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This is absolutely amazing. Come check out "The Usenet" with Cory Doctorow.
How To Use the Internet (1995): a 23-year-old Cory Doctorow shows off Usenet, the Internet Underground Music Archive, Justin's Links from the Underground, and more to the CBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How to use the internet, 1995
Computer consultant Cory Doctorow predicts video on demand while showing a CBC reporter some of the new medium's features. Aired on CBC's The National on June 19, 1995.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This is absolutely amazing. Come check out "The Usenet" with Cory Doctorow.
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a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
shop.mexicansummer.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
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(As the guy who developed the AtasciiTube site for viewing ATASCII animations, it does seems like I should have tried this a long time ago.)
breakintochat.com/collections/...
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #textmode #bbs #textart
breakintochat.com/collections/...
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #textmode #bbs #textart
ATASCII Tube - A collection of dozens of ATASCII animations from BBSes
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November 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
(As the guy who developed the AtasciiTube site for viewing ATASCII animations, it does seems like I should have tried this a long time ago.)
breakintochat.com/collections/...
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #textmode #bbs #textart
breakintochat.com/collections/...
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #textmode #bbs #textart
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From @cnn.com: Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved | CNN Business
The Internet Archive has been saving web history for nearly 30 years. CNN’s Hadas Gold goes inside its headquarters to see how the archive is innovating for the AI age and protecting itself from both ...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
From @cnn.com: Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
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did you know that you can find free Cortex M0 development boards at the side of the road? folks call them disposable vapes but they're hackable, and i've reverse engineered a bunch of them! see github.com/schlae/VapeRE/
November 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
did you know that you can find free Cortex M0 development boards at the side of the road? folks call them disposable vapes but they're hackable, and i've reverse engineered a bunch of them! see github.com/schlae/VapeRE/
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My tribute to Dave Ball of Soft Cell and The Grid airs today on NTS at 12pm PST. Dave’s music was a huge influence on my teenage identity and also the sound of Dark Entries. I was lucky to work with Dave on a reissue of “Blue Pyramid” his Jack The Tab acid house song from 1988. 🙃 nts.live
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
My tribute to Dave Ball of Soft Cell and The Grid airs today on NTS at 12pm PST. Dave’s music was a huge influence on my teenage identity and also the sound of Dark Entries. I was lucky to work with Dave on a reissue of “Blue Pyramid” his Jack The Tab acid house song from 1988. 🙃 nts.live
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Tucked away deep in the Settings app on Android are all sorts of privacy and security features you may have never seen. It’s time to get to know those settings. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
How to: Get to Know Android Privacy and Security Settings
Open up your Android phone’s Settings app and you’ll find dozens of different options with little guidance on what those options do. Some of these settings have a serious impact on your privacy and security, altering what data gets shared automatically with apps, data brokers, and Google itself.
What sorts...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Tucked away deep in the Settings app on Android are all sorts of privacy and security features you may have never seen. It’s time to get to know those settings. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
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Soichi Terada: Ape Escape 3 Originape Soundtracks in a Box (4XLP) up for preorder at Cartridge Thunder ($90) buff.ly/NOVdWKw
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Soichi Terada: Ape Escape 3 Originape Soundtracks in a Box (4XLP) up for preorder at Cartridge Thunder ($90) buff.ly/NOVdWKw
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It's the anniversary of John Berger's bday.
His essay Ways of Seeing, a companion for the TV series, won the Booker Prize.
The show is engaging, intelligent, and a great entry point art history/criticism.
His essay Ways of Seeing, a companion for the TV series, won the Booker Prize.
The show is engaging, intelligent, and a great entry point art history/criticism.
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It's the anniversary of John Berger's bday.
His essay Ways of Seeing, a companion for the TV series, won the Booker Prize.
The show is engaging, intelligent, and a great entry point art history/criticism.
His essay Ways of Seeing, a companion for the TV series, won the Booker Prize.
The show is engaging, intelligent, and a great entry point art history/criticism.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
is this a boutique analog mork from ork doll
Hello there! For my first post on this here social network, here's a new thing I've been working on, a live sampler where you scrub through the sound by pulling a string. It has a filter!
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
is this a boutique analog mork from ork doll
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, & @BrewsterKahle chat with Wired’s @LaurenGoode.bsky.social on the Future Knowledge #podcast about the web’s rise, its impact, & why preserving it is vital for cultural history.
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, & @BrewsterKahle chat with Wired’s @LaurenGoode.bsky.social on the Future Knowledge #podcast about the web’s rise, its impact, & why preserving it is vital for cultural history.
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...
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Self-styled political debate influencers often use the rhetorical technique "Gish gallop," whereby a "galloper" floods their opponent with rapid-fire, disconnected, often inaccurate arguments.
Anthropologist Eugenie Scott first used the term to describe the debate style of creationist Duane Gish.
Anthropologist Eugenie Scott first used the term to describe the debate style of creationist Duane Gish.
October 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Self-styled political debate influencers often use the rhetorical technique "Gish gallop," whereby a "galloper" floods their opponent with rapid-fire, disconnected, often inaccurate arguments.
Anthropologist Eugenie Scott first used the term to describe the debate style of creationist Duane Gish.
Anthropologist Eugenie Scott first used the term to describe the debate style of creationist Duane Gish.
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do you teach public school in nyc? very excited to be on a panel at this day-long event for educators about using the grateful dead as a primary source, next friday, 11/7 at brooklyn bowl. (think it's only open to nyc teachers.) nycdoesocialstudies.eventsmart.com/events/day-o...
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
do you teach public school in nyc? very excited to be on a panel at this day-long event for educators about using the grateful dead as a primary source, next friday, 11/7 at brooklyn bowl. (think it's only open to nyc teachers.) nycdoesocialstudies.eventsmart.com/events/day-o...
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Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Visualized in a Computer Animation
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Visualized in a Computer Animation
Even those of us who only took half a music appreciation course in college know about the impact of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, the orchestral ballet that nearly caused a brawl at its debut.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Visualized in a Computer Animation
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In an exclusive excerpt from his upcoming book "The Man of Many Fathers," comedian @roywoodjr.bsky.social reveals the lessons he learned while working at one of America's leading suppliers of low-vibrational plates.
Lessons From the Golden Corral: An Exclusive Excerpt From the New Book by Roy Wood Jr.
In his upcoming book "The Man of Many Fathers," comedian Roy Wood Jr. explains how a stint at a family style restaurant turned into a buffet of life lessons.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In an exclusive excerpt from his upcoming book "The Man of Many Fathers," comedian @roywoodjr.bsky.social reveals the lessons he learned while working at one of America's leading suppliers of low-vibrational plates.
heres a video on girraffics youtube.com/watch?v=6pGy...
SIGGRAPH 2025 Course: A Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics
YouTube video by ACMSIGGRAPH
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October 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
heres a video on girraffics youtube.com/watch?v=6pGy...
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So if you visualize LLMs as not "artificial consciousness" but "an artificial connection to the collective unconscious":
1. They become philosophically way more interesting
2. It's way more forgivable they suck at math
3. It becomes extremely clear they are infinitely less useful to capitalism
1. They become philosophically way more interesting
2. It's way more forgivable they suck at math
3. It becomes extremely clear they are infinitely less useful to capitalism
A thing I am starting to embody in my extremely weird healing journey, and that a lot of AI people don’t seem to get, is that consciousness is *by far* the least interesting or impressive part of human intelligence
October 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
So if you visualize LLMs as not "artificial consciousness" but "an artificial connection to the collective unconscious":
1. They become philosophically way more interesting
2. It's way more forgivable they suck at math
3. It becomes extremely clear they are infinitely less useful to capitalism
1. They become philosophically way more interesting
2. It's way more forgivable they suck at math
3. It becomes extremely clear they are infinitely less useful to capitalism
spooky sfx ooo youtube.com/watch?v=SRAr...
Francis Dhomont - Frankenstein Symphony (1997)
YouTube video by brittlegut
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October 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
spooky sfx ooo youtube.com/watch?v=SRAr...
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Today's fun etymology nugget from @jesszafarris.bsky.social is that the word "wilderness" comes from the Old English "wild-deoren," or "wild beasts". Later, "deoren" came to be specifically "deer". Middle English added the suffix "ness" (place of), so it literally means "wild deer place".
October 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Today's fun etymology nugget from @jesszafarris.bsky.social is that the word "wilderness" comes from the Old English "wild-deoren," or "wild beasts". Later, "deoren" came to be specifically "deer". Middle English added the suffix "ness" (place of), so it literally means "wild deer place".
October 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
college radio history related whus.org/2025/09/epis...
Episode 57: WHUS @ 100 – WHUS Radio
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October 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
college radio history related whus.org/2025/09/epis...
Protip: If you need to make a QR code, and the site requires you to register/login, then it's trash and don't use it. The wife just got caught by one of these. A QR code just encodes data, and if you're creating one for a link, it should encode the link directly. I recommend justaqrcode.com
Just a QR Code
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October 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Check out this episode of @llassabe.bsky.social 's podcast (and the podcast, in general!) with @joshshepperd.bsky.social - and thanks for the shout out!
(Btw, I learned last weekend that Bill Stepheny argues that the term shout out emerged on WBAU, early 80s.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
(Btw, I learned last weekend that Bill Stepheny argues that the term shout out emerged on WBAU, early 80s.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
How universities created NPR and PBS with Josh Shepperd
Podcast Episode · American Campus Podcast · 10/12/2025 · 29m
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October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Check out this episode of @llassabe.bsky.social 's podcast (and the podcast, in general!) with @joshshepperd.bsky.social - and thanks for the shout out!
(Btw, I learned last weekend that Bill Stepheny argues that the term shout out emerged on WBAU, early 80s.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
(Btw, I learned last weekend that Bill Stepheny argues that the term shout out emerged on WBAU, early 80s.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...