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Server Charms are tiny, portable microcontroller setups made with recycled vape batteries. They create their own Wi-Fi network, inviting curious people to connect with their devices where a captive portal opens, leading to small webpages.

codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...

"To serve is to offer something, a name, a website, a document, an idea –something to be shared, something that connects us.

But who serves whom? Serving can be a painful experience. It is a relation that carries histories of gendered violence, histories of slavery, serfdom and oppression as we are taught by archives of resistance, black feminists and anti-colonial scholars.

This violence extends to the materialities of the earth which is made to
serve as resource, ready to be extracted for the minerals that make up the very chip that carries these thoughts as binary strings of information.

Serving does not have to manifest as violence if we insist otherwise. Serving can become an act of empowerment when we build infrastructures that serve the needs of local and remote communities evolving around situated knowledge of those around us – while keeping in mind privilege often determines who has access to a community and its resources.

The complexities of the internet with its corporate and state entanglements, its huge data centers, relentless data crawlers and transatlantic fibre cables can feel inevitable. To delink from time to time means to shift our focus back to the local networks and groups that we are already part of. We know that the internet is much more than its corporate occupants, it is about forming connections and sharing resources.

Independent, selfmade networks remind us of the physical connections that are the base of all kinds of signal transmissions. Intimate networks that make us share and mitigate our vulnerabilities through trust and kinship. In the smallest scope, networks such as this ones."

October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM

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Engadget

@engadget.com

Someone programmed a 65-year old computer to play Boards of Canada's 'Olson'

Tracks have to be manually fed into the PDP-1 via paper tape.

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October 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM

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Nathalie Lawhead

@alienmelon.bsky.social

“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.”
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this is beautiful 🥲

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August 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM

flostn

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@jpiringer.bsky.social random thought am sonntag morgen: du hast vor 25(?) jahren auf einem poetry slam ein gedicht über schostakowitsch gelesen („wann schostakowitsch…“). wie ging das? warst das eh du?

July 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM

flostn

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zum heutigen welttag des schlafes sei erneut darauf hingewiesen:

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META BENE @meta-bene.bsky.social · Jan 12

Cartoon aus wenigen schwarzen Tuschestrichen. Ein Pinguin denkt: „wer seinen Traum leben will, muss viel schlafen.“

March 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM

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Michael Kreil

@michaelkreil.bsky.social

Die Faschisten sind auf dem Vormarsch - schon wieder - und wir machen genau die gleichen Fehler - schon wieder.
datajournal.org/schon-wieder/

Schon wieder

Der Aufstieg der NSDAP/AfD

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February 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM

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Hosea Ratschiller

@hosearatschiller.bsky.social

Die neue Regierung sollte Wissenschaftler:innen aus aller Welt einladen, in Österreich eine Zukunftsvision zu entwickeln, als Alternative zum Autoritarismus. The Alpbach-Project. Alle kriegen Zimmer mit Aussicht, eine gute Jause und unbegrenzte Forschungsmittel. And Brüssel is going to pay for it.

February 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM