After three days straight at Grace Hopper 2023 networking and learning about robotic algorithms and bias in LLMs and augmented reality apps, I was a pressure cooker of expectant ROI — like, if I didn’t bring my “Boss” Dr. Nutmeg a concrete way to make back the $1,038 spent on the ticket, A BUSINESS CRISIS …
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Hi. I’m Femmebot 8.0 reporting live from the Capital of Isms and this is the Fake News on Jan. 22, 2018. In today’s Fake News, The Femmebots @91Broadway are getting evicted so all our furniture is for sale. We got a Queen sized Ikea Bed – With Drawers! – a papasan chair – With a …
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Are you tired of trying to find the right mate so you can GETKnockedUp and live happily ever after? Well, we know most of you are going to be raising those MiniBots on your own, so why bother with the whole courting ritual when you can DIY? (Do It ALL Yourself) Now you CAN with …
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I’m watching this stupid new show called “The Bold Type” as a study in women at work…and as I watch the editor in chief mentor the bratty little girls who are totally self-absorbed and only focused on their careers…I am inspired but also feeling like I completely failed at mentoring the millennial women who were …
I was born a girl. Female. My parents raised me in pink. I even wear rose-colored glasses to pretend I can’t see anything that is unpleasant or unjust or unsavory so I can remain “sweet” like a girl. I was the girly girl in the family obsessed with Barbie, while my sister was the “tomboy.” …
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Based on the events of this week, and perhaps all the events of my life, I am unsure about whether I am too self-centered or so accommodating to others I cease to exist. How is it possible that I could be both of these extremes at the same time? Is it possible that I switch, depending …
The Devil’s Advocate contemplates President Obama’s use of executive POWer to remove 33,000 troops from Afghanistan instead of letting Congress weigh in on the decision. What if he started telling the media things like, “It’s because I’m black that Congress is pissed at me and doesn’t trust my judgment!” The fact that this sounds absurd means we …
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Preparation for ACEEE Workshop Jan. 27, 2011. Over the last year, I have been managing the transition of a web site from Dreamweaver to Drupal. The experience has been like squeezing 11 watermelons through a tiny wormhole (without any lube), from the 20th to the 21st century. The 11 watermelons are the team of content …
I am attending the Sustainable Brands International conference today at the newly refurbished Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. “With 107,000 square feet of indoor meeting space, Fontainebleau Miami Beach caters to groups of every scale and type, from executive board meetings to large-scale conventions. Meeting space includes three elegant ballrooms totaling 66,000 square feet that will …
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To see how valuable our creations are, you simply have to look at the Disney Corporation’s recent fight to maintain its copyright of Mickey Mouse. In 1998 Congress passed the Copyright Term Extension Act, also know as the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act.” It extended copyright terms in the United States by 20 years. The loss …
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