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MOVED; formerly Twryst
@twryst
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mad augmentative-transhumanist-engineer with far too many interests/side projects | now at @twryst & @reembodied
Good News, Everyone!
I got officially accepted to Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Masters *with a TA full funding offer for at least 2 years*!!!!
I will be damn-near-certainly going to VT this Fall to start a dual MechEng Ms & Science, Tech, and Society (STS) Ms in Assistive Wearable Robotics and Engineering for Social Justice, correspondingly!!!
This summer I'll be finishing up coursework & collaborating on forming an interdisciplinary Engineering & Social Justice faculty group @ UIUC.
Hate White Supremacist Capitalism?
I'm seeking interested ppl who know critical theory to help clarify SJ lessons/theories/concepts to an engineering audience.
The goal is the creation of a casual tree of Capitalism's perpetuation, so that engineers waking up to the horrifically coopted state of engineering can instead be presented with *bite-size, human-scale causes & problems* to tackle as engineering problems with relevant context from crit theory.
If interested, please reply to me here!
On my way in to the conference, came upon an incredible library, the most interdisciplinary I've ever seen.
Books on semiconductor theory next to histories of feminism next to feminist architecture next to accounts of bad science next to genetics
This is incredible, and right across the street from where I spent most of my first undergrad, and I never knew
to be clear and concise:
"Most gains going to the rich means at least some gains are going to the poor."
^ true... unless the gains the rich see are >100% of the overall gains
OH LOOK THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON
https://mastodon.social/media/qFEYYZ0a5Mz5xtwFoe8
http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/9/25/6843509/income-distribution-recoveries-pavlina-tcherneva
This shit isn't hard. If you model using assumptions, and it doesn't fit results, your assumptions are wrong.
re: rotary coyote
This is all I can think of when we talk about rotary coyote
Plans tonight:
- do homework through Wednesday
- start on a mastodon welcome bot
- maybe message some ppl who reached out to me on tinder?
Expected accomplishments:
- continued to exist
Expected internal experience, based on today & yesterday:
{cw: body horror} https://mastodon.social/media/P4paB2fGo3M9v4W8YhM https://mastodon.social/media/6GQLsYNTi2spahpnk1Y
Pic: https://mastodon.social/media/3WAVdw4mgUUuowJmCpU
... I actually, legit might do this? like, this could be really cool, and potentially very easy?
@vahnj @KitRedgrave Didn't both of y'all chime in with a bunch of puns on mastodon's name a while ago? Would you be down with this as a thing?
A twitter bot that follows the #Mastopuns tag, caches toots, and routinely tweets the body of a #Mastopuns toot w/ a link to Mastodon.social
"from the community at Mastodon.social, an open, Nazi-free Twitter Alternative" as the bio,
For the profile pic:
https://mastodon.social/media/bF7P2QeF8HKgynnIBfg
