@mcnees Sophie Wilson, the designer of the ARM architecture, is also a trans woman ✊ . And before, she conceived my first computer: the 1980 Acorn ATOM, which could run inlined 6502 assembly in its BASIC programs!

Lynn Conway, electricial engineer and computer scientist, co-architect of the VLSI design revolution, and transgender activist, was born #OTD in 1938.

She invented Dynamic Instruction Scheduling at IBM, but IBM fired her when they learned she was transitioning.

Photo: Lynn Conway

Fukin' A, Abigail. ✊

The electric train was invented in 1879. The safety bicycle six years later.

Unleashing the potential of these two “obsolete” technologies is our best bet at addressing the converging climate, health, resource, and inequity crises.

Not smarter cars. Not cleaner cars. Fewer cars.

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Hey so, if you wanna be a girl you can just be one. Dunno if you knew that.

Free Palestine Christmas mural seen in Newcastle, NSW

So godotforums.org "partnered" with certain survivor of the NFT and blockchain bubble. For me, is heartbreaking to see the name of Godot related to it.

Remember that "Games as a platform" do not exist. the only purpose they have is to take control over YOUR creations and make you depend on their eco systems and built-in stores.

Roblox or Fortnite are not platforms, they are exploitation machines, examples of the industry decadence.

Use tools that empower you. Be safe. Reclaim your work.

Things I have SEEN while shopping 2 days before #Christmas in a small #NewZealand city:

1. An elderly lady drawing willies wearing Santa hats on the walls of a public loo. She was emphatic that they "represent life's funny little ways"

2. A sweaty looking middle-aged guy in a discount garden centre bellowing "Darl, you like flowery shit, right?" at presumably the love of his life. Her profanity was audible and delightful for onlookers.

3. A woman in her twenties standing in the cheese section of the local supermarket, obviously completely overwhelmed. A sales assistant came up, put a hand on her shoulder and said "It's all gonna be okay, love. In five days it'll all just be indigestion. You'll do fine."

4. A dad giving his young son a very serious lecture about the importance of getting his mum the perfect watering can. The lecture went on for at least 5 minutes. I know this because I was waiting to grab one of the watering cans myself. It was lovely and worth it though.

5. A little girl excitedly collecting as many teaspoons as she could in a kitchen store, yelling at her dad that "Mum needs SPOONS!"

6. A woman in the Christmas markets, obviously on the edge of tears, standing in front of a house plant stall asking "But which one has the right energy for a large family dinner?" The lovely Canadian running the stall suggested a cactus. She is now my hero.

7. And finally, an elderly man yelling "YOU BASTARDS DON'T HAVE ANY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT" to a parking meter.

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cis writers, I beg you, please stop putting H*rry P*tter references in your scripts

JKR is like the David Duke of hating trans people

every reference hurts, and makes me think you don’t care about the harm she’s caused, or worse, that you agree with her

please please stop

Many companies hiring Senior and Lead positions and struggling to find good candidates while forgetting where those candidates come from.

Companies not hiring junior positions is a bit of a red flag imho.

Second time I run into a developer on itch.io who doesn't know what a #web server is and thinks they need to code a #NodeJS app to serve static files.

This is terrifying. It's the future Google wants to build, with their HTTP 2.0 and Wasm: a future when even the basics are horribly hard and not even developers know how the web works because it's all a black box.

I'm begging you: fight this. Educate people. Don't let openness die.

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#ttrpg

Instead of hand picking inconvenient measurements to exclude from your dataset, you should be using a different statistic, such as the median or interquartile range, to convey how many spiders the average person eats in one year

The #library card is *the* emblem of a child’s standing in civic life: their direct access to a public service, not mediated or controlled by others. The library card grants rights to the politically voiceless and powerless.

It’s more radical than the idea of #democracy itself.