Gold futures just reached an all time high of over $4,400 an ounce.
(Gold prices typically go up when there is economic uncertainty generally and especially when there uncertainty about the stability of the dollar.)
Bari Weiss is not and never has been a journalist. She is and always has been a propagandist.
Her being a lesbian is sometimes read as giving her a liberal valence, but she is and always has been illiberal.
(As a child, I got to sit on a stool at one of the high office tables and draw with the colored pencils.)
When the card piles were ready, she would take them to a different floor of the building where the massive computers were stored in a secure, windowless, VERY air conditioned environment.
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She would stack the cards into tall piles, use binder clips or rubber bands to hold them together, and draw on the sides of the piles with colored pencils so they could more easily be put back together in order if necessary—sometimes the piles got dropped or came undone, which was a catastrophe!
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By the end of her career, she was writing code to produce 3D color representations of beneath the earth’s surface from seismographic data and was known as “The Legend” in her field.
And that entire floor of computers? It had less processing power than an iPhone.
New tech, same zeros and ones.
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In return, sometimes the man in the computer room would hand her a stack of large green and white striped paper that was folded and had perforations.
(The green paper gave more Wizard of Oz vibes in my child perspective.)
It all felt like a somewhat magical or sacred space and transaction.
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After getting off the elevator, she would walk down a long hallway to a half-open (to retain the cold) Dutch door at the end and hand over the piles to the one man in the computer room.
(The trip always reminded me of going to see the Wizard in Wizard of Oz.)
The whole floor kind of vibrated.
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I’m followed by a lot of tech people, so here’s a little story about what tech history has looked liked in my lifetime:
My late mother began her programming career at an oil company in Houston writing binary code on punch cards. Occasionally, she had to bring me to work, and this is what I saw.
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Judging by the engagement on this post (or lack thereof), my weirdness has once again been confirmed, lol.
Anyway, welcome to my mind.