Well, the Greek definition of barbarian was almost literally “Those weird / stupid / silly foreigners who can’t speak Greek like proper people, and make funny noises instead.” 
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I went to Google search for someone else - “hey, have you heard of…” - turns out I was thinking of Wendy Carlos 
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I happened to run across a video not too long ago of her demonstrating how she gets some particular sounds - first on an analogue synth, then on a new-fangled digital synth, in order to help demonstrate the differences… She’s so great! I love her NYC accent!
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She composed the score to two Stanley Kubrick films, A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980), and also Tron (1982)
Score!!(s).
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Yep, those are some of the best original soundtracks of that era, no doubt.
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Clockwork Orange is especially creepy - contentious opinion, the soundtrack is better than the movie.
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I think i do vaguely remember that, not the original programme but one of the later repeats. I see she passed away in january of this year.
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Three Grammy Awards and the first classical album to go platinum awesome-sauce!
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Kinda on this topic (also @anon61221983 and @politeruin I get into a quote from Hippocrates about the Scythian Effeminates in it):
For those interested in some pre-20C history of gender variance Les Feinberg’s 1996 Transgender warriors: Making history from Joan of Arc to RuPaul is worth a read.
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Speaking of important transfolk who predate the 80s, there’s also Lynn Conway, who invented fundamental components of the modern computer processors that underlie all of this communication we’re doing.
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Fabulous.
“ All transgender people are beautiful ”
-God damned right!
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Both the work that lead to the first supercomuter at IBM & the work that led to the PC revolution at Xerox PARC. And ran the DARPA artifical intelligence program and served on the Board of the Air Force Academy - among many things…
Hey - I know her!
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LOL! I can see that!
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This is a stank-ass hackneyed trope of a dog whistle to “But I am accustomed to having my anti-queer bigotry go unchallenged!”
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This might be interesting to read! I’ll check it out, thanks!
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I love her face in the last picture! 
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Yeah, same. Just what i was looking for. My library doesn’t have it, unsurprisingly, but it’s going on the list. Good call. 
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TERFs deserve the same place in society as Catholic-exclusionary radical Ecumenical folks, as anti-Jewish, anti-black, or anti-poor folks, etc… that is to say, they should be taken to the cliffs overlooking the sea, and cast in as a sacrifice to the gods against the pox that is all bigotry.
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Yeah, Sabrina is gorgeous, and so smart! Her work on Yugoslavia manages to cut through a lot of the bullshit… She edited this volume:
And contributed an article about rock music and the yugoslav state that’s rather good.
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Talking of transgender warriors, I was reading about this guy the other day.
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