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1. Matt Webb (https://mastodon.social/users/genmon)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2019 06:40:21 JST Matt Webb

   • Matt Webb

   This photo of Dr Bouman deserves to be one of the classic images in physics. Amazing to capture the first glimpse. Such a genuine response
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   RT @TamyEmmaPepin@twitter.com
   Congratulations to Katie Bouman to whom we owe the first photograph of a black hole ever. Not seeing her name circulate nearly enough in the press.

   Amazing work. And here’s to more women in science (getting their credit and being remembered in history) ??☄️
   https://twitter.com/TamyEmmaPepin/status/1116014974508371971

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   • Protected Moomin (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2019 01:00:00 JST Protected Moomin

     • Protected Moomin
     @johnnynull Is it possible that her contributions were in some form other than that code? I honestly don't know.
   • a very strange kassetten boy (lain@testing.pleroma.lol)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2019 01:06:25 JST a very strange kassetten boy

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     • a very strange kassetten boy
     • Protected Moomin
     @moonman @johnnynull this is what he says about it: https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/1116518551291158528
     
     I'd say it looks like this was a group effort as most big projects are, she got somewhat unfairly singled out but she's trying to tell the media it was a group effort. He's not gonna dump on his coworker and probably friend just to score points with pepeists.
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   • Protected Moomin (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2019 01:10:25 JST Protected Moomin

     • Protected Moomin
     @johnnynull That seems reasonable.
     
     I found a tweet by the guy that said "I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files. There are about 68,000 lines in the current software"
   • Protected Moomin (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2019 01:20:14 JST Protected Moomin

     • a very strange kassetten boy
     • Protected Moomin
     @lain @johnnynull There are two stories here: The first photograph of a black hole; and that "woke" journalists are perpetuating (and defending) the same "one person gets all the credit for thing" fallacy that they used to complain about when it erased the accomplishment of women.