgings, if that’s what she wants to do.

After this, Araminta then is in a good enough place where she is able to join Leo in the other room and explain what had happened. Of course, he’s a mean traited Sim and incredibly vain, so there are some snarky comments, but none of them are about her not wanting to have sex with him. And if you look at the content of his messages rather than the wording and jokes, he reinforces his support of her wishes - along with a general pro consent statement - and reassures her that it won’t impact how she’s treated on the show. He also reminds her to breathe (which being a performer, he’d likely know that focusing on that is a good way to limit any pre-gig panic) and suggests she do something relaxing, like getting a massage, after she leaves.

Also with his final comment about how he’s always happy to ‘mentor’ a promising up-and-comer, while I don’t think he’d say ‘no’ if she did ask to sleep with him in the future, I think it’s more an attempt at levity and playing up to his bad boy reputation rather than a genuine offer. He probably really does not want her telling people that he was nice to her, but his threat of how he’d ruin her reputation if she did is clearly a silly one and he's again reassuring her that she has nothing to fear from him, especially since it's delivered with a hug.

Finally I ended with the closing shots of Araminta walking away looking relieved and happy, and Leo perhaps ruminating on just how shitty the world of dating can be if you’re a straight femme type. For all his faults, Ana’s Leo does sincerely love his family and is devoted to them, so perhaps along with the wine, he experienced some rather sobering thoughts of how he’s going to prepare his daughters for all this nonsense to come.

(Sorry Leo, but I’m fairly sure they don’t all turn out to be lesbians.)

So hopefully while I did try to keep things relatively light, I was able to convey all this throughout the scene and not trivialise the issue. If I didn’t succeed, then while I doubt that I will be dealing with consent themes again anytime soon (if at all) in the future, I am sorry and I will do better.

[dustcollectingbones]

The more I work with computers, physics engines, and websites, the more I understand and relate to Colin Becher.

I have begun talking to computers as I’m trying to fix their inexplicable errors and make desperate bargains with them to work (on more than one occasion bargaining with my blood) and now notice I solely refer to any technology as “the machine” in an attempt to avoid humanising it.

[tiloopadoo]

Qsmp Story idea:

Au where none of the eggs died, and probably theyre also humanised, and eventually all the members find their way off the island, but they're told the dragon is ready to collect her kids so they say their goodbyes to the kids, telling them to be good and never forget them. They leave and hope the eggs are in good hands.

But the dragon doesn't exist.

The island has somewhat shut down a bit, the code or magic or whatever that gave the eggs limited lives is gone, and so is all the federation stuff. Now it's only the kids.

They spend their years learning how to be without their parents, they were always smart, so skills aren't an issue, but the loneliness is. There's the strange years where theyre much older than they were before but far younger than the members where it's hard to get clothes that fit right and theyre having to learn about puberty and stuff through trial and error, but theyre making it work.

Until they reach the years where theyre meeting their parents ages. Suddenly they're fitting into their parents old clothes they left behind, and a few more personal things, like Richarlyson, after suffering for years without a prosthetic that fits his leg has come across some back ups that Pac had, and despite the fact they seemed so big when he was small, realises that they now fit on his leg. The pain that they first experienced came back, because theyre realising just how long it's been, they are reaching the age that the youngest parents were when they were kids.

There are multiple ways I can see this story going.

First is just them dealing with the misery while trying to fight to stay hopeful, and maybe they trick themselves into believing it will all be alright.

Second is the federation makes one last moderation and gives the original kids eggs to take care of, and it's either happy because they can see parts of their parents in the kids, not realising it's also a part of them, or it can be sad where they're realising that they barely matured from when they were the new eggs age, despite the fact that it's been so many years, because they only had eachother for so many of them.

And the last is the most interesting, where something the federation did is found and they find a way to get off the island, it's a hard plan to execute, but something that 11 of them can do in a few months time. And they battle with the idea that maybe they're doing this all for nothing, and their parents can never be found, or worse, they don't want them/don't see these now young adults as their children.

It's been stewing in my head for the last hour and I needed to get my thoughts down, but I can't be bothered to write it. If anyone else gets stuck by inspiration from this and writes it tell me, I will read and gush about it.

[reveregret]

i kind of hate the systems i have around posting. checking every single note i get takes up so much time when a post becomes popular. i can't post anything new until i sort through all of that or the traffic dies down. i have to post asks in chronological order, so if i haven't finished the first one i can't go to another. i'm incredibly lucky i managed to get out of the habit of not doing anything except write until i finished my responses. i used to feel the need to get everything out asap to match the submission date as closely as possible, despite saving it in a separate location regardless.

my darling has criticised me for these things before and i have to agree with her. it's compulsive and unproductive. it's unnecessary stress to have these rigid rules. i want to try breaking away from this but it's been so ingrained for the past few years. it's how i've always used tumblr. other sites as well, but the extent is not nearly as drastic. so much of my day to day is simply arbitrary routines that i've imposed upon myself. it's difficult to break out of because whenever i don't fulfil these obligations it's like the world is falling apart. i've damaged a fragile ecosystem and there's no way it could ever recover from any slip-up, right?

this is such a huge reason that stalking got so out of hand before. it became a lineup of tasks, done a certain way, done a certain order, don't get caught, learn all that you can. i had to understand everything possible about someone and i'd develop habits in my attempts to learn about them.

i knew obsessive was a well-fitting term for everything i felt and did, but that definition has taken on a new meaning after my darling reframed many of the issues i'd dealt with. at that point, i never told her about anything i would put on this blog. her own experiences managed to shed a new light on my own. so even though it was directed at unrelated instances in my life, everything i'd boiled down to being an experience with bpd was something i had to reevaluate.

not to say it's not bpd, just that there was more to it than i'd realised. if anything, it goes hand in hand, being a common comorbidity and all. turns out i struggle with ocd too. i was already conscious of this but i never really accepted how it actually played into my life. i mean, acknowledging it just put a spotlight on what was wrong with me, and i didn't want to worry about that more than i already did. i panic enough about my mental state as it is.

even writing this is difficult. i started this as a means to justify my absence. if i don't post something now i'm going to cease to exist. i have to reread every single paragraph, restructure it to reduce as much error as possible and make sure it flows correctly and i didn't completely misstate my intent. i write more than i need to so that no detail is forgotten, sometimes reiterating throughout to ensure further. running a blog and remaining active with all of these expectations i have for myself is difficult to keep up with.

sometimes i don't know why i bother with these personal posts. maybe to humanise myself and be more personally relatable to my followers? maybe to make my blog more than just a masquerade? that's how it started, after all. my main blog could've been enough, but i made a side blog with a new personality to see what difference it would make. even though i gave it up a good while ago, having a space dedicated to specific thoughts makes it define me a little.

i can already tell you exactly who is likely acknowledge this post directly and who isn't, and around how long it may take. i keep track of patterns more than is good for me. not just mentally, but keeping a physical record of everything i do and how others around me interact with each other or myself. the interconnectedness of each detail. it used to be worse while i still wrote every little thing down, but it still festers in other ways. i've been trying to let go, yet everything i miss feels like i'm destroying a part of my own existence.

i don't know if anyone will connect to this post in particular, but i hope it helps someone feel less alone in the way some of my other posts do. i didn't realise how much i needed someone to understand me in this way until i had it. as scary as it is to not give in to any of these thoughts, it makes all the difference. turns out it's pretty nice not worrying about suddenly dying if i step in the wrong place lol

[apthepotat]

AP’s art dump time!! (Part two yippeee :D)

let’s gOoo

Sonic is my childhood and I keep returning and sinking in it AAAND I watched recently sonic prime

so why wouldn’t I be in the fandom and make a sonic oc XD?

even tho I drew this last December coUgh

everyone meet Alice the wolf!

this is the first time I draw digitally full body in sonic/Mobian style :,] and there are errors and I think I need to upgrade her design a biiit- but that can wait I’m still very happy and proud and satisfied with how I drew her - ^^

and with no reference for pose? That is definitely something to be proud of ✨

She’s a 3’8 bubbly sweetie of a wolf that only means well :,D

And gets sick and cold easily like me and doesn’t get out much in winter

She loves crystals and gems as well as tea Aand- she can be a bit childish and playful and she’s really comfy and hanging out with friends

okay enough rambling moving onnNNn- my thumbs starting to h u r t

my stupid scrunkly baby that is too clumsy for his own good/hj

meet Vanilla! He’s a cat-loving,sweet,clumsy blind,affectionate café owner!

.. cat café owner 🚶‍♀️

And he lives in another Au I made that’s named Anilliatale!

he has two children 🍵 and they’re twins and here they are :D!

The boy bb is named Neo and the girl is Poli ^^

they are very chaotic but sweet caring twins and also absolutely loves felines XD

they like to help their papa during the job whenever they can :D

imma digitalise and fix some stuff later

nextttt we have-

One of the artworks I am most proud of this year hshshs- and one of my fav

his name is Tracer-! He’s a variant of Ink from an AM named Destructverse ^^ .. I couldn’t think of a better name it’s - :,D all I thought of in 2021 and stuck to it HSHSH

also for once I adore the background

anddd a year ago I made a “future”(?) version of Tracer XD that goes by Ace

And there he is :D

this is the first time I do an artwork like this like a “reflection” or smth

in this one Ace is sitting against a Sakura tree he takes care of in DV and - well he’s quite an overthinker and memories haunt him

Iii dunno how to explain more without going in a long ramble and dig deep into the lore of the Au-

it’s one AM rn and I don’t feel like it rn HSHSH

one last art work:

A humanised art of ✨ Ace ✨

I finished this art on his birthday so I decided to do a lil ‘birthday special’

Ace and tracer are the same ink variant in DV and Ink ofc belongs to the lovely creator @/comyet ! :D

Anddd

I suppose that’ll be it :D bai bai nowww

[pcrtisuyog]

Marketing Automation Tools You Should Be Using

In today’s fast-paced digital world, marketers are expected to do more with less — generate leads, personalise campaigns, manage customer journeys, and analyse data across multiple platforms. This is where marketing automation tools you should be using come into play. They’re not just a luxury anymore —they’re a necessity for staying competitive and efficient in the world of digital marketing.

Whether you’re a seasoned marketer or just getting started with a digital marketing course by TechnoBridge, learning about marketing automation is a smart move. These tools help you save time, reduce repetitive tasks, and ensure you reach the right people at the right time with the right message.

Let’s explore some of the top marketing automation tools you should be using to boost your productivity and campaign effectiveness.

Why Marketing Automation Matters

Before we jump into the tools, let’s quickly understand why automation matters in the first place.

Saves Time: Automates routine tasks like email follow-ups, social media posting, and lead nurturing.

Improves Accuracy: Reduces the risk of human error and maintains consistency in communications.

Enhances Personalisation: Sends targeted content based on user behaviour and preferences.

Increases ROI: Helps track campaign performance and improve lead conversion rates.

If you're taking a digital marketing course by TechnoBridge, you’ll learn how integrating automation can significantly upgrade your marketing strategy.

Top Marketing Automation Tools You Should Be Using

Here’s a curated list of automation tools that every marketer — whether freelance, corporate, or agency-based — should consider:

1. HubSpot

One of the most popular all-in-one marketing platforms, HubSpot is great for inbound marketing. It offers:

Email automation

Lead tracking

CRM integration

Content management

Perfect for businesses of all sizes, especially if you’re just starting out in digital marketing.

2. Mailchimp

Mailchimp started as an email marketing tool but has now evolved into a full-fledged marketing automation platform. Key features include:

Pre-built customer journeys

Email templates

Audience segmentation

Social media posting

If you're learning about audience targeting in your digital marketing course by TechnoBridge, Mailchimp is a great hands-on tool to practice with.

3. ActiveCampaign

Ideal for small businesses that need a deeper level of personalisation, ActiveCampaign offers:

Advanced email automation

CRM with sales automation

Lead scoring

Site and event tracking

It allows you to connect with users in a more personal, humanised way.

4. Hootsuite

For managing and automating social media campaigns, Hootsuite is a go-to platform. It lets you:

Schedule posts across multiple channels

Monitor brand mentions

Track campaign performance

Collaborate with teams

This is highly useful if you're managing multiple social platforms as part of a digital marketing campaign.

5. Zapier

Zapier isn’t a traditional marketing tool, but it automates workflows by connecting your favourite apps — think of it as your virtual assistant.

Automates repetitive tasks

Connects over 3,000 apps (like Gmail, Slack, Google Sheets)

No coding required

If your digital marketing course by TechnoBridge covers marketing operations, Zapier will come up as a key integration tool.

How to Choose the Right Marketing Automation Tool

Not every tool is right for every business. When selecting tools, consider:

Your goals: Lead generation, customer retention, brand awareness, etc.

Team size and skill level: Some tools are user-friendly, while others require more expertise.

Budget: There are both free and premium options available.

Integration capabilities: Choose tools that work well with your existing systems (e.g., CRM, website, email provider).

Final Thoughts

The digital age has transformed how marketing works. Instead of doing everything manually, you can let smart tools take over routine tasks — giving you more time to focus on creativity, strategy, and customer engagement.

Whether you’re a business owner, aspiring marketer, or currently enrolled in a digital marketing course by TechnoBridge, embracing automation is a step toward mastering modern marketing. These marketing automation tools you should be using aren’t just about convenience —they’re about scaling your efforts, improving your outreach, and delivering real value to your audience.

Start exploring these tools today and watch your marketing workflow become more efficient, effective, and human-friendly.

[studydocument]

Developing Leadership & Management: Lessons from the Holmes Case

Leadership is not merely a title — it is the fine balance of vision, integrity, and influence that steers an organisation toward success or collapse. Leaders shape how teams think, act, and innovate, but when ambition clouds ethics, even the brightest ventures can unravel. This report explores the leadership and management practices of Elizabeth Holmes, former CEO of Theranos. By dissecting her leadership approach, Holmes' risk dynamics, and the organisational traps that contributed to Theranos' failure, the report uncovers key lessons on ethical leadership and sustainable management.

The Situation

Elizabeth Holmes established Theranos in 2003 with the vision of revolutionising healthcare diagnostics by way of a portable blood-test device needing just a finger-prick of blood. The technology promised convenience, affordability, and accessibility — a disruptive concept for an industry based on sophisticated, centralised laboratories. Holmes' vision enthralled investors, healthcare professionals, and the media, making Theranos a revolutionary force. But behind the scenes, cracks were starting to show in both the technology and the leadership that drove it.

Leadership Strengths and Weaknesses

Elizabeth Holmes exhibited strengths that launched Theranos into the headlines. Her networking skills, charisma, and narrative of visionary dreams obtained significant partnerships and investor support. Holmes also built a successful personal brand through emulating the style of technology icons such as Steve Jobs and using her sparse style and resonant voice, further solidifying her reputation as a fearless visionary. Her product narratives, e.g., avoiding needles and relative's cancer diagnosis, humanised the product and made its promise accessible.

But these same characteristics became vices. Holmes' narcissism created a self-interest in individual achievement above scientific honesty. Her refusal to accept criticism, stifling of opposition, and fudging of test results illustrated how uncontrolled ambition destroys integrity. Instead of building on the defective technology, Holmes fabricated performance data and intimidated opponents, leading the company down a path of destruction.

Ethics and the Community

Holmes' ethical violations affected not only Theranos but the wider healthcare system. By thwarting scientific testing of her proprietary technology, she became subject to confirmation bias, disregarding evidence of error and silencing employees who raised doubts. This created a poisonous organisational culture of fear and distrust. More seriously, erroneous test results jeopardised patient health, with false positives and negatives distorting critical diagnoses. Investors, too, were deceived; overhyped accounts of Theranos' potential and profitability skewed the firm's value, eroding confidence in medical start-ups and sharpening regulators' scrutiny of the industry as a whole.

Organisational Culture and Leadership

Holmes promoted an autocratic, vertical organization that put all decision authority in her sole possession. Her board of directors, filled with high-profile but scientifically naive names, had little or no oversight strength and was instead used to enhance Theranos' public presence. Opposing voices were suppressed or silenced, destroying prospects for collaborative problem-solving. This suppression culture constrained innovation, shut down internal accountability, and hastened the firm's ethical and operational collapse. By the time whistle-blowers finally revealed the truth, Theranos' internal vulnerabilities amplified its external weaknesses.

External Factors Influencing Decision Making

External pressures also influenced Holmes' leadership decisions. The expense and inefficiency of conventional blood tests created a real need for affordable alternatives. Theranos' promise of rapid, low-cost testing drew desperate investors and medical partners. Additionally, loopholes in regulatory oversight of laboratory-developed tests enabled Theranos to avoid rigorous scrutiny while offering its services. Limited third-party evaluations — partially because of Holmes' discretion and partially because of enthusiasm within the industry — lessened external disincentives that might have steered the firm on a different path sooner. The promise of profitable disruption of markets, along with regulatory loopholes and a lack of science-based support, encouraged Holmes to favor haste and buzz over precision and ethics.

Results and Lessons Learned

The Theranos implosion was a direct result of poor leadership motivated by personal ambition over organisational development. Holmes ignored the fundamental management practice of developing and building her staff. Her transactional approach to employees as replaceable commodities undermined internal loyalty and raised turnover, adding to instability. In the end, effective leadership reconciles bold vision with ethical accountability and strategic management. Holmes' collapse highlights the importance of leaders nurturing openness, instilling varied perspectives, and adhering to an unambiguous moral compass to construct sustainable, respectable organisations.

Conclusion

The tale of Elizabeth Holmes is an allegory about what occurs when visionary aspiration overcomes ethical responsibility. Leadership involves more than charisma or individual allure — it involves a dedication to fact, responsiveness, and universal management. Holmes' fall serves to remind us that long-term success comes from enabling teams, embracing scrutiny, and bringing innovations to life with integrity. For organizations that want to disrupt industries, the Theranos story is a hard lesson: without ethical leadership, even the most revolutionary concepts are bound to fail under the pressure of their own dishonesty.   If you want to delve further, visit desklib's site and investigate more on this subject with our AI researcher tool. 

[poonamj]

The Importance of E-Learning Voice Services and Voice-Overs in Educational Media

In the current digital age, e learning voiceover has grown in importance for transferring information and increasing talents. One of the most important elements that may improve the effectiveness of e-learning materials is the use of voiceovers. Without the aid of e-learning voice services and dubbing animation, it is impossible to develop interesting, engaging, and simple to access online educational resources. The importance of e learning voice services and the role of e-learning voice services in creating efficient instructional materials will be covered in this article.

Voiceovers to Humanise Online Learning

Because they provide ease and accessibility that are generally absent in traditional classrooms, e-learning platforms have altered the educational landscape. Due to the lack of a real instructor, e-learning may sometimes need a stronger personal connection and interest. Voiceovers for online learning are useful in this situation.

To narrate and clarify the course content, expert e learning voiceover services are utilized in e-learning voice overs. The content is made more accessible, understandable, and interesting by this human touch. The following are some of the major benefits of employing voiceovers in e-learning:

Comprehensibility and Precision:

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Journal: Must never be done!, So what's up foe! part 2

Right now i'm living a normal life and been going out everyday touching grass and no longer fear of outside world as once used to. I have been spoken out about things ever since I began to come out the closet. Have accept that not everything is not always my fault when it come to others action. I'm responsible for my action and decision but won't let myself down due to other response. Now I sometimes share my online activity to therapist, Samaritan and allies. I'm not alone anymore, I become more independent and don't serve any master, confident that can take risk to challenge and spread awareness. Despite behaving like a emo in my descriptions, comments and journals but it's help me to bring up to share my experience. Like I said: Must never be over ever since!. Even i'm monstrous beast but still sentiment humanised being. I make mistakes and bad decision but it must never be over ever since. My foes are dump. People like them with sh**ty behaviours and actions is = totalitarian dictatorship. And they are okay with that. But I don't care anymore because it's not be fault anymore and they can't claim me forever ever after.

I created my entire social media because it was my childhood dream to be artist, content creator, influencer and become popular. In early times, I was mentally ill, naïve and impressionable and haven't uploaded anything until 2 artwork: Inui-loaf and marshmellow boi and then a year later I began to be productive. I was still naïve and impressionable till 2024 before rehab.

I was so used to be indoctrinated into abuse is normal and there are critical excuse. It's how been used as correctional discipline in parenting I was been raised like violence is answer for my parent because they made me behave by fear and pain but result of me being more unstable. Media and social media also normalised abuse. Make mistake, get violent punishment. Left errors, get abusive punishment. Criticise master or guardian or "heroes", get abusive punishment. Didn't know, get abusive punishment. Mistaken things, get abusive punishment. Confused, get abusive punishment. Didn't mean to of no malice intention, get abusive punishment. Accusation about me, get abusive punishment. Conspiracy about me, get abusive punishment. When i got scolded by harsh criticism online that made me snapped days after received that i can't take the abuse anymore. It took me a long time to come out and spoke out about my problem. I'm so used to sympathetic, genuine, mature guardian, so called good guy hero being absolute evil degenerates, it's like Htler did nothing wrong because he tried to revolutionised civilisation and humanity by sacrificing "troubling defected inferior losers (People like me)" while repopulating genetically correct super magical ayran race people but actually the Htler and the Nzi turn out being absolute evil degenerates and done evil atrocity against humanity like dictatorship, h0locaust g3nocide, world war, extremism, traumatising others and more. So yeah, Htler did everything wrong and so the same to so called "Easy to root for, sympathetic, genuine, mature, heroic" abusers.

I discredit degenerates who cause negative impact in my life but I only prefer to credit those who saved my life and myself for rebellion that saved my life. The reason why is to discourage people to think or inspired abuse is the answer and dictating other's life but also the grasp of reaching out to SOS to escape. They just want other's to fail and justified their abusive action as the answer even when it change others. What I saw what happen to infamous lolcow Chris chan of how he allows others especially trolls to dictate his life by keep feeding and engaging the trolls. When bad thing happen, best to get help with support than relay on bad people especially their approval. No one should play god on another's lives, it's domestic abuse. Cut them out of life. Never let anyone dictate my life. My life, never theirs. No excuse for abuse. Don't be like them especially they focus on others.

Why am I compulsive about this? I type down as document journal, venting it all out and express myself. I disorder and trauma will never ends and it's scar I has to live with entire life. The intrusive thoughts always appear at anytime and at moment. What way for myself to deal with it, spoke out to let it off my chest and vent out in artworks and sketches. I wanted to let people know about struggle that they relate, understand and inspired to come out of their closet that they not okay and need help. That's why i'm a emo. I do post and repost positive to cheer things up, not always doom and gloom and share my interest.

Journal: Must never be done!, So what's up foe! Part 1

What's up danger song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y88LVU7MAe4 Prepare for venting insane horns in my sh*t. It's ain't over because it never stop ever since, … is my spirit! My existence and individualism liberty is resistance! I'm ain't sacrifice myself for you, I will never offer myself to you!. Let's start this PUNK RIOT, sang the Baltic revolution song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3BTthay29w) in civil chain loud in ear rape maximum levels at the big bad haux.

Recap I was once naïve, impressionable and fractured, i once believe that people has the right to be toxic and abusive to me for a reason, learnt from my parent. My parent raise me to be beaten down by harsh criticism for primary breaking my spirit successfully thus destroying my self esteem, opportunity, independent by making living in fear along with paranoia, anxiety and avoidance. I was made to purpose to be servant to obediently serve others by claiming me. At the time I don't belong to main world and normal community and society as I anxiety and indoctrinate by my family's propaganda to fear of corruption. My family's creates propaganda misinterpretation me as villain and enemy against society by characterised me like sub-race being. It's the big bad wolf and peasant relationship. I have been an outcast, freaky and weirdo ugly duckling growing up and then isolated. My parent barely give me socialising and support while i'm being the shy and timid, they barely didn't bother give me clubs and volunteer but when did, I get bullied and didn't report my bullies because I was raised to tolerate and be silence. What's worse they mishandled my angst due to damage already been done. I was lost in void and confused but naïve. I became extremely edgy as hell with dark thoughts and believe the world hates me but not radicalism. I had dark anti-social fantasies stuff like violence, killing, gore, hatred, crime and more villainous stuff as at the time that what I suppose to belong due to mistreatment I suffered from my abusive family. That I made a edgy OCs based off it, one a radioactive wolfdog monster and other is pika (Not Pokémon, it's lagomorph species). When I finally get glimpse the normal world by contacted by nice good people and positivity, I was not used to positivity as it's alien and takes time to settle to adapting to adopt positive. They open my inner light as I began to learn a new experience and discover my hidden natural personality like curiosity as example. I gain confident for first time and felt like I can do anything. However all good things come to end as my family took me away by manipulating me back and love bombed me during safeguarding drama. I was back isolated and then returned to hell. The moment my family finally gave up on me and wanted me to be punished by suffering corruption from local authority, community and industry that they think i will return back to them but i just ditch them mediately. It's all over a accusation and then dumped me. I became a refuge but luckily the agent are not corrupt but polar opposite as supportive. I got new home but heck worse when suffering mental illness as my intrusive thoughts schizo gets worse. It took one mistake of mishandled that i was just only trying to have fun that attracted and trigger the wrong user online that push me in breaking point. I tried to resolve but left ghosted without approval but tried to bring closure but still haunted. This negative moment that has impact me that almost destroy my life end but karma's blessing god has save the me with luck, the support workers has helped me into recovery, get prescribe medication and got counselling. I able to recover by keeping attending my local therapy groups. The traumatic stress and uncontrollable compulsive obsession from my psychosis disorder is nightmare fuel and got worse through the years. I first got the early symptom in my teen years of hearing voices in my head and then turn into tulpa of uncontrollable intrusive thoughts. I feel the present of 3rd party character and their interaction but worse it's twisted demonic of malice. Everything i said is real but not my shcizo intrusive thoughts just to let you know.

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