March 20 - 7 of Wands

The seven of wands, Alan Turing (1912-1954). Three circles are inscribed in a larger circle filled with multicolor radiating stripes. The first has Alan Turing's portrait. The second says 1939- described the Turing machine. The third says "Turing's paper contains in essence the invention of the modern computer and some of the programming techniques that accompanied it - Marvin Minsky 1967" On the stripes around the portrait Turing's various roles are listed: mathematician, logician, computer scientist and cryptanalyst. Below is another circle with stripes over it, which says "1949 - Turing Test, 'intelligent' machines. 1950 - Automatic computing engine executed its first program. 1952 - Prosecuted for homosexuality. 1954 - committed suicide." Around the two larger circles are paper tapes covered in zeroes and ones.

Happy Equinox! Here's a card for facing challenges and holding on to your beliefs.

If you don't just unquestioningly sell out in tech, you'll probably end up discarded; countless people who made essential contributions to the form technology takes today are written off as cranks, treated like a wrecker, or pushed out by the white, patriarchal, heteronormative, wealthy tech culture for not falling unobtrusively in line, role-playing an interchangeable cog on the automated treadmill of progress.

Despite this, it's always the most important time to hold onto our beliefs, and challenge everything that would deny our vision of tech worth living alongside, and to not lose sight of our values in a world that tries to devalue acting on ideas and principles. It's the only way.