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The Wayback Machine was a solution to a problem that shouldn’t have existed.

Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge #podcast.

🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Telescope Types

xkcd.com/3182/
Comic: Telescope Types. Prime focus, Herschelian, Newtonian, Galilean, Keplerian, Gregorian, Cassegrain, Cardboard tube, Kaleido, Liquid Mirror, Narcissism, Gravitational, Geological [arrow points to piece with label “TV playing THE CORE (2003).”
December 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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A los CEO's y los directivos de las empresas no los sustituye la IA. Por lo que sea.

Con lo que nos ahorraríamos en sueldazos.
December 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Website Task Flowchart

xkcd.com/3175/
Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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"Trabajar en remoto es un error.
La magia pasa en la oficina..."

La magia en la oficina:
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Geologic Core Sample

xkcd.com/3171/
Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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EPIRBs

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Comic. [Two people transferring cargo between a dock and a ship on a cart. A box has fallen off of it into the water labeled “EPIRB: Water-Activated Distress Beacons, 1600 ct”] [caption] “Hello, Coast Guard? We’d like to apologize once again for the 1,600 simultaneous false alarms this morning...”
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION builds on his long career as a science fiction author, activist & journalist. His work shows how power shapes our digital lives. Join us!

📆 Friday, Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...

@authorsalliance.bsky.social
Promotional graphic for an online book talk titled “Enshittification” with Cory Doctorow. The design includes a black-and-white photo of Cory Doctorow smiling beside a stack of books.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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🚨 Upcoming #booktalk! 🚨
#CoryDoctorow talks about his new book ENSHITTIFICATION & how the internet broke & how we can fix it. He explores why everything online feels worse & what we can do next.

📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
Cover for the book “Enshittification” by Cory Doctorow, featuring a poop emoji with symbols representing expletives. Text reads “Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Yesterday was Bram Stoker’s 178th birthday! 🎂 Author of THE LADY OF THE SHROUD, THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM, and, of course, the iconic DRACULA. 🧛
Read the 1899 public-domain edition here ⤵️
archive.org/details/drac...
Front cover of an 1899 edition of Dracula, by Bram Stoker.
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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33 years ago this month, the movie Sneakers hit theaters. 🕵️‍♂️💻

The studio even shipped a floppy disk press kit that reporters had to "hack" into for bios & production materials. www.mentalfloss.com/article/5029...

💾 Explore this rare relic on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/Snea...
Play the <em>Sneakers</em> Computer Press Kit from 1992
Reporters had to
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September 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Mare meva, iOS 26 🤮 Estic per comprar un Samsung 🤣 Els que me coneixeu sabeu que vaig alternant, i de vegades directament tenc un iPhone i un Android al mateix temps. No som fanboy de res. Però després de 5 anys amb Samsung ara duia uns 4 anys a la fase Apple. El nou iOS convida molt a canviar.
September 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Chess Variant

xkcd.com/3139/
Comic. [chessboard where one block of 2x2 sliding squares is shifted inward, with a blank next to it indicating the direction of the block’s movement] [caption] Sliding Number Puzzle Chess
September 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…
September 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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My film HACKING AT LEAVES is now free to watch on the wonderful Internet Archive (@archive.org), hi-res download included.
After too many talks with risk-averse distributors, I chose the open route -- free for all, everywhere:
www.monochrom.at/hacking-at-l...
August 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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-¿Qué es lo que más le gusta de la gente?
-Que haya poca.
August 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Grounded

xkcd.com/3124/
Comic. [airplane connected to airport terminal by jet bridge] VOICE FROM PLANE: This is your captain speaking. As you’ve probably noticed, we’re still grounded due to weather. But the first officer and I have been looking at bridge clearance maps and our top taxiing speed, and we have an idea.
August 7, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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“Sick, oppressive, twisted and revolting - bring on some more!!" Guillermo Del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social

"Enough disturbing scenes to quench any hardcore horror fan's appetite." @fangoria.bsky.social

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IN THE WALL | Award Winning Horror Short Film
YouTube video by Blacklight Pictures
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July 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Unsolved Physics Problems

xkcd.com/3115/
Comic. The Three Types of Unsolved Physics Problem (First panel) Vague. PERSON [next to curved diagram] What is the nature of time in quantum gravity? Is it a background parameter, a dynamic aspect of spacetime, or an emergent phenomenon? (Second panel) Precise. PERSON 2 with short hair [device with equation below: 71Ga + νe → 71Ge + e- .] Why does the *S.A.G.E.* Gallium Neutrino Capture Experiment produce only 75% as much germanium as predicted? (Third panel) Cursed. PERSON 3 with white hat [rectangular block with hairs growing out of it labeled Zinc Whiskers] Why does some metal randomly grow hairs? It keeps causing short circuits and we have no idea what’s going on. OFF-PANEL: Is this a joke? PERSON 3: No! Please help!
July 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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What if the moon turned into a black hole?

Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQgw...
What if the moon turned into a black hole?
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July 10, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Exoplanet System

xkcd.com/3103/
Comic. [planets and astronomical bodies in various shapes with comments pointing to them] Typical Exoplanet System: Giant planet orbiting so close that it’s actually rolling on the star’s surface; Hot Jupiter; Mini Neptune; Planet that could be habitable, if there’s a form of life that hates water but loves acid and being on fire; Cold Jupiter; Potentially habitable void; Hot Mars; Planet that may actually be in the habitable zone, according to a very optimistic modeling paper by some desperate postdocs; There’s a pulsar here but it’s probably fine; A waterworld paradise with beautiful oceans and warm— Wait, no, we just got new measurements, it’s a hellish steam oven; Mini Pluto; Earthlike data artifact; Wet Saturn; Either a gas giant or a fist-sized rock, depending which calibration method you use; Faint dust cloud that will cause several papers to be retracted; Somehow this whole system is smaller than the orbit of Mercury?!; Planet whose surface may host conditions suitable for rocks
June 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Alert Sound

xkcd.com/3100/
Comic. SOUND EFFECT: ⚠ BOOP! [person with hands on head sitting at computer desk] PERSON: AAAAA! I heard it *again!* *Where* is that *coming* from!? [caption] It turns out living well is only the *second*-best revenge. The *best* revenge is making a tiny hole in someone’s wall and dropping in a battery-powered capsule that, every 6-12 hours, plays the alert sound of a USB device connecting.
June 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Happy Vincent Price's birthday!
portrait by Carl Van Vechten with Judith Evelyn in Angel Street with Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina as Oscar Wilde in Diversion and Delights (photograph by Martha Swope)
May 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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About 20 Pounds xkcd.com/3085
May 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM