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According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.
bryan newbold@bnewbold.net · 4d ago

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

NEW EP: THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (1982) A low-budget classic; never forget that we were deconstructing the male gaze and gender's relationship with slashers over 40 years ago. Grab your drill and order pizza because it's time for THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

The This Ends at Prom episode announcement for The Slumber Party Massacre.

Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. Make fun of them if they pronounce it correctly. Do it in a forceful but still friendly manner. Be inconsistent about it. Make it hard for them to communicate with others. Make them doubt themselves. Make them doubt everything but you.

seeing someone put "Pronouns: GUN/OWNER" in their bio on the other site as antiwoke signaling is crazy because in some ways it is just accidentally reinventing Helicopter Story from base principles

You I know I finally pinned down my most concise reason for why I hate the use case for AI to reword & summarise writing in corporate. Reworking text is a one of the best tools to learn, retain & understand concepts. If you entirely outsource that process that is what you loose.

Yesterday a coworker told me "oh thats just how [male name] is, you'll get used it" when a manager was being rude and demanding. Apparently, "I've been told that before and I don't, I get sick of it" wasnt the right response...

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.