Chris Chapman4d ago
On this Transgender Day of Visibility, an observation so plainly true that making it feels kind of obvious: without the voices and creations of so many talented, expert, and funny trans people filling our feeds, the internet would be boring as fuck. Eternal respect and appreciation. 🏳️‍⚧️
Show threadChris Chapman4d ago

Every time I see something great online there's like a 50% chance a trans or NB person made it, but more than that, every single one of us interacts with something invented by a trans person multiple times a day.

For instance: who designed the CPU architecture in your phone, iPad, or Switch?

Show threadChris Chapman

A: Sophie Wilson, who designed the ARM instruction set in 1983, since used in over 230 *billion* chips including every iPhone and almost every Android device ever made, almost every streaming stick, every RPi, every Switch 1 and 2, and every post-Intel Mac.

Next time you’re playing something on an emulation handheld, consider the categories of high-compute, low-power devices that only exist today because Sophie laid the load-bearing foundations for the whole thing.

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

Sophie Wilson - Wikipedia

Mar 31 at 4:02pmWeb