When we ask why there aren't more women in computing. Perhaps this article about chess from 2021, might shed some clues. In short, many factors. But the grand masters tend to start from an early age. Are encouraged. It's much the same in our field.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/29/womens-chess-sexism-misogyny
Join us Monday, September 19th from 11:30am to 12:30pm in the Aboriginal Gathering Place, Emily Carr for an artist talk with LIVE alumni Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ. Cheyenne is having a busy week with shows and the grunt gallery (https://grunt.ca/exhibitions/mullyanne-nimito/) and western front (https://westernfront.ca/events/maskisin-and-rinse)
Sorry to bother u, @neauoire, but I'm looking for a link to the tetris like game, with the frog sprite that shoots a tongue out, it's not here:
Was re-reading, the _Story of Mel_ the Real Programmer (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html) and saw the line —
“If a program can't rewrite its own code”,
he (mel) asked, “what good is it?”
And was reminded of the optization critique of _uxn_. @neauoire can you share a reference to that argument against code that can do self-alteration and the technical description a friend of yours gave?
The number of people impacted by the floods in Pakistan right now is the size of a small country:
Bert Hubert created #googerteller, a small programme which sonifies the data collected by #Google while we browse online.
https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller
So I decided to give it a short test-drive.
Of course, the set of Google IPs can be configured sonify leaks to other service providers. Hubert himself suggests pointing googerteller to Meta.
So far, it only works on #Linux, but it's a really quick compile, so have a go at it:
I love how revealing of the hardware limitations this game is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHOqKYB1Cs
Morning coffee and a little time with, my ‘new’ slide rule and this manual, https://www.sliderule.ca/manual.htm thanks to @rek & @neauoire.
@neauoire heading towards you from Mathews point
Full-sail on our way to ActivePassive Festival to see @furiousgreencloud
https://www.activepassive.ca/
Brady is a #ComputationalArtist, who is concerned with our technological entanglement, and creates media configurations that express a middle way between technological fetishism and dystopian fantasies.