Karina Chow

Hello world! 👋 I'm Karina and I'm a creative technologist, software developer, and designer. I currently work as a new media exhibit technician for the Exploratorium in SF and I also freelance for startups under my own small agency (appropriately called KACHOW! LLC 🗯️ (1/7)

@Lincoln_Osis @allgarbled Hapa is a Hawaiian term and we always used it sort of incorrectly. Definitely had a few Hawaiians get mad about it but we still used it anyway lol

@karomancer @allgarbled Half breed or hapa. I always said half breed. The half breeds anyways said hapa

You (idiot): thinks the future race of the Bay Area will be wasian Me (genius, seeing into the future): realizes the wasian children are all being raised by Latina nannies, instilling into them unconscious desires which will shift future demographics to wasio-latinx hybrids

@Shreyassanthu77 Once I figure out how to use the software yes haha

@karomancer post those fancy time lapse art making videos pls

Got my first tablet (that isn't a Wacom/Huion drawing tablet). I decided to get an iPad simply because I really wanted to try Procreate. I've seen so many awesome videos of what people can make with the Apple Pencil Pro and Procreate...here's hoping I can be half as good!

@s4rah_dev It blows my mind how people have started to see engagement as the primary metric to achieve in life. Some younger zoomers I know judge you as a person based on your follower count. Oh you only have 200 followers? You must not have anything of interest to say, ignoring you now.

people on this app be like "my engagement is low I am leaving!!!!!!" but I would literally just keep yapping even if zero people ever liked my posts again. this is just my app where I share random thoughts and project and sometimes a group of chill strangers follow along. that's all.

@eeko_systems @jappleby Interesting data from 2024. GenAI has only gotten way more convincing since... I'm curious how these stats have changed! I'm also mildly surprised how positive people are about their digital use in this survey. Interesting thanks!

@karomancer @jappleby deloitte.com/us/en/about/pr…

Man, I’m really worried about consumers. Not everyone’s tech savvy enough to know this ad is completely AI, and they’re not actually showing the product they’re selling. AI ads are going to really take advantage of people.

@eeko_systems @jappleby OO what data? I'd love to see that study

@jappleby You know what’s even worse? Data shows Gen Z falls for these scams more than Boomers

My mom got totally duped by an AI drop shipping website for Christmas. She tried to purchase an AI ornament and she got a cheap acrylic keychain in the mail instead. I told her the company is probably based in China and sure enough when she tried to return it the address was in China and they were trying to get her to pay return shipping more than the piece was worth.

got a framed copy to hang by the ai team

@sdxsdx_ @upgyre @allgarbled OO I haven't! I'm usually up in Bregenz

@karomancer @upgyre @allgarbled Did you ever visit the Großglockner Hochalpenstraße? Apart from Vienna, that's a place I always want to revisit.

@sdxsdx_ @upgyre @allgarbled Honestly im not sure what the general Californian culture is. Most of my friends growing up were all of different cultural backgrounds, and we were always teaching each other about our cultures. That's largely why I see myself as Californian

@karomancer @upgyre @allgarbled Than the general american/californian culture.

@sdxsdx_ @upgyre @allgarbled Differs than...

@karomancer @upgyre @allgarbled Ach so. But from a cultural standpoint, do you believe your way of viewing and perceiving the world differs? If yes, how (in brief)?

@sdxsdx_ @upgyre @allgarbled Oh I also have family in Austria so I'll visit them every once in awhile as well. We used to go to Germany every year when I was a kid to visit my uncle and my grandparents. I've only met my Chinese grandparents once in my entire life. My dad was kind of estranged

@sdxsdx_ @upgyre @allgarbled Well my mom is from Germany and I'm a German citizen, albeit I only speak at a B1-B2 level. B2 at my best but I've definitely slipped. I go to Germany only every 2 years or so now, but I used to go more often. I usually visit family and go for festivals

@sdxsdx_ @upgyre @allgarbled Versus I've only been to China and Hong Kong once in my life and I speak no Chinese

@upgyre @allgarbled Oh and a Slovenian. Eastern European is a different culture than white American, and even then the white guy I dated from upstate NY was very different culturally than the Scottish guy I dated and the white guy from California.

@upgyre @allgarbled Depends on their upbringing. I consider myself Californian/American foremost, then German, then Chinese. I've dated an Indian, a Cuban, and a few white guys. I don't discriminate 😅

@allgarbled Also I had never heard the term "wasian" until the last couple of years... We always said halfy, hapa, or Eurasian for white/asian. Not sure why it's such a big thing all of a sudden.

@allgarbled Me: The current race of the Bay Area IS wasian. My high school in 2009 was 11% mixed race already, mostly half Asian half something else, and 33% Hispanic. If you stretch the definition, Hispanic and wasian are really part of a very similar ethnic cloth. Just look at Filipinos.

I have a unique opportunity to choose my next land-lord.. .

@_andrewthecoder @darsh44321 @TiffanyFong IMO IQ is kind of a useless diagnostic so I'm not really sure why people obsess over it. I guess they just need some quantifiable metric of success to make themselves feel better?

@karomancer @darsh44321 @TiffanyFong I will admit, it has been awhile since I have seen them! But they were around. FAR TOO MANY 150+ IQ (which statistically represents 0.04% of the population).