Flip likes listening to a lot of the tracks on #BabaIsYou and #Fancade.

I think, "Maybe he'd be into making electronic music... Eh, or I'm just projecting because I'm nostalgic for the #moog studio at #MillsCollege."

I come across https://roland50.studio/, open it for a play---

Flip hears it, SITS ON ME and claims my laptop for almost an hour, noodling and recording three tracks of frenetic beats.

Well, then 🎹🎚️🎛️

Here's my #introduction. I'm a #Jewish #feminist #ComputerScience #professor who was part of #MillsCollege until it ran out of money and became part of #Northeastern. I'm now a Teaching Professor at NU's #Khoury College of CS and am teaching CS1 in #Kotlin.

I've worked at #Google, #Mozilla, #CodePath and #Microsoft and have worked on great #csed #foss projects. I live in #SanFrancisco and work in #Oakland and like #humor #satire #games #books. I like laughing, especially at myself.

The Coalition to Save #MillsCollege put out a little video where an alum asked a question of the chair of the board of trustees and she just logged off rather than answer it. It's hard to capture this kind of moment in a video of a zoom session, but the whole incident is shocking and outrageous. https://vimeo.com/536391210

I'm starting to get a feel for why the college is in trouble as apparently, they've been treating faculty this way for years. By becoming an institute, they can finally be rid of annoying students, teachers and alums and focus of having a managerial class and nothing else.

BandCamp today is covering the music department of #MillsCollege, which is threatened with closure: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/mills-college-list

If you care about experimental music and have an account on birdsite, if you could spare a tweet or two with the hashtag #SaveMills, there's a twitter campaign set for today.

You might say why the music department in particular or the college in general should carry on.

This is a cause that is personally very important to me. I want others to have the opportunities that I had and I also want to be able to keep hearing new music coming out of this milieu.

The graduate programme is all genders, but the undergrad programme is for women and trans people. (Mills was the first HWC to admit trans women without regard to their legal gender status.) There aren't many places that have helped so many musicians find such distinct voices and fewer still that had such a high degree of access for women and enbies.