IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_ @freeschool@qoto.org

What we had before was plenty since we were NOT interested in making it easier for humans anyway ^----- MASSIVE POINT #FreeSchool

"Free" is always a bit weird / strange in a sentence because it's unknown / unclear what it means, in what way free...?

It's our task to ask more about it or present it.

For example: #FreeSchool is a list of things: ⬇️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=freeschool

Friendship for the way Forward.
#Answers #FreeSchool

Debate and How to argue for the people -

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=2pVdSEp-tT8&listen=false

Hey @rms - we need space online to speak more and improve all round - I'm happy to arrange and would like some backing to get interest in real subjects for least some real tests or test with real material...

- #FreeSchool

"daemon" SHOULD HAVE WARNED US ENOUGH ABOUT COMPUTERS !
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

daemon (Noun)
1. An evil supernatural being
2. A person who is part mortal and part god
3. (computing) a program that runs automatically or on a schedule without user interaction

( I shit you not - #FreeSchool #computer #words #dictionary #meanings)

Diversity means having advantages and drawbacks to match and change each other, there is not 1 perfect solution. The solution is diversity. - #FreeSchool -

If perfection is your aim, reconsider.

☑️ Wisdom, knowledge, experience, love, understanding...

*over* perfectionism. OK?

➡️ #FreeSchool ⬅️ [see for more]

If perfection is your aim, reconsider.
Nobody is perfect.

#FreeSchool ⬅️ see for more

Some people are just not able to sell themselves. - #FreeSchool

Big part of information online is that it's a painkiller for us.

- #FreeSchool ❓ #Matrix ... #TheMatrix ❓

"Attention Economy" for sure,..

But "Lack of Attention" (depth) on Fediverse also!

"hey you I'm looking for more concrete constructive focus!!"
(That's from me)

The lack of depth on Fediverse could be waaay more on every level (perhaps the lower needs more than specialist) and seed things on every level like a fish frendzy (FRIENDZY) even from the most silliest or backward things *if* being genuine IT WILL GROW CONVERSATION AND THUS MORE...

AND THEN CONTRIBUTE TO HIGHER LEVELS... YES level up indeed....

"Lack of Economy" in Attention means these users will either not use platform and stagnate AND also be gobbled up by mainstream Guardian, CBNC, BBC, CBB'S, BBCBCCBCBBCBS, BBSBSBSBBSSS, ETC !!!

(THOSE THAT WILL SUPPLY THEM FISH CAKES (OR FISH FOOD, WHATEVER)... AND WILL SERVE / USE THEM INSTEAD...

We have to make our own economy here (in all the meaning: financial / giving for the attention seeking / eventually contributing)

We need them / you to sharpen our principle's and focus here

Or else get taken the fuck over / ran the fuck over! #NOOO
#FEDIVERSE #MASTODON #ETC

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hey you I'm #bored.... (looking for more concrete constructive focus)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy

PICTURES ARE REPRESENTATION OF MY TALENTS

YOUR GUIDANCE REQUIRED IN CREATING THE FUTURE.... AS A KIND BETTER SCHOOL FOR KIDS (AND ADULTS)... #FREESCHOOL

It's a play on the whole phrase "We are disappointed in you..."

Often used by parents or in conversation referencing society or social groups larger than one's self and people we've never met!

This phrase and image I thought went well as the "You're..." modification and perspective of the many faces as like each of your own internal other personality or critical character disappointed on every little thing and expecting too much.

One character might be picky about this, the other about that, etc)

And that's why you need me! [THE PUNCH LINE TO THE WHOLE POST AND BASIC EDIT OF THE PHRASE!!] 💣

💥 To help you realise the balance AND actually you're doing pretty good (Brodie you too!). and the expecting "too much" from imperfect #humans is a kind of #perfectionism to be reduce! Mission impossible there for any #perfectionist ! We're imperfect - get used to it while doing / learning.

Perhaps I'm the over smiley friend that look like I'm selling something, but friend a nonetheless... let me introduce myself... I'm online as #FreeSchool ! Have a nice day!

- #FreeSchool with Brodie's header modified 😇 👼 (credits / kudos @BrodieOnLinux and check out his video too for example: https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=xuwpvrtXyfk)
#BrodieRobertson #Linux #Ubuntu #Install #Tutorial #HowTo #Videos #Explained #Github #FlatHub #Podcast

We know "Inflation" is added from what Banks / Government say,,, but is it just Inflation at 2/3%?

Dollar loses about 2% a year
- Mike Adams Health Ranger
(will try find source, I could be wrong so this post is just to confirm we're losing...)

Pictures suggest dollar halves ever 20yrs but could be more not just as "Inflation" but added profit pricing to make "effective purchasing power" even more different as you try to purchase anything big... There are laws to keep bread etc mostly ok (to keep us alive just about) but not for real money makers:

like rent, housing, fuel, heating, gas etc which can sky rocket AT ANY TIME:

As we saw in #UK 2023 winter prices with BritishGas #energy "profits" amazingly high suddenly checkmating people, (this is a bit of speculation forgive me but probably not always relative-to-war prices and just pure profit happened many times in #Britain at least!)

#UK #UKpol #Energy #Gas #Prices #Inflation #Finance #Banks #FreeSchool

Picture Source: Investopedia https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/032715/why-does-time-value-money-tvm-assume-dollar-today-worth-more-dollar-tomorrow.asp

"Every Man's Wet Dream..."

- FreeSchool's Edit from "The Black Lotus - Eon" + mp3 shorter edit here:
https://bin.dembased.xyz/theblacklotus-eon-freeschool-edit.mp3 (will expire soon)

Credit to Original:
"The Black Lotus - Eon":
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=roASIL7G7XE

#Music #Pic #Audio #Edit #Remake #Art
#FreeSchool #Quote

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INTRO (or skip to LIST) "We never talk about these women"... (Version 11)
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Too many men got the credit for other people's work!

Usually men are either given or taking the credit all for themselves.

We see it day to day. But not today!

THIS POST GIVES THE UNSAID THE CREDIT !
Non-men are usually not given the credit they deserve SO HERE IT IS!

A dedicated list and #Justice for all the silent injustices!

Name + reasons / what they + hashtags + links for future generations BELOW!...

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🔁 ONE BIG *FEDIVERSE POST* TO BOOST / REPLY TO FOREVER 🔁
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Click reply to add more to this collection + the Wikipedia link please...

...so society and academic writers can use these names as alternative sources and lists!

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We never talk about... (Fediverse people first + #FreeSchool mostly checked / verified these - mostly not a Twitter bot acc!)

*Lynn Conway* #LynnConway RIP 2024 [Special mention]
#trans woman #CPU #designer
(more at end of this post, CTRL-F name!)

*Lisa Melton* #LisaMelton
#Safari + #WebKit projects at #Apple, underground comics, newspaper graphics, Adobe and Netscape, #transcoding + podcast
FEDIVERSE: @lisamelton )

Emily M. Bender (Prof / she / her) #EmilyMBender
Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington, Faculty Director,
FEDIVERSE: @emilymbender

Timnit Gebru (she / her) #TimnitGebru
Fired from Google for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace:
https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/.
Writes about the dangers of large language models or #LLM:
Founded The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://www.dair-institute.org/) to work on community rooted AI research.
FEDIVERSE: @timnitGebru

*Molly White* #MollyWhite
crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian, @web3isgreat
FEDIVERSE: @molly0xfff / https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff
FEDIVERSE: @web3isgreat @web3isgreat / https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat

*Vesna Manojlovic* (she / her)
Community Builder (UnCiv) / hacker / mother / artist / feminist / activist / émigré / Yugosaurus / NL
FEDIVERSE: @becha
WEB: https://becha.unciv.nl/

Cat Hicks #CatHicks
Social & Evidence Scientist. Defender of the mismeasured.
#psychology #evidence #statistics #measurement theory #research
Founder of the Developer Success Lab
FEDIVERSE: @grimalkina

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List not yet found on Fediverse ??
(as yet found by #FreeSchool 2024)
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*Sophie Wilson* #SophieWilson
#ARM #architecture inventor

Mary Ann Horton* #MaryAnnHorton CONFIRMED ALIVE (68)
Pioneer for Usenet and Internet. Contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD) including the #vi editor and #terminfo database + created the first email binary attachment tool uuencode.
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Horton
WEB: maryannhorton.com

*Radia Perlman* #RadiaPerlman
Spanning Tree Protocol inventor

*Adele Goldberg* #AdeleGoldberg
Origins of #OOP and #Smalltalk
Model of Communicating Entities (The Cuis-Smalltalk Book)
WEB: https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Class-_002d-Model-of-Communicating-Entities.html

*Kathleen Booth* #KathleenBooth
woman who wrote the first #Assembler,

*Sally Floyd* #SallyFloyd
pioneering work in Internet congestion control.

*Klára Dán von Neumann* #KlaraDanVonNeumann
Considered one of the first programmers, #MANIAC I and #ENIAC and coded the first monte carlo simulation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_D%C3%A1n_von_Neumann

Hedy Lamarr #HedyLamarr on Big Screen #Cinema
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hedy-lamarr
Film called: "Bombshell: The Hedey Lamarr Story" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6752848/

*Mary Kenneth Keller* #MaryKennethKeller
First woman to earn a PhD in computer science (almost first person ever, but the first man to earn the degree accepted his diploma at Washington University in Saint Louis earlier the very same day.)
SISTER Mary Kenneth Keller! Religious... !
https://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/on-alumnae-mary-kenneth-keller/

Grace Hopper #GraceHopper RIP 1906-1992
Coined the term "bug" (after an actual bug caused a bug) !!!!
Spoke at Penn State ~1970
WIKIl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

*Dorothy Denning* #DorothyDenning
Invented Intrusion detection systems, huge in information security
WIKI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_E._Denning

*Barbara Liskov* #BarbaraLiskov CONFIRMED ALIVE!
Pioneer contributions to programming languages + distributed computing
The L in the “SOLID” principles of object oriented design.
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov

*Nancy Lynch* #Nancy Lynch
Pioneer theoretician of distributed systems.
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Lynch

*Nancy Leveson* #NancyLeveson CONFIRMED ALIVE!
Pioneer of safety-critical systems such as the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS)
Editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
Held memberships in the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, System Safety Society, and AIAA
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Leveson

*Ada Lovelace* / Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace #AdaLovelace
English mathematician and writer, worked on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation.
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
Museum Exhibit: https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/ada-lovelace-release/
Audio Talk / Interview: https://spectrum.ieee.org/qa-adele-goldberg-on-the-legacy-of-smalltalk

*Susan Graham* #SusanGraham
1st female CMPSC prof and only female for a decade+ at UC Berkeley and
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L._Graham

*Mar Hicks* #MarHicks
Women, Gender, Sexuality in Computing istory
https://computerhistory.org/blog/women-gender-sexuality-and-computing-history/
https://www.amazon.com/Programmed-Inequality-Discarded-Technologists-Computing/dp/0262535181

*Diane Greene* #DianeGreene - friend of JohnMashey @JohnMashey
Software manager at SGI:
WIKI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Greene

*Megan Smith* #MeganSmith - friend JohnMashey @JohnMashey
Worked at General Magic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Smith

*Sue Owicki* #SueOwicki - friend of JohnMashey @JohnMashey
Consulting for SGI
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Owicki

Lizy John:
Professor at University of Texas at Austin, Indian American electrical engineer, Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of IEEE MICRO
WIKI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizy_John

(Potential contact relative to above and more):
JohnMashey @JohnMashey who worked at Bell Labs, crucial time for CMPSC, 100+ talks around USA as an ACM National Lecturer. Decades in Silicon Valley, including 22.5 years as Trustee at Computer History Museum. Has met many terrific people including above.

*Laurie Spiegel* #LaurieSpiegel
Bell Labs in 1973 developed computer music systems (GROOVE, Alles), did most of the design work on the alphaSyntauri system (used by Apple II) and later the McLeyvier, 1986 she released her own algorithmic composition software called Music Mouse.Her musical interpretation of Kepler's "Harmonices Mundi" is Track 1 of the golden record on board Voyager.
She also plays the guitar and lute.
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Spiegel

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(more as a list) and other info...
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*Ida Rhodes* #IdaRhodes
*Carol Shaw* #CarolShaw
*Shafi Goldwasser* #ShafiGoldwasser
*Edith Clarke* #EdithClarke
*Annie Easley* #AnnieEasley
*Joyce Little* #JoyceLittle
*Barbara Liskov* #BarbaraLiskov
*Jeannette Wing* #JeannetteWing
*Pamela Zave* #PamelaZave
*Muffy Calder* #MuffyCalder
*Ursula Martin* #UrsulaMartin

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Original #ENIAC programming team:
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Kay McNulty #KayMcNulty
Betty Jennings #BettyJennings
Betty Snyder #BettySnyder
Marlyn Wescoff #MarlynWescoff
Fran Bilas #FranBilas
Ruth Lichterman #RuthLichterman

+ maybe some black women were also involved with this project but sadly this has not been well documented and information about them may have been lost in the historical record.

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OTHER SOURCES AND INFO FOLLOWS:
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#WomenInTechBook <== Book

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Notable Women In Computing
A Playing Cards Project:

https://medium.com/csforall-stories/notable-women-in-computing-playing-cards-project-8c6739ce4494
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Association for Women in Computing (AWC)
www.awc-hq.org

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Klára Dán von Neumann (John von Neumann's wife)
...MORE INFO...
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Considered to be one of the first programmers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_D%C3%A1n_von_Neumann

She was Head of the Statistical Computing Group at Princeton, and worked at Los Alamos laboratory. She programmed the MANIAC I and #ENIAC and coded the first monte carlo simulation.

The Lost Women of Science podcast devoted an entire season to her, I've been meaning to get around to finishing it:
https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/season-2

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Computer History Museum’s "Hall of Fellows"
includes many of the women mentioned + more!
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https://computerhistory.org/hall-of-fellows/

⬇️ EXAMPLE SEARCH
= Adele Goldstine #AdeleGoldstine https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/?s=Adele+Goldberg

aardvark @aardvark said "I carried a box for Adele after a conference, and have her books!" (https://ioc.exchange/@aardvark/112618298437725182)

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*Lynn Conway* #LynnConway RIP 2024
...more info / story...
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#trans woman #CPU #designer

Lynn developed "generalized dynamic instruction dispatch" for IBM in 1966.

2 years later she was kicked out, just after Robert Tomasulo published the "Tomasulo Algorithm" for out-of-order execution of floating point instructions, utilizing Lynn's work.

Everyone knows Tomasulo (and he did great work, mind you!), but no-one knows Lynn.

Later, in technical compsci, you may stumble upon highly integrated circuits, everyone there knows #VLSI but not the inventor, our dear Dr. Conway.

Her story, her struggle against IBM who took decades to apologize to her for her mistreatment. She transitioned in darker times and pioneered not "only" in compsci. She was what many would call "greater than life". She died early Jun 2024.

Today let's remember Lynn 🏳️‍⚧️
Today and tomorrow we fight on ✊
See also: Talk on Wikipedia: Out-of-order execution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Out-of-order_execution#Lynn_Conway

The name of Conway is usually dropped and both concepts (register renaming etc. and multiple-issue) subsumed under one, effectively erasing Conway's work. If it isn't then multiple-issue is often erroneously attributed to Yale Patt.

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All info ripped, added, transformed from Internet / Wiipedia / Fediverse by #FreeSchool and the many posts from this thread to re-make this post:

https://todon.eu/@ljrk/112614620740598888

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#Science #Engineering #Computing #Computers #Engineer #Women #Inventors #Creators #Hackers #Pioneers #Programmers #Researchers #Research #Founders #Professors

F words... #Friendship #Fun #FreeSchool 🚸 #Freedom ⛓️ #Family 👪
#Free(Open Mindset) 🆓

SCARED? Yes we all are... but

People's own mistrust IS THE BASIC CAUSE for why we are not working more together over the net or not.
The worse case is claiming "strangers" without making effort to make friends (friends were strangers once or stranger = friends after getting to know them!)

Even if 100% were good here (everywhere or just your instance or some Federated tab... ) still you wouldn't know how to make friends / accept imperfections / to share with others and might claim the shadows are watching rather than fighting forward either to see if that's even the case or just guard up punching at things together to make some progress even expecting problems as building up resilience, experience, humanity, logic.... one big #FreeSchool

(pardon the F word at the end but #FreeSchool or #Friendship For the F-in Way!)

Much respect to you and get in touch and let's prove me wrong for a change! Happy to do stuff for #freedom / #free for you too.

Leaders I respect in the first place taking it on the role (not just from empty ego or pure-blaggers) but really reasoned leaders and being a bit daring too is part calculated effort and involvement of almost everyone genuine.

So in comparison I take on a leader role in this post (virtually) and in my head as that is what is needed to start, and you as a follower can confirm and add to that weight (by commenting ideally or adding bell notification to get posts more immediately in respect to some level of importance and compounding that - rather than compounding nobody).

By all means be leader but if not stepping up - you need to allow someone else for a bit, so almost why not me for a bit without answering purely with negatives - see the positives ! Ask and you shall get -

**** having time for people and being tested is the main winner I feel *****

I'm sure any critique doesn't defeat me entirely, NOT because I'm the best but because I have time and happy to listen and let others lead for a bit in conversation... as dangerous as that is, and responding also! (IMAGINE!)
All these others on Fediverse have one-way bots and Twitter echos - PLEASE... I've won already... !

So we need to let others train to lead.. so this is part of that... train me.

I can also have several leaders with me (in case one is sick!) like you or someone else you can appraise or treat as an apprenticeship scheme (like that past apprenticeships of "working on the job" together). That way we don't fall into the trap of expecting 1 person to lead everything but really a whole fleet of leaders build up and accumulate CLEVER NO?

Even if you would call me leader now, (which I'm not trapping you by asking you to say it aloud) still you would imagine others or yourself in a pyramid of leader or learning to consult like formation of planes in the air ✈️ while they scout and discuss stuff)... yes all very metaphorical unless we try it.

So let me say I WANT TO LEAD!
And let you lead too while keeping my logical side of moderation in that... and happy to say of my lacking... since amazingly I know I'm imperfect but really together we can crack it.

And I will accept being wingman, and as the wingman (any gender) this has sometimes the clarity (and not) to mix with another leader's clarity to contrast or purify testing the right move (or both ways), again together!
(we're not against each other but together and with our sharpness in whatever way testing it all out, and you give us feedback).

Why did I write this?

So... you tell me :) (you give feedback / make meaning to it all)

Click favourite or type a bit of a reply if you would *maybe* consider me as a leader or wingman and see what about it :)

I feel like the older / past leaders had this "belief in the one, and the many" thing which has largely been lost and needs a bit of **testing** even virtually at first to then say "fuck what a great person this is" or "this could actually work" eventually ...
...seemingly from nothing...
else consider test done...

#FreeSchool <--- check hashtag or contact what is interesting to you as a start...

Listen to Lyrics / Music about Life / Fediverse!
CC-BY-NC-SA Fediverse only.

⬇️ https://bin.dembased.xyz/mc-xander-style-attempt-music-lyrics-freeschool.mp3

❓ What do you think? Production is low but aimed at getting it done fast and out there...

#FreeSchool #Fediverse #Music #Life #Lyrics

Here's my own animated creation using stock graphic of a cassette + animating it.

As a "cheers" to Atari, and homage to what I kind of kinda literally 'LOOP'ed into... (I had nothing better to play with... and then PC came along an well whadda know still using that too!)

Atari name comes from the Japanese term atari, used while playing the ancient board game Go.
(bet you didn't know that!)

And that it was an American company with Japanese sounding name ?

The word atari means "to hit a target" in Japanese and is associated with good fortune; in Go, it indicates a situation where a player will be able to capture one or more stones of the opponent in the next move.

😃 The company fizzled and perhaps Amiga was better but what a storm all that time was!

💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣
Which of the pictures on the Wiki page do you most recognise?

(Wiki Pictures on the right show the evolution of Atari stuff)

now GOTO 80! 👾 #FreeSchool
💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣

#Atari #Retro #51 #Anniversary #Computing #Graphics #Retro #XLE #AtariST #Games #Animation #Anim