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Nicky Thompson

Doh and meant to share me on stage sharing the @barcamplondon @dxw air quality life improvement challenge! Fun times! #bclh24

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BarCamp London

slight snafu with the projector

no AV support at weekends

who has a display port female to HDMI male adaptor near Stratford E15?

we are brain storming other solutions before the presentations at 1.30pm

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@barcamplondon @mia To avoid confusion, because there are sometimes issues with HDMI playing silly with DP, and because some combinations: can you specify Source l Gender | Type on each?
(Will boost to see if anyone round UCL or UAL in Stratford has contacts.)

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Astro Dad

Heading into London for the #Imperial #Science #Festival around South Kensington campus. imperial.ac.uk/festival/

Any of you lovely people demonstrating or visiting?

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lj·rk

My #CompSci lecturers often dropped the names of inventors. But only if they were men. We talked about Gordon Moore, obviously Turing 🏳️‍🌈 was mentioned, about Don Knuth, about Chomsky etc.

But when we discussed the #ARM architecture, we never talked about the inventor *Sophie Wilson*. We also never talked about *Mary Ann Horton*, despite her work on `vi` and `terminfo` -- but of course we mentioned Bill Joy. We discussed the Spanning Tree Protocol, but not its inventor *Radia Perlman*. We have the whole field of #SoftwareEngineering, but who coined the term? *Margaret Hamilton*. We mentioned the ENIAC and v. Neumann, but failed to talk about *Adele Goldstine*. We discussed the origins of #OOP and #Smalltalk but ignored *Adele Goldberg*. We programmed in #Assembly but never talked about the woman who wrote the first #Assembler, *Kathleen Booth*. And don't get me started on #Safari and our sweet @lisamelton <3 Or any of the (incomplete list) of *Ida Rhodes, Carol Shaw, Shafi Goldwasser, Edith Clarke, Annie Easley, Joyce Little*, ...

And today? Let's talk about our favorite trans woman CPU designer, Lynn Conway.

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@cyrilpedia Paywall free version of that story.
pennmedicine.org/news/news-rel.

And of course the Nature article: nature.com/articles/d41586-024

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@bloor I knew about Hull bring the sole telecoms outlier since 1912, but this is on another level. Do local sparkies have to watch out on domestic jobs, or is this more the substation level of connection?

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Jonty Wareing

How dare you suggest I finish a project before starting another one! Starting new projects is how I distract myself from the upsetting heap of projects I haven't finished.

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Dave T-W

Theae are my favourite of the moment, but hard to track down! Holland & Barrett Soft Banana coins in a yoghurt coating, gives a chewy toffee vibe.

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@Free_Press Perhaps they can hitch a ride on the next dragon capsule.

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nullagent

Elon Musk seems awfully threatened by the new Apple AI demos and announced partnership with Open AI. He immediately threw a temper tantrum (how dare the tech giants do something without him 😆) and changed all Twitter user's blocklists to ban Apple from everyone's feed.

The block requires users to manually go to Apples account page to unblock them.

In a show of his business genius Musk also says he'll ban all Apple device support at all his companies.

#Apple #OpenAI #ElonMusk

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And I've just realised many of these have a portfolio page:
portfolio.arts.ac.uk/project/5

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Eva's kindly sent me some pics as she doesn't have a website as such. I thought these might be of interest for those of you interested in Materials and

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It was a whistle stop tour and I didn't take as many photos as usual l, but oher things to look out for included adjustable furniture for... "Intimate interactions", and a Bluetooth device which makes interaction with smartphones easier for elderly or disabled people. Physical buttons allowed menu browsing, volume control, item selection etc.

And of course a whole set of galleries showing works on Ceramics, Jewellery, Fine Art,. Performance Design, Material Futures, Character Animation and Architecture.
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Ali Wagner's project, Dancefloor Intimacy, is about designing nightclubs and similar spaces for neurodiverse people. Really comprehensive guidebook.

nighttime.org/neurodiverse-nig

ali-wagner.cargo.site/

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Hannah Colthorpe had a gorgeous display of her Steg character, postcards, badges, posters and a bedroom rug.

hannahcolthorpe.com/

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First was an innovative material by Eva Xiste using waste products from the Irish wool industry. There's a lot of discarded material which is often burned, but she has developed a malleable material that can be shaped like MDF, baked at low temperature and then finished using woodworking tools. Will share a link if I can find one.

Another student, whose details I didn't get, had used waste coffee grounds in clay, again a good reuse of materials and lower firing temperatures.
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Went to the University of the Arts: Central Saint Martin's Show last night. A masterclass in public engagement and celebrating the work of students and their tutors. The main building , seminar rooms and studios are repurposed into a huge art gallery. Absolutely rammed at the preview, so book tickets on Eventbrite.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/csm-shows-t

Here's some of the artists that caught my attention.(I confess I'm more into the Graphic Design / Industrial Product Design than Fine Art and the other media)

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@LouisIngenthron Not quite as playful as Kerbal maybe, but a former colleague wrote Orbiter flight sim and made it GPL a few years back.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbite

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