Post by @blogdiva@mastodon.social

2026-10-04 15:47 UTC

the fascists ―that Vice President Henry Wallace and, later on, President Eisenhower warned the world about― couldn't have that, couldn't they? it was bad enough that white women were the OG computers. if they contained it to their own kind that would do. but nooooooo, they couldn't let it slip and teach millions of BIPOC in public schools that it was the beading patterns of Native American women the inspiration for the motherboards on the space capsule or… 🧵…

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social 2026-10-04 15:52

glob forbid a little Black girl like me be inspired by the African American women who were hired for their #quilting abilities ―i always forget the #patchwork #quilt artists― because their skills were instrumental with the embroiderers in developing the walls of the spacecraft and the space suits in such a way, when the astronauts were inside, it all connected and worked like a supercomputer. but no, we couldn't teach that part of #NASA history in our schools… 🧵…

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@johnlogic@sfba.social 2026-10-04 16:05

@blogdiva@mastodon.social The Apollo program's OG computers were in fact women mathematicians, but they certainly weren't all white. This film makes me proud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures

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@drj@typo.social 2026-10-05 09:13

@blogdiva@mastodon.social who put the "mother" in "motherboards". It's right there...

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