Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮
@kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy
Learning about moral economies, researching media histories, imagining post-platform futures. Also, helping with moderation on aoir.social and professoring in Media […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
"GiscardPunk" is a real journey. I didn't know technosolutionism knocked like this
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KKhnDzRgsW8&si=EAZt-ev_CgO_exKE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KKhnDzRgsW8&si=EAZt-ev_CgO_exKE
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
"GiscardPunk" is a real journey. I didn't know technosolutionism knocked like this
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KKhnDzRgsW8&si=EAZt-ev_CgO_exKE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KKhnDzRgsW8&si=EAZt-ev_CgO_exKE
How close to retirement do I have to get before I can propose a special topics course on the 2004 Red Sox?
(Edit: yes, Big Papi's reggaeton mixtape will be on the syllabus!)
(Edit: yes, Big Papi's reggaeton mixtape will be on the syllabus!)
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
How close to retirement do I have to get before I can propose a special topics course on the 2004 Red Sox?
(Edit: yes, Big Papi's reggaeton mixtape will be on the syllabus!)
(Edit: yes, Big Papi's reggaeton mixtape will be on the syllabus!)
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@kdriscoll Whoa. For anyone else who needed a reference on “Mindchildren”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Moravec#Mind_Children
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
@kdriscoll Whoa. For anyone else who needed a reference on “Mindchildren”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Moravec#Mind_Children
"The intelligence of organisms, graphed as the intersection of their calculating speed versus capacity of information"
🐝📡🐘🖥️🏛️🐀
📄 from Phil McNally & Sohail Inayatullah, "THE RIGHTS OF ROBOTS", *The Whole Earth Review* (July,1988), pg 59
#robotics #ai #evolution #data #history
🐝📡🐘🖥️🏛️🐀
📄 from Phil McNally & Sohail Inayatullah, "THE RIGHTS OF ROBOTS", *The Whole Earth Review* (July,1988), pg 59
#robotics #ai #evolution #data #history
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"The intelligence of organisms, graphed as the intersection of their calculating speed versus capacity of information"
🐝📡🐘🖥️🏛️🐀
📄 from Phil McNally & Sohail Inayatullah, "THE RIGHTS OF ROBOTS", *The Whole Earth Review* (July,1988), pg 59
#robotics #ai #evolution #data #history
🐝📡🐘🖥️🏛️🐀
📄 from Phil McNally & Sohail Inayatullah, "THE RIGHTS OF ROBOTS", *The Whole Earth Review* (July,1988), pg 59
#robotics #ai #evolution #data #history
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and be sure to pick up (what i think was) the final issue of the original parking lot fanzine MIKEL, put out by his friends after michael linnah himself died of cancer earlier in the year. https://gdsets.com/images/galleries/periodicals/mikel-11-85.pdf [2/4]
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
and be sure to pick up (what i think was) the final issue of the original parking lot fanzine MIKEL, put out by his friends after michael linnah himself died of cancer earlier in the year. https://gdsets.com/images/galleries/periodicals/mikel-11-85.pdf [2/4]
Our Beach by J. A. Brown
> Dark and cold salt-breeze
> Sandy-star infinity
> The eyes my mind sees...
A poem written in pencil in the inside of the UVA Library's copy of Harold G. Henderson's 1958 collection "An Introduction to Haiku" 🥹
> Dark and cold salt-breeze
> Sandy-star infinity
> The eyes my mind sees...
A poem written in pencil in the inside of the UVA Library's copy of Harold G. Henderson's 1958 collection "An Introduction to Haiku" 🥹
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Our Beach by J. A. Brown
> Dark and cold salt-breeze
> Sandy-star infinity
> The eyes my mind sees...
A poem written in pencil in the inside of the UVA Library's copy of Harold G. Henderson's 1958 collection "An Introduction to Haiku" 🥹
> Dark and cold salt-breeze
> Sandy-star infinity
> The eyes my mind sees...
A poem written in pencil in the inside of the UVA Library's copy of Harold G. Henderson's 1958 collection "An Introduction to Haiku" 🥹
Listening to Odd Lots on dairy industry trends and now my tabs are all bovine biotech and back issues of HOARD'S DAIRYMAN magazine 🐄
See also: https://www.cobank.com/people/expert/corey-geiger
See also: https://www.cobank.com/people/expert/corey-geiger
Corey Geiger Lead Economist, Dairy - CoBank Site - CoBank
Corey Geiger is lead economist for dairy production and processing in CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange research division.
www.cobank.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Listening to Odd Lots on dairy industry trends and now my tabs are all bovine biotech and back issues of HOARD'S DAIRYMAN magazine 🐄
See also: https://www.cobank.com/people/expert/corey-geiger
See also: https://www.cobank.com/people/expert/corey-geiger
"ONE of the unpleasant discoveries many consumers make after buying a personal computer is that a good printer, required for hard copy, can cost almost as much as the computer itself.
"Why, I have often asked myself, doesn't someone turn out a printer- typewriter […]
[Original post on aoir.social]
"Why, I have often asked myself, doesn't someone turn out a printer- typewriter […]
[Original post on aoir.social]
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"ONE of the unpleasant discoveries many consumers make after buying a personal computer is that a good printer, required for hard copy, can cost almost as much as the computer itself.
"Why, I have often asked myself, doesn't someone turn out a printer- typewriter […]
[Original post on aoir.social]
"Why, I have often asked myself, doesn't someone turn out a printer- typewriter […]
[Original post on aoir.social]
> "And the Lizard named several of the locusts, and regarding one the Lizard said, The <blink> tag worketh not. Whereupon the users hearing this were sore amazed, and said they one unto another, Verily, that is no bug, but a feature to be highly praised while it lasteth."
-- An excerpt from the […]
-- An excerpt from the […]
Original post on aoir.social
aoir.social
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
> "And the Lizard named several of the locusts, and regarding one the Lizard said, The <blink> tag worketh not. Whereupon the users hearing this were sore amazed, and said they one unto another, Verily, that is no bug, but a feature to be highly praised while it lasteth."
-- An excerpt from the […]
-- An excerpt from the […]
The frisson of clicking a good link
November 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The frisson of clicking a good link
Last week, a self-driving car killed a beloved neighborhood cat in the Mission. Alex Hanna on mourning and anger and tech on the streets in SF:
https://bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-long-live-kitkat/
https://bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-long-live-kitkat/
Fuck Waymo, Long Live KitKat
A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough.
bayareacurrent.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Last week, a self-driving car killed a beloved neighborhood cat in the Mission. Alex Hanna on mourning and anger and tech on the streets in SF:
https://bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-long-live-kitkat/
https://bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-long-live-kitkat/
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While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
#retrocomputing
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
#retrocomputing
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
#retrocomputing
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
#retrocomputing
Obsessed with this cover of HTRK by Kali Malone and Stephen O'Malley. The original 50 seconds pushed to almost 6 minutes. Pushing, churning, rising, burning #thisismyjam
https://htrk.bandcamp.com/track/siren-song-kali-malone-and-stephen-omalley
https://htrk.bandcamp.com/track/siren-song-kali-malone-and-stephen-omalley
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Obsessed with this cover of HTRK by Kali Malone and Stephen O'Malley. The original 50 seconds pushed to almost 6 minutes. Pushing, churning, rising, burning #thisismyjam
https://htrk.bandcamp.com/track/siren-song-kali-malone-and-stephen-omalley
https://htrk.bandcamp.com/track/siren-song-kali-malone-and-stephen-omalley
Faye Wong's Cantonese version of "Dreams" by The Cranberries on repeat. A very welcome side effect of my random walk through the Hong Kong New Wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B83jdOH0Q1c
#thisismyjam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B83jdOH0Q1c
#thisismyjam
November 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Faye Wong's Cantonese version of "Dreams" by The Cranberries on repeat. A very welcome side effect of my random walk through the Hong Kong New Wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B83jdOH0Q1c
#thisismyjam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B83jdOH0Q1c
#thisismyjam
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Enterprise software UX is so bizarre. Just trying to sort a bunch of documents but it's giving Milon's Secret Castle
October 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Enterprise software UX is so bizarre. Just trying to sort a bunch of documents but it's giving Milon's Secret Castle
"standing in a brightly lit marijuana dispensary, wearing a thin necklace and a Billabong T-shirt"
October 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"standing in a brightly lit marijuana dispensary, wearing a thin necklace and a Billabong T-shirt"
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Shout out to @kdriscoll, who had a useful website up about a really interesting angle of the RF interference tale: The guy who managed to play a song on the radio using his Altair 8800.
https://kevindriscoll.org/projects/ccswg2012/fool_on_a_hill.html
https://kevindriscoll.org/projects/ccswg2012/fool_on_a_hill.html
October 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Shout out to @kdriscoll, who had a useful website up about a really interesting angle of the RF interference tale: The guy who managed to play a song on the radio using his Altair 8800.
https://kevindriscoll.org/projects/ccswg2012/fool_on_a_hill.html
https://kevindriscoll.org/projects/ccswg2012/fool_on_a_hill.html
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Ever wonder why old computers have thick plates of metal inside of them? You can credit/blame the FCC—and indirectly, the CB radio fad—for that.
https://tedium.co/2025/10/20/computers-fcc-rf-interference-history/
new @tedium
https://tedium.co/2025/10/20/computers-fcc-rf-interference-history/
new @tedium
RF Shielding History: When The FCC Cracked Down On Computers
The FCC took a hard line on the radio frequency interference that computers created—creating huge headaches for early PC-makers. Why? Blame the CB radio fad.
tedium.co
October 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Ever wonder why old computers have thick plates of metal inside of them? You can credit/blame the FCC—and indirectly, the CB radio fad—for that.
https://tedium.co/2025/10/20/computers-fcc-rf-interference-history/
new @tedium
https://tedium.co/2025/10/20/computers-fcc-rf-interference-history/
new @tedium
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Social media use begins global decline. For the first time, time spent on social media is falling worldwide. An analysis of 250,000 adults across 50 countries shows average daily use dropped nearly 10% since 2022, reversing a decade of growth. The steepest declines are among teens and […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
October 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Social media use begins global decline. For the first time, time spent on social media is falling worldwide. An analysis of 250,000 adults across 50 countries shows average daily use dropped nearly 10% since 2022, reversing a decade of growth. The steepest declines are among teens and […]
Middlemen are everywhere. I just got an automated speeding ticket and the fee for electronic payment is $5, collected by a privately owned financial services firm based in a different city, different state. Rents on rents on rents.
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Middlemen are everywhere. I just got an automated speeding ticket and the fee for electronic payment is $5, collected by a privately owned financial services firm based in a different city, different state. Rents on rents on rents.
"zombie nation" faintly audible from a not-so-distant stadium, gently shaking the walls of my living room
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"zombie nation" faintly audible from a not-so-distant stadium, gently shaking the walls of my living room
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Tomorrow I will present a paper co-authored with @rra, "What is 'alternative' about 'alternative social media'?"
If that title alone doesn't entice you, come for the shout-out to a really cool alternative social media system that began right here in #brazil!
Then stick around for a 'Birds of a […]
If that title alone doesn't entice you, come for the shout-out to a really cool alternative social media system that began right here in #brazil!
Then stick around for a 'Birds of a […]
Original post on aoir.social
aoir.social
October 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Tomorrow I will present a paper co-authored with @rra, "What is 'alternative' about 'alternative social media'?"
If that title alone doesn't entice you, come for the shout-out to a really cool alternative social media system that began right here in #brazil!
Then stick around for a 'Birds of a […]
If that title alone doesn't entice you, come for the shout-out to a really cool alternative social media system that began right here in #brazil!
Then stick around for a 'Birds of a […]
Reposted by Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮
I can't stop thinking about @bedoyausa.bsky.social's essay this week. It is a story-forward account of why the American people are struggling. (Hint: political economy.) It's the kind of account that makes an ethnographer swoon. I can't recommend this enough: newrepublic.com/article/2011...
How I Became a Populist
My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.
newrepublic.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I can't stop thinking about @bedoyausa.bsky.social's essay this week. It is a story-forward account of why the American people are struggling. (Hint: political economy.) It's the kind of account that makes an ethnographer swoon. I can't recommend this enough: newrepublic.com/article/2011...