Mark Bernstein
@eastgate.bsky.social
Designer of Tinderbox, information gardener. Research interests include literary hypertext, internet villainy, and intellectual history of computing. https://markBernstein.org/ https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/
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Montclair State is Eliminating All Humanities Departments
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
December 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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People of Virginia:
Go ahead with the 10-1 Dem-Rep gerrymander of your commonwealth.
It's the only fair thing to do. It's your duty to history.
(My home state of Calif pioneered non-partisan re-districting commissions, but that was then.)
Go ahead with the 10-1 Dem-Rep gerrymander of your commonwealth.
It's the only fair thing to do. It's your duty to history.
(My home state of Calif pioneered non-partisan re-districting commissions, but that was then.)
BREAKING: The Indiana House votes 57-41 to advance a Trump-approved congressional map that could eliminate both of the state’s Democratic districts. The map now heads to the state Senate, which is expected to take it up when it convenes Monday.
Indiana House Passes Trump Gerrymander, Sending Map to Uncertain Senate Vote
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
People of Virginia:
Go ahead with the 10-1 Dem-Rep gerrymander of your commonwealth.
It's the only fair thing to do. It's your duty to history.
(My home state of Calif pioneered non-partisan re-districting commissions, but that was then.)
Go ahead with the 10-1 Dem-Rep gerrymander of your commonwealth.
It's the only fair thing to do. It's your duty to history.
(My home state of Calif pioneered non-partisan re-districting commissions, but that was then.)
Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!
December 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!
Team Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release
December 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Team Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release
Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release awaits.
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release awaits.
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Trump Administration bizarrely demands the University of Pennsylvania hand over "names, phone numbers and physical addresses" for anyone who "belongs to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program"...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump Administration bizarrely demands the University of Pennsylvania hand over "names, phone numbers and physical addresses" for anyone who "belongs to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program"...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release awaits. Good news for Zotero fans!
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release awaits. Good news for Zotero fans!
Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!
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The AI doesn't like my writing. That's OK, the article is about how I don't like how the AI writes.
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The AI doesn't like my writing. That's OK, the article is about how I don't like how the AI writes.
Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!
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I miss the FDA
Six people became ill and died after eating prepared pasta meals that were contaminated with listeria and sold at major grocery chains across the U.S., federal health officials said.
Six Dead in Listeria Outbreak Linked to Pasta
Prepared pasta sold at grocery chains across the country, including Albertsons and Trader Joe’s, were recalled after 27 people in 18 states became ill, federal health officials said.
nyti.ms
November 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I miss the FDA
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THE OFFICIAL COVER REVEAL! Pre-order your copy so you'll be the first to get it: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804471...
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
THE OFFICIAL COVER REVEAL! Pre-order your copy so you'll be the first to get it: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804471...
Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release
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Book launch, funeral, gala, date night, dinner party, deadline. Life.
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Book launch, funeral, gala, date night, dinner party, deadline. Life.
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Coming in May... Preorders are open! There's a cover & a sell page & everything! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804471...
The Great Houses of Pill Hill by Diane Josefowicz: 9781641298087 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A literary take on the locked-room mystery following a woman who makes miniatures of murder scenes, from a scintillating new voice in crime fiction Hannah “Cookie” Cooke, an interior decorator...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Coming in May... Preorders are open! There's a cover & a sell page & everything! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804471...
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NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
(📸 Getty Images)
October 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
(📸 Getty Images)
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Remember “The web is dead, long live the Internet”? We’ve been down this road before.
October 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Remember “The web is dead, long live the Internet”? We’ve been down this road before.
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TONIGHT in PVD:
Join me to celebrate the publication of Guardians & Saints: Stories, just out from Cornerstone Press.
Where: Riffraff Bookstore & Bar, 60 Valley St., Providence RI
When: 6 pm
Read more about the book and the launch here:
heyrhody.com/stories/a-ni...
Join me to celebrate the publication of Guardians & Saints: Stories, just out from Cornerstone Press.
Where: Riffraff Bookstore & Bar, 60 Valley St., Providence RI
When: 6 pm
Read more about the book and the launch here:
heyrhody.com/stories/a-ni...
A Night of Stories and Spirits at Riffraff Bookstore & Bar - Hey Rhody Media Co.
History and heartache meet in the pages of Guardians & Saints , the new short story collection from Providence author Diane Josefowicz. Out October 21 from Cornerstone Press, the book explores …
heyrhody.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
TONIGHT in PVD:
Join me to celebrate the publication of Guardians & Saints: Stories, just out from Cornerstone Press.
Where: Riffraff Bookstore & Bar, 60 Valley St., Providence RI
When: 6 pm
Read more about the book and the launch here:
heyrhody.com/stories/a-ni...
Join me to celebrate the publication of Guardians & Saints: Stories, just out from Cornerstone Press.
Where: Riffraff Bookstore & Bar, 60 Valley St., Providence RI
When: 6 pm
Read more about the book and the launch here:
heyrhody.com/stories/a-ni...
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
Just got Tinderbox (www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/) talking with Gemini-CLI. The two seem to get along pretty well :)
Tinderbox: The Tool For Notes
www.eastgate.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Just got Tinderbox (www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/) talking with Gemini-CLI. The two seem to get along pretty well :)
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While Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists met weekly to invent Computer Science. Mark Bernstein mines this forgotten history for lessons that just might save today’s web from its worst impulses.
alistapart.com/article/desi...
Designing Amiable Web Spaces: Lessons from Vienna's Café Culture
Explore the impact of amiability in web interactions and learn from the history of Vienna Circle's collaborative spirit in dealing with disagreements.
alistapart.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
While Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists met weekly to invent Computer Science. Mark Bernstein mines this forgotten history for lessons that just might save today’s web from its worst impulses.
alistapart.com/article/desi...
@jilltxt.bsky.social Happy birthday, I believe.
September 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
@jilltxt.bsky.social Happy birthday, I believe.
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Speaker after speaker at this memorial is explicitly likening him to Jesus Christ. (Slain in early 30s, etc.)
Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths.
Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.
Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths.
Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.
September 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Speaker after speaker at this memorial is explicitly likening him to Jesus Christ. (Slain in early 30s, etc.)
Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths.
Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.
Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths.
Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.
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The distilled essence of America in late August 2025.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The distilled essence of America in late August 2025.