Attack ships off the shoulder of Linkspam (7 December 2012)

• My Name Is Me is back: “ In recognition of all these people and their exclusion from G+ and similar social networks, MNIM is now back at mynameisme.org.”
• How to get hired as a professional developer: “I’m going to come right out and say it – coders are better than superheroes.” Includes a fantastic graphic of a female developer.
• Invisible women 2: Cognitive Surplus: “A social world based on “cognitive surplus” will be one that is not gender neutral. It will have more participation by males, and therefore will be socially skewed to the masculine — at least until we have gender parity in taking care of the home, the children, the elderly, etc. That is something that I would expect an intelligent observer of society to notice.”
• Google funds research tool for gender role analysis in TV, films: “Google granted $1.2 million to a nonprofit organization to help with gender stereotyping research in the media on Thursday, according to Google’s website for its own Global Impact Awards. The money will go toward developing a tool that will automate the process of identifying women and their actions in hundreds of hours of video.”
• Introducing the FPwomerati – By @lisang, @katrinskaya, @jilliancyork: Intersection of geekery and political punditry!
• Fake Geek Girl | DORK TOWER 04.12.12: Another great comic skewers the idea of the “fake geek girl”.
• Goodbye, Karen Berger, Please Don’t Go: A geek icon is stepping down from her post at DC’s Vertigo imprint.
• Stop Expecting Free Work from Women: “This belief that women are inconsequential and valueless is deeply, deeply wrong, and it’s dismaying to see it so casual and widespread in spaces where people should know better.”
• Why We Decided to Stop Publishing “Fan Fiction Friday”: “I know how it feels to be shamed by institutions and people who can broadcast their thoughts a lot farther than I ever could. I want io9 to be a safe space for dark satire, but I also want it to be a safe space for the little guy to dream his or her harmless, weird dreams in peace.”

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