Quickies
Quickies: New US CTO, Viking women warriors, and women physicists
- Obama’s new CTO pick is a massive win for women in tech – “The United States has appointed a new chief technology officer and, in turn, women across the country have gained a new role model as they attempt to break through the gender bias in the tech industry.” More on Megan Smith, from Chuck.
- Raining on your parade about those Viking women warriors – In response to this article that’s been going around.
- Female physicists worldwide fight sexist stereotypes – “Women in physics tend to be outnumbered by men nearly all over the world. For a few days in early August, however, it didn’t feel that way when I attended the International Conference on Women in Physics in Waterloo, Canada.”
- Female game journalists quit over harassment, #GamerGate harms women – “It’s heartbreaking that another article about harassment in the gaming community is necessary, but the escalating and ongoing vitriol being spewed against women and their male allies who dare to criticize gamer culture or work in video games is continuing to take on new and disappointing forms.”
- Cute Animal Friday! This baby pygmy hippopotamus is so damn adorably plump. A baby elephant playing with a ribbon.
If you’re in to head-slamming on a Friday afternoon, the comments on the Megan Smith article are priceless. Logical and cogent commentary, not so much. (Except the one comparing her to Hitler. I’m pretty sure that was a poe, though no one else seems to have gotten it.)
I think you’re right about the poe, given lancasterco’s previous comment:
“Fun fact: Women prefer to code in pink font.”
Gold!
“But, but, Zoe Quinn slept with some guys! Even if they didn’t actually review her game, it’s so awful.”
—many a /v/irgin
Oh, Cracked.com has a good article about what the whole celebrity nude photo crack reveals about the internet with people defending themselves for looking at these private nude photos. (Also, can I say I knew cloud computing was a bad idea?)
Small sample tosses monkey wrench into standard trope about Viking Invaders. Invasion and migration have never been easy to distinguish, unless you accept the division between those ‘migrated upon,’ who insist on describing their unwanted new neighbors as ‘invaders,’ and the Bright Ambitious ‘settlers’ bringing civilization to the wilderness of Yorkshire…