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Tao Neuendorffer
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🚋 on the T 😷 in Pittsburgh 🎤Songs and stories of computer science💾 We are none of us alone🎵 People of all colors and genders keep making tech history🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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This represents the most radical anti-trans legislation ever passed by a chamber of Congress. Now it’s time for you and everyone you know to contact your Senators to demand opposition. Here is a letter with @resist.bot
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December 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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We need to hear more about this walk for peace. And, of course, dogs. Always dogs.
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
January 2, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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This represents the most radical anti-trans legislation ever passed by a chamber of Congress. Now it’s time for you and everyone you know to contact your Senators to demand opposition. Here is a letter with @resist.bot
January 2, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Let’s start this year with puppy power! Repost this with a fictional dog you like
youtu.be/v35Ol0MVzqA
January 3, 2026 at 4:28 AM
By far, the main difference that I have noticed is that people who don’t know I am transgendered treat me with much more respect; I can even complete a whole sentence without being interrupted by a man
—Dr. Ben Barres

askthequestionmovie.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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"Medical professionals, not federal agencies, should be the people advising parents and their children about what kind of care is appropriate for their situation...Taking access to this care away would harm the people who need it most."
January 2, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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These works honor Navaho weavers who built semiconductor circuits.

There’s also Makiko Tada, who translated traditional Japanese braiding techniques into resilient, strong-but-light car frames & windmill blades.

And so many more fiber artists re-working old, manual techniques for modern tasks.
January 2, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Happy 40th birthday to New Orleans legend Trombone Shorty. Seen here playing at 5 years old.
#music
January 2, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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Reminder that if you stopped masking, you can re-start at any time to protect your family & community
“The influenza season is in full swing, and it’s already proving to be deadly for some of the most vulnerable Americans around: children.”

“Several states have reported their first pediatric flu deaths…experiencing record-level surges of illness… driven by an unexpected strain of the H3N2 flu”
Last week, “New York health officials reported experiencing the largest weekly surge in flu cases ever recorded in modern history—71,123 positive flu cases during the week of December 20.”
January 2, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940
January 3, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Neither grok nor x apologized in any official statement. The screenshotted “apology from grok” was created by a user who prompted it to issue an apology for creating a specific CSAM image of girls who were 12-14 years old (by grok’s estimation). He prompted grok multiple times to get this “apology.”
LLMs are 100% - yes, 100% - the results of their programmer's intentions.

Yes, there are some unexpected outputs. But if you'd chatbot creates sexual images of young children, either the programmers don't care or THEY EXPLICITLY WANTED IT TO DO THAT.
1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."

This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.

Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
January 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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This was a great movie.
In 1995, Sandra Bullock was the first person ever to buy movie theater tickets online, in promotion for her new film THE NET.
January 3, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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If you have a cool-ass music-related website, hit me up. I am going to start a Friends of Ether Diver page of links on my website. Let's do this shit like it's 1994.
I actually think it's time to bring back the approach of curated lists and webrings from the early web again. Huge opportunity space for hand curation of information
In an age where AI slop websites have made entire categories of information difficult to find, what we need is Yahoo (or Dmoz): a human-curated list of reliable websites, organized by topic.
January 2, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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If you're in the SF bay area I hope to see you there

The Unseen Internet with Shira Chess

This panel include[s] several people interviewed for the book:
Paco Nathan
Mark Pesce
R.U. Sirius
Erik Davis

Friday, January 9, 2026
7:00 PM
at Alembic in Berkeley

www.berkeleyalembic.org/events
January 2, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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Lina Stern, a biochemist and neurophysiologist, was one of the first researchers to identify what is now known as the blood-brain barrier, and conducted pioneering research on the central nervous system. adalovelaceday.subst...
Prof Lina Stern, Neurophysiologist and Biochemist
A world-renowned scientist during her lifetime, Lina Stern was one of the first researchers to identify what is now known as the blood-brain barrier.
adalovelaceday.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:19 PM
A key feature of the Apollo guidance computer was core rope memory. The supervisors responsible for overseeing the careful integration of changes and additions to the software were known as rope mothers, regardless of their actual gender identity. The rope mother’s boss was a lady:
Margaret Hamilton
January 2, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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Beatrice Hicks US #engineer. 1st #WomanEngineer hired by Western Electric, later owner of engineering firm. 1950 co-founder of 1st president Soc of Women Engineers. Developed gas density switch used in US space program, incl Apollo moon landings. b. #OTD Jan 2 1919 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatric...
January 2, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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"If you lose that history, you are going to make the same mistakes again."
NASA Forced to Shut Down Largest Library, Throw Invaluable Materials in Trash
The Trump administration is shutting down NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's library — NASA's largest — and threatening to destroy books.
trib.al
January 2, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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Women used to be present in computer work in higher percentages than they are today. Ever wonder what happened? Turns out that the story of gender and the progress of computing are a lot more tightly linked than we once thought…
January 2, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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BASSSOON TRACKER

"Bassoon Tracker - a browser based tracker in plain old javascript. Open, play, edit and save 4 channel mod files in your browser."

🔗 www.stef.be/bassoontrack...

#Music #Bassoontracker #SoundTracker #NoiseTracker #Protracker #StarTrekker #AudioSculpture #Octamed #JavaScript
January 2, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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Dr. Dana Ulery was born #OTD in 1938.

In 1961, Ulery became the first woman engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, where she designed automation real-time tracking systems for the Ranger & Mariner space missions. #WomenInSTEM #computerscience
January 2, 2026 at 8:21 PM
This represents the most radical anti-trans legislation ever passed by a chamber of Congress. Now it’s time for you and everyone you know to contact your Senators to demand opposition. Here is a letter with @resist.bot
January 2, 2026 at 8:48 PM