Vicky Harp
Product person at Microsoft. Dev experiences, Al, data. Helper of experts. She/Her. Black Lives Matter.
This meeting could have been a riot.
- I'll be talking about leading teams through change, the resistance factors that naturally arise, and the concrete steps you can take to address them.
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- I'll be playing with the Redmond Tech Orchestra at the opening of the Marymoor station around noon :)
- Happy Downtown Redmond Link day to all who celebrate. www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/10/e...
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- We bought a Toyota in March 2017 and I got my first "Urgent! Activate your SiriusXM Trial!" email that month. I've received over 100 such messages in the years since, including 3 last month. This latest one claims it is my "final chance."
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- Reposted by Vicky Harpon this date eight years ago, Tom Holland wowed Zendaya on Lip Sync Battle with his cultural critique of impervious surface stormwater runoff.
- Reading stories of AI making up facts, apologizing when caught, and doing it again, and thinking of people who I have caught doing essentially the same thing over the years in various tasks, and wondering what will happen when those people inevitably begin to use AI.
- Asked Google Photos to suggest a photo from my library which might make a good watercolor subject and it gave me this
- I didn't screenshot it but I just had Google's AI overview suggest that the best way to keep my hair dry under a swim cap is to get my hair wet before putting it on
- I see folks mocking reporters for tiptoeing around Trump, but then I go into meetings at work and see people doing the same thing with executives. Setting your whole livelihood alight in the hopes that this one time will be different, this one time will cut through the noise - it's a lot to ask.
- I have been enjoying a drop of lavender syrup in my morning cup of tea lately after enjoying some Stash "Breakfast in Paris" on a trip recently. This way I can stick with my regular Yorkshire Gold and not have another box of tea rattling around the kitchen.
- Reposted by Vicky Harp*me, lying facedown on the bed, yelling into the mattress: "WHY DO THOSE OF US WHO DIDN'T FUCK AROUND ALSO HAVE TO FIND OUT"
- One thing I haven't been able to figure out about tariffs / de minimus revocation is: does this also eliminate the duty free allowance when you are returning from abroad? Let's say I drove up to Vancouver BC and then came back having bought a few odds and ends. @altuscustoms.altgov.info
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- Got a little sister Eb to go with my A and Bb clarinets
- Of the many things I don't understand about anti-vax, one is: do they even *have* children? How do they not know they get sick all the time? If offered a magical shot to end the vicious cycle of daycare bronchitis running through our house in about 2017 I would have sold my car to pay for it.
- A garbage truck got tangled up with our lilac tree so I needed to cut back some branches.
- Kiddo has one of those school assignments right now where they have to make a costume of a famous person and recite a speech as though they were that person. Who exactly do they think they are assigning "make a costume" to? This is elementary school.
- Gansai Tambi opal colors feel like magic
- It is spring again, he just ate a bee and is feeling sick.
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- Using Bluesky as our collective CVR
- I just saw the NY Times headline "If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?" and I have not read it because I do not subscribe, but I will add my normal reminder here, which is that we already don't give rights to all conscious things. In fact, we eat some of them.
