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Greetings, people of intelligence. Please observe the stickypost now residing at the top of this journal. Any Work is appreciated.
Let's start with a facefault - software designed to help HR departments deal with the flood of applicants to all their new positions are rejecting more than qualified applicants, because the keywords and requirements make it impossible for someone to have a resume that gets green lights - unless, that is, they already know what the software will be looking for. It's really rather silly - a firm that knows they're going to get a lot of applicants wants only to consider the unicorns, and so loads down their requirements to the point where even a highly-qualified person will fail out because their relevant experience and schooling is not exactly the right keywords.
Have an example. The degree for library sciences is the MLS / MLIS. It's pretty well the basic requirement if you want to work as a librarian anywhere. In the last few years, however, a trend called the i-school movement has suggested that looking solely at library science is narrowing and ultimately self-defeating for an information professional in the wired, networked, computerized world we have. Thus, i-schoolers graduate, usually, with a Master of Science in Information - an MSI. There may be some letters on the end indicating a specialization, of which LIS is one possibility, but if someone from an i-school were to submit their resume to a library with said software that's trained to look for an MLS or MLIS, then a significant swath of qualified candidates are excluded.
And this, by the way, oh readers, is part of the reason why Filters Don't Work. They're keyed in to keywords and blacklists, which only means they're as good as the de-contextualized keyword searching algorithms they have, or painstaking effort to identify and maintain an unwieldy list of the latest blocked sites. It's impossible to catch everything, and in the process, some legitimate material gets caught in a keyword dragnet. We don't consider this acceptable for police, so why do we consider it acceptable for our technology?
The Dead Pool Literary Society calls forth Ray Bradbury, well-known and well-loved writer, at 91 years of age. Mr. Bradbury was often known for portraying a future full of wonder brought on by the rocket age and atomic spaceflight, before we cynically corrupted it by pointing weapons at each other and disillusioned ourselves of that optimism. Mr. Bradbury never lost that optimism, though, which is clear in the letters that he penned to fans and others, about all sorts of things, all the way to the last piece that he wrote before dying.
Also, Neil Himself talks about Mr. Bradbury and the time that he spent, even with the youngest aspiring writers.
Additionally, the Dead Pool Telvision and Games Department signs Richard Dawson to host a new game show at 79 years of age.
Domestically, what the Avengers would have looked like had, say, they been gender-swapped. That's just awesome. Also, we approve of Katie McGrath as Loki, yes we do.
Governor Scott Walker survived his recall effort, with some very odd exit polling - many Walker supporters said they supported President Obama's re-election. Which is weird - one would think you could not be for the anti-union, anti-middle class Republican and the at least nominally pro-union, pro-middle-class Democrat. Apparently, this is possible. The Infamous Brad suggests that the election failed because Wisconsin Democrats fielded a candidate who is pro-gun control, and that brought the rural vote out in force to oppose him.
A New York federal judge struck down the part of the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act that permits the indefinite detention of United States citizens without charge. The writing says a "blow to the Obama Administration", but that should also be seen as a rebuke of the previous administrator, who started the ball rolling with the indefinite detention of non-Americans. Somewhere in there, there might even be...a conscience.
A Minnesota mother was told by a security person that she could not breastfeed in public, despite state law that explicitly permits it.
In technology, more information about Flame, an apparently nation-state-sponsored malware toolkit currently being deployed in the Middle East, mostly to enemeies of Israel.
If you use LinkedIn, change your password - more than 6.5 million of them were stolen. Also, change your password if you use eHarmony and also, you should probably change your last.fm password. Y'know, it might be worthwhile just rethinking your password schema and generating new passwords for everything.
Into opinions, where it should be obvious that discussing privilege and other hot-button issues can be done like other conversations - do it truly respectfully, and all will be well.
Shall we also discuss what should be requirements for the presidency if we want a well-rounded, well-educated man to lead the country? In addition to the Constitutional ones, that is. This is sparked by candidate Romney saying that he would require all Presidential candidates to have spent three years as a business leader, making sure that none of those community organizers or ranchers or plebes get into the Presidency.
And then, let us have a poor example of trying to make an argument. Graphics and what might be the inkling of an idea about whether the economy is a bad idea for Obama...that is, until going completely off on how much they hate QUILTBAG people and how much they think the mainstream media persecutes known homophobe Mitt Romney.
It would be better if people's journey to find their faith were more like the story that storiteller tells about starting with a faith, finding that there were depths not covered and new perspectives to be explored, and then finally looking for a community that reflected the faith they had come to a conclusion about, all the way being actively involved in discussion of the faith and in the works that faith called people to. It's kind of what we are hoping for, now that printing and electronic publishing are so cheap that each person can not only own and read their copy of the scripture, and now that we have communication methods that allow for communities to spring up that would never have met each other before.
Last for tonight, the reason why there is a character named A-Through-L, a Wyverary, that helps The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairlyland. Also, a really great tribute to libraries. Enjoy.
Let's start with a facefault - software designed to help HR departments deal with the flood of applicants to all their new positions are rejecting more than qualified applicants, because the keywords and requirements make it impossible for someone to have a resume that gets green lights - unless, that is, they already know what the software will be looking for. It's really rather silly - a firm that knows they're going to get a lot of applicants wants only to consider the unicorns, and so loads down their requirements to the point where even a highly-qualified person will fail out because their relevant experience and schooling is not exactly the right keywords.
Have an example. The degree for library sciences is the MLS / MLIS. It's pretty well the basic requirement if you want to work as a librarian anywhere. In the last few years, however, a trend called the i-school movement has suggested that looking solely at library science is narrowing and ultimately self-defeating for an information professional in the wired, networked, computerized world we have. Thus, i-schoolers graduate, usually, with a Master of Science in Information - an MSI. There may be some letters on the end indicating a specialization, of which LIS is one possibility, but if someone from an i-school were to submit their resume to a library with said software that's trained to look for an MLS or MLIS, then a significant swath of qualified candidates are excluded.
And this, by the way, oh readers, is part of the reason why Filters Don't Work. They're keyed in to keywords and blacklists, which only means they're as good as the de-contextualized keyword searching algorithms they have, or painstaking effort to identify and maintain an unwieldy list of the latest blocked sites. It's impossible to catch everything, and in the process, some legitimate material gets caught in a keyword dragnet. We don't consider this acceptable for police, so why do we consider it acceptable for our technology?
The Dead Pool Literary Society calls forth Ray Bradbury, well-known and well-loved writer, at 91 years of age. Mr. Bradbury was often known for portraying a future full of wonder brought on by the rocket age and atomic spaceflight, before we cynically corrupted it by pointing weapons at each other and disillusioned ourselves of that optimism. Mr. Bradbury never lost that optimism, though, which is clear in the letters that he penned to fans and others, about all sorts of things, all the way to the last piece that he wrote before dying.
Also, Neil Himself talks about Mr. Bradbury and the time that he spent, even with the youngest aspiring writers.
Additionally, the Dead Pool Telvision and Games Department signs Richard Dawson to host a new game show at 79 years of age.
Domestically, what the Avengers would have looked like had, say, they been gender-swapped. That's just awesome. Also, we approve of Katie McGrath as Loki, yes we do.
Governor Scott Walker survived his recall effort, with some very odd exit polling - many Walker supporters said they supported President Obama's re-election. Which is weird - one would think you could not be for the anti-union, anti-middle class Republican and the at least nominally pro-union, pro-middle-class Democrat. Apparently, this is possible. The Infamous Brad suggests that the election failed because Wisconsin Democrats fielded a candidate who is pro-gun control, and that brought the rural vote out in force to oppose him.
A New York federal judge struck down the part of the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act that permits the indefinite detention of United States citizens without charge. The writing says a "blow to the Obama Administration", but that should also be seen as a rebuke of the previous administrator, who started the ball rolling with the indefinite detention of non-Americans. Somewhere in there, there might even be...a conscience.
A Minnesota mother was told by a security person that she could not breastfeed in public, despite state law that explicitly permits it.
In technology, more information about Flame, an apparently nation-state-sponsored malware toolkit currently being deployed in the Middle East, mostly to enemeies of Israel.
If you use LinkedIn, change your password - more than 6.5 million of them were stolen. Also, change your password if you use eHarmony and also, you should probably change your last.fm password. Y'know, it might be worthwhile just rethinking your password schema and generating new passwords for everything.
Into opinions, where it should be obvious that discussing privilege and other hot-button issues can be done like other conversations - do it truly respectfully, and all will be well.
Shall we also discuss what should be requirements for the presidency if we want a well-rounded, well-educated man to lead the country? In addition to the Constitutional ones, that is. This is sparked by candidate Romney saying that he would require all Presidential candidates to have spent three years as a business leader, making sure that none of those community organizers or ranchers or plebes get into the Presidency.
And then, let us have a poor example of trying to make an argument. Graphics and what might be the inkling of an idea about whether the economy is a bad idea for Obama...that is, until going completely off on how much they hate QUILTBAG people and how much they think the mainstream media persecutes known homophobe Mitt Romney.
It would be better if people's journey to find their faith were more like the story that storiteller tells about starting with a faith, finding that there were depths not covered and new perspectives to be explored, and then finally looking for a community that reflected the faith they had come to a conclusion about, all the way being actively involved in discussion of the faith and in the works that faith called people to. It's kind of what we are hoping for, now that printing and electronic publishing are so cheap that each person can not only own and read their copy of the scripture, and now that we have communication methods that allow for communities to spring up that would never have met each other before.
Last for tonight, the reason why there is a character named A-Through-L, a Wyverary, that helps The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairlyland. Also, a really great tribute to libraries. Enjoy.
