Lab Demos ‘Living’ PC Powered by Mushrooms
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/lab-demos-living-pc-powered-by-mushrooms

I tried to find a clever subject line to hearken back to computation as mental 
stuff generalized across many architectures ... but I failed. But maybe 
including this article for Women's day will make up for my lack of creativity?

Who wrote the first modern computer program?
https://ananyo.substack.com/p/who-wrote-the-first-modern-computer

It also doubles as an homage to practitioners. We regale the abstract thinkers 
whose work product lives outside the domain of real things (like infinitely 
extensible tapes). But the Morlocks who work *with* the actual, dirty, nitty 
gritty real stuff are ignored or forgotten, probably because they value 
operation over credit. Along those same lines, this very old essay is relevant:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/

For emphasis: "It’s harder to read code than to write it." Every interview I've 
been on that involves coding, they want you to code something. Pffft. Every interview 
I've ever conducted that involved coding, I asked the interviewee to read some code and 
tell me what they thought it did. Why is this related to Klára Dán? Because collaboration 
is more difficult than working in isolation. And body stuff is collaboration (with 
yourself, others, the environment, the machine/compiler/interpreter/prover), whereas mind 
stuff is isolation.

And while I'm on this URL-laced rant, how about this gem:

‘Coming Out’ as Working Class in Academia
https://www.lexacademic.com/blog/coming-out-as-working-class-in-academia-lex-academic-blog/

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ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ

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