Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick

Director of Digital Narrative & Interactive Design at Pitt; these views my own. World Lit, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Runner, Joyous Nerd

[Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick @Jess_Fits]

Like a billionaire deciding to buy another shiny thing.

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@BrittanyHailer Love that place

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@BrittanyHailer

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@frittersandclam Mayybe

[BlackBlur #ThankYouToriyama @KingpinThawne]

Seriously my favorite moment in Across the Spiderverse

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@violetvolume We volunteer! No recipies but..drinks?

[Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse @SpiderVerse]

What are you waiting for? Spider-Man: Across the #SpiderVerse is on Digital! Buy now: https://t.co/76lpKXt00N

[Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️ @Nnedi]

📢🔥 The cat’s out of the bag now, 😅. My novel THE AFRICANFUTURIST just sold to HarperCollins/William Morrow for SEVEN-figures!

This novel has been coming for THIRTY years. I needed to be ready. 🥹✍🏾🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖

Here we go. [Inhale, exhale]

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Lonnie Johnson, a Black scientist working at NASA in the early 1980s, had a project involving jet pumps. By accident, he sprayed water across the room and had a brilliant idea for a new water gun. This idea led to the creation of the popular Super Soaker.

To see if his creation was good, Johnson tested it with his seven-year-old daughter. She loved it, confirming that the water gun had great potential. From the early 1990s, the Super Soaker became a favorite toy for kids all over the United States. This invention made Lonnie Johnson a multimillionaire.

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The original cat-ito was for human kiddies?

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

A baby cage, initially named a "health cage", was essentially a bed encased in wire, dangling from the windows of city apartments. Mrs. Robert C Lafferty devised this concept to allow babies access to fresh air and sunlight despite living in densely populated cities.

Baby cages witnessed a surge in popularity in London during the 1930s. These were designed specifically for children residing in cities without access to gardens. Local community groups, such as the Chelsea Baby Club, distributed these baby cages to members without gardens. However, the start of World War 2 and the subsequent Battle of Britain led by the Luftwaffe put an end to the use of baby cages throughout London. Despite this, they made a comeback in 1953.

Eventually, by the mid-1900s, the demand for baby cages gradually dwindled, perhaps due to rising safety concerns and the increased traffic in urban settings.

[Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick @Jess_Fits]

Thinking about how long (like, *years* long) waitlists for childcare exacerbates mental health impacts of miscarriages, limits job opportunities, and adds even more assumed privileges of those 'in the know' of certain local / professional / economic networks.

[Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo]

I profiled @TimnitGebru for my latest story, which explores the narratives that Big Tech companies spin about AI, the rise of scholarship that calls those narratives into question, and how power imbalances determine who can imagine (and build) the future:

https://t.co/uzzIlr0IoY

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Also: what's the packaging going to be like?

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Over here thinking about accessibility and gaming (Playstation's new access controller for PS5) https://t.co/3eYsnOVMTN #a11y (Future episode for Welcomed by Design podcast?)

[Karl Sharro @KarlreMarks]

Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted

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(In other words: this photo makes my tummy hurt)

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Pedestrian/ transit / walkable dense housing is *different than luxury apartments*, greenspaces *makes* walkable/dense communities viable, and someone somewhere must understand that.

[Ken 💀 @KennethCW3]

If you're Squirrel Hill or adjacent (Swisshelm Park, Swissvale) there's a Wednesday meeting about turning the Irish Centre into housing. Maybe y'all disagree but it seems like a bad idea to build another apartment complex in the middle of Frick Park? 🧵 https://t.co/lPdzjxPqzA

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@KennethCW3 / bikeways (not only park trails, but weather variable options); how will lighting/etc. Affect park wildlife, will developers pay for pedestrian bridge over commercial street to avoid increase in motor accidents / blind crossings; need to read but these are immediate questions

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@KennethCW3 Where is the parking (hopefully basement garages); commercial street is only in/out access: how eco friendly is the building; how affordable will these be (we *do not need more luxury apartments*; how will this project facilitate access to public transit

[Aleksandr Volodarsky @volodarik]

Sunday read.

This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit.

I think the winners are:

1/ Enter your phone number