The Entangled Soul of a Posthumanist Machine

Sorry. The only jokes I can come up with are totally sexist and would piss JNOV off.

Well I have an idea about error codes.

If one does not pass the correct parameters to a process, it could be called a TERF error.

For those of you like me, who had NO idea what a TERF was, it’s an acronym for “Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist” The type of feminist that believes you can only be a woman if you are born with and XX chromosome pair.

Thankfully I have not encountered any of those folks yet. But does I have the bitters about it? Yeah, but I ain’t losing sleep over it. Their loss.

*And on an entirely different note, I am (Like QEII and Benedick) working on my Christmas message. I keep having to stop when I cry about all the kindness shown to me since I transtioned.*

@Jenny_F: That’s a new one on me — and I work with a public university where I usually hear these things early.

But since we’re Talking Geek, here’s a favorite from the comments:

I think this type of logic represents the feminist idea that something can be and not be without being a contradiction, that is a system where the following statement is not explosive: (p && ¬p) == 1.

Or, in more general logic: (True and Not True) equals True.

Because Identity is Patriarchal. I guess.

As it happens, something like this is actually the case in Quantum Mechanics, so you really need to Adjust Your Paradigms if you’re diving into that mess.

And, in turn, if you’re devising a program/language that deals with Quantum Mechanics, you have to allow for that.

But if instead you’re, oh, I dunno, programming a website, or an app, or a database — the kinds of things most programmers do — then you kinda want 1 to be different than -1, or you encounter the terminal error known as SNAFU.

Beyond that, create whatever ideologically informed language you’d like. And good fucking luck to whoever has to compile that shit.

Speaking of feminism, I am not above objectifying men, and neither is Kmart, apparently.

@mellbell: Just as an FYI, balls don’t actually ring like that.

So glad I passed on going for a Phil. PhD.

@blogenfreude: Piled Higher Deeper?

@SanFranLefty: Reached the point where it was me against Being & Time, and I caved. Had read most of the important texts to that point. Heidegger broke me.

@Tommmcatt Says Pull My Finger: The fuck? I’m sending this post to my kid. Who is sitting in the same room with me. So what?

@JNOV: it’s good to see him, right?

@Tommmcatt Says Pull My Finger: You have no idea. <3

My wife has put up with me for 34 years, which defies all known systems of logic.