Top Model but not a top idea

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Browsing the web, I found the website of a computer science project called topmodl. The name was derived from "modeling a software architecture". Apparently, the creators thought it was fun to use the picture of a woman, presumably a model, to serve as the logo of the project, see below. Worse, they depicted a woman with dark skin, perhaps an African, and named their first deliverable "black hole". No wonder that there are so few women in computer science.

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