ok so quick question: how many of you on here are old enough to have actually *dialed* a phone in your lifetime? (and not as a novelty in some sort of hipstery hotel or something)
Fave for old enough, RT for too young I guess.
From the reactions to this tweet I've determined that everyone I talk to on here is between the age of 40 and 100ish. Greetings, fellow olds.
TIL that if you ever want to crash your mentions, just ask twitter about rotary phones😂😂😂
It's pretty awesome that we're all sitting around on our smartphones and laptops reminiscing about dialing, rotary locks, storyphone, & party lines😄
speaking of prehistoric phones #sorrynotsorry
And yes, this is an actual phone still in my house (though no longer in use)

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Sep 23, 2018
This is how women's histories disappear right before our eyes--their images used as window dressing while they are anonymized right out of their own stories, by folks who assume they are nothing more than stock photos & deprive them of any say over how their images are used.
Just to add a little background about why I'm banging on about this, why it's a big deal:

In my research, I found hundreds, if not thousands, of pictures of unnamed women computer operators and programmers. And:
For a long time, people took the fact that their names hadn't been recorded to erroneously claim they'd "just been brought in for the photo" & were "just pretty faces to humanize the machine" instead of being real workers. Here's a rare pic where a woman programmer was named:
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Aug 13, 2018
Lol. Tell that to the millions of women faking orgasms for most of modern history. We are *well* into the age of artificial intimacy. nytimes.com/2018/08/11/opi…
If you think this kind of one-sided non-empathic emotional connection came from the age of bots, plz let me introduce you to this thing called "the history of gender and sexuality."
my hot take, which I'm sure no one needs to hear: pretending robots have made us unfeeling is hilariously ahistorical. Look at all the ways we've abused and continue to abuse other people in non-empathetic ways. Caring bots are an effect rather than a cause.
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Jul 26, 2018
Once again for the people in the back:
FACEBOOK
PROFITS
FROM
TOXIC CONTENT👋🏼
Facebook started as Facemash--a hot-or-not ripoff site that stole women undergrads' pics off internal Harvard "facebook" servers in order to humiliate and demean them. FOR CLICKS. FOR FUN. JUST TO SEE IF HE COULD.
The copy Zuckhole put on his inaugural Facemash site, above women's pics: "Were we let in [to Harvard] for our looks? No. Will we be judged on them? Yes."
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Jul 11, 2018
Yesterday I spoke with Lorna Cockayne, one of the last surviving people who ran the first computers in the world--the Colossus computers at Bletchley Park.
Lorna is in her 90s but still vividly recalls the (often tedious) work. Her job as a Colossus operator was to crack the encryption, which changed every day, for Lorenz--the code used for German high command to receive their marching orders. It was far harder to crack than Enigma.
Lorna's machine was Colossus II, which was brought into operation just before D-Day. The information unlocked by Lorna & the other women working in round-the-clock shifts on this machine was make-or-break for the success of the D-Day landings (as I talk about in @proginequality)
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Jun 21, 2018
"Dr Isabel Gal worked at Queen Mary’s hospital for children in the 1960s, when her research suggested that a hormone-based pregnancy test drug called Primodos caused birth defects similar to those seen with thalidomide."

And she's not even listed on Wikipedia's page for Primodos
It talks about her important research but obscures her, while nonetheless prominently naming a man who did far less relevant research. This is how the myth of men's contributions being greater than women's persists. It infects the very structures through which we know the world:
Isn't it interesting how when you take those 2 sentences away, the paragraph doesn't make sense, because there's no clear causality? And yet that's what the page looked like before I changed it tonight.

Erasing women often leads to history not making sense.
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Jun 16, 2018
Love this question--and would love to hear all of your answers to it:
Here's mine, going from undergrad to grad school: when I got the idea for my undergrad thesis I was sitting in a lecture on medieval women, and the lecturer mentioned, totally as an aside, that she hadn't been allowed into most of the Oxford colleges when she was a student...
... because she was a woman. And she was still salty about it. For her it was practically yesterday. For my generation it was "history" that we barely knew--because not much had been written about it, and the struggles over it.
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