ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

I work on #Excel, and this still cracks me up every time I see it

@ChrisMayLA6

👆 I've worked at many management levels in "the thing" in which I supposedly have "expertise". I wouldn't even TRY in anything else.

I have 1,000x the experience, detailed knowledge, insight and 'feel' for the 1 "thing" than I have for *anything* else (which, in practice, means *everything* else).

Having expertise in 1 thing informs you as to how NOT EXPERT you are in everything else; or at least it should, if you're doing it right...

In 1968, at 30 years old, Lynn Conway transitioned. In doing so she lost her wife, her children, and her job at IBM. She continued on, living authentically as her true self and continued her career as an electral engineer. In 1978 she became an associate professor at MIT and taught a course in VLSI (very large scale integration) that became the basis of the Mead-Conway VLSI Design Methodology, changing how we design integrated circuits. In 1985 she became a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, and later the associate dean of engineering.

32 years after transitioning, Conway came out publicly as a transgender woman. Since than she has been a advocate for transgender people in the tech sector. In 2020 IBM formally apologized for firing Conway for being trans, over 50 years after the fact. Just a bit of #transHistory I learned today.

#history

Banning books that show Michelangelo's David's penis makes perfect sense when you remember that this country was founded by sexually repressed ideologues who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean because the Catholic Church and the Church of England weren't sufficiently conservative for their tastes— and upon arrival to North America, engaged in genocide at continental scale

I'll take it

Thanks to some weird conversation with @the_etrain I am inspired to watch #bullDurham tonight!

I actually have this on DVD (crazy right?) if anyone else has access to this movie via any medium and wants to do a lil co-watch party let me know.

It is 4:30pm my time (EST) and can start it anytime in the next 3hrs.

Ping me if yer down and I will wait for ya!

#slugLife #couchWarriors

@ScottSoCal I would love to see them super intensely up north, definitely on my bucket list as well!

I wrote about how Jim Jordan's "Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government" which, we were told, was to be used to investigate how the government suppresses speech is now... being weaponized by Jim Jordan to suppress speech.

Article also highlights some more Matt Taibbi journalistic blunders.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/24/jim-jordan-weaponizes-the-subcommittee-on-the-weaponization-of-the-govt-to-intimidate-researchers-chill-speech/

People have not just stuffiness in their ears – they have stuffiness in their souls.
Lina Kostenko

GOP history:

“Rosa Parks was a person that rode a bus, she sat at the back because she liked the view”

“Chapter 2 will focus on how Native Americans thought Europeans were great and volunteered to leave”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/race-deleted-rosa-parks-history-florida-textbooks-1234698582/

@ScottSoCal @gretared
Add to that the nostalgic look back at a golden past that never really existed.

Perceive her roundness

#birds #bushtits #borb

"All right, Colonel. The truth is, I'm a little green man from Alpha Centauri. A beautiful place. You ought to see it." #StarTrek #FanArt

@ScottSoCal

Mom's for Liberty wants it banned...

I have been in this staff meeting for over 32 years.

New version of Michelangelo's David approved for Florida classrooms

Ohio Cops Sue Afroman for Using Footage of Home Raid in Music Videos - The Daily Beast. (My guess: They didn’t want anyone to see what complete assholes they were/are. They want people to think they are superheroes protecting the public. They’re just assholes, and it shows. That’s why they’re suing. “Emotional harm” to them? Nobody pointed a gun at them & destroyed their property.) https://apple.news/ABeG39APQTG2HwcufyW15Ag

If you think my toots are annoying, just imagine listening to the voices in my head.