Ivy Reese

While the second hate campaign aimed at a trans creator in the last six months once again thrives over on Twitter, I’d hope the folks calling themselves allies who decided to go back over there because Bluesky is no different would consider not being there.

Everyone’s seen the Sketchpad demo. Few understand how it actually works. I reimplemented Sketchpad from scratch, and I’m making short videos that recreate Sutherland’s demos and explain how they work. The first 8 are up — from drawing a line to the famous rivet. Link below 👇

NHS killed 27 year old trans women due to not having a single room bed for her despite her pleading to be placed on a male ward for treatment. Read share, write to your MP and donate. www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

this figure must hit hard if you don't think about it for more than five seconds

Every woman that I know in tech has similar stories. I do, my partner does, my friends, and so on. Anecdotally, that it's so pervasive is often cited as a main reason for leaving the industry

Now that my thesis is that the clearest line drawn between various forms of fascism is the desire for an unearned, elevated spot in the hierarchy-- the destination without the journey --I see it everywhere. Fascists are destroying music because they can't see the joy in the journey.

Having a nice, comfortable Saturday? Then please watch this – you're welcome.

A talk for my fellow men in tech to watch. Yes, all of you.

youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0

this extremely good article deserves another round of attention — www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/art...

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it'd be like quitting carpentry cuz everyone started making furniture out of OSB > IKEA has entered the chat.

Colorado & Michigan have become the latest blue states to end Medicaid coverage for trans youth. Solidly blue Colorado will also be IMMEDIATELY shutting off care for all trans kids receiving puberty blockers—despite Trump's rule allowing a 6 month ‘tapering’ period. This is a complete betrayal.

I gave Braid an A+ back in my press days. I spent 100s of hours working on The Witness at PlayStation, fighting for it, getting it into conferences, and being Jon's personal wrangler. I even coined "Metroidbrainia" after it. I will not be buying Order of the Sinking Star, and neither should you.

TEASER TRAILER: Dialogues on Natural Code featuring Dave Ackley and @spiralganglion.com (!!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCIT...

vastly better alt-girl version: audio > bandcamp executables > itch images > tumblr text > livejournal video > twitch safetensors > lol wat no

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

I think I've reached a point where I'm ready to just bite the bullet on the fact that, yes, we should gatekeep art, actually we do not owe you access to the sum total of every single professional creative skill that was extracted from humanity and put into the machine, without our consent

-including pain, before finally being diagnosed with the source DSD and... it told some of my life, but not all. Scans told more. Bloods over time told even more. Some little body asymmetries told even more. A chronic pain condition caused by it told me the most relevant part to my everyday life.

was never told what those surgeries actually were, who then transitioned, thought some things were a bit odd, tried to chase down details, was virtually *threatened* not to look further by docs who told me lies, took on board some of those lies, accepted those, kept going along with odd symptoms-

but the "Intersex" part describes my whole narrative as this kid who was born a bit ambiguous, whose parents (probably dad) picked one side or the other, who had surgeries not long after birth, and a set of surgeries at six, looked to be developing in one chosen path, wibbled a bit to another path,

Generally speaking I do need AI boosters to understand that I’ve lost my career and future plans entirely to AI-based cost cutting. so any time you’re talking about tech you have to understand people whose livelihoods were destroyed by a thing they didn’t choose to adopt they’re gonna be prickly lol

Sept FoC Virtual Meetup • www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps7a... Three heater demos: • An RPG that lets you walk (literally) through the execution of code. • A content-addressable query-driven workspace. • A canvas full of micro editors and visualizers you can fully live inside.

I've always hated that mainstream languages don't have macros as powerful as lisp macros. So I'm doing my small part to fix that. First an argument why we need them. jimmyhmiller.com/change-our-l... Second a library to add them to typescript sweetener-ts.github.io

ux friends, does anyone have any resources (papers, studies, blog posts, talks, ...) exploring canvas interfaces, node base uis, that kind of thing... there's a wealth for visual programming but im struggling to find the same interest in other kinds of canvas apps/interfaces.

send me your recs for an intro to (textual) programming for an 11 year old

Feeling of Computing in SF returns! @offline.arushibandi.com joins us next Saturday to chat data agency. atmo.rsvp/p/did:plc:zl...

this demo is such a tease. I want PlayBook yesterday.

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

IVY TALK

Here it is—the final talk from our @localfirstconf.com Lab Day! After 10 years of Ink & Switch, Peter van Hardenberg @pvh.ca takes the long view. Why do we do research? Who does it serve? And what now, as the world gets weirder? How to Research Tools for Thought

This is how close we are to finding the holy grail

this is unbelievably good 🤯

You don’t really realize the breadth and depth of work that the Ink team has done until you see it blowing minds in one go. Ivy @spiralganglion.com did an amazing job presentating and of course huge work from the entire team over the years @wolkenmachine.bsky.social

I LOVE this talk