Jim meadlock biography

This is not a picture of James Medlock. It’s a picture of economic historian and sociologist Karl Polanyi. “James Medlock” is the pseudonym of a Twitter personality who has been stirring up the left-leaning portion of the internet. But instead of the usual Twitter routine — denunciations, anger, etc. — Medlock has thrilled people with his relentless calm and the power of his simple message. That message is that people simply need more money, and we know how to get it to them: Universal programs, higher taxes, and stronger unions. A self-proclaimed “social democrat in the streets, market socialist in the sheets”, Medlock has captured the attention of major Twitch streamers and gathered a Twitter following that spans all ages and walks of life. Often sporting sock emojis (for “socdem”, or “social democrat”), Medlock’s followers have become the Nice Guys of Left Twitter, subduing haughty libertarians and obstreperous tankies alike with a relentless barrage of cheerful humanitarianism sprinkled with empirical data. Their numbers have steadily grown, and AOC follows Medlock now too. In my opinion, he would make a perfect policy advisor.

In the unedited interview that follows, Medlock explains the pillars of his worldview, often referred to as Medlock Thought.

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N.S.: So, as far as I can tell, our first Twitter interaction was in January 2019. Is that about when you started posting? What possessed you to become a pseudonymous Twitter celebrity? Did you have any idea you’d eventually become known as the leader of an online movement for social democracy?

J.M.: So initially I spent a lot of time arguing about politics on reddit, but I never really felt at home in the various politics subreddits. I jumped ship for twitter in 2019 because I felt like maybe I could find my place in the discourse a bit better on a platform without walled off communities. I didn't have any expectations of becoming anything more than a reply guy, I was mostly after c

Jim Bob Medlock, age 45, of Hope, passed away on Saturday, February 8, 2020. He was born on April 11, 1974 in Hot Springs, the son of Ray Medlock and Audrey Hopper Medlock. He was preceded in death by his father. He is survived by his wife and the love of his life, Lisa Marie Medlock of Hope; two daughters and one son-in-law, Rachel Davis of Glenwood and Krysta and Jackie Perkins of Hope; four sisters and three brothers-in-law, Dawn and Ken Clark of Norman, Joy and Mack McCarty of Arkadelphia, Debbie Johnson of Conway and Denise and Cecil Chamberlin of Okolona; his brother and sister-in-law, Kenneth and Lorrie Medlock of Hot Springs; and many nieces and nephews who thought their Uncle Jim Bob hung the moon. Jim Bob never met a stranger and was a friend to everyone. He always had a big bear hug waiting and would go the extra mile for family and all of the people he knew. Jim Bob was generous to a fault. If he had it, he shared it. He began his automotive love at a very early age following in his Dads footsteps by hanging on to a wrench while learning to walk, to becoming an accomplished mechanic. Cars, tools and greasy hands were what he loved. His untimely passing has left a void in the lives of so many, his family, his friends and his customers. This world was a better place with Jim Bob in it. A quick wit, smart comeback, joke, an "I love you" were always there from deep within his soul. He was loved, respected and will be missed from now until eternity. Services will be held at 2:00 PM, Friday, February 14, 2020, in the Davis-Smith Funeral Home Chapel, Glenwood, with Bro. David Porter officiating. Visitation will be Thursday, 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM, at the funeral home. Interment will be in Oak Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers will be T. J. McCarty, Rustin McCarty, Loren Burrer, Wayne Daniels, Jackie Perkins and Joey Shipp. Honorary pallbearers will be Ryan Duggan, Zane Duggan, Peyton Emory, Dusty Kidd, the Plow Boys Car Club of Hope and the Caddo H

American corporation

Intergraph Corporation was an American software development and services company, which now forms part of Hexagon AB. It provides enterprise engineering and geospatially powered software to businesses, governments, and organizations around the world, and operates through three divisions: Hexagon Asset Lifecycle Intelligence (ALI, formerly PPM), Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure, and Hexagon Geospatial. The company's headquarters is in Huntsville, Alabama, United States.

In 2008, Intergraph was one of the one hundred largest software companies in the world. In July 2010, Intergraph was acquired by Hexagon AB.

History

Intergraph was founded in 1969 as M&S Computing, Inc., by former IBM engineers Jim Meadlock, his wife Nancy, Terry Schansman (the S of M&S), Keith Schonrock, and Robert Thurber who had been working with NASA and the U.S. Army in developing systems that would apply digital computing to real time missile guidance. The company was later renamed to Intergraph Corporation in 1980.

One of Intergraph's major hardware projects was developing a line of workstations using the Clipper architecture created by Fairchild Semiconductor. Intergraph was one of only two companies to use the chips in a major product line. Intergraph developed their own version of UNIX for the architecture, which they called CLIX

Young Alabama tech workers cheered and applauded wildly Thursday the men who created key innovations of computing like interactive mapping and Computer Assisted Design (CAD), and used those innovations to build one of Alabama’s legendary technology companies. Intergraph, the company they work for and were cheering, was at one time Alabama’s largest corporation with annual revenues of $1.2 billion.

Founders of M&S Computing, the company that would become Intergraph, spoke to the young techies, other trail blazers and news media at the gleaming, modern company Hexagon-Intergraph in Madison. One of the founders was Jim Meadlock, the "M" in the original company known as M&S Computing that would become Intergraph. Hexagon-Intergraph, the current company, was created when those two companies merged in 2011.

“There was no ‘draw a circle,’ Meadlock said of early computer abilities. “There was no ‘give it a point and a radius and it will draw (the circle) for you.’ There was no clicking a line and saying, ‘Now, draw me some parallels.’”

Meadlock remembered presenting his young company’s skills to a Texas company that had 1,000 draftsmen on its staff to do such jobs as drawing blueprints. “'This is like going to your own funeral,'” one of the company’s executive told Meadlock afterward. “This is going to destroy my business.”

Intergraph would destroy businesses, and it would become famous and successful creating computer chips that allowed users to turn reams of data into easily manipulated images. Co-founder Bob Thurber gave one example of a utility company that bases its rates on its assets. “We were the first graphics system for utility companies,” Thurber said. “They want to know how old a telephone pole is. But you can’t put all that data on a screen. Nobody can read it.”

Now, you can click on a symbol on a map on a computer screen and read a pop-up window with “all the d