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Lynn Conway, electricial engineer and computer scientist, co-architect of the VLSI design revolution, and transgender activist, was born #OTD in 1938.

She invented Dynamic Instruction Scheduling at IBM, but IBM fired her when they learned she was transitioning.

Photo: Lynn Conway

No, Zardoz doesn't take place in 2023, but in 2293.

The memes are wrong. You don't have to dress like Sean Connery or share fake stuff from the very first day of the year. :D

And there you have it. The pizza box story has been debunked. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/30/andrew-tate-detained-romania-brothers-crime/

TIL contrabass flutes and indee double contrabass flutes are things that exist

After I did the story about the dad whose Google account was closed and deleted for taking a photo of his naked toddler for the doctor, I heard from a distraught mother in Colorado who was going through the same thing and didn't know why. Her Google account was disabled, taking with it her wedding photos, videos of her 9yo son growing up, tax documents, email and everything else. And she had no idea why. She was in tears. "It feels like my house burned down," she told me: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/technology/google-appeals-change.html

Twitter is closing its Seattle office and asking employees to work from home, per an email to staff.

Wishing you a healthy, joyous, and peaceful 2023.

USPS is the real MVP for delivering the new Anti-Flag record in the middle of this snowstorm.

I wasn’t looking for another Mastodon follow migration tool, but the aesthetic of this one is incredible: https://mastodon-flock.vercel.app/

The latest NYT op-ed attacking encryption deceitfully talks around the reality. Either you can make everyone able to communicate (and do legal business) securely, or you ensure that no one can. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/opinion/jack-dorseys-twitter-signal-privacy.html

i have a design replacement idea for those who say that #mastodon is difficult to use

It's almost 2023, and I'm ready!

All I want for TWISmas is for you to watch the latest episode of @TWIScience, subscribe to the show on your favorite streaming or podcast platform, and share it far and wide.

Watch our countdown of the Top 11 #science stories of 2022 here: https://youtube.com/live/ctCE3OXiMKU?feature=share

#sciencepod #podcast #TWIS #sciencepodcast #sciencepodcasting #2022Review

@freemo Merry Christmas, and thanks for playing Santa this year and giving all of us new users here the gift of QOTO! It's very much appreciated.

For years I’ve had a semi-annual tradition in which I watch Tim Minchin’s beautiful atheist Christmas carol “White Wine in the Sun” at midnight on Christmas Eve, bawl my eyes out, then post it on Twitter. Doing it on Masto this year. Merry Christmas; I quite like the songs. https://youtu.be/fCNvZqpa-7Q

NEW: Twitter is shutting down its data center in Sacramento and downsizing another in Atlanta by early Jan, likely as a cost saving measure. This means a huge amount of traffic will be shifted to its remaining data centers, which could result in increased instability.

“Twitter has privately demanded that the suspended journalists delete the tweets that drew Musk’s ire in the first place — a condition the reporters have refused to accept.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/23/musk-twitter-journalists-suspended-elonjet/