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it’s astounding how left internet types of a certain ideological bend have kept quiet about the war only to come out of the woodworks now, again, to condemn the crimea bridge sabotage as “terrorism.” every time ukraine liberates even a small settlement is bittersweet, because shortly thereafter some horrific mass grave or evidence of torture comes to light. russia blew up an apartment building for no strategic reason and killed at least thirty people yesterday evening—is that not terrorism?
very early today russia bombed major cities across ukraine to retaliate for the crimea bridge attack, striking the strategic objectives of “children’s playgrounds” and “university departments.” dozens are dead, more are wounded
terrorism is when they kill people, a measured but firm response to terrorism is when we kill people
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So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…
3322 square feet
Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
Hi fun fact!!
The idea of a “binary code” was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:
Here’s Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, you’ll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.
This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer.
But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine.
Here’s a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and here’s a nice little diagram explaining how it works:
But what if you don’t just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!
Here’s an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,
and as you can see, the holes (or 0′s) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1′s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.
tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.
It goes beyond this. Every computer out there has memory. The kind of memory you might call RAM. The earliest kind of memory was magnetic core memory. It looked like this:
Wires going through magnets. This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily. Each magnetic core could store a single bit - a 0 or a 1. Here’s a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASA’s Apollo guidance computers:
You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and that’s because it is. But these are also extreme close-ups. Here’s the scale of the individual cores:
The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers. Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.
And thanks to them, we were able to land on the moon. This is also why memory in early computers was so expensive. It had to be hand-crafted, and took a lot of time.
(little old ladies sewed the space suits, too)
Fun fact: one nickname for it was LOL Memory, for “little old lady memory.”
I mean let’s also touch on the Jacquard Loom, if you want to get all Textiles In Sciencey. It was officially created in 1801 or 1804 depending on who you ask (although you can see it in proto-form as early as 1725) and used a literal chain of punch cards to tell the loom which warps to raise on hooks before passing the weft through. It replaced the “weaver yelling at Draw Boy” technique, in which the weaver would call to the kid manning the heddles “raise these and these, lower these!” and hope that he got it right.
With a Jacquard loom instead of painstakingly picking up every little thread by hand to weave in a pattern, which is what folks used to do for brocades in Ye Olde Times, this basically automated that. Essentially all you have to do to weave here is advance the punch cards and throw the shuttle. SO EASY.
ALSO, it’s not just “little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits,” it’s “the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed.” Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras. Bra-makers sent us to the moon.
And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn’t use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you’re within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you’re usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.
The women who made the spacesuits were BADASSES. (and yes, I’ve tried to get Space-X to hire me more than once. They don’t seem interested these days)
This is fascinating. I knew there was a correlation between binary and weaving but this just takes it to a whole nother level.
I’m in Venice, Italy several times a year (lucky me!) and last year I went on a private tour of the Luigi Bevilacqua factory.
Founded in 1875, they still use their original jacquard looms to hand make velvet.
Here are the looms:
Here are the punch cards:
Some of these looms take up to 1600 spools. That is necessary to make their many different patterns.
Here are some patterns:
How many punchcards per pattern?
This many:
Modern computing owes its very life to textiles - And to women. From antiquity weaving has been the domain of women. Sure, we remember Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr, but while Joseph Marie Jacquard gets all the credit for his loom, the operators and designers were for the most part women.
I’ve seen this cross my dash a few times, but I’ve never watched the video before. Maybe I just didn’t pay attention when I was a kid, but I don’t remember ever seeing just how the Jacquard loom works. I just knew that the punch cards controlled which threads were raised. It’s cool to see the how, not just the what.
dont care if i sound corny or cliche but to love and be loved back and not having to second guess where u stand in someones heart is such a warm and safe feeling & everyone should have the luxury and pleasure of having it always
Charles is less than two days away from being deported to Kenya and fears for his life. He needs every Canadian’s help by signing this petition. Please don’t let him down.
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MWAC says the absolute best you can do to support him right now AND I MEAN RIGHT NOW is to sign this petition that will automatically send a letter begging the minister in charge of his case to allow Charles to stay in Canada.
This is realistically a life or death scenario. if you are Canadian, or have a canadian address you can sign from, please, help Charles. it is literally the least a good person should do.
Charles is less than two days away from being deported to Kenya and fears for his life. He needs every Canadian’s help by signing this petition. Please don’t let him down.
Charles Mwangi is a bisexual man who has spoken openly about his sexuality and has worked for years to help so many vulnerable people in his community.
MWAC says the absolute best you can do to support him right now AND I MEAN RIGHT NOW is to sign this petition that will automatically send a letter begging the minister in charge of his case to allow Charles to stay in Canada.
This is realistically a life or death scenario. if you are Canadian, or have a canadian address you can sign from, please, help Charles. it is literally the least a good person should do.
Charles is less than two days away from being deported to Kenya and fears for his life. He needs every Canadian’s help by signing this petition. Please don’t let him down.
Charles Mwangi is a bisexual man who has spoken openly about his sexuality and has worked for years to help so many vulnerable people in his community.
MWAC says the absolute best you can do to support him right now AND I MEAN RIGHT NOW is to sign this petition that will automatically send a letter begging the minister in charge of his case to allow Charles to stay in Canada.
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She’s not a lab mix after all, miss Tiramisu is just Scooby-Doo. 100% pure Great Dane.
…thiiiiiiiiis does rather explain why she’s 9 months and 105 pounds.
The family who rescued her Dane mom (who wound up to not be spayed like they were told) thought their chocolate lab was the father, but nope. All Scooby.
We’ve had vets sure she must have some Catahoula Leopard Dog or something to explain the rampant spot pattern.
Nope.
Tiramisu’s just the very special goofy girl.
Her ears also look like toasted marshmallows. Very clever of her.
this is the funniest tweet i’ve seen in months bye
these are all the geek equivalents of Lovecraft’s Cat’s Name
his cats name couldn’t be that bad!!!! it’s a cat, what’s the worst name?
i am wrong, what the fuck
Me every time this post comes back
go Google why chainsaws were invented, it’s really fun :)
why.
I’ve seen everything at this point, so why were chain saws in-
oh what the FUCK WHY
Thanks I hate it.
I could have gone my whole life without knowing it, thank you motherfucker
To be fair, its not AS bad when you read into detail. But ya. Still like getting slapped in the face with a cold fish.
i’m boutta google why chainsaws were invented now. feel like i’m going on an adventure.
really speaks to how i’ve been around the internet, that that wasn’t what i was expecting it to be, but it was also really close to what i expected it to be.
Every time I see this post it’s gone in a completely different direction and every time it’s cursed as fuck
This post is the feeling of opening what looks like a present, but all you get is punched in the face by a boxing glove on a spring
this post seems to have broken containment and if anyone’s interested in what they were telling me to stop, i found the og post with this song and was mass reblogging it at an alarming rate. ive done this multiple times but i think this was the instance i reblogged it 64 times in a row
ok, so I didn’t expect to have to make something like this, especially not for this.
But my incredible partner @a-sentient-cup is being kicked out of their home, and they are currently unemployed and have not been able to find a new job despite their best efforts for around a year.
This means that if we don’t get help(because I also have no money due to on social benefits due to my really bad mental disabilties) they will become hopeless.
So we’ve set up a gofundme to help Cuppy move to Denmark where they can also get proper help for their own disabilties.
Please if you can, help us out. And if not, please share
we also don’t have much time to get the money in.
Cuppy has essentially been told that they need to be out by July 7th
I know I am adding a lot really fast after each other. But Cuppy’s sister, whom they have been living with. Just threatened them on their life, supposedly it was in a exaggerated manner. But regardless that is not ok and doesn’t exactly make it safer to stay where they are.
We’ve had 10 usd donated so far, so we could really use some more
For every $1000 reached, I will do an art piece! I haven’t figured out how exactly it’s going to work, probably a poll for what pride critters y'all want me to draw. If I’m feeling up for it, I might do it at every $500 as well.
Please, help my friend get to safety with Megumin!
Commission rules:
Whoever has donated the highest amount gets to commission me for a pride critter. This happens on my terms but I’m working together with you to create something we’ll both enjoy. This will happen for sure at every $1000 mark and potentially at every $500 mark. Here’s my pride critters so far!
Description: Tiktok from user theomasters stitching user jascoombs. The first video shows a girl with a text to speech voice saying “apparently you’re meant to look like your boyfriend’s fave disney princess.” It cuts to a nonbinary person sitting at a computer and the guy behind the camera says “Emma who’s your favorite disney princess?” Emma says “Chicken little.” The camera flips around to reveal a guy with short red hair and round glasses. He pauses for a second and then wheezes.
My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.
every time we serve chicken at work i think of this post
1. If you were wondering, you can type the numbers in the works cited into google and they appear to be medical journal articles about using medical imaging to detect and diagnose a rare form of Gastritis.
2. Please enjoy the offical powerpoint presentation of this paper at an academic conference by the original author, complete with Q&A:
THIS IS GOLD
oh m god please watch the video it’s some of the most contagious laughter on the planet
When I saw this cross my dash tonight, I smiled and thought “yess, the chicken chicken chicken post, I get to reblog it again and inflict it on all of the people that have followed me since last time”, and then I scrolled down more and to my utter delight there was A VIDEO, needless to say my night has been made
I HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHICKEN VIDEO IN TEN DAMN YEARS HOLY SHIT
STILL FUNNY
The bell
The last question
The woman howling in laughter 90% of the time
It’s all beautiful
It’s all
So beautiful
I love that he was absolutely 100% prepared for a question in chickenese.
“I do not feel capable summarizing this article”
Same
i was desperately hoping for a flowchart slide that would zoom in on the last bubble, which of course would say: CHICKEN???
As a continuation of my “let Dipper say Fuck” and “let Stan say Bitch” agenda, I don’t think Bill should be allowed to swear. I think he should be perfectly aware of the concept and vocabulary of swear words but he’s just physically incapable of swearing due to being stuck in a kid’s show. And he’s really, really, really mad about that.
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