My beloved husband passed away this week. He had a rare and aggressive form of cancer, Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia. We were fortunate to have a full year with him. He will be missed an extraordinary amount by our two sons and I, plus thousands around the world who knew him.
I spent so long paying off all debt and have remained totally debt free for the last five years. Just got a notice that @Citi cancelled my emergency credit card for non-use and closed my account, which I’d had since 1994. Wild.
For those going home to visit family this weekend:
• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
Hard to fault young people for prioritizing social media self-branding over in-person life when elites are like “yeah you have a big enough twitter account to deserve health care”
Starting Monday November 3, @LinkedIn will begin to scrape user data and posts of Hong Kong accounts for the training of its AI models.
You can opt out by going to Settings → Data Privacy → Data for Generative AI improvement
Californians appear overwhelmingly in support of Proposition 50, according to two new polls both released just before Election Day.
Read more at https://t.co/7zqHjtAVif
@bobbiharlow May my sons forever realize the vast and beautiful richness of having grown up with a whole village of aunties who have stepped up repeatedly in meaningful ways throughout their lives (and still do to this day). I wish everyone could experience that.
@bobbiharlow Gleneagles has an available self-pay option for anyone over age 12 for $1890. My husband is severely immunocompromised (recent bone marrow transplant) so our sons went there to get most recent booster. https://t.co/dv94VRUGO1
We went from “what good are the humanities?” to “suddenly, no one can read” in about a year, and it's no coincidence that we're suddenly awash in misinformation and lack of critical thinking. This is WHY we need the humanities. This is what they prevent.