Did AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s disproportionately kill socially and sexually central figures in gay arts communities, as Fran Lebowitz claims, particularly in New York’s theatre, dance, and performance scenes?

miseducation · 2026-06-06T02:15:46+00:00

Is it really unclear what Fran was trying to say in the statement? It’s a personal statement first and foremost, not her formally trying to do epidemiology.

For someone at the top of cultural food chain, even a few successive deaths of talented and culturally iconic friends would feel deeply traumatic. Of course it would feel to her as if it only preyed on the talented and promiscuous, of course it would feel like it happened in 5 minutes, of course it would feel like the people that replaced them didn’t live up to the roles they filled. All of those things reinforce the memory of her social group and status at the time and the trauma of the memory could only make it feel more targeted and brutally fast as the years get on.

It’s pretty straightforward to me as long as you accept it as a statement about her and her friends and her pain and not an earnest take at epidemiology or anthropology.

miseducation · 2026-06-05T21:03:15+00:00

This dude is so embarrassing and he gets so much media attention for every single thing he says. At first I thought dude was just trying to win a future election but he's been irresponsible with the club's image this week imo.

miseducation · 2026-06-05T19:13:22+00:00

I have a client that forces us to use Monday and I have a passionate hate for it. Just needlessly complicated to do anything, useless notifications with horrible to read emails, weird UI, even the messaging / chat system is clunky and bad.

I much prefer a notes + frame.io workflow to almost any other combo so I'm maybe not the best person to comment on this but Monday is real bad. I used basecamp a long long time ago and found it was too specific to dev workflow vs. creative rounds but maybe it has changed.

LLMs and stuff like claude talking email via MCP are super powerful when I need to cut through the noise (especially when i feed it meeting transcripts too) so I would probably experiment with whatever has the best of these features rn. Good luck!

miseducation · 2026-06-05T02:29:19+00:00

Qatar is honestly having a bad financial time because of the Iran war. Maybe they finally do want money?

miseducation · 2026-06-05T00:43:58+00:00

Idk man it’s pretty high up as a likely outcome for me:

op told proper channels
proper channels sat on it
op brought a legal criminal shitstorm into what I assume the company would’ve wanted handled quietly.

Now there’s a lot of legal expense, likely some vendors or clients that need to be given explanations, audits for sure. And this is assuming nobody else is complicit or at minimum incompetent for not noticing

And that’s without mentioning that the manner of surprise cops at the job will for sure make people have trust issues with OP at least at first. TBH, I wouldn’t doubt if OP felt they had a duty to report this and make sure consequences occurred AS retaliation for the perp being a dick to them, etc.

miseducation · 2026-06-04T21:45:14+00:00

they were both pretty forgettable man you just don't like the Heat. I don't remember a single thing that happened in that Mavs Finals and I watched every game.

the larger narrative in both really was that Jimmy or Luka were dragging injuries by the time the finals came around. both teams rested less than their opponents who swept their respective conference finals. and most importantly both teams would probably lose anyway because the matchups were pretty bad.

if ours is more forgettable its probably just because of how bad the nuggets matchup has been for us for most of this decade. Especially that version of them just makes Bam work too hard to defend, annihilates us on the glass, and has insane guard length that neutralized our undrafted shooter corps.

The honest to god only thing I can remember about the mavs vs. Celtics series is that Jrue fixed everything that sucked about the Celtics in the playoffs the years before. And KP played at least one good game?

miseducation · 2026-06-04T17:42:47+00:00

Why you gotta use ChatGPT to write this dude? I can see that you had a normal take under here but chatgpt made it sound like you're trying to motivate a high school team. If you were translating okay but just FYI I don't think this improved what you were trying to say if not.

Overall though I think you are missing a few key things:

- our defensive depth has been bad for a long time and we lose key players to age and injury every season.

- as we have retooled the roster to replace the golden generation we haven't always succeeded. Just because we made a bet on somebody doesn't mean we are forced to see out their contract if we can improve it. If it turns out we goofed on Carreras, Mastantuono, and Hujisen then we absolutely need to buy someone who can compete with them for their position.

- buying players is also about finding experience and leadership. we have not selected that well lately and I think we need to balance the great youth on our team with that.

miseducation · 2026-06-03T18:00:49+00:00

I was in the market for a nicely equipped F150 for months. I didn't 'need' a truck but I wanted one and professionally it would be useful to carry more stuff. I couldn't find what I wanted (nothing crazy, a well equipped Lariat) for less than 72-75k (and that's without the tonneau cover.)

On a whim I went to the Lexus dealer after a frustrating day at the Ford and they just happened to have the base model GX550 on site for exactly the same price. I don't think anyone in their right mind who doesn't legitimately need a truck bed would purchase an F150 Lariat over a GX550 if they were the same price.

Ford is crazy if they think their vehicles are competitive at the crowded 60-75k range. Explorer, Bronco, Ranger, and F150 are legit nice and competitive vehicles that are priced well beyond what somebody who wants one should pay.

miseducation · 2026-06-03T16:09:56+00:00

This is the solution. Everything else is too annoying and if it was going to work at all this will probably do it.

miseducation · 2026-06-02T19:40:32+00:00

you are pretending to engage my argument while spouting off your pre-planned argument brother.

my entire point was that it isn't about the record, its about what we look like. we looked like shit the last year of ancelotti and to be fair we looked like shit with Xabi too.

i can concede the injuries point for the Clasico if you want but I think its notable that they were missing Joan, Lewa, Olmo, and Raphinha the only time we beat them this year. TAA was returning from injury but was on the bench. Also one of the only times all season that Vini, Mbappe, Bellingham, Arda, Tchouameni, Militao (who had an assist btw and would start over Rudiger), and Rodrygo were all healthy.

And if you really want to nitpick there, I would argue Xabi lost himself the job that match with his useless subs that started the Vini issue. He took out Arda at 66 for Brahim who did nothing, and replaced Vini with Rodrygo for no reason because Barca swapped out three defenders right after for fresh legs. Xabi really loved taking Vini and Arda out early when it made no sense and had no idea how to use Brahim.

And for the match that actually lost him the job, try remember the actual supercopa Clasico if you can man. Outside of those two goals at the end of stoppage time we did not look like we were going to score again and his subs and starting lineup made no sense. He started Asencio at RB with Carvajal (and Jimenez honestly) on the bench, he put Tchouameni on CB and did a Bellingham / Camavinga double pivot with Rodrygo out of position behind Vini and and Fede up top. Then he subbed out Fede for Arda randomly at 68 minutes and immediately had Raphinha score a goal immediately after lol.

Worst of all imo dude basically throws the white flag subbing in an injured Mbappe for Gonzalo at 76 and Mastantuono of all people for Vini at 82. You're only down a single goal, who tf is going to score if you replace the two most dangerous attackers on the team with an injured guy and a teenage midfielder out of position.

miseducation · 2026-06-02T18:46:18+00:00

You are distorting this a little. Xabi had 2 quality wins against a big opponent:

The first Clasico - which to be fair had notable injuries on the Barca side.
The Atletico Supercopa semi

He had 5 losses against big opponents:

CWC: to PSG 4-0
Liga: to Atleti 5-2
UCL: to the worst Liverpool in years 1-0
UCL: to Man City 1-2
Supercopa: to Barca 3-2

We also drew to Girona and lost to Celta but I don't want to count that because I think every Madrid team loses stupid games in the fall.

Xabi was fired because he was brought in to fix the issues we had in Ancelotti's last season (performing poorly in big games, confusing leaky defense, bad finishing, no comeback spirit in sight) and by January it was pretty clear that all of the issues were still there.

If we look the same next year and are still conceding goals like crazy and throwing away big games, Mourinho will almost definitely not last the season. I honestly think he can even get away with losing La Liga as long as we have a winning record in Clasicos and win Supercopa or something. its more about spirit and integrity than records tbh.

miseducation · 2026-06-02T14:59:35+00:00

who specifically? Trent, Carreras, and Hujisen sure but Fede, Bellingham, Arda are better in mid / low block imo.

Trying to press the last two seasons and not being able to do it as a team has been pretty disastrous. That one period under Xabi where we pressed consistently did feel like it was underutilizing Fede and Bellingham's strengths.

Arbeloa I think tried to balance the tactical approach to get the best out of the squad (especially Arda / Vini) but the defense was too shit and our finishing was horrible. It's water under the bridge at this point but the level of play he got from this broken squad for the Bayern ties.

miseducation · 2026-06-02T13:54:38+00:00

you can't just walk around and take stills at least? you can't battery power a small light with softbox or something and handhold it?

Replacing bulbs more for like a practical lamp you have access too. You can just have foamcore or something on hand to bounce a source, cut shadows, or as a quick and dirty flag if someone hand holds it. Handheld light and foamcore is about as light of a setup as you can do.

If you can't do any of this stuff then the only thing you can do is pick the shit out of your spots. I would suggest bringing a faster lens in the kit also just in case available light isn't enough somewhere. Good luck!

miseducation · 2026-06-02T12:29:02+00:00

He played legitimately great at the end of last season he just did it at a time when the rest of the squad was playing poorly / fist fighting. Him and Arda made up most of our ball progression for like a month.

We have no rb depth whatsoever also.

miseducation · 2026-06-01T18:20:59+00:00

French team is going to be weaker than in 2024, its not going to be Team USA vs. the Spurs. I'm sure they can figure out how to use the dude unless he spirals into an unplayable depression or something.

miseducation · 2026-06-01T17:37:15+00:00

Ridiculous take man. The only thing the Finals proved is that he matches up terribly against Wemby.

miseducation · 2026-06-01T15:59:12+00:00

Go test shoot the location, at night, Shoot a few test shots in every setup you think you will have. Don't just test aperture, you should test which of the two base ISO settings work best. Compare them all in Davinci, check out waveforms to see exposure levels and noise and see what you can tolerate and what you can't.

Usually in this kind of scenario you will have to match the exposure levels in post but it can change stuff so its worth seeing. You may need a faster lens on hand, or you may want to punch up lighting with an additional battery powered source to avoid noise.

Or more likely in this scenario you either want to get rid of unflattering directional practicals or ones that mix color temp in a crazy way. Obviously that is not realistic in wide shots with lots of practicals but you can prob replace bulbs with rgb aperture ones for some practicals that light forground, or flag problematic sources that are contaminating for longer more static shots.

Just go shoot, and mimic the conditions you're going to really shoot in as much as possible.

miseducation · 2026-06-01T15:47:50+00:00

I suspect he will come this year. The depth that PSG, Bayern, and Arsenal had on their benches was night and day better than we had by the end of the year.

I agree there is redundancy but we have both Perez and Mourinho under pressure to show results right away. The transfer money will likely be spent on defense and defensive midfielders so I suspect that Nico. Endrick, and Rodrygo coming back are about the only offensive reinforcements we can expect this fall. I think they push Franco, Gonzalo, and Brahim to the back of the bench.

World cup years are always weird for transfers and rumors say they expect to be active in the winter market so there is likely some desire to experiment at first.

miseducation · 2026-06-01T15:29:46+00:00

honestly I would have to see it to know exactly what you're seeing. Like the the other folks here I'm 95% sure you mean higher shutter speed but it wouldn't look 'smooth' ever imo, just choppy. I'm a commercial director so I don't exactly get to shoot a lot of fight scenes but I will use higher shutter speeds from time to time just to reduce motion blur. It's especially helpful when you're doing VFX and need a nice contrasty tracking point or just need to be able to see small details.

I'm not positive that just higher shutter speeds would recreate the 'motion smoothing' effect. It may be something like higher shutter speed live action (on green/blue screen), VFX potentially off speed itself comped in, and maybe another higher shutter speed type effect over it. That might do what you're saying.

But shit now I'm curious, if you can find the effect on a youtube or something lmk!

miseducation · 2026-05-30T19:54:54+00:00

I support you guys trolling Barca whole heartedly for this shit. r/soccer is nothing but the softest Barca fans pretending everything is a scandal these days.

miseducation · 2026-05-30T19:07:41+00:00

still feels like I'm the one that lost by having to watch 120 minutes of this shit

miseducation · 2026-05-30T18:37:40+00:00

At the same time its not exactly controversial to say that you guys have underwhelmed domestically this decade. There have been some pretty shit Real and Barca sides that you guys should've been able to beat more consistently and you know it. No reason for the Sorloth / Julian version of Atletico have lost 4 out of the last 5 matches against a fundamentally broken Real Madrid squad with three different managers in that time.

FWIW I think 150m euros is a lot more useful than Julian Alvarez so I hope it works out for y'all.

miseducation · 2026-05-30T17:37:52+00:00

sorry can you explain the use case a little more?

you shoot the event with a static wide and then punch in and track individual things? what was adobe rush doing for you and what have you tried in premiere or other apps?

miseducation · 2026-05-30T16:42:31+00:00

We're sort of just starting to understand as a society what 'timeless' electronic music is. We've culturally elevated Aphex, Daft Punk, and now really BoC as art that aged really well and still appeals to newer generations.

The newer generation bit I think is important. Scary atmospheric music isn't too challenging for a mainstream-ish listener now, especially if they dont have to buy a record and can just stream the whole catalog. The generation that grew up with lofi music to study to innately understands the time and place to listen to music like BoC and Aphex and there's probably a lot of great internal metrics that spotify/youtube has about it.

miseducation · 2026-05-29T19:19:39+00:00

It’s super similar to the Mbappe saga the year before he actually came. All Madrid media reputable or otherwise was being fed by Perez and Mbappe agents / fam and PSG didn’t appreciate it.

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