Riley S. Faelan

@riley@toot.cat

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👩‍🔬 #geek girl (#software, #dsl, #retrocomputing, #electronics, #fpga, #maths, #infosec, sometimes #sre);
🧠 #neurospicy;
🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #trans / #GirlsLikeUs, 💊 2018-12-13;
⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW);
🌌 #cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 #Deutschland / #Germany, 🇪🇺 #EU, 🌍 #Terra);
🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: <@riley@toot.cat>.

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Riley S. Faelan

@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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Riley S. Faelan

Riley S. Faelan

@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat · 3d ago

Well, time to go to sleep. I'll have to do an interview in the morning, and try and hawk an echolocation project in the afternoon, and I would definitely not want to sleep in for my special kitty's breakfast, either.

Good night. :blobcatevening:

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@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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Riley S. Faelan

Riley S. Faelan

@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat · 3d ago

In Leopards Transvestigating People's Faces news ...

The series has also, predictably, become a vector for uglier content, which Owens does not herself state. After [Candace] Owens highlighted yearbook photos of a young Erika Kirk with short hair, some followers began “transvestigating” — speculating about her gender identity based on childhood appearance, a transphobic online practice that has become a recurring weapon on the far right. Owens did not make this claim explicitly, but her framing and fan base did the rest of the work.

Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/candace-owens-bride-of-charlie-erika-kirk-1236522192/

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👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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Riley S. Faelan

Riley S. Faelan

@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat · 3d ago

Darth Pumpkin has created a situation where it'd be in China's enlightened self-interest to offer (some) healthcare services in Africa as foreign aid.

The Trump administration's latest "pure evil" move sparked outrage among political analysts and observers on Monday.
The New York Times reported that the Trump administration's Department of State has drafted a memo outlining reasons to withhold money for "lifesaving" H.I.V. reduction programs in Zambia to force the African country to hand over more of its rare earth minerals. The move could impact as many as 1.3 million Zambians who rely on the programs for medical treatment, according to the report.
"We will only secure our priorities by demonstrating willingness to publicly take support away from Zambia on a massive scale,” the Times reported the memo stated.
The Times previously reported that the Trump administration is pursuing global rare earth mineral deals to break U.S. dependence on China. The country currently mines 70% of the world's rare earth minerals and processes chemicals for 90% of the global supply, the Times reported.
The report sparked outrage among political analysts and observers.
[...]

(Source: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676247953/.)

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@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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Riley S. Faelan

Riley S. Faelan

@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat · 3d ago

Happy St Patrick's day to those who celebrate!

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Riley S. Faelan

@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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Riley S. Faelan

Riley S. Faelan

@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat · 3d ago

In brain drain news ...

College campuses are in chaos as professors scramble to dodge the Trump administration's ideological crusade, rewriting syllabuses, self-censoring lectures, and even fleeing the country, according to a new report.
From elite universities to smaller institutions, faculty members are gutting grant applications of language that might trigger White House fury, stripping courses of controversial topics, and watching their words in classrooms, The New York Times reported Monday. Some abandoned research projects altogether and one even packed her bags and moved to Australia.
[...]
“I really, really resented the idea that you should change the words so that you could get the funding,” she said, adding, “To me, that is compliance with fascism, and I’m not going to do it.”

Source: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-university-2676248348/.

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@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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Riley S. Faelan

@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat · 3d ago

There's a tendon-based technique for building joints for robots. I'd like to one day give it a try in the context of building the flight controls of an old-school fixed-wing drone. In theory, a clever joint set-up, and a wee bit of algorithmic trickery, should allow for a very high degree of trajectory control, the kind currently generally associated with quadcopter drones, but at a much lower energy-per-distance cost, suitable for tiny drones designed for negotiating tight places (and dancing in beautiful drone swarms). :blobcatsleep:

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@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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Riley S. Faelan

@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat · 3d ago

Did you know that the proportion of sillionaires regretting having signed Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge is much larger than the proportion of trans people regrettting transitioning?

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@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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Riley S. Faelan

@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat · 3d ago

Dangerous asteroids are kind of a staple in space strategy games, but I'm not sure I have ever played one in which the solution involves carefully slightly manipulating the orbit's spine.

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@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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Riley S. Faelan

@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat · 3d ago

Tirritate an astrologer by congratulating him for the recent advances in asteroidology.

"The change in the binary system’s orbital speed was about 11.7 microns per second, or 1.7 inches per hour. Over time, such a small change in an asteroid’s motion can make the difference between a hazardous object hitting or missing our planet," added Rahil Makadia of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the lead author on the paper. However, NASA and the ESA have both determined that the modification to Didymos' orbit does not make it a threat to Earth. Studying changes in Didymos’ motion also helped the researchers calculate the densities of both asteroids, which revealed that Dimorphos is slightly less dense.
This supports the theory that it formed from rocky debris shed by a rapidly spinning Didymos that eventually clumped together to form a “rubble pile” asteroid. Although Didymos is not a Potentially Hazardous Object (PHO), meaning it poses no collision threat to Earth, the success of the DART mission demonstrates the effectiveness of the kinetic impactor method. The first step, however, is to detect PHOs far enough in advance that a kinetic impactor can be sent to rendezvous with them. This is the purpose behind NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission: a next-generation space survey telescope, and the first to be built for planetary defense.

Got to plot birth charts for every tiny rock!

(Source: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-dart-mission-also-changed-didymos-orbit-around-sun.)

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👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat · 3d ago

Managed to catch last train, so I'm home. Deutsche Bahn be thanked for connections sometimes being late.

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👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat · 3d ago

Would the world be a better place if the mandatory minimum for declaring no quarter would be drawing and quartering? :blobcatthinking:

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👩‍🔬 # geek girl (#software, # dsl , # retrocomputing , # electronics , # fpga , # maths , # infosec , sometimes # sre ); 🧠 # neurospicy ; 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ # trans / # GirlsLikeUs , 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 # cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 # Deutschland / # Germany , 🇪🇺 # EU , 🌍 # Terra ); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: < https:// toot.cat/@riley/10957551933848 8877 >. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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@riley@toot.cat · 4d ago

So much for the first day of spring. It's cold and windy again. :blobcatsweat:

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@riley@toot.cat · 4d ago

Spent over two hours tonight haggling over a potential project, and kind of wish that was something a machine could do for me.

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@riley@toot.cat · Mar 11, 2026

The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.

A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.

This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.

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@riley@toot.cat · Mar 10, 2026

In false crime (and historical ESfasc) news ...

Spain is to formally pardon a group of 53 women who are among thousands who were incarcerated by the Franco regime on the grounds that they were supposedly “fallen or in danger of falling”.
The women were locked up as adolescents by the Board for the Protection of Women, a collection of institutions run by religious orders. The board, which had echoes of Ireland’s notorious Magdalene laundries, was overseen by Carmen Polo, the wife of the dictator Gen Francisco Franco.
Originally founded in 1902 to stamp out sex work, in 1941, two years after the end of the Spanish civil war, its role was extended to clamp down on female behaviour that deviated from norms laid down by the Catholic church. The board was not closed down until 1985, 10 years after Franco’s death.
In a ceremony next week, the government will pardon the 53 survivors and recognise them as victims of Francoist repression. A statement from the ministry of democratic memory said that any punishment, whether legal or administrative, they had suffered was null and void as it resulted from “the repression and violence exercised by the Board for the Protection of Women for political, ideological reasons or because of their gender”.
[...]
One woman was locked up on suspicion of being a lesbian – simply because she had written a letter discussing sexuality. [...]
Another was detained because she was considered by authorities to be “too fond of the street”.
[...]
“The board could rely on broad public support and people became its ally and accomplice,” said the historian Carmen Guillén, who earlier this year published a book on the institution.
“People had assimilated the ideas of what made a ‘good’ or a ‘bad’ woman and what was seen as a deviation from the feminine. It was a form of panoptic control exercised by their families and neighbours as well as the authorities.”
[...]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/10/spain-formally-pardon-women-incarcerated-franco-regime

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@riley@toot.cat · Mar 02, 2026

In fairness-in-women's-sport news ...

USA Track & Field has denied an appeal after its Half Marathon Championship in Atlanta ended in chaos.
With less than two miles to go in the women’s race, Jess McClain had a significant lead over Ednah Kurgat and Emma Hurley when the guide vehicle took the trio off course. [...]
McClain also missed out on the $20,000 prize awarded to the winners of the men’s and women’s races.
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In a statement, USATF said: “The jury of appeals found that the event did not meet USATF Rule 243 and that the course was not adequately marked at the point of misdirection. This violation contributed to the misdirection taken by the athletes within the top four at the time of misdirection. However, the jury of appeals finds no recourse within the USATF rulebook to alter the results order of finish. The results order of finish as posted is considered final.”
Under race rules, athletes are responsible for knowing the route of course.

I'm sure there will be loud and outraged complaints about such an unfair outcome from Teh Terves, and multi-million-dollarpound Gofundme campaigns to compensate the misguided runners. Any minute now.

(Source: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/01/us-half-marathon-championship-ends-in-chaos-as-lead-runners-guided-in-wrong-direction.)

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@riley@toot.cat · Mar 02, 2026

TIL that Epstein was also a chaser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7gKz7Wrr-0

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@riley@toot.cat · Mar 02, 2026

I'm pretty sure that's my record so far.

Onwards! To three nines!

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@riley@toot.cat · Mar 02, 2026

If you liked complaining about purity testing, you might also enjoy: praising dirtiness testing.

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the immediate cancellation of all military attendance at Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Brown, MIT, and a host of other elite universities, the same institutions where a number of his own senior Pentagon appointees earned their degrees.
The announcement, delivered in a video statement posted to X on Feb. 27, 2026, comes three weeks after the Pentagon severed ties with Harvard University and formally extends the ban to a broad range of unnamed institutions.
Hegseth offered no data to support his characterisation of the universities as ideologically compromised. The move deepens a confrontation between the Trump administration and higher education that has already cost universities billions in research funding.

Source: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pentagon-cuts-ties-elite-universities-ideological-concerns-1782174

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@riley@toot.cat · Mar 02, 2026

Tirritate fans of 4X games by pointing out that even when they don't include extermination as a mandatory victory condition, they always whitewash and normalise growth for growth's sake.

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@riley@toot.cat · Mar 02, 2026

RE: @DeutscherWetterdienst@social.bund.de

So much for the first day of spring. :blobcatsweat:

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@riley@toot.cat · Mar 02, 2026

If you liked the Department of External Services, you might also enjoy: the External Action Service.

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/_en

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@riley@toot.cat · Mar 01, 2026

Looks like Khamenei has died of Epstein Files, and he wasn't even in them.

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@riley@toot.cat · Mar 01, 2026

Since cats have trouble extracting fancy molecules from plant matter, their counterpart to herbalists are piscalists, specialists in the lore of seafood, who tell them which marine morsel is good for fixing the ailment du jour into a proper ailuroment.

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@riley@toot.cat · Mar 01, 2026

Great. Another "non-partisan" "free enterprise" "personal freedom" "think tank" has written a pamphlet about how bad it is to decriminalise sex work.

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@riley@toot.cat · Mar 01, 2026

plastic, n. The art of beating a dead dinosaur's spirit into a shape.

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Each dot in this picture is a Nazi-fascist massacre in Italy that happened between 1943 and 1945. This is the result of a project that lasted years, summarized by the Atlante cells Stragi Nazifasciste

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@riley@toot.cat · Feb 27, 2026

@fabio There's dots on this picture???

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@riley@toot.cat · Feb 25, 2026

Why does the DOS function 440Ah in DOSBox tell me that everything is "remote" (attribute word 0x8000), even files on a mounted floppy image?

:blobcatflop:

#retrocomputing

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@riley@toot.cat · Feb 25, 2026

The one in which Belle even fact-checks the audience's laughter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-imO74WEa0

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@riley@toot.cat · Feb 25, 2026

And I'm home, with my special kitty. :blobcatevening:

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@riley@toot.cat · Feb 21, 2026

Meanwhile, in Canada ...

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld to pay $750,000 for violating the Human Rights Code by publishing hate speech and discriminatory content against 2SLGBTQ+ people.
"Mr. Neufeld invoked negative and insidious stereotypes about LGBTQ people, especially trans people, which denied their inherent dignity and, in some cases, reflected the hallmarks of hate against them as a group," the tribunal said in a decision Wednesday.
Neufeld was one of the "loudest critics" against the B.C. government's move in 2017 directing school boards to update codes of conduct to address bullying based on "SOGI," or sexual orientation and gender identity, according to the tribunal’s decision.

Kudos to CBC for correct use of quote marks! Loud bigotry is not criticism, at most it can be "criticism".

"For five years, he publicly denigrated LGBTQ people and teachers and associated them with the worst forms of child abuse," said the tribunal members, adding that the effect was a discriminatory work environment for 2SLGBTQ+ teachers in the district.
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Neufeld's publications included Facebook posts, a speech at a gathering, a widely-circulated email, and comments at a school board meeting and in the media.
The tribunal found six of his publications were likely to expose trans, gay and lesbian people to hatred or contempt based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
"These publications demonize and delegitimize trans people (and in one case, lesbian and gay people) and cast them as a powerful menace threatening the security of children and their families."
More than 20 of Neufeld's publications indicated discrimination or an intention to discriminate against 2SLGBTQ+ people in the Chilliwack School District.

But wait! There's more!

A second decision from the tribunal, also released Wednesday, ordered Neufeld to pay $10,000 in punitive costs for improper conduct during the complaint.
The tribunal said Neufeld "repeatedly and flagrantly demonstrated his disregard for the Human Rights Tribunal and its process" and deliberately violated the tribunal's rules and orders.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/barry-neufeld-former-chilliwack-bc-trustee-pay-hate-speech-tribunal-2slgbtq-9.7098536

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