The first programmer was a woman (Ada Lovelace), the person who laid the foundation for all modern computing was gay (Alan Turing), and the person who revolutionized modern chip design was trans (Lynn Conway). Computer science history is filled with queerness and diversity.
How dare you forget Sophie Wilson, inventor of the ARM chip (which exists in literally every phone pretty much since… 1997?) 😆
She also partakes in Europython (though not sure if she joined this year, but she was there last year, even though I missed both xD), for the Python nerds.
Oh wow I didn’t know she was trans, that’s super cool
Also Lynn Conway, the important engineer behind Mead Conway VLSI
She also saved Panos the wonder child ! (YouTube)
Thank you, if you hadn’t posted it, I would have. I was literally just watching this again for the umpteenth time yesterday. One of my favorite videos of all time.
Hell yes, fucking slay queen!
She is the goddess of synthesizers and one of the first people I stumbled upon when I was learning about synths: https://youtu.be/UsW2EDGbDqg?si=a5fpVO429H3lyu50
She was not only a master composer, she also helped with the development of the Moog synthesizer, the first commercial synth.
Now i must learn as well, thank you! This is wonderful!
Synth sims are the cheap way to go. Cardinal is an open source fork of VCV Rack. It can be used standalone or as a plugin with your favorite DAW.
All the concepts are the same as modular “euro rack” synths. Voltage lines, oscillators, the works. You even use “wires” to connect everything.
All YouTube tutorials for VCV are generally applicable to Cardinal, btw.
Thanks for the references
You left your SI in that link. It’s a tracking code Google uses to tell who you’ve been talking to on other websites.
Thanks. Got rid of it.
I had the switched on Bach cassette when I was a kid. I thought it was cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0HAWX1TSA&list=PLLICd7vQi7iGUyErozBAwgcr4F49kxiXY
why trans people make music and not massive 8ft tall burger
¿Por que no las dos?
Electronic music pioneer and fuckin LEGEND Wendy Carlos, thank you very much.
It makes me feel icky to type it out… The terms “tranny” and “transvestite” were very common nomenclature in the 90s. In conversation, movies, television. Trans people were often a punchline. And absolutely existed.
Transvestite, I believe, is also a term applied to intersex persons as well, as far as I know… At least historically.
The condition of being intersex, as far as I’m aware, is a well known condition dating back really far.
Those people truly have no gender (and/or they’re both genders? IDK), so “trans” doesn’t really apply to them IMO.
People used to use hermaphrodite as a slur not that long ago for intersex people, as well.
intersex people are exactly that - somewhere outside of the binary of the two sexes. Thanks to them we see the clearest example of how gender is simply assigned to a child at birth. Majority of intersex children are forced into one of the binary sexes and then forcefully assigned a gender to match so they can be “normal”.
and it honestly comes down to the individual if they see themselves as trans or not, some might see what their parents did to be a forced transition, some might want to detransition from that, some might not
How long until chuds will claim historical records of trans people are falsified?
Already have seen this. I have seen arguments pointing out what the Nazis did to trans people, the first clinic for trans people, and the research materials on it, get met with replies that it’s revisionist, fraudulent, jewish, propaganda.
Worth noting: a lot of the material from that German trans clinic in the 1920s-30s was destroyed by the doctors themselves. Y’know. To protect their patients from the god-damned Nazis.
JK Rowling did that not too long ago. (She didn’t call it Jewish, but absolutely called it lies and propaganda that trans people and trans researchers were early targets for the Nazis and victims of the Holocaust.)
I don’t say this to obsess over the Harry Potter author, but to point out that you don’t have to go cherry picking to find this shit. She’s a prominent person using her platform to spread bigotry and misinformation.
oh yeah, i know about her, she is putting that stuff into the mainstream. Worst part is, she is likely so touchy about this because of her own gender identity issues that she has ignored rather than resolve.
Yeah. I know that calling bigots secretly closeted is problematic, but IIRC she has outright said that, if she were a young person today, she would question her gender identity.
Oh, I am not just saying this because she is anti-trans, I am saying this because she has been speaking about her issues gender for like 20, nearly 20, years now. The more that she came out with, the more hard line anti-trans she showed herself to be. This is probably made all the worse from her trauma from rape. But hey, I am not her psychologist.
Totally understood, and I apologize for implying you might have. It was not my attention. I just meant that, even though it’s something I avoid jumping to conclude, it does happen, and there’s reason to believe it’s the case with Rowling. She’s got issues. It doesn’t absolve her of anything, but there’s a little pity in my condemnation.
Yeah, I didn’t take that comment as accusatory, just figured I would make my position clear. There is a body of evidence that shows that the more intense someone’s homophobia is, the more likely they are to be sexually aroused by homoerotic stuff. However, this does not mean homophobes are likely to be closeted queers. The vast majority of these bigots are not, in fact, homosexuals. However, every public homophobe gets a lot of reactions suggesting they are, often even from gay people. Not great.
wasn’t germany famously fucking around with some shit relevant to this before the whole “hitler arc”
sociology and psychology and one of the more fascinating concepts.
The fact that people try to argue that trans people simply did not exist prior to a few years ago is amusing to me.
I’m a passing, sorta stealth, trans man. I always find it funny when someone claims trans people didn’t exist five or ten years ago, because I stated medically transitioning in 2012.
even i don’t make the cut :( began transition in 2018 and though it feels like it was a week ago it happened 6 years ago, apparently
SRS in this context means sexual reassignment surgery. It also has many other meanings.
Synthesizer Relay System, aka a patch cord.
Supplemental restraint system
So that‘s what that stands for. I always wondered…
I saw this a while back on TikTok and had to dig up my memory of this. Around 2014 I was reading an article about the person who did some of the VFX for Tron: Legacy. I bookmarked it. At some point the link was dead. Turns out they came out as trans. I don’t know if her site redesign/domain name has anything to do with that but it seeing this post always reminds me of that. https://jtnimoy.cc/item.php%3Fhandle=14881671-tron-legacy.html
Also, Angela Morley whose best known work these days is the score to the movie that traumatised an entire generation of kids.
That shit’s like buttah!
Yeah I saw some videos of her trying to dress up as a man in some presentation video about an electronic instrument and it just felt so out of place. She’s definitely a woman.
This seems nuts but it’s true. She had privately transitioned but hadn’t yet come out in 1970, and had to make some public appearances wearing awkward fake sideburns (and maybe a short-haired wig?) to pose as a man. More info here on Pink News.
I’ve known about this woman for years and been a Tron fan since I wore out the VHS when I was six, and I never realized they were connected.
