Author & micro-publisher, Tyger's Head Books – Transcribing the ECW Newsbooks | General Editor, Helion & Company (views my own) | Biographer of Col. Sir George Lisle | Petrolhead & home mechanic, may occasionally bang on about Mazdas and newly bought garage tools
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I'm moving over to historians.social, so I'll put up a redirect from here shortly.
The new account is [email protected]
Nothing else will change, and it looks like my followers have been ported over already.
Many thanks to @lizcovart, @kawulf, & @jmadelman at historians.social for approving my account in under half an hour!
In the days before digital computers, "computers" were human (as @Halpin just noted in a convo with me)
People doing calculations by hand
A large chunk of these human computers were women
Indeed, so *many* were women that ...
"... one contractor of the Applied Mathematics Panel used the term 'kilogirl' to refer to 1,000 hours of female calculation work. Another astronomer spoke of 'girl-years' of work."
I wrote about this for Smithsonian magazine a few years ago: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/history-human-computers-180972202/
"And thus far of my rusticall intelligence, plainly dressed ... It may passe though clad in Country Russet or Gray, for now Country gray begins to be Parliament gray ..."
(Informator Rusticus No. 1, 27 Oct–3 Nov 1643. British Library E.74[15])
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The Online Safety Bill introduces mandatory age verification on content platforms. Non-profits using community content moderation will have to collect more user data. Adults and children will be exposed to privacy risks as there isn’t capacity to hold data securely.
The Wikimedia Foundation warns of the Bill's impact on Wikipedia and other open knowledge platforms.
#BlockTheBill #OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #freedomofexpression
https://medium.com/wikimedia-policy/deep-dive-the-united-kingdoms-online-safety-bill-b7020723dd39
Nikodemus’ Guide to Mastodon by Nikodemus Siivola <@[email protected]>, updated 2022-12-08. Read time 20-30 min Translations: Ukrainian Mastodon is a microblogging social network somewhat similar to Twitter, or your Facebook timeline. In some ways it is akin to Twitter of early 2010s, but i...
Hello #Mastodon, if you know a Black woman student (HS/College/Grad School) or early career, I am going need you to lend me your ears.
The Sadie Collective, a nonprofit bringing resources and community to Black women in quant and social science fields, is award ing $6000 and all expense paid trips to their annual conference.
As someone who participated PLEASE share widely.
https://sadiecollective.force.com/s/research-reception-form?language=en_US
#econtwitter #economics #sociology #science #academia #academic #BlackMastodon #Blacktwitter
I messed up the tag on the above post for @englishcivilwar first time around, apologies! 🙈 😅 I've now corrected.
Today is Thanksgiving Day, and it is also the National Day of Mourning, which remembers the genocide of millions of Native Americans and their ongoing erasure today.
In giving thanks today, let us also reflect and act to stop the ongoing genocide of America's Indigenous Peoples.
Serena Jones
Clive Thompson
Open Rights Group
Jessamyn
profblmkelley
Anna Gifty 
Dr Nina Baker
Qasim Rashid, Esq.