@visegrad24 A large part of why a civilization works is that its people share a common moral ground. When you import people who are on a completely different moral ground, it is going to break.
@TheGayCavalier@visegrad24 Only a dictatorial regime and its minions would pick on an democratically elected leader like Zelensky alone, they can never understand the fact that Ukranians will keep fighting, with or without Zelensky.
Women were vital in the early computer era because programming was initially viewed as routine, clerical "women's work". However, as software became lucrative and exclusive in the 1980s, industry culture rebranded programming as a prestigious, masculine pursuit, pushing women out and establishing the "male geek" stereotype.
The shift in gender representation occurred in several distinct phases:
- The Clerical Origins (1940s–1960s): Hardware engineering was considered the prestigious, "masculine" domain. Tedious, manual coding of vacuum tubes and punch cards was delegated to women, then called "computers". Women like the ENIAC Programmers and Grace Hopper established the very foundations of coding, compilers, and software.
- Professionalization and Masculinization (1960s–1970s): As software's power was realized, computing became a high-status, well-compensated career. Professional associations and universities established strict, "engineering-style" educational requirements. This systematically sidelined women who previously entered the field through aptitude tests.
- The Personal Computer Era (1980s Onward): In the mid-1980s, the percentage of women in computer science plunged. Early personal computers evolved into recreational "toys". They were marketed almost exclusively to boys and men, solidifying the cultural narrative that computers were for boys.
Today, the systemic loss of representation—and the barriers women face in STEM—has been widely studied by organizations like the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT).
Whilst trying to teach Claude to remote control my browser to automate songwriting things got a little heated between us and I had to use some strong words.
Once we had sorted it out I asked Claude to write the first song about that experience from its own perspective: 🔊
@SandyofCthulhu Looking back at it, I just comfirmed how awesome it was with new appreciations, the movement and the reactiveness of everthing, so fluid and organic, it just feels right, and awesome. You guys really gets it as the definer of the genre.
@DybalaFbgDuck@WarMonitors many buildings did not just tip, they ended up like a pile of sand just like in Turkey, another earth quake prone country, something isn't right, a lot of it is manmade disaster really.