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Who Would’ve Thought We’d Be Wearing Masks to Watch TENET
By: Joydwip Mohajon
Tags: Tenet 2020, Hollywood, Movies, Entertainment, December Contest

“The Vid” forced us to close down businesses, almost all sorts. Movie theaters too, leaving filmmakers to postpone the release of their movies while some turned to the doors of streaming services like HBO Max.

As a result, movies like Wonder Woman 1984 — a big-budget superhero movie which should be experienced in the theaters, of course in an ideal condition, for those moments of absolute awe — are being released in HBO Max on the same day as in theaters.

I do support this idea of releasing movies in the streaming services for the current situation and for the international viewers where the movies may not be opening in theaters. But that said, it can’t be the best way to watch a brand new movie. Especially when filmmakers like Christopher Nolan make movies like TENET keeping in mind that viewers will be watching it on the biggest screen possible, there is a reason why. Nolan believes TENET is a movie — with its image and sound — requires an audience experience on the big screen, and he’s right. I mean you wouldn’t get the surreal theater experience when Cap lifted Mjolnir in your HBO Max, would you now?

Then again, releasing a movie in theaters in the middle of a pandemic and expecting it to do well probably isn’t the greatest idea either. TENET’s domestic collection just shows why.

Like I said earlier, in these current situations with all the technology we have available, it’s probably the better choice to release movies in streaming services without any delay. It’s not too bad either to be able to watch WW84 on the same day as in theater in the comfort of your own household.
Don’t Fall for Coronavirus Hoaxes and Conspiracy Theories
By: Jackie Dana
Tags: Health, Conspiracy Theories, Advice, Coronavirus, Life

Don’t panic about news reports

It’s true that whenever a new virus or other disease appears, especially when it jumps continents, there are reasons for concern. When people die, it’s natural to get nervous and start wondering how you can protect your family. But there is no reason to panic just yet.

According to the most recent information on WebMD, there have been confirmed cases in Illinois, Washington, California, and Arizona. So far six people have tested positive in the US, with 165 more being monitored. CNN reports that as of early on February 8 there have been 34,400 cases reported across 27 countries and 720 deaths worldwide.

While it’s unfortunate that people are dying, it’s important to keep everything in perspective. Each year between 12,000–79,000 people in the US alone die from the flu.

Having said all that, this coronavirus is definitely something to take seriously. NPR reports that the virus has so far killed about 3% of those infected, though that number might increase. (They point out that a similar virus, SARS, had a 10% fatality rate). This is higher than the average mortality rate for the flu, which the Centers for Disease Control estimate at about 0.1%.

The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global health emergency to help keep it from spreading. Although it sounds terrifying, that designation simply helps countries deal with the spread of the disease by having virus checkpoints at the borders and other steps necessary to contain the virus.
How To Waste Time
By: Yunus Celik
Tags: Neuroscience, Personal Development, Self Improvement, Personal Growth, Self

1: BIOLOGICAL HARM

The human body operates through the most intricate, sophisticated and beautiful network of organic material known to man. To put things into perspective for every slight movement that you make each moment of your life, your body undergoes an extremely complicated process to make sure that movement not only happens but also happens in the way you thought it, with the precision of action you intended to make.

The body is an extremely fragile system.

Not only must the neural network in our minds think of the action, but we must also transduce that thought into an impulse to send down the nervous system towards our arm, which must then be transformed into a chemical concoction, then release it onto our muscles which causes it to contract and move.

The human body maintains function through the balance of many fragile systems, one of which is the release of hormones throughout the body. One of these hormones which can change the function of the body is cortisol. Cortisol is a hormone that increases the bodies stress responses, those being extra strength, increased focus, decreased hunger and more. However it has been found that prolonged exposure to cortisol is also extremely deadly, and is most likely the leading cause of natural death in the modern era.

I have said before that physiology determines psychology (read: motion determines emotion), and likewise our psychology determines our physiology. When it comes to anger, this is especially true as the computer responsible for releasing hormones throughout the body is — you guessed it — the mind. Findings have shown that activation of the areas of the brain responsible for anger are also responsible for the release of cortisol throughout the body. Remember that hormone I just mentioned — every single time anger fills the mind, the reason it feels so terrible usually is due to the increases in cortisol throughout the body.

And so, anger/hatred = literal biological harm (in some cases premature death).
2 Months of Supervised Machine Learning Curriculum in 2 Charts
By: Megan Dibble
Tags: Supervised Learning, Sklearn, Python, Data Science, Data Science Bootcamp

Add in some cross-validation, matplotlib visualizations, and bam! You are on your way to a complete project.

While I have some time on my hands, I am also contemplating making a “Which Machine Learning Model Are You?” BuzzFeed style quiz for all my fellow data science nerds out there, so stay tuned for that.*

If there is anything in these charts that you disagree with or would like to add to, please comment below or send me a message! Thanks for reading, and if you found this to be a helpful resource, share it with others you know who are learning data science.

credit to canva.com for the templates for these images

*edit: I did not create a quiz, but I did write a short, fun article about it:
The Subtle Sexism of Yesterday and Today: How Sexism Went From Taboo to Mandate
By: Joe Duncan
Tags: Society, Equality, Women, 50 Word Stories, Microfiction

50 WORD MICROFICTION

The Subtle Sexism of Yesterday and Today: How Sexism Went From Taboo to Mandate

Thrifty Words Theme #8: Youth

Photo by Anastasiya Lobanovskaya from Pexels

Once upon a time, our society’s sexism said that a woman wasn’t entitled to her own existence as a sexual being. Now, our society’s sexism says that a woman is only entitled to her existence as a sexual being — and nothing more.

Have we no balance?

Have we no respect?
Yafim Vainilovich talks life as a Pierce County IT intern
By: Andy Orr
Tags: Internships, Student Success, Community College, Career Advice

Green River student and Pierce County intern Yafim Vainilovich

Meet Yafim Vainilovich. Vainilovich completed his associate degree in computer science at nearby Highline College before transferring to Green River College to pursue his bachelor’s degree in software development. This summer, he joined Pierce County IT’s software development team as an intern working on core libraries and internal web updates. Below, Vainilovich talks about on his internship experience and offers a word of advice for college students who are looking for their first tech internship.

What led you to Green River’s software development program?

YAFIM: I heard good things from people that took the program prior to me. Also the cost of classes was a big deal for me as well.

Can you tell us a little bit about your internship experience?

YAFIM: Pierce County IT has a lot of projects. Every time I was given a task, it was always something new, and it was really fun to work on something different every day and to learn a lot of new skills. Recently, I’ve been assigned a project to work on by myself. In this project, I am using an AngularJS frontend and Grails backend to build an OfferUp-like application for Pierce County employees.

What is a memorable experience from your internship experience that stands out?

YAFIM: The most memorable experience for me was getting past a problem that I was stuck on for over two days. Something just clicked in my head. That experience was really good. Debugging a structure for couple of days taught me a lot.

What tip do you have for college students who are looking for their first tech internship?

YAFIM: I probably applied for over 50 internships and only got an interview for Pierce County and that was the internship that I got. I would recommend to not give up and to apply as much as possible, even when you get rejection emails on a daily basis.
Architecting DevOps workflow
Tags: Ansible, Docker, DevOps, Gitlab, Azure

Want to GET a global overview about #DevOps ( CI/CD + #GitOps) check my Architecture, it is based on #gitlab #gitlabci and #azure to deliver applications and provision AKS clusters and Servers, All of them are described by code placed into a Gitlab Repos alongside with a workflow to pass from dev -> pre-prod to production.

Feel free to contact me for any feedback.

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No, we don’t have it wrong but neither do you have it wrong.
By: Mike Meyer
Tags: Future, Diversity, History, Religion, Spirituality

No, we don’t have it wrong but neither do you have it wrong. The problem to me is the failure of the Semitic religions to clearly redefine themselves as spiritual practices dedicated to self awareness. To some of the people who consider themselves still participants in those religions their concept of prayer is a meditation technique focused on awareness and compassion particularly in the face great suffering. We all can share in that.

But the majority are entangled in ignorance and superstition with greater or lesser forms of greed. This slides into the hubris of exclusive power to offer help to others as pitiful losers. And, in the worst case, as an acceptable way to avoid any action justified by racism and other forms of bigotry. And the Christian claims quoting select passages of the mythical Jesus advocating love, etc are such a minor portion of the original cult, perhaps Essenian in origin, as to be pointless. This is what angers ethical people and drives them to denunciation. As it should. The error, if it is made, is failing to clearly define the target of their ire. That is a big error and counter productive for us all leading to the confusion in this essay.

This is not mocking the good but identifying the evil that is dominant in Abrahamic cults and, in my view, present in all forms of religion. The political or personal use of prayer in these contexts to justify inaction is the most disgusting and insulting action to those suffering that I can imagine. Meditative techniques can enhance awareness and understanding but must motivate action to correct wrongs. That is all they can do but that is what is needed.
Financial Charts and Visuals With Plotly in Python
By: Nikhil Adithyan
Tags: Finance, Programming, Data Visualization, Python, Data Science

Financial Charts and Visuals With Plotly in Python

Professional financial charts with less-code using Plotly in Python

Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash

Disclaimer: This article is purely for educational purposes and should not be considered as a piece of advice for making investments.

Plotly for Visualization

One of the most popular packages used for interactive visualizations is Plotly. Plotly is built on top of python and enables data scientists to produce professional and great-looking plots with less-code. It became popular because of its extensive category of plots which can be produced in no-time. The categories of plots include basic charts, statistical charts, ML and AI charts, scientific charts, and financial charts.

In this article, I’m going to walk you through the process of creating interactive and professional financial charts in Plotly with python. We will also explore yahoo’s API for pulling historical stock data which we will be using for visualizations. Let’s get started!

Importing packages

Our primary packages include pandas for data processing, pandas DataReader for pulling the historical stock data, Datetime to deal with dates, finally, Plotly and its dependencies for interactive visualizations. Follow the code to import the primary packages into our python environment.

Python Implementation:

Our next process is going to be pulling the historical stock data for visualizations using the pandas DataReader package.

Pulling Stock Data

For our visualizations, we are going to pull six companies’ historical data namely Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google, and Microsoft using yahoo’s API. Let’s pull the data in python!

Python Implementation:

Firstly, we have defined two variables specifying the start and end date of our data. Next, using the pandas DataReader package, we have pulled the historical data of the companies. Finally, we stored only the close price data of companies in the ‘stocks_close’ variable. Now, we are ready to do visualizations on our stock data.

Area Chart

Often called ‘Mountain’ charts, area charts are a more simplified interpretation of standard line charts. They plot closing prices over a given period, and the area beneath the line is shaded. Follow the code to create an area chart with Plotly in python.

Python Implementation:

Output:
3 Tips To Be More Productive
By: Vanessa Ham
Tags: Sleep, Food, Productivity, Tips, Predict

Everyone struggles with productivity. We all want it, but most of us don't have the strength to get it. I'm going to share with you three tips I have learned over the past few days to be more productive.

Eat A Breakfast With Eggs

The past few days I have been waking up and eating eggs, with some cereal and toast. I find that eating eggs that have protein gives me the energy I need. It also makes me feel healthy, which makes me feel good.

https://www.keckmedicine.org/10-healthy-benefits-of-eating-eggs-for-breakfast/#:~:text=You%20might%20have%20noticed%20that,satisfied%20after%20or%20between%20meals.

Get 7–9 Hours of Sleep

Getting enough sleep is crucial to being productive. You need to feel energized and not tired. But don't get too much sleep, because that can make you lazy and not want to get out of bed. I recommend 8 hours of good sleep.

Make A To-Do List

You don't have to write down all the little tasks you want to get done, but do right down at least 3–5 big tasks to get done. Therefore when you wake up you don't have to think about what to do. I suggest including one fun task that will make you excited.

And that is it. I am not one to be productive, but I like it. Being productive makes me feel like I have a purpose and I am using each day to its fullest potential. Even writing this article was on my list, now I can cross it off and feel good.

Bon Soir!
I Will Build My Own Paradise
By: Simran Kankas
Tags: Heartbreak, Relationships, Poetry, Self, Life

Ever since you walked into my life

There has been chaos everywhere

My heart stepped out one night

On tiptoe without a whisper

There are so many questions

It still wants to ask

Was there a single day

when you loved me

Or this whole time

you were wearing the mask

There was a time when I thought

It was all my mistake

I did not know that

Your emotions were all fake

Let me tell you one thing

Now that I have seen your real side

I don’t want your hell

I will build my own paradise
Birmingham Learning Marathon is GO
By: Zahra Davidson
Tags: Community, Learning, Birmingham, Education, Lifelong Learning

AJ Lightheart

Work-wise, AJ does two things. Firstly they work with leaders and organisations to take wise and timely action in the face of mess and complexity, as well as supporting the growth of inclusive, equitable cultures. Secondly, they’re the co-founder of Tikbox, a growing anti-racism consultancy, working alongside their business partner Suriya Aisha.

AJ is white, able-bodied, neurotypical, queer and trans non-binary. As you might have noticed, their pronouns are they/them.

AJ tries to read a lot and is working on writing more regularly. They authored Presentation Now (Pearson 2015), which was a WHSmith Business Book of the Month. They speak crappy Spanish, German and British Sign Language and have a long-term daily meditation practice.

Their Learning Question is ‘Do marginalised people evolve to interdependent styles of leadership differently than people who are from the dominant narrative?’
The 140 char Guide to Ethereum Development
Tags: Blockchain, Web Development, Ethereum

Step 0: Start the Ethereum Testnet (EthereumJS-TestRPC) by just typing:

$ testrpc

Step 1: Make a new directory you want to develop from, in your environment.

Step 1a: Type in your terminal window:

$ truffle init

If you are moving into an existing directory Step 1a is not needed.

Step 2: Create a new “smart” contract by typing:

$ truffle create: contract filename_of_your_contract

If you’ve already create one, Step 2 is not needed.

Step 3: Once you’ve written your “smart” contract in Solidity, use:

$ truffle compile

Step 4: Migrate your contract by typing:

$ truffle migrate

Step 5: Edit migrations file located in /migrations/2_deploy_contracts.js by changing this:

module.exports = function(deployer) {

deployer.deploy(ConvertLib);

deployer.autolink();

deployer.deploy(MetaCoin);

};

to add this:

module.exports = function(deployer) {

deployer.deploy(ConvertLib);

deployer.autolink();

deployer.deploy(MetaCoin);



// ADD THIS LINE

deployer.deploy(filename_of_your_contract);

};

Step 6: Run the migration again by typing in your Terminal window:

$ truffle migrate --reset

For more on migrations…

Step 7: To test the interaction with you “smart” contract within the Truffle framework type:

$ truffle console

These are the basic steps when developing and testing your contracts on the Ethereum testnet. Again, this article was meant to be short and sweet for developers starting out in a test environment.

Feel free to comment and make suggestions/improvements to this article, if necessary so its up-to-date.

All this information is already public, no entity part of this article owns any of this content. This article was to try and present information more concise and to-the-point for any developer needing a reference/cheat sheet.
‘NOS4A2’: S02.E09. “Welcome to Christmasland”
By: Shain E. Thomas
Tags: Nos4a2, Television, Horror, BBC, Amc

Father Christmas, recognising how Charlie has Wayne use the surname Manx, is more appropriate than Santa Claus. The scene where Wayne signs his name reveals Charlie had the other children use his surname. Charlie literally sees himself as an actual father to the Christmasland inhabitants. Manx being the name on Wayne’s new costume provides definitive proof. Millie, in contrast to her father’s attitude, doesn’t feel Charlie has been the father she deserves.

Millie, angered by Charlie, finally sees her father clearly. Living with his daughter, regardless of where they are, is not something Charlie wants for himself. Charlie, from Millie’s perspective, has failed her as a father. Millie, realising her father never thought her enough for him, wants to leave Christmasland behind. Growing up, something one can never do in the Manx created inscape, is what Millie wants more than anything.

Removing the Christmas ornaments from the trees surrounding the entrance to Christmasland, as we see when Millie removes the one she placed on a tree, is what can save the children. Millie, coming close to death, quickly removes her ornament from a nearby tree. The scene doesn’t explain how it is she knew removing the ornament would prevent her death.

The adult heads seen placed on Christmas trees in Christmasland is a poignant reminder of what happens to grownups in this horrific wonderland. Sheriff Joe Bly (Chris McKinney), last seen in the first season episode Scissors for the Drifter, had been stabbed to death after being forcefully taken to Christmasland. The rest of him, touching on a cannibalistic theme, had likely been consumed by the demonic children.Nathan Demeter’s (Tim Guinee) head, a long with a few others, is also seen attached to the tree.

Maggie, with a demonic child having stolen from her the tile bag, chases the little girl into the Ice Maze. The children in the Ice Maze, inclusive of Wayne, demonstrate a clear and present danger to both Vic and Maggie. Trapped in the Ice maze, with the exit having been iced-over, Vic and Maggie comes face-to-face with Charlie.
How to Simulate Your Return on Ad Spend Before Launching Your Product
By: Dan Pantelo
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking, Business, Marketing, Product Management

How to Simulate Your Return on Ad Spend Before Launching Your Product

Fake doors and multivariate testing can tell you which ideas will sell

Photo by Dil on Unsplash

Is it possible to simulate a product idea that only exists in your head right now?

What if we could understand exactly how customers would react to a hypothetical product — even down to the nitty-gritty details of what your CAC (customer acquisition cost) would be, your ROAS (return on ad spend), and even which ad would work best for any given audience?

If this was possible, wouldn’t it allow us to rapidly assess product-market fit without investing the $50k–$100k required to design, manufacture, and ship a product? Yes, it would. It would be kind of like a cheat code.

About a year ago, my team and I started to work with several well-capitalized entrepreneurs who were launching many different brands and products simultaneously — a business model referred to as a venture studio, which is when a single entity both founds and funds their own venture ambitions. This is in stark contrast to the venture capital model, where one entity founds the idea and the other entity funds the idea.

Entrepreneurs running venture studios have a ton of advantages that skew the odds heavily in their favor. They have experience launching successful products before, they have capital, they have a reliable network of tested vendor relationships, and they have proven instinct.

Their biggest challenge actually has nothing to do with the typical challenges most founders face (funding, team building, ops), but instead has to do entirely with time. They have a lot of ideas and not enough time to execute all of them. Execution against a product idea is at least a six-to-nine-month process that requires product design, manufacturing/logistics negotiations, creative/web/content production, and launch campaign planning/deployment. All this, with only a 20% chance of successfully reaching product-market fit.

A holy grail for entrepreneurs is to find a way to skip all the time and work in between product idea and product-market fit.

This is where we started playing with the idea of combining a design practice called fake doors and a marketing practice called multivariate testing (MVT). After much trial and error, we discovered that by combining the two principles in a strict methodology, we could successfully simulate hundreds of product launch scenarios and tell entrepreneurs which products were worth launching and how (before any product even exists).

I’m going to peel back the curtain and show you how we do it for venture studios, how it works in a three-step process, and how you can apply it to your product idea, no matter who you are.
Contact Us
By: Tds Editors
Tags: Tds Team, Writers’ Guide, Writing

Still not seeing what you’re looking for? You can find all of our FAQs here.

Some of the questions we get asked most often include:

…and more.

If you still can’t find your answer, you can contact us here. Please be aware that we do not reply to emails that ask questions that have already been answered in our FAQs.
ReactJS With Redux.
By: Akarsh Srivastava
Tags: Reactjs, React Redux, Front End Development, React, Redux

Creating a new React application without Redux setup:

We will be having a code directory structure like this. We have removed non-essential files and created a new component — Posts.jsx for showing the fetched posts.

2. We will be rendering all the post on the screen, so we separated that logic in a separate component, and called the component on our parent component, App.js.

3. First, we will be creating a class component and calling it from the parent component. So, create a new file under the components/ folder with the name as Posts.jsx. This file will be having all the component logic to show All Posts on the screen.

4. So Posts.jsx will be containing the below logic, so render the All Posts section.

Here, we have created a div which will be showing all the posts on the click of a “Get all Posts“ button . On the click of the button, it will start fetching response data from the given url. As in fetch api, GET is the default method, it will fetch the response, convert it to JSON format and then set in the posts state.

5. We can have inline styles in this, but it’s better to prefer the external style files for reusability and all. So the external style file, App.css has the below logic.

6. Now, as we have our Posts components ready, it’s time to call it for our use. So, inside the App.js file, we will be calling the Posts component, like this.

import React from 'react';

import './App.css';

import Posts from './components/Posts'; function App() {

return (

<div className="App">

<Posts />

</div>

);

}

export default App;

And App.css with the following style logic,

body,

html {

height: 100%;

margin: 0;

padding: 0;

background-color: black;

}
How to Get the Price of Cryptocurrencies in Real Time Using Python
Tags: Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Programming, Python

Programming

The first thing that I like to do is create a description of the program in the comments:

#Description: This program gets the price of crypto currencies in real time

Next, I will import the libraries needed for this program:

#Import the libraries

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import requests

import time

Now, I want to create a function to get the price of a cryptocurrency. This function will take in a cryptocurrency name and return the price of that coin.

For this function to work properly, I need to get the coin (the cryptocurrency name) and append it to the URL. Then I need to make a request to the website to get the data. Next, I need to parse the text using an HTML parser. And last but not least, I need to find and extract the text that contains the price and return it.

Note: The text/cryptocurrency price is located under two <div> tags. Both of the tags have a class equal to BNeawe iBp4i AP7Wnd . This means all I have to do is find those div tags using the class and extract the text.

Image showing the location of the price/text.

Now, I want to create a main function to consistently show the price of whatever cryptocurrency I want. I also want this program to show the price only if it has changed.

All of this can be easily achieved by creating a variable to hold the most recent price and only print the new price if that variable is different from the current price.

Also, I can create an infinite loop to constantly get the price of the cryptocurrency. A variable will be created to hold the cryptocurrency name and will be the input for the function that was created earlier to get the current price. I will put in a three-second delay so that I give the price time to update and so that I am not requesting the website too much.

Finally, I can run the program by executing the main function:

main()

Image showing the updated price of the cryptocurrency.

Thanks for reading this article. I hope it’s helpful to you all!
Wallet Update Guide
Tags: Proof Of Stake, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Sustainability, Bitcoin

If you don’t have any masternodes, then you are done! If you do, then follow one of the following steps:

Step 2a: If you used the official Linux Controller/Cold guide:

Simply SSH into your VPS and and copy paste all of the following, then press enter:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/XeZZoR/scripts/master/BITG/update_120.sh && chmod 755 update_120.sh && sudo ./update_120.sh

Follow the prompts, then you are done!

Step 2b: If you used the official Windows Hot Wallet guide:

open the new GUI wallet (downloaded in step 1) go to ‘Tools’ click ‘Debug console’ click ‘Wallet repair’ Tab Click ‘Delete Local Blockchain Folders — resync’ The wallet will restart Wait for it to fully sync and start the masternodes on the Masternode tab That’s it!

Step 2c: If you set up your masternodes in another fashion:

Please reach out to us on Discord in the #mn-help or #wallet-help channels and ask us any technical questions you may have! We will be providing full technical support to ensure everyone successfully makes the switch!
Two Bowls Of Oatmeal Find Love In ‘Happiest Season’
By: Mad Dyke
Tags: Culture, Movies, LGBTQ, Comedy, Entertainment

We’re about to enter into the holiday season of one of the saddest and darkest years of human history. What better way to top it off than with a movie about two nearly identical white women falling in love, all while possessing the chemistry of distant cousins who kind of hate each other and, ultimately, themselves.

Starring America’s Only Lesbian, Kristen Stewart, Happiest Season is a new rom com about a dyke, we’ll call her Lesbian 1, who expects to get to know her live-in girlfriend’s family over the holidays, only to find out she hasn’t even mentioned her existence to them. Like most movies about gay people, it focuses entirely on how gay the characters are and about how gross and weird that is.

As in any healthy relationship with open communication, Lesbian 2 doesn’t tell Lesbian 1 she’s still in the closet until moments before they arrive at her family’s house. We find out she told her family her girlfriend is an orphan with whom she lives. I’m not sure why “roommate” wasn’t a better option considering idk how funny people without parents (like a lot of queer kids!) will find this joke — *especially* around the holidays. (FFS!!!)

Calamity, of course, ensues!! There’s lots of really funny jokes about gay stereotypes and the gender binary, with a sprinkling of playful homophobia — all the things the cishets need to feel calm and soothed around the homosexuals. There’s even a sassy white gay male best friend! (To trick the straight women into watching.) We see the parents walk in on Lesbian 1 and 2 while they’re making out in bed, reassuring audiences they won’t have to see any holiday fingering. And the diversity in Happiest Season is stunning — there’s so many different shades of white people in it.

At the end of the 2-minute-and-28-second trailer, which I guarantee is no different from watching the entire film, Lesbian 2 says she hates herself and that’s why she hasn’t come out to her family yet (what a twist!). Lesbian 1 is like, “yeah but you brought me here when I could’ve been with my actual family just because you don’t know how to communicate, so like this is kind of all on you.” Idk if that’s what she says but that’s what she should say because this is all a huge red flag!!

The movie is already making milestones, like being the first gay holiday film straight people felt comfortable investing money in. Lucky us!!!

I, for one, can’t wait to watch these human pea coats get engaged.

This post was sponsored by Hulu and they are very happy I wrote it.
You Have No Business in B-School
By: Arun Solanky
Tags: Education, College, Business, Business School

The other argument business schools make is that the undergrad degree gives students a “broad survey of business topics.” Frankly, it seems pretty reasonable. How many high school seniors can determine their career path? When I was 18, I desperately wanted to be a diplomat. Anyone who’s ever spoken to me knows I’m a tactless boor.

The issue with this approach is that undergraduates don’t have enough context to get anything out of their survey-of-business classes. Don’t take my word for it: Top MBA programs require several years of management experience. Why? Because without any background, business school just isn’t that useful. You can’t meaningfully engage with discussions about leadership if you’ve never led. Marketing strategies don’t mean anything if you’ve never had to sell. Precisely for this reason, elite M7 Business schools like Northwestern or Stanford don’t have undergraduate business majors — they feel they would add little value for undergraduates. Of course, this isn’t always the case: Some people come into undergrad with significant leadership experience, often from their time in the military. Personally, I’ve found that this minority of older, more mature students seem to get a lot more out of their degrees, underscoring the value of prior experience.

Business schools’ milquetoast half-technical, half-liberal arts approach reflects a deep ennui among university administrators. If The College Experience™ doesn’t make you job-ready, what’s the point? Why are students racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt? The point, they ought to realize, is to produce capable graduates, rather than technically sophisticated ones. College is well suited to teaching you how to think, not how to work. While universities struggle to provide excellent vocational educations, they excel at delivering liberal arts educations.

To “leverage” some corporate buzzwords, it’s time for business schools to lean in to their core competency.
#FigmaTip Roundup 8.0
By: Valerie Veteto
Tags: Tech, Design, UX, UI, Product

Welcome to our #FigmaTip Roundup where we pull our favorite Figma mini-lessons from the design community. If you’d like a refresher on past installations, click these links for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.

Visually customize project thumbnails so you can find them in a cinch

Zoom through the layers panel with these shortcuts

Speed up your workflow with these selection shortcuts

Copy/paste any property On Macs: command + option + C

Use nested components to propagate changes in your design system

Toggle between pages by hitting the mysterious “fn” key

Use boolean operations for a smoother ride with Material Design — only available for those on Styles Beta

A huge thanks to everyone who has submitted a #FigmaTip! And a special shout-out to Ben Fryc, Miguel Solorio, Anton Lapko, Joey Banks, Thomas Lowry and Rasmus Andersson whose tweets are featured in this #FigmaTip Roundup.
5 Data Visualization Python Projects
By: Rowena Chang
Tags: Codelikeagirl, Python, Data Visualization, Data Science, Personal

Netflix Stock Profile

Photo by freestocks on Unsplash

In this project, you will act as a data visualization developer at Yahoo Finance! You will be helping the “Netflix Stock Profile” team visualize the Netflix stock data. In finance, a stock profile is a series of studies, visualizations, and analyses that dive into different aspects a publicly traded company’s data. For the purposes of the project, you will only visualize data for the year of 2017. Specifically, you will be in charge of creating the following visualizations: - The distribution of the stock prices for the past year - Netflix’s earnings and revenue in the last four quarters - The actual vs. estimated earnings per share for the four quarters in 2017 - A comparison of the Netflix Stock price vs the Dow Jones Industrial Average price in 2017

Netflix Quarterly Data

Earnings Per Share

Netflix Revenue vs. Earnings

Netflix and Dow Jones Subplots
Naked Raygun: Chicago’s first post-punk band
By: Amelia Diamond
Tags: Post Punk, Music, Naked Raygun, Politics, Chicago

In the early 1980s — when blue eye-shadow and big hair was all the rage — Naked Raygun made pop-punk history.

Founded in 1981 by guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Marko Pezzati, Naked Raygun emerged from the shadows of the Chicago music scene.

The band broke musical boundaries in the United States and became one of the first bands to adopt the artsy post-punk genre, which was already popular in the United Kingdom.

Taking on this post-punk sound by mellowing out the hardcore/punk influences in their music with catchy melodies did not discourage the band from using their music to loudly express their personal political views — a classic characteristic of hardcore punk music.

Harris, Marc. “Naked Raygun.” AllMusic, cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/411/MI0001411977.jpg?partner=allrovi.com.

The band used their unique sound to captivate audiences and eventually built a reputation for speaking their minds, which was infectious with Chicago college rock crowd.

With songs like:

“Wonder Beer” (1989)- lyrics

“Treason” (1989)- lyrics

and “Soldier’s Requiem” (2006)- lyrics

The band addressed a broad spectrum of issues: anti-war/peace, government/poltics, mental health/depression, alcoholism, and many more.

The blunt outspoken “macho” attitude of the band separated itself apart from the classic mold of arty post-punk. However, the combination of raw emotion and deep political messages hidden in the simplistic lyrics juxtaposed the melodic tunes the band was known for; therefore, distinguishing Naked Raygun from other punk bands in the area.

Historical Impact on Chicago’s Music

Naked Raygun’s unique blend of pop melodies and meaty “metallic guitar sounds” lead upcoming Chicago bands (i.e. Fall Out Boy, Alkaline Trio, Rise Against, and Lucky Boys Confusion) to cite Naked Raygun as their main musical influence.

It is true that Naked Raygun was one of the first post-punk bands to form in the United States; however, the band refused to conform to any musical formula, making Naked Raygun a vital component of the unique pop-punk music to originate from the Windy City of Chicago, Illinois.

Connect with Naked Raygun

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/NRpunk/about/?ref=page_internal

Official Website: http://nakedraygun.org/

Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2KWOkrj19TKU1ik6tugH4y

Sources Used

Band Biography: Prato, Greg, and Steve Huey. “Naked Raygun Biography.” Naked Raygun , www.facebook.com/pg/NRpunk/about/?ref=page_internal.
Le Gentside Esports Club représente la France aux European Masters
By: Groupe Cerise
Tags: Media, Gaming, League of Legends, France, Esport

in Both Sides of the Table
How to use UTM campaigns to get massive online audiences
Tags: Product Design, Webinar, Live Streaming, Live Video

There are many ways to market a crowdcast event. The entire event is simply one URL so the easiest was is to simply share the event URL to all your social media and email channels.

The problem is that it’s hard to tell which channel is doing the best job at bringing attendees. And without knowing which channel to focus on, you can’t double down on the channels that work.

That’s why we’ve redesigned our analytics dashboard and added UTM tracking metrics.

We created a video below to show you how it works:
A Curated List of 100 Cool and Fun Public APIs to Inspire Your Next Project
By: Angelica Dietzel
Tags: Tech, API, Machine Learning, Programming, Software Development

A Curated List of 100 Cool and Fun Public APIs to Inspire Your Next Project

Humor, food, machine learning, crime, sports, and more

Image by AndSus on Adobe Stock

As a beginner developer, some of the first questions you’ll ask yourself and others are:

What projects should I work on as a beginner?

What makes a good side project?

Where should I start?

If you aren’t fond of the basic to-do list, calculator, or some type of clone answers, then the perfect place to start is by building interesting applications around public-facing REST APIs!
A Known Friendship
By: Suntonu Bhadra
Tags: Blue Insights, Poetry, Friendship, Dogs, Poem

A Known Friendship

In Words

Can I be your friend?

I will blend in with your feelings.

Let me tell you how I feel.

I will clasp you close when I return home,

You will tell me,

About your emotions, pain, sorrow, suffering, joy in an unknown language.

I will put the words of our tie, in poems and tales- of our story.

Next to your ears, I will touch your golden hair.

You will close your eyes in joy, and enjoy.

And as soon as I move my hand, you will say,

‘Woof, woof!’

Oh, my Golden Retriever,

Will you be my friend?
Will NPR Snobs View Trade School Graduates As Cultural Equals?
Tags: Education

NPR’s All Things Considered posted an article 4/25/18 titled “High Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty While High School Grads Line Up For University”.

Students should be encouraged to consider these occupations if they are naturally imbued with mechanical aptitude.

However, the sorts of leftwing elites that gravitate towards NPR need also be asked a question or two regarding their own promotion of this alternative career path.

Should students pursue a trade school rather than the academic route, will the biases of technocrats result in a sort of caste system where those not credentialed in the liberal arts or higher science backgrounds NPR types prefer as their equals be excluded from weighing in on cultural concerns?

Punitive sanction might be imposed upon any daring to raise a voice beyond the narrow concerns of their servile guild craft.

In the olden days, this used to be looked down upon as articulating opinions above or harboring aspirations beyond one’s station.

Already teachers look down upon parents that raise concerns seen as infringing upon a profession that the parents have themselves not been schooled in.

It must also be noted that many of these trade jobs are highly paid because they are quite frankly labor intensive and often downright dangerous.

So what will be done with those pushing into their late 40’s and early 50’s whose bodies are worn out by that point but who do not have the academic qualifications to move on into work considered more white collar in nature?

Sure the pay is good when one is able to bust one’s back.

But soon as the back is busted, some of these employers are ready to toss aside workers that barely missed a day the previous twenty years if the employee is unable to return to the job full steam ahead a month after surgery to repair injuries aggravated by these glories of proletarian labor advocated by this vanguard that hasn’t lifted a finger at all.

By Frederick Meekins
The Pollinators — VIFF 2019
By: Jennifer Hammersmark
Tags: Bees, Regenerative Agriculture, Review, Movie Review, Farming

Peter Nelson is a filmmaker, director and beekeeper.

Peter Nelson at VIFF 2019

I want to stand up and applaud Peter’s amazing ability to tell this very important story. His flow, the way in which he caught the expressions of the subjects, how he captured the beauty of the landscape, and the way that he explained the details in simple terms are all nothing short of perfect.

I learned a TONNE about bees, how they operate, what is happening to them, why they are important, and what we should be concerned about.

What I appreciated was that the film ended on a note of hope. It not only talked about the disaster that we have created (yet again — us stupid humans), but also gave some ideas of how we can turn this around. I like it that there is still something that we can do, even on an individual basis.

Watch The Pollinators for yourself. It is educational, informative, poignant, and illuminates an issue that all people should be aware of.
Kin: Three Years, Dozens of Developers, Millions of Consumers. And It’s Just Getting Started.
By: Kin Ecosystem
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Crypt, Technology, Bitcoin

Three years ago Kin went live inside the Kik Messaging App. At that time, more than 10,000 people from 117 countries purchased Kin and joined the movement to build a more fair digital world.

In the three years that have followed, over 40 million people have acquired Kin across an ecosystem of more than 50 independent apps. The Kin Whitepaper concluded with the following statement:

“Kin will bring to fruition a new era of decentralized community ownership, enabling a vibrant ecosystem of digital services that power daily life.”

While it is still early, Kin has made good progress towards fulfilling this vision. Kin has become the most used cryptocurrency by mainstream consumers, and the ecosystem only continues to grow.

“It has been gratifying to witness the birth and growth of the Kin ecosystem and its community across a spectrum of developers, applications, and services. Despite the challenges encountered along the way, the groundwork is solid for continued progress and a great future ahead.” - William Mougayar, Kin Foundation Board Director

In this post, exactly three years since Kin first launched, we take a look back at how Kin has evolved and look ahead to where the opportunities lie. Below are just a few key milestones so far.
When You Listen to Your Intuition But Don’t Follow Through
By: Rasheed Hooda
Tags: Lottery, Law Of Attraction, Intuition, Life Lessons, Money

Two of my mentors have taught me that there is only one source of your income. This Source can choose any of infinite numbers of channels to deliver it. We limit the providence by insisting on which channel we want it to come through.

When we open ourselves to receive any way the Universe sees it fit, we open ourselves to surprise and delight.

Recently, the Universe blessed me with a gift of a sizable amount of cash, out of the blue. Though it wasn’t a hundred thousand dollars, it was large enough to make me ponder upon how we receive money.

Did I really turn down $100,000 because of my unwillingness to part with $30? Then I thought about what I had said at the time.

“Too rich for my blood.”

Was I talking about the $30 or the $100,000 that was too rich for my blood?

Today, I know. Though it may not have been a conscious choice, I was undoubtedly referring to the $100,000. My mental and emotional state at that time wouldn’t have known what to do with it. I would have turned out to be one of those proverbial lottery winners who end up back where they were before the winning, in no time flat.

BTW, I have no doubt, none whatsoever, that the ticket held the winning combination for the $100K prize. Someone who didn’t think that it was too rich for their blood was rewarded by it. Can I prove that? No! But that doesn’t change my conviction.

The moral of the story is that you must be prepared to receive before you ask.

Because the Law says, “Ask, and it is Given.”

As always, thank you for reading and responding. I hope it was time well-spent.

If you are so inclined, you could buy me some chai.

Graphic created by Rasheed Hooda using Canva

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Wrap Around the World
By: Wolfie Bain
Tags: Life Lessons, Poetry, Poems On Medium, Love, Relationships

Wrap Around the World

Poem

Photo by Ichigo121212 on pixabay

June thirteenth nineteen ninety-five

great great day wider than the centuries

Björk sings wilder speeds of light

I’m looking after an apartment

on the twenty-first floor

in San Francisco at ground level

everything smells clean and I walk

into the bookstore named names after Ernest

Hemingway and hold the book

that I want that won’t reinvent the world

but rather topple it and let me let me

begin by turning the pages one by

one with plum fascination that all things grow

Wolfie Bain