#it sounded so scripted and like. I KNOW ACTUAL SHIT HAPPENS FROM PHISHING JUST USE A REAL EXAMPLE WITH SPECIFICS

[crystal-lillies]

I understand the importance of cybersecurity training. I really do.

But when the height of a 15-minute training (that is more or less the SAME TRAINING VIDEO from the year before) is just Don't Click Suspicious Links and Look for Spelling/Grammar Errors and Never Give Away Bank Details and Use a VPN on Public WiFi.

My dude. I could cry at this waste of 15 minutes of my life. This is the most reiterated knowledge, some of which is regularly repeated through YouTube VPN sponsorship ads!

Yes, companies need to cover their bases and whatnot but come ON I thought we collectively learned about phishing and scam emails back in the 2000s days of the whole Nigerian prince needs preloaded credit cards scam. Why are we all still being badgered with the same schtick and not on things like, 3rd party tracking data sold to the highest bidder and usage of professional social media that, with everything else, is BEING SCRAPED FOR GENAI HELLO. How is THAT not a "risk to company information"?

Phishing is a problem yeah but for the love of all goodness if we've completed ~training~ on it already, maybe JUST MAYBE. Consider. We don't need to sit through another mind-numbingly generic-ass animated PowerPoint on stuff we already know.

And MAYBE add a slide on your PowerPoint about bigger concerns to protect against.

#flowerspeak #personal #cybersecurity #phishing #ffs i don't even have access to anything I'm a fucking copyeditor #and the 'real world examples' they gave were so generic and vague with no specifics and i. it hurt #it sounded so scripted and like. I KNOW ACTUAL SHIT HAPPENS FROM PHISHING JUST USE A REAL EXAMPLE WITH SPECIFICS #oh hi I'm mary sue and i clicked on a link and i feel foolish now :(. okay what did it look like. why did you believe it. was it convincing #i yelled a bit at my computer dkegod #and ALL the seminars and talks in high school and college abt online safety oh my god #this was less informative than those #my dude we are a generation over 20 years since the dot com boom please understand the world we live in #and if this is geared to an older corporate audience then don't use so many young people stock gifs bc we may be stupid but not like that

[ace-charlie-kelly]

Key Quotes from Glenn’s Interview with FLOOD Magazine

The original interview (which can be read here) is pretty long, but really interesting, so I decided to condense some key quotes from it into a post for a quicker read.

On the show’s critical acclaim and (tied) status as longest running live-action comedy in American television history, despite it never earning a major award:

“We’ve always lived in this weird space where I’ll see an article about the show that talks about it like it’s one of the most iconic shows of the last decade, or whatever, and it fills me with a tremendous sense of pride…But like, we’ve never been on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. We’ve never been on the cover of Rolling Stone. We’ve never won an Emmy…In a way, it’s a little confusing for me.”

“I have my own theories about it…We were so grungy and grimy and ugly to look at as a show early on, and those first impressions really do matter. The show never looked good or polished. Even when the show is talked about in glowing terms, it’s often talked about like it’s a gross pee-pee and poo-poo show. If you read into those articles, it’s like, “They’re gross and they’re crossing the line and they’re hitting all these hot button issues” and if you’re the casual viewer, you read that and you’re like, “Oh, these are just some young fucking kids trying to be gross,” but usually somewhere buried in the article, it also talks about how smart the show is. Though most people don’t even get that far into reading it. What I find is, there’s a certain collection of people who have never really seen the show and always blew it off, and then there’s people who really, really love it and there’s not a lot in between.”

“It’s almost like we’re the Phish of shows…It’s like we were never celebrated but we always had street cred.”

“In some ways, I love it. We were never celebrated but we always had street cred. To be fair, I also don’t think any of us have gone out of our way to court that sort of attention, either. We never did that like, “Let’s all go out and get lunch with the editor of Entertainment Weekly” or throw a big party and invite everybody who votes on the Emmys. I didn’t find out until years later that that’s how a lot of these awards get won. You campaign. It’s like a political campaign. We just never did that. We never wanted to. I’m not sitting here saying we felt like we were above it. I’m just saying it was out of sheer laziness and maybe to a certain degree, not wanting to pander to that type of thing—and early on, not even knowing that’s what people did. Nobody told us!”

On how making the show is different now than it was in 2005:

“Yeah, it was much more of a grind back then, because we didn’t have the staff that we have now. That’s not to say the crew we had then wasn’t good; they were great. It was less and it was new. We were kind of figuring it all out as we went, so there were a lot more calories being burnt daily figuring out how to make this show and figuring out what this show was. We were also producing more episodes back then. It would take us a full nine to ten months from the time we’d first sit in the room and talk about what kind of stories we wanted to tell that year until the time when we were completely finished with the final sound mix of the last episode.”

“I view those years with a tremendous amount of fondness, as difficult as they were…Those first few seasons it was really just me, Rob, and Charlie [Day] doing it and we were figuring it out together. It was a beautiful thing.”

On whether or not shifting perspectives over the years has influenced the writing:

“I’m not totally sure. I will say, as a show, we try to be even more conscious than ever in making it clear that the characters are awful but the people writing the show aren’t awful. I don’t know that we were able to quite think that clearly in those early seasons. My sense of humor has definitely evolved. I’ve always liked entertainment that rattles you a little bit—that’s the kind of shit that I’m looking for and I want to watch, as a viewer. I’ve always just wanted to shake things up. From the very beginning, our goal was to try and find humor in the most uncomfortable corners of humanity and just sort of find humor in the things that are normally considered totally taboo. It’s never been my intention to offend people or do something that’s fucked up for the sake of it being fucked up. It’s always been exploring certain truths about things that happen behind closed doors that we still weren’t really making jokes about in 2005.”

On Sunny’s multi-camera approach to shooting:

“It’s very loose and run-and-gun…We shoot all the actors at once, so we can improvise and adlib and fuck with each other in real time and make sure that all of it is being captured on camera at once…I always had a firm belief from the very beginning that I wanted to shoot the actors all at once, because when actors are acting together there’s a certain energy that happens…I wanted the acting to feel like it wasn’t rehearsed and it wasn’t memorized, although it is very much a scripted show, we adlib a lot and we fuck with each other a lot on camera to get real reactions.”

“I always had a theory that there has to be a “Harlem Globetrotters” feel to it, that we’re all walking on a tightrope and just having a fucking blast doing it. So, even when my character’s yelling and angry, we as the actors are having fun. It’s always my firm belief that if we’re having fun on camera and on stage, then the audience can actually feel that. That sort of philosophy has gotten us further, I think almost more than anything, and has been one of the reasons why this show has competed. That sort of DIY mentality, like, “Look, camera guys, just point the fucking camera at us and let us do our thing”—hell, we didn’t even let the DP put marks down for us for years, because we were like, “We’re going to go wherever the hell we want to go, just make sure the camera catches it.”

On if Sunny could go on forever:

“Yeah, I think the tough thing about it is none of us have lost our passion or love for the show at all. I think if the three of us from the very beginning had set out to be sitcom writers and actors, there’s a chance we could just set everything down and be like, “This is what we want to do.” But it just so happens that the three of us are also very ambitious, and want to do so many other things. We didn’t even start out as comedy guys. My intention was never to be known for comedy. We have other ways we want to express ourselves. That being said, we recognize that we’ve been given this gift of this incredible show and these incredible collaborators and I think if we can all get in the same room for a long enough period of time and carve out that time in our schedules, and if FX still wants to continue making the show, then there’s certainly some version of it that could continue on. If it didn’t, it wouldn’t be for any reason other than we couldn’t come to terms with FX or we just got too busy doing other shit.”

On if the show could go on without some of the main cast members (like Community):

“No, I don’t think so…We tried it a little bit in season thirteen. This has been misreported on a lot: I never left the show because of AP Bio. I needed to take a break from the show because that’s just where I was in my life and the guys totally respected that and then AP Bio came along months and months after I made that decision. AP Bio never pulled me away from Sunny, that was just a personal decision where I was at. The guys just couldn’t…it just didn’t feel right without me there. This is them telling me this. It’s not just me, either. It would be any of us. If Charlie and I tried to make the show without Rob or we tried to make the show without Sweet Dee. This show is the five of us. That’s just what it is.”

#it's always sunny in philadelphia #glenn howerton #flood magazine #cast