Mark Zocher
@mark.zocher.us
CTO, starting a nonprofit makerspace — Winona, MN
Hate to break it to you Amazon, but I think we’re all going to be waiting a LONG while on this one…
December 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Hate to break it to you Amazon, but I think we’re all going to be waiting a LONG while on this one…
@benholmen.com loved your wooden pixel display, glad to see some maker related projects in the region (we’re building a big community makerspace in Winona). Would love to chat some day, or get you out to talk at Nerd Nite! winona.nerdnite.com
Nerd Nite Winona
winona.nerdnite.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
@benholmen.com loved your wooden pixel display, glad to see some maker related projects in the region (we’re building a big community makerspace in Winona). Would love to chat some day, or get you out to talk at Nerd Nite! winona.nerdnite.com
Reposted by Mark Zocher
Reposted by Mark Zocher
Top-scoring Star Trek trivia team in the (future) home of Starfleet Headquarters and Academy.
The Human Adventure is just beginning.
The Human Adventure is just beginning.
March 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Top-scoring Star Trek trivia team in the (future) home of Starfleet Headquarters and Academy.
The Human Adventure is just beginning.
The Human Adventure is just beginning.
Reposted by Mark Zocher
"Somewhere, a thirty-four-year-old comedy writer is wearing a compression top and sipping a green tea. It’s anarchy. And it’s hurting the women, which is something that I definitely care about. Women should have at least three rights, I think."
Executive Order: We Must Stop Everyone from Transitioning, So the President Knows Who to Grope
“An executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day back in office offers a new federal government definition of the sexes that coul...
buff.ly
February 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
"Somewhere, a thirty-four-year-old comedy writer is wearing a compression top and sipping a green tea. It’s anarchy. And it’s hurting the women, which is something that I definitely care about. Women should have at least three rights, I think."
A great Friday morning read from @benjedwards.com on the need to bring back the “personal” in personal computing, especially that you should own your data and have the right to repair your devices. www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/ar...
The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again
How surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech from friend to foe. For a while—in the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s—it felt like nerds were [...]
www.vintagecomputing.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A great Friday morning read from @benjedwards.com on the need to bring back the “personal” in personal computing, especially that you should own your data and have the right to repair your devices. www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/ar...
@jamesmnewton.bsky.social you might appreciate this one - a QR code with halftoned bits, so the same code takes you to two different sites depending on the angle you scan it! mstdn.social/@isziaui/113...
Christian Walther (@isziaui@mstdn.social)
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@gvy_dvpont@mastodon.social Got me thinking… can it be done without the lens? This one seems to work!
mstdn.social
January 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
@jamesmnewton.bsky.social you might appreciate this one - a QR code with halftoned bits, so the same code takes you to two different sites depending on the angle you scan it! mstdn.social/@isziaui/113...
Reposted by Mark Zocher
We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
January 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
Ratio of cows to people in Wisconsin. Thank you @terriblemapshq.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Ratio of cows to people in Wisconsin. Thank you @terriblemapshq.bsky.social
Reposted by Mark Zocher
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
I'm loving the Stimulation Clicker game @neal.fun has made. An homage to modern media? Or an interactive critique on the constant need for stimulation? It’s probably the latter… neal.fun/stimulation-...
January 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I'm loving the Stimulation Clicker game @neal.fun has made. An homage to modern media? Or an interactive critique on the constant need for stimulation? It’s probably the latter… neal.fun/stimulation-...
Scientific journals have traditionally been a critical piece in research, and problems in editing and oversight have lead to many false scientific claims in the media (like the recent black plastic error). Seeing TWENTY journals have mass resignations is a bad sign!
arstechnica.com/science/2024...
arstechnica.com/science/2024...
Evolution journal editors resign en masse
Board members expressed concerns over high fees, editorial independence, and use of AI in editorial processes.
arstechnica.com
December 31, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Scientific journals have traditionally been a critical piece in research, and problems in editing and oversight have lead to many false scientific claims in the media (like the recent black plastic error). Seeing TWENTY journals have mass resignations is a bad sign!
arstechnica.com/science/2024...
arstechnica.com/science/2024...
Glad to see Winona State’s awesome astronomy program add more tools for their students! www.startribune.com/a-winona-pro...
Winona State could get a new space observatory thanks to this professor
Adam Beardsley of Winona State University recently received a $500,000 grant to design an observatory to studio radio waves from space.
www.startribune.com
November 16, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Glad to see Winona State’s awesome astronomy program add more tools for their students! www.startribune.com/a-winona-pro...
In honor of the new #taylorTomlinson special, we should share #weirdSleepTips. Drink a warm glass of milk while visualizing a Buzzfeed self help author sleeping on an air mattress because we’ve destroyed American journalism. Sleep well!
February 15, 2024 at 3:56 AM
In honor of the new #taylorTomlinson special, we should share #weirdSleepTips. Drink a warm glass of milk while visualizing a Buzzfeed self help author sleeping on an air mattress because we’ve destroyed American journalism. Sleep well!
I imported 41 friends from Twitter to Bluesky
Import your Twitter follows to Bluesky
skygaze.io
January 14, 2024 at 2:10 PM
I imported 41 friends from Twitter to Bluesky
Hello Bluesky! You’re no #yowza, but still a social network I can get behind. #cardsagaibsthumanity
January 11, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Hello Bluesky! You’re no #yowza, but still a social network I can get behind. #cardsagaibsthumanity