Matthew Bonanno

Associates in Computer Science. Working on Bachelors Degree at UMass Lowell. I am a giant tech geek.

[Cassidy @cassidoo]

This was a really fun demo, hope you enjoy!!

[Matthew Bonanno @MattBDev]

@ClintRutkas @gcaughey OMG! I had this idea at the beginning of the year when I was thinking of projects to create to impress recruiters.

[Matthew Bonanno @MattBDev]

@SonofNun Does it save the page you were last on? If so, what does that look like when you open the PDF?

[Matthew Bonanno @MattBDev]

@SonofNun Stop making me jealous of these fluid animations. 😍

[Matthew Bonanno @MattBDev]

How long until CBS either commits publicly to complete 100% editorial independence or fires Bari Weiss because of how many viewers they are going to lose from all of this.

[Variety @Variety]

Fired "60 Minutes" journalist Scott Pelley says CBS News boss Bari Weiss is lying when she says there was an effort to "find a way back" for him.

"At no point did anyone in the meeting suggest there could be steps taken by either side that would lead to a resolution. Weiss and Tom Cibrowski were openly hostile from the start. 'Firing' was raised by Cibrowski in the first 15 seconds. No CBS executive, at any time, suggested 'a way back.' To say so now is disingenuous. And they know it. In fact, Weiss, Cibrowski and Nick Bilton refused to answer my questions. I asked Weiss a number of questions about why she fired the entire senior staff of '60 Minutes' a few days before and without cause. 'I'm not answering that question,' she said... These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists do."

https://t.co/UNDmIyCPBt

[Variety @Variety]

Fired "60 Minutes" journalist Scott Pelley says CBS News boss Bari Weiss is lying when she says there was an effort to "find a way back" for him.

"At no point did anyone in the meeting suggest there could be steps taken by either side that would lead to a resolution. Weiss and Tom Cibrowski were openly hostile from the start. 'Firing' was raised by Cibrowski in the first 15 seconds. No CBS executive, at any time, suggested 'a way back.' To say so now is disingenuous. And they know it. In fact, Weiss, Cibrowski and Nick Bilton refused to answer my questions. I asked Weiss a number of questions about why she fired the entire senior staff of '60 Minutes' a few days before and without cause. 'I'm not answering that question,' she said... These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists do."

https://t.co/UNDmIyCPBt

[Variety @Variety]

CBS News has terminated “60 Minutes” veteran Scott Pelley after the journalist and executives felt they could not find a way to work together.

The move comes after a heated public argument Monday between Pelley and Nick Bilton, the former tech journalist installed last week by editorial chief Bari Weiss. https://t.co/wXXBSSZyKv

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Scott Nover @ScottNover]

"60 Minutes" staffers past and present are outraged about Scott Pelley's firing.

[colleen @waysandmeans71]

@DylanByers @Doxyma At this point, @CBS is dead. Nobody wants anything from them or from anything @bariweiss touches.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Holy fucking shit.
Boycott @CBS
Fuck these fascists.
Fuck @bariweiss

[Matthew Bonanno @MattBDev]

@OrenMe @AhmedHamdy29189 @GitHubCopilot @github They just need some SLM options. I heard Phi-4 was pretty decent at coding tasks and answering questions. It would be nice if Microsoft offered that model at a rate in GHCP.

[Jez @JezCorden]

Microsoft should take all it's ai infrastructure spending and spend billions on reviving Windows Phone instead.

[Matthew Bonanno @MattBDev]

@NTDEV_ I’m still not seeing any tablets so I’m not impressed. Windows should work with @XBOX to bring back the Movies and TV store and make Windows a good OS for entrainment devices again. iPad needs competition.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

For the last 57 years, 60 Minutes has displayed some of the most courageous investigative journalism on the air.

Now, with Trump’s billionaire crony David Ellison owning CBS, that tradition is being destroyed.

This is what happens with increased oligarch control over the media.

[Matthew Bonanno @MattBDev]

Any news company should count themselves lucky to have great reporters such as Scott Pelley and the rest of the team at 60 minutes! The program wouldn’t still be around today if they didn’t know how to do decent reporting.

[Variety @Variety]

#60Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley lashed out at the program’s new executive producer Nick Bolton during a Monday meeting, accusing him of “murdering ‘60 Minutes’” and having “slender qualifications for this job.”

CBS News hopes to keep Pelley and the remaining correspondents on the show, according to a person familiar with CBS News, despite these conflicts.

https://t.co/UPn6t84SG3

[Matthew Bonanno @MattBDev]

@bdsams Why not the Surface Studio though? Why not make it a 2-in-1? That’s my only complaint.

[Matthew Bonanno @MattBDev]

@webprofusion @shanselman Why run Linux when you can use WSL and get the best of BOTH worlds?

[Matthew Bonanno @MattBDev]

@shanselman Too bad Surface Laptop Studio is gone. The RTX spark would have been perfect for it. I want a device I can use a pen with.

[Matthew Bonanno @MattBDev]

@pavandavuluri @JenMsft @Windows @nvidia Any of these new PC’s going to be a 2-in-1 or tablet with pen functionality? That’s what I’m looking for. The Surface Laptop Studio was close to what I wanted but now that’s gone. The RTX Spark would have been perfect for it. 😢