Irene Zhang

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Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. OS hacker. Cat wrangler. Shoe lover.
Websitehttps://irenezhang.net/
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This is my closet and the #cat that lives in it rent free #catsofmastodon

Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to college-educated women, and it opened doors that few other professions could

by Diana Turnbow

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/04/06/before-computers-were-machines-they-were-womenhere-are-six-places-where-human-computers-built-modern-science/

#womeninstem #computerscience

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou

“Women who carry water for the patriarchy just so they can have a slightly longer leash and stand a few rungs up in oppression from other women, particularly marginalized women, make me a special kind of angry. Being master's favorite dog is still having a master and being a dog.“
—Allison Floyd

#feminism #quotes #women #patriarchy #resistance

Are you having a rough day? Can I interest you in a catwheel? #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
multiple tracks? In my OSDI? It's more likely than you think!
I’ve been welcomed to my 40s by … being carded at dinner last night. Someone literally thinks I look half my age. Which would be flattering if it didn’t suck so much to be a 20 year old woman right now.

Be gay.
Do crimes.
Post about being gay.
DO NOT POST ABOUT DOING CRIMES.

It's quite simple.

Every morning before leaving the house I deliver a short lecture entitled "Economics for cats", explaining that it is necessary for me to exchange a proportion of my time that could otherwise be spent on picky up cuddles and fusses acquiring special human tokens which can then be exchanged for cat food and Dreamies, and it is therefore in my students' best interests to desist from trying to climb my legs and looking cute at this precise point in time. They haven't learned much so far but I live in hope.