#Virginia Cosin

[chaosintheavenue]

On the origin of Trin

The first tentative concept Picrew of the character that would become Trin was saved to my laptop on April 16th 2022, and I made a note to myself at the time that the vague concept of the character had been around for about a month at that point. So, we'll consider today, March 16th, to be Trin's first anniversary of existing!

To mark the occasion, I've decided on a total whim to lay out the timeline of Trin's development from the first idea I had, to the character she is today.

Beginnings

Fittingly, Trin technically started her 'life' as three people- triplets, to be exact. I decided that I wanted two of my VB peeps (a Cipher and a BoS guy) to have a child to continue the Ciphers arc into the post-NV era in my convoluted Fallout headcanon universe. I wanted to make a trigonometry reference, and so for the sake of that, the one child quickly became three. I'm not the most mathematically-minded or original, so of course these triplets were intended to be named Sine, Cosine and Tangent.

The triplets got very limited character development, especially since in the one (1) scene I ever pictured them in, they were about two years old. I didn't decide genders or much personality-wise, but I did set out that Sine and Cosine were identical 'twins', Tangent was not identical to them, and that reflected in their personality as they felt conflicted identity-wise and tried to strike out on their own. The main thing I did determine was some details of their physical appearances, with Tangent having short black hair and the other two having longer blonde hair.

Three Become One

At some point after creating the trigonometry triplets, I realised that adding three new interlinked main characters and trying to follow their arcs in the meticulous detail I always do would be simply too much to keep up with. I'd secretly started to favour Tangent and they'd already received a bit more development than the others, so I decided to focus on them and have Sine and Cosine occasionally crop up as background characters.

Soon after this, for reasons I don't entirely remember, I decided to do away with the triplet idea altogether, just have one BoS/Cipher character, and renamed the concept of what had been Tangent to Trinity (bonus fact: it's now canon in-universe that Trin was almost named Tangent as a baby). Still no gender or characterisation yet, and I still only pictured the character as a young child.

First Sightings

And so now we come to April 16th 2022. The first ever image of Trin:

(link to the Picrew)

This was also the very first time I envisioned Trin as an adult. I wasn't really getting any strong gender vibes, and had an inkling that the character would turn out to be some variation on the theme of nonbinary.

I continued adding small details and rotating Trin, as I now began to call them, in my brain for a while, and to my mild surprise she soon informed me that she's a cis woman (honestly, that still sometimes surprises me lol).

On May 29th came the first instance of Trinposting! I posted this mysterious drawing of a new character I'd been developing.

To Appalachia

I've always struggled to create new characters on demand for a particular purpose (which is why a lot of my player character OCs start out with a 'placeholder' version, and some unknown length of time later suddenly get more development). The creation of Trin happened to come at a convenient time for me, as I'd been contemplating attempting a new playthrough of Fallout 76 for several months. One day in June, the inspiration suddenly struck me hard to get this playthrough on the road now, and my mind happeend to be thoroughly immersed in Trin at the time, so naturally I decided to play as her. I originally considered just using an AU version of her due to 76 being set so early in the timeline, but I'm no stranger to altering canon for my own needs, and so in-universe, Trin arrived in West Virginia in 2295.

In-game, this was one of her first nights above ground. In-universe, I consider this the earliest canon screenshot of Trin, taken on her very first night in Appalachia (all the Vault stuff had to go considering her amended origin)

When I first started the playthrough, Trin was very much still primarily a blank slate of a character. She had an established backstory, but not a lot in the way of personality, talents, opinoins, and the likes. After I'd been playing for a week or so, had got to grips with the game mechanics and was no longer solely focused on survival, she really began to show herself through the in-game choices I was making.

On Sexuality

I don't remember at what point I decided/was 'told' by Trin that she was aroace, but I do know that I never much thought about her orientation prior to that and would never have considered anything else to fit her. Getting personal for a second: Looking back, it feels very coincidental that this took place not long before I myself finally figured out I'm aro as well as ace, and I feel like my exploration of aromantic-ness (aromanticism?) through the lens of Trin played a bigger role in my discovery of that than I've ever previously really acknowledged.

Becoming Crunchy

By August, she was much more developed and had become thoroughly enmeshed in the 76 world, and I, being the same plague-obsessed Chaos as always, decided it was high time to Scorch her.

From here, a lot happened plot-wise, but the basic characterisation of Trin has remained more or less constant. She left Appalachia for around a year in-universe to focus on trying to recover, eventually came back with a friend and some new scars across her face, built a mini settlement, entangled herself further in WV and its factions, made yet more friends and re-encountered some old ones, aaand most recently cut her hair.

Trin as she is now:

I'm still thoroughly obsessed with Trin, and don't foresee that changing in the near future! She's very quickly overtaken all of my other OCs to have the highest populated tag on my blog, and that will probably continue for Some Time lol. I just wish I could kick myself into gear to write up more of her story hgfdfgf.

[athomewiththecicadas]

Investors that may be Interested

I'm a Senior NCO, spilling over from the Reserve Officer Training Corp as an Army Ranger, in which the Army sends you through a placement program, to utilize your rank for it's most reasonable objectives. As part of the standard boot camp enlistment.

In our case it was, mercenary. Serving the Bill of Rights, and providing Support for Government.

There's the Civil Government, the National Defense Act (the Military), and then Mercenary. All fulfilling specific roles. In our case, Mercenary Support, providing services relating to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Amendment.

Compass, map reading, orientation. As well as the International Society of Electronic Technicians.

Sine/Cosine/Tangent

Electronic Theory

Which relates to other entities such as Texas Instruments (the calculator).

-square root blows my mind, and I thought the calculation by an electronic circuit was brilliant.

And as a result, TSMC, and large pricing that's difficult to control.

I also hold Substancial IP in electronics circuitry, as well as business administration in things like the touch screen, where the technologies being deployed actually requires IP that was designed. And Process Protocol.

Capital Group, and private equity, and business maintaining our rank. While the remaining officers hold their own interest, and are compensated accordingly.

As well as much smaller intellectual properties that really "hit it" amongst the population, regarding "of conversational importance." And you'll just have to go over those in a more proper environment than social media.

I also hold IP related to land acquisitions, land management, and tax exchanges for replacement of large numbers of families individuals, thus providing incentive for large volume real estate transactions. And large acreage acquisitions.

And manufacturing and logistics. As well as thermal dynamics such as the LEAP Engine, and some related to vehicle and Semi-Truck transportation. And restructuring related to Chemical Manufacturing, and "the other Carbon Fiber." As well as microbiology utilized in agriculture.

Business administration utilizing Anti-Espionage technique. And properly training and facilitating a workforce to face the pressures they are facing, creating an orderly and safe work environment.

And a substantial IP in metal alloys, related to noise cancellation for high volume alloy production, and utilizing noise cancellation to generate greater returns, and benefits for controlling the workforce.

As well as IP in "Green Energy" focusing on the concept of "External Entropy" that is sufficient enough to produce large volumes of power, such as Megawatts and Gigawatts, and utilizing thermal dynamics to do so. Thus acquiring and attaining feasibility.

Sergeant Major Nathan Marksmith, North Wales Militia JMD (Virginia Militia Association)

[jonathan-byers-remade]

I will have you know, I was the first negro female student at West Virginia university graduate school. On any given day, I analyze the binomial levels air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over ten thousand calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry. By hand. There are twenty, bright, highly capable negro women in the west computing group, and we’re proud to be doing our part for the country. So yes, they let women do some things at NASA, Mr. Johnson. And it’s not because we wear skirts. It’s because we wear glasses. Have a good day.  Hidden Figures (2016) Dir. Theodore Melfi

[dramatical]

I’ll have you know, I was the first Negro female student at West Virginia University Graduate School. On any given day I analyze the manometer levels for air displacement, friction and velocity and compute over 10,000 calculations by cosine, square root and lately Analytic Geometry. By hand. There are 20 bright, highly capable Negro women in the West Computing Group. And we’re proud to be doing our part for the country.

Hidden Figures (2016) dir. Theodore Melfi

[ozrevistaoz]

Edición ilimitada, película que se presentará en el Festival de San Sebastián

Edición ilimitada, película que se presentará en el Festival de San Sebastián

Entre el 18 y el 26 de septiembre se realizará una nueva edición del Festival de San Sebastián, en ese marco, dentro de la sección Horizontes Latinos, tendrá su estreno internacional Edición ilimitada, film que reúne los trabajos de cuatro directores: Edgardo Cozarinsky, Santiago Loza, Virginia Cosin y Romina Paula.

Edición ilimitada es el encuentro cinematográfico de cuatro escritores que…

[jorgeluisborgestv]

Entropía publica ‘Pasaje al acto’, primera novela de Virginia Cosin

#EditorialEntropía publica ‘Pasaje al acto’, primera novela de Virginia Cosin #ZonaLiteratura

La protagonista de ‘Pasaje al acto’ está temporalmente internada en un psiquiátrico. Mientras repasa su incapacidad para actuar relee de principio a fin ‘Madame Bovary’ hasta establecer con el personaje de Flaubert una relación que va más allá de cierta inclinación por la fantasía y la muerte.

Entre las imágenes que dibujan su encierro, una de ellas es la de la excavación. Como un preso en una…

[retropleasantspot]

Sandy goes out to breathe the sweet air of relief where no one can recognize that this is what she’s feeling. She misses Rhett; but he’s engaged to Penny, and if the truth ever comes out, she’ll be a middle-aged single mother with no work history or source of income. And it’s not as if she doesn’t love Hamilton. If she can learn to resign herself to coming first with no one...or if she can continue to come first with Lindquist now that he’s starting to engage with the world more...if she can cut her coat according to her cloth and not be always wanting More...

Virginia is still at the stage of life when wanting More is not discouraged. If she’s to be the first of her family to go to college - and Daytona’s made it plan that she is! - she needs to knuckle down to the homework and extracurriculars. 

[julliettewarners]

I will have you know, I was the first negro female student at West Virginia university graduate school. On any given day, I analyze the binomial levels air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over ten thousand calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry. By hand. There are twenty, bright, highly capable negro women in the west computing group, and we’re proud to be doing our part for the country. So yes, they let women do some things at NASA, Mr. Johnson. And it’s not because we wear skirts. It’s because we wear glasses. Have a good day.

[karasdanvcrs-archive]

I will have you know, I was the first negro female student at West Virginia university graduate school. On any given day, I analyze the binomial levels air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over ten thousand calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry. By hand. There are twenty, bright, highly capable negro women in the west computing group, and we're proud to be doing our part for the country. So yes, they let women do some things at NASA, Mr. Johnson. And it's not because we wear skirts. It's because we wear glasses. Have a good day.

[old-psych-studyblr]

"I will have you know, I was the first negro female student at West Virginia university graduate school. On any given day, I analyze the binomial levels air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over ten thousand calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry. By hand. There are twenty, bright, highly capable negro women in the west computing group, and we're proud to be doing our part for the country. So yes, they let women do some things at NASA, Mr. Johnson. And it's not because we wear skirts. It's because we wear glasses. Have a good day." - Kathrine Johnson (Hidden Figures, 2016)

[thnkfilm]

“I will have you know, I was the first negro female student at West Virginia university graduate school. On any given day, I analyze the binomial levels air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over ten thousand calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry. By hand.”

Hidden Figures (2016) dir. Theodore Melfi

[jessibearr]

Hidden Figures (2016) “I will have you know, I was the first negro female student at West Virginia university graduate school. On any given day, I analyze the binomial levels air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over ten thousand calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry. By hand. There are twenty, bright, highly capable negro women in the west computing group, and we're proud to be doing our part for the country. So yes, they let women do some things at NASA, Mr. Johnson. And it's not because we wear skirts. It's because we wear glasses. Have a good day.”

[rolandfontana]

Judges Influenced by Fox News Give Harsher Sentences: Paper

Elected judges impose harsher criminal sentences on defendants if they watch conservative news media, in particular Fox News, according to a Columbia Business School research paper posted on May 3rd.

“Higher Fox News viewership increases incarceration length, and the effect is stronger for black defendants and for drug-related crimes,” wrote Elliot Ash, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Law, Economics, and Data Science at ETH Zurich, and Michael Poyker, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University.

Building on the assumption that “greater exposure to partisan television news has an impact on voting in presidential elections and congressional position-taking,” the study authors scrutinized whether partisan news has an effect on judges’ rulings, scrutinizing data on almost 7 million criminal sentencing decisions in the United States for the years 2005 to 2017.

Their conclusion: “Conservative television media exposure has a causal effect on judge decision-making.”  

To research their paper, “Conservative News Media and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Exposure to Fox News Channel,” Ash and Poyker used word clouds, compared national sentencing data, and examined Fox viewership.

“We use combined microdata on criminal sentencing decisions from the National Corrections Reporting Program and a unique dataset with the universe of sentencing decisions linked to judge biographies from ten states … paired with data on cable news viewership at the county level,” they wrote.

Conservative-news watching had no measurable effect on appointed judges, according to the research paper.

“The appointed judges have tenure, and therefore face minimal political pressures once in office,” Ash and Poyker wrote. “We find that Fox News increases sentencing only for elected judges. Voters might become more conservative due to Fox News exposure, and in particular due to media attention on felony cases.

Meanwhile, lawyers/prosecutors put active pressure on judges threatening to find candidates to displace then; that would increase electoral pressures on judges to be harsher in sentencing decisions.”

The study authors trained word2vec, a popular word embedding model, on transcripts for Fox, CNN, and MSNBC, for the years 2001 through 2013. “This model works by reading through sentences and locating words close to each other in a vector space if they tend to occur in similar contexts (that is, windows of neighboring words). Similarity between words can then be measured using the cosine of the angle between the vector representations of each word.

In the transcripts data, the most similar words to ‘crime’ were ‘crimes,’ ‘murder,’ ‘homicide,’ ‘perpetrator,’ ‘felonies,’ and other synonyms or closely related terms.”

Ash and Poyker took sentencing data from the National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) that contains information for “all prison admissions in the United States from 2000 to 2014.” NCRP’s data was cross-referenced with sentencing data from a previous study done by Poyker and Dippel (2019) because of its case-level detail of accessible judge’s information.

From there, Ash and Poyker only used data from 10 states with judges’ information in the case files. Those states are Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington.

“We establish a racial bias in the effect of conservative discourse on criminal justice decisions, and this is linked to drug crimes,” they wrote. “As Blacks are disproportionately arrested for non-violent drug related offenses, the effect could be driven by racial bias in media messaging. Alternatively, it could be that ‘tough-on-drugs’ rather than ‘tough-on-crime’ rhetoric matters in this setting.”

Ash and Poyker looked at viewership based on Nielsen’s channel positions and ratings analytics that categorized viewership with zip codes. (Ctrl-F Media Data)

Interestingly, the effect of Fox News on elected judges becomes weaker in the run-up to the election date, according to this report.

“One interpretation of this result is that politicized information and politicized incentives are substitutes, rather than complements. As electoral pressures become stronger, media effects are reduced.

Another possibility is that Fox News content becomes more election-focused, and less devoted to crime, in the run-up to elections.”

A full copy of this report can be found here.

Judges Influenced by Fox News Give Harsher Sentences: Paper syndicated from https://immigrationattorneyto.wordpress.com/

[indn211bm-blog]

hidden figures

Various themes brought up in regards to race and sex 

The term “computer” was given to the research mathematicians; Johnson is referred to as such throughout the film.

 Dorothy Vaughan leading her team of human “computers” across the campus to run the IBM supercomputer, every high-heeled step they take desegregating the campus

 Hidden Figures demonstrates that fact-based films revolving around STEM (short for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) history can have mass appeal.

Itseems silly that major studios now insist on churning out reboots and remakes that nobody asked for, and that rarely seem to succeed either critically or commercially, when STEM history has so many stories just waiting to be told.

https://filmschoolrejects.com/hidden-figures-and-the-hope-for-more-real-science-stories-e0e7c5ce612#.htu560mii

 Colonel Jim Johnson: They let women handle that sort of...

Colonel Jim Johnson: [sees Katherine looking offended] That's not what I mean.

Katherine Johnson: What do you mean?

Colonel Jim Johnson: I'm just surprised at something so taxing.

Katherine Johnson: Oh Mr. Johnson, if I were you, I'd quit talking right now.

Colonel Jim Johnson: I don't mean no disrespect.

Katherine Johnson: I will have you know, I was the first negro female student at West Virginia university graduate school. On any given day, I analyse the binomial levels air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over ten thousand calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry. By hand. There are twenty, bright, highly capable negro women in the west computing group, and we're proud to be doing our part for the country. So yes, they let women do some things at NASA, Mr. Johnson. And it's not because we wear skirts. It's because we wear glasses. Have a good day.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/quotes

[jorgeluisborgestv]

#ZonaLiteratura Entropía publica la segunda novela de Virginia Cosin. + info en https://elandinoweb.com/entropia-publica-pasaje-al-acto-primera-novela-de-virginia-cosin/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B5nGkkMlm4j/?igshid=ubze53eyr6kc

[azul5000]

Yo sé

Sé que tengo la fuerza necesaria. Ya otras veces quedé dada vuelta y pude sostenerme con los brazos.  También sé los pasos que tengo que seguir: apoyo las manos en el piso a la distancia del ancho de hombros, cerca de la pared, llevo los isquiones al techo y me acercó dando pasos hasta que la cola queda arriba de la cabeza. Ahí, una pierna da una patada con el envión de la otra que se flexiona y presiona el suelo. Después tendría que quedar estirada hacía arriba. Pero nunca llego, me caigo antes. Sé que en el horario pico en la línea C o el tren Roca, si doblo los brazos y llevo los codos hacia atrás, quedan puntiagudos y evitan que cualquier hombre, a propósito o por distraído, me rocé.  Sé que cuando un perro mueve la cola es que está nervioso y que si salta, no hay que dejarlo. El perro tiene que estar tranquilo y para eso yo tengo que estar tranquila, esa es la mejor forma de relacionarnos.  Sé que las cosas que me están pasando con mi novio, las analizo con un filtro especial en colores Marimar que tengo adentro de mi cabeza.  Sé que todo el tiempo vas a tener dudas sobre un montón de cosas y la mayoría de las veces va a ser el cansancio y no la certeza lo que te haga definirte.