Jen Looper, PhD
@jenlooper.com
Creative educator/technologist. Director of Developer Relations @Cloudinary. Founder: Beanpot Studio. Designer of curricula, builder of community, author of textbooks w/ Wiley, Fulbright Fellow. View my portfolio at jenlooper.com. Prev: AWS, MSFT, Telerik
Not okay 💔 Dolly Parton, my heart, my hero. 332,411,218 books gifted to children all over the world. We will continue gifting books in your honor ✨💛 Music icon, human icon. Beautiful soul. Can't believe this. We will always love you, Dolly Parton. All hail the Queen. Rest in Love, Dearly Beloved ❤️🩹
Odyssey. A 21st century American reframing of a pagan classic as a Christian redemption arc. Xenia (“Zeus’s Law”) is co-opted as a complete morality code equivalent to Biblical commandments. Themes of sin/punishment/pilgrimage/redemption contort the epic past recognition. $50 & 3 hrs blown.
The restaurant scene in Boston is dire. We really need a shake-up or something, it’s almost not worth going out at all
Did not expect to come to Poland and be blown away by the best lunch I’ve had in ages
Felt revolutionary. Might delete later. 1780s Colonial style in 93 degrees F. Caraco jacket with “pet-en-l’air” back styling. This is cotton fabric I repurpose from a vintage IKEA duvet cover - their motifs work for this era! Happy #july4th America! 🇺🇸 stay Jacobin 🫰
My kingdom for a smol hdmi monitor that will plug n play with my Arduino Uno Q!
I’m honored to be listed in the top 7 @DevTO posts this week featuring my new nonprofit, heraistudio.org at dev.to/devteam/top-...
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Watching the game and filing nonprofit paperwork for Her AI Studio, Inc. AI is wildly helpful with this paperwork and just saved me a couple hundred in fees!
Let me out alone with some change in my pocket and things happen 😆
The world is in disarray but our Uber driver in Taipei is sharing delicious lychees and all is awesome today 😊
The West Newton cinema may still have chairs from the 30s but it’s a great third space and I enjoyed the (highly sanitized) Michael movie there tonight!
A daye wythout anachronism ys lyke Emily Dickinson wythout her lightsaber.
I’m so fed up with the lack of diversity in tech, especially in this AI era, with the WIT pipeline regressing rather than progressing, I think I’m about ready to re-launch a nonprofit. DM if you are interested in joining forces. We need to step up.
Benjamin Lay is known in USA as one of the first anti-slavery campaigners who used radical methods of protest. Lay was born near my city of Colchester UK in Copford and was known as the "Quaker Comet." Lay was a friend of Benjamin Franklin when he lived in the USA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjami...
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A quick blogpost on how to win hackathons - a sponsor's perspective: dev.to/cloudinary/h...
How to Win a Hackathon
A sponsor’s perspective This blogpost is written on the heels of a few amazing weekends spent...
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Escape the present day awfulness for an hour or so with PBS's Count of Monte Cristo...totally enjoyable!!!
These lookmaxxers are simply 21st century dandies, incroyables or fops. I will call them fopdoodles and get on with it.
for my Bsky bubble on Earth Day, are you reading The Nutmeg's Curse? Very pertinent information from a book written during the pandemic that we can use to understand what's going on today. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Nutmeg’s Curse
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and...
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Excellent news, I saw first hand the stupid apps the kids in 1st grade were subjected to for HOURS - we are talking here in Massachusetts, absolute trash software. And the kids knew it.
The teachers pushing back on screens in schools It's not just phones anymore. More teachers and even entire U.S. school districts are cutting back the time students spend on laptops and other screens. How do students really learn - and do screens help or hurt? NPR On Point -Meghna Chakrabarti 4/14
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