Temporarily Inscrutable. @ronmccoy@mastodon.social

Charlotte, NC
Joined January 2007
I'm going to log off and try and take a break. This piece lays out the stakes for the next few weeks. And here's one last thread reflecting on my experience of covering the pandemic's second year. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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Ron McCoy retweeted
Difference between #MachineLearning and #AI: If it is written in Python, it is probably Machine Learning. If it is written in Powerpoint, it is probably AI buff.ly/2LvAnYL
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ZOZOTOWN新春セールが史上最速で取扱高100億円を先ほど突破!!日頃の感謝を込め、僕個人から100名様に100万円【総額1億円のお年玉】を現金でプレゼントします。応募方法は、僕をフォローいただいた上、このツイートをRTするだけ。受付は1/7まで。当選者には僕から直接DMします! #月に行くならお年玉
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Hey @ToddW_Logitech - was there a reason that @Logitech removed API access from #Harmony? This is seriously a killer for anyone with any sort of @home_assistant or general #HomeAutomation integration. Why are we having this conversation again after the whole Link debacle?
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Someone just said ‘onboarded’ in a meeting. I managed to get a single punch in before the table got knocked over. Coffee and avocado everywhere. I’ve got him pinned down. Police on their way.
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On new 280 characters twitter:
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The reality is, a vanilla soy latte is a type of three-bean soup.
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This was written decades before social media -Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage #bookquotes
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Replying to @PsychScientists
maybe you're too old to "get" embodiment :-(
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meat popsicle@curiousgene18 May 2016
"Echo, tell Google Home to turn on the heat." "Tell him yourself, he's right there." "Siri, tell Echo that I'm not talking to Google Home."
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The loss of #libraries is another surefire way to entrench #inequality gu.com/p/4g5pg/stw
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What the aviation industry can teach us about the future of the internet: long.fm/ZZY2lvh (by @baconmeteor)
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We need a measurement (0 - 1.0) for the gap between how a person appears to him/herself and to others. E.g., "He's a .7 on the trump scale."
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Not sure what's happening yet, but @Instagram web certificate seems to have expired. Broken system or hacked?
@faitherina Never underestimate the culture's ability to come up with new words with which to coerce women to serve men's needs.
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Create new things for people to pay for, not new ways for people to pay for the same thing. The tides of business have changed.
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RT @Primary_Ed: Growth mindset at its best. #satchatwc http://t.co/U3kAxwssI5 #edchat #edtech #satchat #sunchat #CELI15 #tcrwp
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Uber -owns no cars Facebook -creates no content Airbnb -no real estate Alibaba -no inventory tcrn.ch/18jkqMr
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"Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works." -- Michael Hartung
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Why is law so slow to move into the 21st century? We're unsure but probably related is its ongoing reluctance to move into the 20th century.
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