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Playing Boards of Canada on a DEC PDP-1 from 1959. This is so so cool…they wired the debugging light bulbs on the first hacker-friendly computer to speakers to play a short Boards of Canada tune. [kottke.org]
Playing Boards of Canada on a DEC PDP-1 from 1959
This is so so cool and an arrow-splitting bullseye in the middle of my wheelhouse: a short Boards of Canada tune played on a DEC PDP-1, one of the most significant machines in the history of computing.
Here’s a descri
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October 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Playing Boards of Canada on a DEC PDP-1 from 1959. This is so so cool…they wired the debugging light bulbs on the first hacker-friendly computer to speakers to play a short Boards of Canada tune. [kottke.org]
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Would love some help getting eyeballs on this one, or better yet, subscribers!
At first I felt a little corny writing my newsletter this week, but if the Mamdani campaign showed us anything, it's that there's actually nothing corny about want to build a better future, online or off
www.leahreich.com/the-big-moon...
www.leahreich.com/the-big-moon...
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Would love some help getting eyeballs on this one, or better yet, subscribers!
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I’m a product of big government. Everyone likes to shitpost the government. California taxpayers and the regents of the University of California saved my ass. fortune.com/2025/11/06/s...
Scott Galloway says he’s a product of big government: ‘Taking bets on unremarkable people pays off’ | Fortune
Galloway credits UCLA for his success, despite an initial rejection: “California taxpayers and the regents of the University of California saved my ass.”
fortune.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I’m a product of big government. Everyone likes to shitpost the government. California taxpayers and the regents of the University of California saved my ass. fortune.com/2025/11/06/s...
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EFF ❤️ collective action. That's why we're asking you to help us Take Back CTRL of the internet and technology—tools that were originally built for freedom. supporters.eff.org/donate/tbc
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Don’t let tyrants co-opt tech. Join EFF and help fight back.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
EFF ❤️ collective action. That's why we're asking you to help us Take Back CTRL of the internet and technology—tools that were originally built for freedom. supporters.eff.org/donate/tbc
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Terrible scenes just minutes into the new socialist regime in New York as literally hundreds of billionaires discover mamdani already living rent free in their heads
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Terrible scenes just minutes into the new socialist regime in New York as literally hundreds of billionaires discover mamdani already living rent free in their heads
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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Yes, Lord of the Rings is about how you must trust the “hard men.” Just as Narnia is about an evil lion. And the New Testament tells a tale of a wimp who wouldn’t fight back. Next week on “fascists read classics,” we’ll meet tech visionary George Orwell…
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Yes, Lord of the Rings is about how you must trust the “hard men.” Just as Narnia is about an evil lion. And the New Testament tells a tale of a wimp who wouldn’t fight back. Next week on “fascists read classics,” we’ll meet tech visionary George Orwell…
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The Internet is a proper noun.
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The Internet is a proper noun.
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Very excited to welcome technologist, innovator and community builder Raffi Krikorian to #Mozilla as our Chief Technology Officer, leading our effort to develop trustworthy and open source AI 🚀
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
#technews #tech #ai
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
#technews #tech #ai
Mozilla Welcomes Raffi Krikorian as Chief Technology Officer | The Mozilla Blog
Today Mozilla is excited to announce Raffi Krikorian — technologist, innovator and community builder — as our first-ever portfolio wide Chief Technolog
blog.mozilla.org
September 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Very excited to welcome technologist, innovator and community builder Raffi Krikorian to #Mozilla as our Chief Technology Officer, leading our effort to develop trustworthy and open source AI 🚀
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
#technews #tech #ai
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#technews #tech #ai
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When @wired asked me to look at Silicon Valley in the age of Trump, I saw the crash of the idealism that originally drew founders--and me--to the tech revolution. Selling out the dream will not serve those moguls (or us) well. www.wired.com/story/silico...
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
www.wired.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
When @wired asked me to look at Silicon Valley in the age of Trump, I saw the crash of the idealism that originally drew founders--and me--to the tech revolution. Selling out the dream will not serve those moguls (or us) well. www.wired.com/story/silico...
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uh, so if I have this right, Tesla sent a Cybertruck owner a cease and desist for rapping about the truck, and then deactivated said truck on the side of the road until he signed it??
August 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
uh, so if I have this right, Tesla sent a Cybertruck owner a cease and desist for rapping about the truck, and then deactivated said truck on the side of the road until he signed it??
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What Time Does The Tsunami Start
July 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
What Time Does The Tsunami Start
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The thing I hate is that the internet didn't have to be like this. For a while, it let independent media flourish. It let people who would never get interviews at established papers have a voice. It shifted the overton window away from people who already had money. God fucking dammit.
July 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The thing I hate is that the internet didn't have to be like this. For a while, it let independent media flourish. It let people who would never get interviews at established papers have a voice. It shifted the overton window away from people who already had money. God fucking dammit.
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Well, this horrible idea refuses to die so we should refuse to let it pass and start organizing again.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission presents Roadmap for effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement
The European Commission presented today a Roadmap setting out the way forward to ensure law enforcement authorities in the EU have effective and lawful access to data.
ec.europa.eu
July 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Well, this horrible idea refuses to die so we should refuse to let it pass and start organizing again.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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This is a partner in Sequoia Capital in Silicon Valley. Unacceptable. Will the company condemn this?
July 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is a partner in Sequoia Capital in Silicon Valley. Unacceptable. Will the company condemn this?
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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
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The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.
June 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.
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"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made - through disobedience and through rebellion." - Oscar Wilde #quote
June 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made - through disobedience and through rebellion." - Oscar Wilde #quote
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S.B. 690 isn’t tech policy — it’s a civil rights threat. It puts immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, abortion seekers, and protesters at risk of silent surveillance. This Corporate Cover-Up Act must be stopped. #StopSB690
California’s Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare
California lawmakers are pushing one of the most dangerous privacy rollbacks we’ve seen in years. S.B. 690, what we’re calling the Corporate Cover-Up Act, is a brazen attempt to let corporations spy o...
www.eff.org
June 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
S.B. 690 isn’t tech policy — it’s a civil rights threat. It puts immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, abortion seekers, and protesters at risk of silent surveillance. This Corporate Cover-Up Act must be stopped. #StopSB690
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The maddening thing is that this would have been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS if they had ANY EXPERIENCE AT ALL working with the government! In any way! Or if they had asked a single question!! 😖
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
www.npr.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The maddening thing is that this would have been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS if they had ANY EXPERIENCE AT ALL working with the government! In any way! Or if they had asked a single question!! 😖
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All those Dems who endorsed Cuomo now need to quickly endorse Mamdani. Gillibrand, Clinton, Ritchie Torres, everyone else - you're not going to back away from the general election just because your guy lost the primary right? Let's see that commitment of support ASAP. Thanks!
June 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
All those Dems who endorsed Cuomo now need to quickly endorse Mamdani. Gillibrand, Clinton, Ritchie Torres, everyone else - you're not going to back away from the general election just because your guy lost the primary right? Let's see that commitment of support ASAP. Thanks!
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The guy who pushed the notion that people are being controlled by microchips pushed by Bill Gates, now wants people to wear tracking devices.
RFK Jr: "My vision that is every American is wearing a wearable within four years."
June 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The guy who pushed the notion that people are being controlled by microchips pushed by Bill Gates, now wants people to wear tracking devices.
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imagine if this worked. IMAGINE IF THIS WORKED. imagine if the Epstein Caucus is defeated in an absolute tidal wave of voters who want their electeds to CARE and DO THINGS. imagine primarying all the nation’s Schumers and Pelosis with people who understand they work for us and take that seriously
June 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
imagine if this worked. IMAGINE IF THIS WORKED. imagine if the Epstein Caucus is defeated in an absolute tidal wave of voters who want their electeds to CARE and DO THINGS. imagine primarying all the nation’s Schumers and Pelosis with people who understand they work for us and take that seriously
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Imagine a world where:
💻 Your device is truly yours
📱 You speak freely without fear
🔐 Your privacy is protected
That's the future we're fighting for at EFF. Stand with us for our 35th anniversary!
💻 Your device is truly yours
📱 You speak freely without fear
🔐 Your privacy is protected
That's the future we're fighting for at EFF. Stand with us for our 35th anniversary!
35 Years for Privacy, Free Speech, and a Brighter Future
Through July 10, new monthly or annual Sustaining Donors get an EFF35 Challenge Coin! With your help, EFF is here to stay.
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June 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Imagine a world where:
💻 Your device is truly yours
📱 You speak freely without fear
🔐 Your privacy is protected
That's the future we're fighting for at EFF. Stand with us for our 35th anniversary!
💻 Your device is truly yours
📱 You speak freely without fear
🔐 Your privacy is protected
That's the future we're fighting for at EFF. Stand with us for our 35th anniversary!