Tao Neuendorffer
@taonf.bsky.social
🚋 on the T 😷 in Pittsburgh 🎤Songs and stories of computer science💾 We are none of us alone🎵 People of all colors and genders keep making tech history🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Wishing a happy 80th birthday to physicist Shirley Ann Jackson, who after becoming the second Black woman to earn a PhD in Physics (1973), went on to a long research career at Bell Labs in the 1970s and 80s, and ultimately to the presidency of Rensselaer from 1999 to 2022. #BlackWomenInSTEM ⚛️
Not me already looking at October #Pittsburgh events since it looks like I may be living there by then monsterpumpkins.com
The World's Biggest Pumpkins...Only At Pittsburgh's Signature Fall Festival...Strip District October 17–18, 2026!
Visit the post for more.
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Some really pretty stations too, I love Antwerp Central in Belgium. It's so beautiful and absolutely gigantic, littered with shops, including a shop/sort of arcade that's a guy that collected pinballs machines and wanted people to be able to play on em.
Once upon a time, before 9/11, I used to like going to airports just to hang out. While expensive, the usually had neat shops, food and odd museum displays outside gates. TSA ended all that in American airports and any airport with a USA-bound flight. Train stations still retain that charm to me.
Aarne Granlund@aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 2d ago"According to Omio (...) summer travellers may be better off choosing a plane over a train, with rail bookings on the continent having grown year-on-year by 32% – more than triple that of flight bookings." Faster, cleaner, and more convenient. #Sufficiency www.euronews.com/travel/2026/...
The Wizard of Speed and Time (1979) by animator Mike Jittlov
Mario Sixtus@sixtus.net · 5mo agoBefore AI: (The Wizard of Speed and Time, 1979)
You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/mary-r...
Mary Ritter Beard - Infinite Women
Prominent American historian, author, and women's suffrage activist.
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Jill Hasday@jillhasday.bsky.social · 10h agoOn this day in 1876, Mary Ritter Beard was born. Her 1946 book, Woman as Force in History, criticized male historians for ignoring women. She argued that women “have been a force in making all the history that has been made.” A male reviewer called Beard’s book “rather waspish.” #WeTheMen
In the latest Video Game History Hour podcast, our library director Phil Salvador sits down with Blizzard’s senior digital archivist, Leah Williams, to discuss her critical work of preserving their modern video game history: https://gamehistory.org/episode-161-blizzard-digital-vault/
Ooh In need to check this out, and you do too if you live or at least spend a lot of time in the City of Pittsburgh
Bike Pittsburgh@bikepgh.bsky.social · 7h ago:: LAST CALL to share your experiences :: The City’s State of Mobility & Safety Perception Survey closes this week (Aug. 7) -- Take the survey now for a chance to win a gift card! https://bikepgh.org/2026/05/19/take-the-citys-state-of-mobility-safety-perception-survey/
The Senate Commerce Committee is about to vote on four bills that could put much of the Internet behind privacy-invasive age gates. We need your help to stop them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote this week on several censorious and privacy invasive bills: KOSA, the SCREEN Act, Youth AI Privacy Act, and CHATBOT Act. While we appreciate that the Committee
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“We will never know what it sounded like and we’ll never know any authoritative answer to how we should be performing this music. To really bring sound off of the page, we have to add an element of our own personal creativity to that. We have to add the human element.”
Faire Play: The Modern World of Early Music
It may be centuries old, but these artists are making early music sound more alive than ever.
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Shakespeare taught me to read between the lines. Crossed identities. Forbidden loves. Hidden desires. He was talking about me. 🎭 youtu.be/ROnVi_9pOKA #QueerHistory
All in One! #Sega #Nintendo #SONY #PAYstation #Playstation #NintendoDS Our FB post from year 2019: 🔗 www.facebook.com/TooGeekToutG...
Join us & London Mathematical Society at @BletchleyPark for the Computable 90 Conference. Explore logic, complexity & AI in the Fellowship Auditorium. Dates: 16–18 Sept 2026 Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-tnmoclondon-mathematical-society-3-day-conference-tickets-1837259555789 #AI #Maths
Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities confirmed on sun thru observation of solar surface for first time. Always neat to see learn about stuff in the wild that I initially learned about in a nuclear weapons context (KHI). Also, a good chunk of weapons physicists were astrophysicists.
Unprecedented images may explain one of greatest mysteries of the sun
Highest-ever resolution pictures of our star could help show why its corona is millions of degrees hotter than its surface
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#histSTM thread
Ceryl@politicdormouse.bsky.social · 15h agoDorothéa Klumpke US astronomer. 1893 PhD on rings of Saturn @ Uni Paris. 1886 Director Bureau of Measurements @ Paris Observatory Carte du Ciel project. Worked w husband to photograph 52 Herschel areas of nebulosity. Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur b #OTD 9 Aug 1861 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothe...
I read and summarized the main points of the Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations 2025 report. They do important work. cflowerswrite.substack.com/p/pghchr-rep...
Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations saw 126 discrimination complaints in 2025
Plus more stats and facts their annual report
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Researchers find a flaw in Apple's Private Relay that exposes users' real IP addresses, which also affects users of Tor's OnionBrowser in iOS: www.404media.co/apples-priva...
Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users’ Real IP Addresses
Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.
404media.co
"By their own calculations, they'll be emitting increased pollution with this new facility. We need to be weighing the health impacts. It's not just about what something will bring in revenue-wise." - Dr. Deborah Gentile, pediatric allergist Full story: tinyurl.com/YaleEnviro
Those few on here that know me know that the climate crisis has long been a top issue for me. I’d argue it’s the root of nearly all our problems like scarcity & high prices, health issues, tilt towards authoritarians, over-reliance on tech, emergence of stupid parts of religion, and more.
Mark Pickens@airshipwriter.bsky.social · 5h agoWe must keep this issue, namely the fossil fuel heating problem in our sights. Remind Congress. I don’t care if it’s a ‘losing campaign issue’ it needs to be said. 202-224-3121 Use @resist.bot to send emails and faxes direct. Or text ‘sign PGOBBB’ to 50409 resist.bot/petitions/PG...
I made my own e-ink labels for the two new Virtual Boy releases! I'm especially proud of my Zero Racers label! It should look like the F-Zero game that it is! Anyways, here's a link to the .bwr files if you have an eink flash cart! drive.google.com/file/d/1VsVr... #retrogaming #virtualboy #art
CMU researchers found firefighters carry elevated levels of little-studied PFAS chemicals. The work uncovers hidden exposure risks and improve future monitoring of forever chemicals. 🧪 #ChemSky www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
CMU Study Finds New Forever Chemicals in Firefighters After Fires
Forever chemicals are so prevalent in consumer goods that they can be detected in nearly everyone.
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📚 The cultures most at risk of vanishing are often created and sustained by communities with the fewest resources. In WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, Alice Bridgwood reflects on everyday archives like handwritten cookbooks & zines. 🎧 Listen to Future Knowledge: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵
“You do not have to make them comfortable with your existence in order to exist.” On this day, the queer community was living, organizing, and surviving in ways the historical record didn't always capture., August 5
Out of all the dumb takes, "They want to be paid less" has to be the dumbest.
