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Frontline Workers Pay the Price
posted Jul 14, 2020, 7:32 AM by John Henry Thompson [ updated Jul 14, 2020, 7:36 AM ]
Bus Drivers Hardest Hit by Deaths as COVID-19 Devastates MTA
“…Ernesto Hernandez became one of the MTA’s first COVID-19 fatalities during the pandemic — and one of seven bus operators, so far, to die from coronavirus…
…Among the at least 33 subway and bus workers who have died from COVID-19, the MTA’s bus drivers have taken the biggest hit in an agency with more than 74,000 employees…”
Multi-generational Assault on America
posted Jul 14, 2020, 7:19 AM by John Henry Thompson [ updated JOT_insertRelDate(1594837188960, “Jul 15, 2020, 11:19 AM”, true, “ltr”);
Jul 15, 2020, 11:19 AM
]
Coronavirus hospital data will now be sent to Trump administration instead of CDC
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/climate/trump-climate-change-carbon-cost.html
“…G.A.O.: Trump Boosts Deregulation by Undervaluing Cost of Climate Change…”
Senators want to move these agency headquarters out of DC
At a time like this
posted Jul 8, 2020, 8:13 PM by John Henry Thompson
frederick-douglass-red-yellow-green
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/
At a time like this, scorching irony,
not convincing argument, is needed.
O! had I the ability,
and could I reach the nation’s ear,
I would, to-day,
pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule,
blasting reproach,
withering sarcasm,
and stern rebuke.
For it is not light that is needed, but fire;
it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.
We need the storm,
the whirlwind,
and the earthquake.
The feeling of the nation must be quickened;
the conscience of the nation must be roused;
the propriety of the nation must be startled;
the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed;
and its crimes against God
and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
Brooklyn Flatlands Covid19 stats
posted Jul 3, 2020, 8:31 AM by John Henry Thompson [ updated JOT_insertRelDate(1594903558772, “Jul 16, 2020, 5:45 AM”, true, “ltr”);
Jul 16, 2020, 5:45 AM
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From
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/nyregion/new-york-city-coronavirus-cases.html
Zip code: 11234
Brooklyn Flatlands, Mill Basin and Bergen Beach
Date
cases
Per
100,000
Deaths
Per
100,000
07/03
2,291
2,404
191
200
07/06
2,307
2,421
07/08
2,313
2,427
192
201
07/10
2,316
2,430
07/12
2,318
2,432
07/14
2,323
2,437
07/15
2,326
2,441
07/16
2,327
2,442
New York City Coronavirus Map and Case Count
Date
TOTAL CASES
DEATHS
07/10
222,723
22,719
07/14
223,382
22,750
07/15
224,293
22,808
07/16
224,662
22,825
Director Revival
posted Jul 2, 2020, 2:49 PM by John Henry Thompson [ updated Jul 3, 2020, 3:43 AM by John Henry Thompson ]
The Director Revival continues!
Video conference with Eugene of scummvm.org
and google summer of code interns Dylan and Nathanael.
Shared with them LA media company still using Director
Their demo reel has many contemporary TV shows.
Charting Eugene’s teams progress:
https://buildbot.projecttycho.nl/#/
https://trello.com/b/iQxOkBvI/director
Words from the interns:
https://djsrv.github.io/scummvm/hello-scummvm/
Dylan Servilla - google summer of code intern working on Lingo for scummvm
https://npjg.github.io/scummvm/macromedia-mysteries/
Nathanael Gentry
https://gsoc-ar28.blogspot.com/2020/05/my-first-week-experience-and-my-first.html
Aryan Rawlani
https://gunnar.syzygia.de/index.php/about/
gunnar
Retreat from Facebook
posted Jun 29, 2020, 11:11 AM by John Henry Thompson [ updated Jun 29, 2020, 12:29 PM ]
I left Facebook and Instagram late 2019 because of their crimes against democracy. Now I find myself digging deeper into web app development using React - a JavaScript library for building user interfaces - created by Facebook!
Single Character Kill iPhone
posted Feb 19, 2018, 1:38 PM by John Henry Thompson [ updated Feb 19, 2018, 1:39 PM ]
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/15/apple-telugu-bug-fix-minor-ios-update/
Telugu character
జ్ఞా
D.I.Y. Photoshop @ Scribe 2018-03-03
posted Jan 14, 2018, 5:50 PM by John Henry Thompson [ updated Feb 17, 2018, 8:43 AM by John Henry Thompson ]
(Event for two sessions. Link now retired. -JHT 2018-02-18)
http://www.scribe.org/events/youth-workshop-diy-photoshop
Youth Workshop: D.I.Y. Photoshop
4 Sessions – Saturdays, Starts Feb 3. 11:00 AM – 1:00PM
Location(s):
Scribe Video Center
4035 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Event Type:
Workshop
Youth
Instructor:
John Henry Thompson
Have you ever wondered how snapchat filters work? Or those Photo Booth effects? Photo manipulation is a huge part of our 21st century culture. And coding literacy is a core skill at this point. Don’t take for granted how simple it is to click a button to make a photo black & white or pixelated or colorized. In this workshop you will learn the basic mechanics behind photo editing in a “do it yourself” approach.
John Henry Thompson’s coding language is the predecessor of Flash & JavaScript. Learn from the originator of photo filters. It is an exciting and accessible way to learn “do it yourself” photo editing.
Contact Email Address:
Contact Phone Number:
215-222-4201
Cost:
$25, $10 Scribe Member’s Family
DICE is coming!
posted Dec 16, 2017, 12:04 PM by John Henry Thompson
DICE is coming! (sent last month - blogged for legacy)
Please join me at my presentation:
https://tisch.nyu.edu/itp/events/fall-2017/dice-with-john-henry-thompson
The talk will be about DICE, a software platform in development to explore learning, art and science: http://www.johnhenrythompson.com/3-dice.
FRIDAY, NOV. 17, 2017. 1:00 PM — 2:30 PM
NYU-ITP, 4TH FLOOR
721 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
DICE presentation at NYU-ITP
posted Nov 21, 2017, 8:37 AM by John Henry Thompson [ updated Dec 16, 2017, 12:08 PM ]
Thank you Shindy!
http://www.johnhenrythompson.com/z-blog-1/diceiscoming
https://www.facebook.com/shindy.jo
What a fabulous collaboration with the inimitable, computer scientist, engineer and inventor John Henry Thompson at New York University’s ITP Program at Tisch School of the Arts. SO exciting to learn about JT’s newest invention - DICE:- an open source platform under development to enable the creation of interactive art. DICE will unlock the power of your devices and enable them to communicate with each other in ways limited only by your imagination. Come join the revolution! Collaborators wanted.
Contact JHT at github.com/jht1493.
Coincidentally, JT was the keynote speaker at a conference which I along withMarilyn Nance,Bathsheba Okwenje,Sandra Aluoch Simbiri, Omowale Morgan,Afua Brown, Leticia and many others organized and hosted as students at ITP in 1999!!!
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