A Nerd Who Likes Robots

Been a while since I updated this bio. Robotics researcher at BU. MIT 2019. they/it/xe 1996

[spiocy]

Nem rough concept :3

She will have a bug abdomen tail and wings, I just haven't drawn them yet

[girl-blorbo-polls]

can your girl blorbo use excel?

-no, it terrifies her

-sorta, she can make a pie chart if you give her enough time

-she can type in excel formulas confidently

Can your girl blorbo use excel?

No, it terrifies her

Sorta, she can make a pie chart if you give her enough time

She can type in excel formulas confidently

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

[transhuman-priestess]

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

[anoraktrend]

Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.

[transhuman-priestess]

[transarsonist]

reminder: you cannot Personal Choises your way out of an Intentional Structural Problem

[yurigirldick]

Fun fact! School Chromebooks block Linux. It's not an easy alternative. You are missing the point

[robotnerd277]

Technically they don't, not any more than any other chromebook, but it does require that you open up the computer and break a small thing on the hardware, which is hard to get support for when you're young, and is kind of scary to do if you aren't confident, and misplaced confidence can lead to you breaking the whole computer. Definitely not easy for a kid to do, but doable if you know how.

transhuman-priestess and transarsonist are so right though. even if there are ways to be clever, and there will always be clever kids, that doesn't address the structural problems of tech illiteracy. Computer systems need to be designed in a way to encourage understanding and fluency with different software across the median kid, not the occasional tech whiz who doesn't fear what they're told. But doing so would require setting aside a profit motive which means no one with any power would do that.

[sellos]

[eternally-intermittent]

Interview: STAR TREK's Alexander Siddig celebrates Arab-American Heritage Month

The Beat caught up with Alexander Siddig of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for a conversation on Arab-American Heritage Month.

SIDDIG: A lot of gay men at that time, and maybe even gay women, kinda responded to the Bashir character. I think that was because of (Garashir), and maybe the bravery of not only that, but also an implicitly Muslim character being potentially gay, potentially bi, potentially gay if they’d explored that route. That is something Garak brought with him to the party, a bottle of implied homosexuality…

LLOYD [interviewer]: So were you aware in the 90s that it was homoerotically charged and on board with that? SIDDIG: I was aware of it in the back of my mind, yes, absolutely, and encouraged it. At my first meeting with Garak I became visibly flustered. That was entirely my choice. It wasn’t written into the script. So I set off in that direction right from the get-go. And Andy (Andrew Robinson) obviously loved it, and that character became a series-long character because of that first scene…

LLOYD: That’s really cool. We’ve heard a lot of times about how Andy and Garak were on board from the start but I don’t know that I’ve heard before that you were on board from the start. SIDDIG: I subconsciously keep that door open with just about every character that I play, and I always keep it as ambiguous as possible. One of my first roles was in A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia with Ralph Fiennes and I played Feisal and again, not in the script, but that was charged with homoerotica and implied homosexuality. I’d just come fresh off that project. And I’ve done it numerous times since, characters that are written straight I just make sure are not quite straight. That’s just one of my things, probably because I’m not quite straight myself and that’s probably perfect.

[humanconditionpoetry]

I did not know that….but this cool nevertheless as someone who also comes from Arab origins!

[urfavhatesterfs]

YOU hates terfs

[switchingtogeico]

[captainhaterade]

[stankpasta]

rb if u hates terfs

[official-pussy-posts-2]

Official ‘terfs get out of my house’ Post

[sergal]

big and cutes my me at you

[deinonychian]

#myme

[qqchurch]

train girls....... (girls that ride trains)

[tamamita]

this is just an anime about my mutuals

[power-chords]

This Dan Piraro comic always makes me cry.

[ilovedthestars]

"how do you feel about labels as a queer person?"

[hellspawnmotel]

i suddenly felt very strongly i needed to draw ralsei cute & happy

[troublepunk-ldn]

me as a teenager: man it sucks to have no privacy or autonomy but i guess its for a good reason. when i turn 18 i will realise how young i was and understand why they did all that.

me as an adult: teenagers are an oppressed class, their abuse is normalised and systemic and they need to start killing people

[bonivers]

pushing back against oldest child stereotypes by making unwise choices and not being dependable

[trickstarbrave]

[markovchaingang]

the media literacy on this website may be piss poor but still when i see someone handwringing about media literacy ~70% of the time they're just complaining about the fact that other people disagree with them

[whiskerknittles]

edit of this post I just couldn't not make

[deathinaugural]

[benjimint]

beware of the kaw who speaks in uelueuelele