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Nia Bickford

@echoparallax@mathstodon.xyz
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Rendering, mathematics, audio, and more! Developer Technology Engineer working on 3D graphics and texture compression; opinions my own.

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Joined June 14, 2024
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Nia Bickford @echoparallax@mathstodon.xyz
· 7mo ago

Cross-posting this here because I've seen it discussed widely on Bluesky but not on the Fediverse: the state of Kansas has unilaterally revoked the state IDs and drivers licenses of trans people who had legally updated their gender markers. The quoted post here describes it pretty well: https://bsky.app/profile/redgoldsparks.bsky.social/post/3mfqdnea4qs2c .

There are at least two main avenues for opposing this:
* the legal route -- targeting a minority group with the intent to make it difficult for them to live or work unless they fill out incorrect information on a form, and without due process, is unconstitutional for a variety of reasons. I expect groups like the ACLU to challenge this.
* Furthermore, we should be pushing towards a world where things like the government of Kansas' violent actions cannot happen. One step towards this would be to remove the gender marker field; it doesn't really need to be there in the first place, does it?
* supporting those affected -- groups like the TC Pipeline (https://tcpipeline.org/) and others (see https://tcpipeline.org/notco/) help people move to other states. Moving is expensive, though!

If you'd like to match me, I've donated $500 (which is a relatively small amount when it comes to moving) to the TC Pipeline and requested a company match (donations are tax-deductible as they are a 501(c)(3) organization; I've donated to the ACLU before as well).

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Nia Bickford @echoparallax@mathstodon.xyz
· 7mo ago
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@demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place Nice!
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Nia Bickford @echoparallax@mathstodon.xyz
· 8mo ago
@csk Yikes! Looking through them, it looks like Al Seckel (now disgraced; apparently he organized a conference on Epstein's island and falsified his academic credentials) tried to invite him to G4G9, but Epstein couldn't figure out how to login. Epstein later booked a hotel room for G4G11, but cancelled due to something in Vancouver that conflicted with it.
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Nia Bickford @echoparallax@mathstodon.xyz
· 8mo ago
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@csk Probably, if not earlier! I was at G4G9-G4G11, skipped G4G12 because I'd just started university, and then returned for G4G13 and G4G14. In retrospect, I thank my lucky stars I somehow managed to incidentally avoid Seckel all that time; I think I only realized he was at the conference when Pablos Holman overwrote Seckel's voicemail message onstage at G4G9. (Incidentally, Holman appears 241 times in the files; in fact, he's in the thread where Epstein proposed microtransactions to Bobby Kotick.)
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Nia Bickford @echoparallax@mathstodon.xyz
· 3mo ago
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@techokami@woof.tech Happy birthday!!
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