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folks, you can try to make the mcelroys "queer culture" all you want, but they're still three straight white cis guys

Today is Wendy Carlos's 80th birthday!

She is a pioneer of electronic music, best known for composing the score of TRON (1982) and for her ground-breaking album, "Switched-On Bach" (1968.) In 1978, she came out publicly as a transgender woman, one of the few public figures to do so at the time.

If you enjoy electronic music today, you can thank Wendy Carlos!

Check out this BBC interview from '89:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=Z3cab5IcCy8&feature=emb_logo

#electronicMusic #queerHistory #transHistory

Hi! I need to check up on this thing more. I just saw @marcozehe's blog post linking to some of the changes that happened with #pinafore and #a11y. Man is this client fast. The fact I can use it exclusively with hotkeys rather than screen reader virtual buffers is great. The fact I don't lose my place when looking at a conversation and then closing it is even better.

'The "Administrator" account is a temporary "feature" that will not be present in the final retail product.'
- release notes, Windows NT 3.1 beta, July 1992

a friend is a lazy bastard.

yikes is short for yicycles

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#NowPlaying
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer by Wendy Carlos turns 50 years old this month. After demonstrating that synthesizers were Musical As Fuck with Switched-On Bach, her second album goes a step further, capturing the nuances of Handel and Scarlatti, and even having an admirable shot at vocal synthesis. Give it a listen!

For whatever reason, Wendy's entire back catalogue outside the Tron OST remains tragically unavailiable, but Archive Dot Org has us covered.

https://archive.org/details/WendyCarlosTheWell-TemperedSynthesizer/wendy+carlos+-+the+well-tempered+synthesizer/

But I want that snow. I want pix when this inevitably happens, plz