#Myths in Programming

[zorangezest]

humanformers au where these two get to bond because they’re both tech savvy programmer nerds or somethibg

more of this au!

[amiti-art]

Ganymede - the cup-bearer of the gods

[simple-persica]

Listen, Thor may be a hot-head ready to punch a man in the face for cutting his wife's hair on the middle of the night, but he's still a supportive husband

EDIT: I forgot to include these little doodles I did of Sif's fixed up short hair and then an idea for her new hair

[sysmedsaresexist]

Could you please dive into the RAMCOA controversy that's been going around? I've literally never heard someone say "RAMCOA is antisemitic" until like a week ago and now there's multiple blogs (I'm sure you can guess who at this point) who are saying this and calling RAMCOA a conspiracy theory from the satanic panic.

It's being said by the same 3 blogs that all reblog the same bad takes so I wasn't putting any stock in their word. Just the latest misinfo spreading unchecked, would appreciate your thoughts on this.

You know what, I'm not going to lie, I've been dreading getting this question.

Terrified. Harassment in this area of discussion is rampant.

We are currently debating making a post and how to approach it.

I will make our stances clear right now.

I think the conversation as it is now is full of misinformation and confusion. I think no single post can cover that amount of history and the theories and controversy.

I don't think anyone understands what they're arguing about, or the histories they're trying to bring up, and how they overlap. I think many members of the conversation lack access to resources and education that the mods of this blog DO have access to. Most of the links being thrown around lead back to the same single sources.

To shorten a very long, complex, and honestly unfinished conversation: the satanic panic and RAMCOA are two completely different entities. The satanic panic was a religious political movement of the 90s pushed by conservatives as a way to scare people back into church and scare women back into their "place" at home by attacking child care facilities. It called on a lot of tropes. And many of them were, yeah, ridiculously antisemitic. As the movement got more and more sensationalized, it began to call attention to therapists (some of them bad faith) and to RAMCOA survivors as a "Look! It's real!" kind of thing. If anything, this attention hurt far more than it helped. It painted an inaccurate and insulting picture that's still utilized to harm people today.

To be very clear: programmed DID is a well documented occurrence and it can occur in several ways.

We support survivors, no matter what they call it. We support clinicians trained in treating people who have gone through that extreme level of horrific abuse. We support people learning to separate fact from fiction, in whatever way that may apply to any given situation.

SAS supports ramcoa and oea survivors.

Here's something we suggest reading, though it's very long.

Stay safe, everyone ❤️

[atlantic-riona]

Batgirl #9 (2000) // the Iliad trans. Caroline Alexander // Táin Bó Cuailnge trans. Thomas Kinsella

[takodeyalko]

I want to find friends like it's 2019

I've never done a kinlist before, which I don't think is a very common story considering I'm 22.

Alas, this one isn't done in the cool radical original sense, but a pathetic parody where I shoved a bunch of characters I was obsessed about/who left a mark on me (and about whom I'm not all that universally ashamed (though I should be (was rightly booed for The Bachelor by my friend(learned nothing)))).

I fell out of fandom culture when I was about seventeen, and now I really want to get back in there, while also not knowing know how.  I don't have the best grasp of the English language, but I do acquire a taste for plays no one's ever heard of, extremely questionable drawing and writing skills, even in my native language, ability to criticize anything and I'm frankly too old to fit in. Well, as I see it.

And yet, I'd like to find some mutuals. Or hang out with someone on discord. Or in other places, I don't really care. I want a good old-fashioned internet friendship with imaginary weirdoes and freaks from my phone.

A little about me: I live in Russia, and a queer student, studying to be a game developer.  Left-wing in words, useless in deeds. Used to be a gifted kid in STEM, but burnt out, and changed my education path after losing three years learning programming in one of the best faculties of my country. I know about programming enough to realize how much I SUCK at coding. Still, would very much appreciate finding someone to chat about it. I have a beautiful lovehate relationship to it. Unit testing is my beautiful toxic wife.

 I love animation in all its forms, obviously into indie games, roleplaying (every type there is: tabletop, text, games like SS13, foxhole and barotrauma, literal running with a sword in a forest) theater and sci-fi. Trying to finish reading Mahabharata due to finding a delightful fanfic I can't fully understand. Similar reasons, which is funny, were not enough to read homestuck.

I'm also slightly into philosophy, like Brennan Lee Mulligan and dropout, was watching Bo Burnham as a child a lot, really like Natalie Wynn. All the classics.  Favorite youtuber is CJ the X.

I dunno, I just want to yap about things with someone. The last such thing was ‘guards of Taj’, which was butchered (pun intended) by the theater in which I was seeing it. The original thing, however, feels like a good angsty fic, and I’m extremely surprised it doesn’t have…Well, anything?

So, ehm. Trans rights. God, I wish I was cool.

Bottom text.

[abovedivinity]

All these Vision Quest casting news got me thinking about Victor and Artificial Intelligence

[triple-moon-rp]

Helluverse Life Post Apple Incident (How did shit go so wrong)

While everyone wants to blame the Apple incident for all of the ills of the world, I don't think it was that simple. It may have been the start, but that act alone would not cause Evil to grow out of control as much as it did. The Apple only expanded human's emotional and intellectual capacity to the same degree that angels have, or as close as the human brain could become. It did not teach them necessary skills, particularly coping skills, nor the exact consequences of an action. Everything had to be discovered by trial and error.

Heaven's inability to adapt to a sudden change in plans and humanity's lack of understanding about their own selves played a huge part in the spread of sinful behavior. Another factor was that Earth outside of Eden obeyed the laws of nature, and only nature. Only the ones able to survive long enough to breed have their genetic code passed on, errors and all. If some morals got in the way of survival, sticking to them could result in death. This is why most of the animal kingdom can be just as abhorrent as humanity, especially species that have similar intellectual/emotional capacity.

TL;DR Nature is scary and Heaven never had to deal with it before so a lot of mistakes were made in the beginning.

[dariomekler]

Let sleeping dogs lie

by Dario Mekler

The Code Monster Manual Vol. 0

"Computers are monsters because they think different than us. The book provides a creative overview of the most useful coding concepts. You don’t need to be a math wizard to understand these ideas."

An illustration part of a series I did last year for a really creative book about how coding and computers work. Coming up with graphic metaphors for these concepts was quite a challenge. I had a blast thinking of them with the book author, Kevin Focke.

This one in particular, more or less, graphics the computer as the multiple headed monster while we, mere mortals, cant even see or understand what goes inside the hardware. The dogs are pieces of code that enter the houses providing different configurations. If the book interests you, you can buy it in here in ebook format: https://kevinfocke.com/projects/wildly-creative-books/the-code-monster-manual-vol-0/

The technique is completely digital.

[glassfox8]

reading posts about gastby an american myth and now i want to cry because i cant listen to the music and i cant go back to that show

[themanagementatheneum]

Blog No. 57 - Celebrating Republic Day: Lessons in Leadership and Governance from India’s Constitution

Welcome to The Management Atheneum, Blog No. 57!

Happy Republic Day 🇮🇳

Today, I reflect on the lessons in leadership and governance from India’s Constitution in my latest blog post, which takes a slightly different approach than my usual content.

I’d love to hear your thoughts as well, so please share your insights in the comments!

[sixminutestoriesblog]

moon landing anniversary

Fifty four years ago, the first human footprint was left in the powdery dust of the moon.  For the first time in history, humanity had not just left their own world behind but had set foot on a completely new surface.  For as long as humanity had been humanity, they had looked up at the moon and know it for the brightest light in their night sky, their one ever changing, consistent companion.  Now, finally, man had managed to reach back across that darkness and touch that familiar face.  The moon landing was the culmination of not just a decade and a half of a space race between two world powers, it was the realized dream of humanity back into the very early mists of time when ancestors that weren’t even entirely what we’d call humans today looked up into the night sky and fell in love with the pale light that fell down over them.  The sun gives us light and warmth and life but the moon is what humanity has hung their dreams, their wishes, their magic and their romance on.  

It has always been something we have hung our superstitions on too.

Superstitions are a part of humanity.  And when we went to the moon - we brought them with us.

Instead of talking about goddesses and harvests and animals and omens, I thought, today, on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon, we’d talk about the superstitions that they took with them on that flight and the ones some astronauts still honor today in the space station that orbits between us and the moon and that may one day, hopefully soon, see us back on the moon and then even further.  Sailors have a reputation for being superstitious.  When you cast out into the great Deep, you can’t help but feel that you are very small and the world around and, more importantly under you, is very, very wide and very, very deep.  On land you can sooth yourself into believing that man has tamed nature.  There’s no such comforting lie when you are out of sight of land.  What are astronauts but sailors of the stars?  A ‘star traveler’.  And the space between here and the moon is a much longer and deeper horizon than any sailor on the water ever watched fade behind him.

Let’s start with the light stuff.  I was surprised by how much food factors into space launch tradition.  Not sprinkling corn meal or salt in circles to keep away evil spirits but eating food.  An astronaut’s breakfast the day of the launch?  Scrambled eggs and steak if you’re American.  If it worked for John Glenn and Alan Shepherd, it should work for every astronaut after, right?  Cosmonauts however get a champagne breakfast, because Russians know how to send someone off in style.  NASA has a cake delivered with the mission’s emblem on it.  No one cuts or eats the cake though.  Damaging the launch’s symbol would be bad luck.  When America first wanted to launch probes to photograph the surface of the moon in the early 1960s with the Ranger missions, every mission failed until the seventh one.  A seventh launch attempt that just happened to have everyone sharing the can of peanuts one of the engineers had brought into the room.  It’s been peanuts at ground control ever since.  After the rocket launch, everyone on the ground gets a meal of beans and cornbread, the meal that the original control crew had after the first successful launch.  And lets not forget the bagels and donuts ground crew gets after the shuttle orbiter gets successfully delivered to the launch pad.  Bagels and donuts are round; the shuttle is round.  Obviously.

In Russia, people would lay coins on the railroad track the shuttle would arrive via.  The flattened coins were not only a completely cool way to memorialize the event but were also considered lucky.  Cosmonauts were not allowed to lay coins on the tracks though.  It was considered unlucky for them to see the shuttle arriving.  Instead they were given haircuts during the shuttle’s arrival, as much a tradition as ward against bad luck.

In fact, you’ve probably already noticed that a lot of these seem to be tradition as much as superstition.  At its core though, what is a great deal of superstition but at some point someone did something and got the result they were hoping for and thought ‘if its not broke, don’t fix it’, carrying on with the habit until everyone forgot why it was a habit in the first place?    

For instance, cosmonauts sign Yuri Gagarin’s guestbook in his old office and, in some traditions, ask his permission to fly.  They also leave red carnations in his honor on the Memorial Wall.  And, like Yuri, they too pee on the right rear tire of the bus taking them to the launch pad.  Ladies don’t have to but some of them bring a jar of pee to contribute.

Both astronauts and cosmonauts bring a talisman with them into the shuttle.  Its for good luck, but it also is the first indication to the people inside the shuttle that they’ve left Earth as it starts to float once they’ve cleared the tug of gravity.  Stuffed animals are popular for this purpose.

Before launch in the States though, while waiting to enter the shuttle, the astronauts and the tech crew play cards until the commander of the mission has the losing hand.  This lets him leave his bad luck behind with his cards.  While the crew is playing cards, the launch crew fills the tanks with fuel for the launch and writes a woman’s name in the frost that forms during the process, a superstition picked up from their Russian counterparts.

In 1980, this tradition was left out during a satellite launch and 47 ground crew were killed in an accident.

Baikonur, Kazakhstan, leased by the Russians for their space program, has an Avenue of Heroes where a tree has been planted for every launch.  The successful ones - and the ones that weren’t. Every cosmonaut walks the route past the trees before launch.

Russia will not launch missions on October 24.  A disaster in 1960 was followed by another in 1963 on that date and it was permanently scratched from the calendar after that.

The Apollo 13 mission has put due to the taint already associated with that number for most Americans, though it did have a happier ending.  Incidentally, the vest worn by mission controller Gene Kranz during that mission is on display at the National Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.  His wife sewed him a new vest for every single mission he was involved in.  The Apollo 13 vest was white.

Lastly, every mission after the ill-fated Challenger explosion has seen a bouquet of flowers delivered to mission control.  One rose for every astronaut on the flight and a single white one to remember the ones that have been lost.

[seenoweevil]

Ana other day another “people still use Tumblr??”

[peridotglimmer]

Hi Belle! For the fic ask meme:

💫what is your favorite kind of comment/feedback?

🪄what is your post-writing/sharing aftercare? How do you take care of yourself or celebrate yourself when you've finished a fic?

Hey Mythy!

💫what is your favorite kind of comment/feedback? Oh! Whenever someone quotes a line or paragraph they liked or that caused them to feel a certain emotion. That makes me go: I wrote that! So much dopamine.

🪄what is your post-writing/sharing aftercare? How do you take care of yourself or celebrate yourself when you've finished a fic? Honestly just closing the doc and moving on to something else. In many cases, going to sleep, because I often write and edit late at night. That also means I can sleep through the first hours of the fic being published, because "waiting" for comments that may or may not come makes me anxious.

Thank you for asking! ❤️

fic writer asks

[protoindoeuropean]

Rochberg F. "The Babylonian Contribution to Greco-Roman Astronomy" pp. 147–159 (here pp. 151–152), Chapter 4.7 in Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science and Its Contexts (2020), ed. Bowen A. C., Rochberg F.

I just find the history of chronology and chronometry fascinating and it seems like an interesting point to consider when judging fantasy worldbuilding whether the in-universe dating is presented as “objective” (the in-universe dating being presented as fact and the reader not given any reason to question it) or “subjective” (there being in-universe disagreements about it and the reader – either more or less obviously – supposed to question it).

pro-tip: don't ever use the sentence "thousands of years" in your worldbuilding unless you really know what a thousand years is like

[mystorl]

have some random af doodles and a mini comic cus this game is certified epic