So I haven't said anything about Elon Musk or Twitter because
a) I am really trying to allocate my fucks given away from my areas of impotency, and
b) the only appropriate commentary is gallows humor, and there are many people much funnier than me on the job.
when you're on vacation and you come back from the beach with a slight sunburn like you feel it but it doesn't hurt really and you shower and get dressed up "vacation formal" so you can go out to a kind of good but not amazing italian restaurant. that's a top 10 human experience.
I'm a big fan of the pomodoro technique for productivity, where I do my best impression of a tomato and sit in the dark for 48 hours before I am devoured by beings beyond my comprehension
1/31 Truth and free information hit Putin's insane regime just as hard as Javelins.
This is a thread about opening the second front against the war criminal from the Kremlin — the informational front.
Around 20 percent of #Irpin streets have been cleaned from debris already, just over a week after the city was liberated from Russian occupants. Hundreds of people volunteered to help.💔
“On the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s Abuse of Language”: A Statement from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University @fvaht#Ukraine#UkraineWar#UkraineRussianWar
https://t.co/g80uZXUCV0
FIRST WITCH
when shall we three meet again
in thunder, lightning, or in rain
SECOND WITCH
how long will the meeting run
got this other Zoom at 1
THIRD WITCH
I can't do ere the set of sun
FIRST WITCH
... I'll set up a Doodle
OK, Twitter, look - it's time to have a talk. I've been seeing a lot of climate despair on here lately, and I understand it's cathartic to voice your deepest fears, but at this point in time, that despair is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. I work for an environmental charity- 1/
I think everyone could use a lighthearted/happy story right now so here goes:
At the beginning of the pandemic I went through some painful personal stuff and would often go out at night for long walks because no one was around and I couldn’t sleep anyway. One night I was walking
This semester I had the pleasure to teach data visualization studio at an elite US university. Many students were interested in social justice (being 2020 in the US). Yet, many approached the topic in a way that was a bit naive ... (thread🧵) /1
I decided that retirement was boring and have joined the Developer Division at Microsoft. To do what? Too many options to say! But it’ll make using Python better for sure (and not just on Windows :-). There’s lots of open source here. Watch this space.