Meredith Matthews @braindouche@qoto.org

Considering the past 25 years was basically just implenting original thoughts that were thunk 50 years ago, I dunno, probably move towards 100% touchscreens, high-capacity Bluetooth, ads in your OS and finally putting the webcam in the middle of the screen.
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RT @mjwalker0
@petergyang think about how much computer technology has evolved in the past 25 years. what do you think is going to happen in the next 25?
https://twitter.com/mjwalker0/status/1607526120424984576

Don't like the Chinese surveillance state? Hate the social credit score? I do too, but don't feel too smug because you live in the US. We're not survielled less, it's just that we allow companies to do it here instead of the government. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/airbnb-banning-sex-workers/

Its funny, during a conversation at Christmas dinner I realized that while R is a legit language that does legit things, the only people I know who actually use it are students and they all hate it.

I clearly need to make more data scientist friends.

Bullshit. False flag. Real buffalonians would not lower themselves to miller ultra light.
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RT @natalieekeene
#buffaloblizzard
https://twitter.com/natalieekeene/status/1606461474825707524

My heart breaks for China and I wish their zero-covid plans could have been better. Also, this is why I never really trust Chinese news without verification.
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RT @DrEricDing
Overflowing hospital morgues—Fever meds shortage, oxygen tanks EMPTY, 🏥 overwhelmed, blood shortage, death tolls soaring among elderly ==>lots of body bags—even at a top Beijing hospital too. Worsening #COVID19 yet to come. But still 0 official deaths.
🧵

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1606530274933751809

So today, in the year of our lord 2022, for the first time did unsolicited boobies cross my Twitter timeline. It's more surprising that I realized that's never happened before.

Hey @Teladoc what is going on? My asap phonecall in New York state has been waiting for 6 hours. All I need is a script refilled, but getting that script filled tonight is the difference between being ok and going to the emergency room.

So the county executive announced a 160% increase in weekly COVID numbers today, and I've been on hold with teledoc to get a single prescription filled since noon.

In case you were wondering how it's going.

Boomer standup is distressing. Not all of it, but check out the b-grade comics on YouTube some time. It starts with "kids these days" and ends with a bunch of trauma dumping from the abuse the comic suffered as a child.

Same goes for younger millennials. I've been shouting about this for years, incidentally, and now we have a generation of kids who can't reliably read cursive *or* type because the information age came to us on iphones, not PCs. We failed those kids.
https://www.worklife.news/technology/myth-buster-young-workers-are-not-tech-savvy-in-the-workplace-and-its-a-growing-problem/

I came across one of the first blog posts by the React team, "Why did we build React?", and it's fascinating because it never even tries to answer it's own question, but implies that ie8 has quite a lot to do with it.

https://reactjs.org/blog/2013/06/05/why-react.html

Watch out you guys, Twitter daddy is gonna be super grumpy for the rest of the week.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/12/elon-musk-is-no-longer-the-richest-person-in-the-world.html