๐จ#BREAKING: Police have identified the man who st*bbed a woman to de*th on a public train in Atlanta.
His name is John Elijah Matthews, a Black male.
66-year-old Margaret Swan was sitting alone in the train car when Matthews walked up to her and st*bbed her in the throat in broad daylight.
Swan began screaming and trying to get up from her seat, but Matthews held her down and then st*bbed her 18 more times.
Matthews was then seen on the CCTV cameras throwing the 66-year-old woman to the floor and standing over her as she di*d until the train arrived at the Oakland City Station.
Police are not releasing the CCTV footage from the train.
This hits squarely! I was admitted into the Systems Analysis bachelor program at Miami University without ever using a computer for anything constructive. My guidance counselor said "hey, you're good at math and science, you should apply to this new degree program!" So i did!
One of 3 women admitted of 200 freshman. Only a handful had ever touched a computer. The school had a gigantic mainframe that took up the entire basement level. My cellphone has more compute!
I earned $2.05 an hour at our local amusement park and at graduation in 1987 my first job at NCR was $26,000 a year salary. That was 5,000 more than my husband at Ohio Causality made just two years before with the same degree as computer programmers.
Today i used AI to help with financial planning, was driven by my Tesla (didnt touch the steering wheel) to do errands, and am writing a note that Grok can translate into any language so people around the world can share it!
Adapt is the name of the game!
A lot of people ask why Generation Jones insists on being its own thing.
After all, weโre usually lumped in with the Boomers.
The answer is simple.
We may have been born during the Baby Boom, but we did not have the same formative experiences as the older Boomers, and we did not have the same upbringing as Gen X.
We were the bridge generation.
The oldest Boomers remember where they were when President Kennedy was assassinated. Many of us do not. Kennedy was buried on my first birthday.
They were old enough to remember the optimism of the early 1960s, the moon landing as teenagers, and the cultural revolutions as participants.
Most of us arrived too late for that.
Likewise, Gen X grew up with personal computers, video games, cable television, and a world that was already becoming digital.
We didnโt.
Generation Jones grew up in a world that was almost entirely analog.
We used rotary phones.
We looked things up in encyclopedias.
We learned the Dewey Decimal System.
We used card catalogs.
We balanced checkbooks by hand.
If you wanted directions, you unfolded a map.
If you wanted to know something, you went to the library.
If you missed your favorite television show, you missed it.
There was no streaming service waiting for you.
But unlike previous generations, we didnโt stay there.
We had to adapt.
We watched computers move from climate controlled rooms into offices and homes.
We learned on mainframes and Wang systems.
We used Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect.
We fed giant floppy disks into computers that had less computing power than todayโs coffee maker.
We learned email.
Then the internet.
Then cell phones.
Then smartphones.
Then social media.
And now artificial intelligence.
Most generations learn one world.
Generation Jones learned several.
Thatโs what makes us different.
We are one of the last generations that remembers life before digital technology became part of every waking moment, but we were young enough to adapt and thrive as it arrived.
We didnโt just witness the technological revolution.
We had to reinvent ourselves to keep up with it.
Every decade brought another transformation.
Every decade required new skills.
Every decade demanded adaptation.
Perhaps thatโs why so many Generation Jones people are independent, resilient, and skeptical of anyone claiming the world has always been the way it is now.
We know better.
Weโve lived through too many versions of it.
Generation Jones isnโt defined by what we were born into.
Weโre defined by everything we had to learn along the way.
@MPelletierCIO Yeah. Sure...as i am driven away by the car that doesn't exist, using AI that doesn't exist, all while speaking to my car telling it to go to the largest supercharging network. See ya!
@raccjesus@Banks_tho@Carsnationn@AutoSeek_NG@autochef__@llegendarycars@naeem_carss Ok, that was my feeble attempt at humor. I drive a tesla...no key...famously known for no buttons. Just enter and drive. Automatically puts in reverse in my garage. I dont have to touch anything to head out. Simply speak and get driven to my destination. Its like magic!
@Banks_tho@Carsnationn@AutoSeek_NG@autochef__@llegendarycars@naeem_carss Ok, that was my feeble attempt at humor. I drive a tesla...no key...famously known for no buttons. Just enter and drive. Automatically puts in reverse in my garage. I dont have to touch anything to head out. Simply speak and get driven to my destination. Its like magic!