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Tao Neuendorffer
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🚋 on the T 😷 in Pittsburgh 🎤Songs and stories of computer science💾 We are none of us alone🎵 People of all colors and genders keep making tech history🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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notpickard.com
get it! its good!
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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kathygpr.bsky.social
My @resist.bot email to my House Representative.

Have you called Congress today? 202/224-3121.

@fieldteam6.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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sharpiepls.com
finished listening to the episode.
my biggest three takeaways from this talk:

1. just purchased Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology and will be reading it ASAP 🙏

2. @hypervisible.blacksky.app DROP THE PRE-ORDER LINK FOR YOUR BOOK RN 👿👿👿 THIS IS NOT A DRILL
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h
Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”
Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)
Podcast Episode · The 404 Media Podcast · 11/24/2025 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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ladyhistorian.bsky.social
I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out
sonjadrimmer.bsky.social Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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papawoof.bsky.social
Mari Lwyd youtu.be/6ptel9C3Zhg?... via @YouTube
Mari Lwyd
YouTube video by Trac Cymru
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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vintage.computer
The Altair 8800 started the homebrew computer revolution. Built around the Intel 8080 and programmed with front-panel switches, it inspired a generation of hobbyists and led Gates and Allen to write their first BASIC interpreter. #Altair8800 #VintageComputing #VintageComputer
Image titled “Tech Spec Tuesday — Altair 8800.” Background: blueprint-style computer schematics. Header: “TECH SPEC TUESDAY” in white text on a blue banner. Main section: Left side shows a photo of an Altair 8800 computer with its distinctive blue case and visible internal boards. Right side text block labeled “About this machine:” reads: “Released in 1975 by MITS, the Altair 8800 is often credited as the spark that ignited the personal computer revolution. It used toggle switches for input and LEDs for output, and inspired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to write a BASIC interpreter—founding Microsoft.” Below is a specs table: CPU: Intel 8080 @ 2 MHz Memory: 256 bytes – 64 KB Storage: Paper tape, cassette, optional floppy Graphics: None (front panel lights/switches) Networking: None built-in Notes: Sparked the homebrew computer revolution Bottom right: “vintage.computer” inside a blue rounded rectangle.
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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sharpiepls.com
showed this to a woman at work and she said "i knew you were smart, but i didn't know you modeled!"

i replied: "thank you for acknowledging my inner beauty and intelligence while also reinforcing patriarchal stereotypes which only exist to suppress the success of women."

unrelated, HR talked to me
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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buzzgrambo.bsky.social
We need more people in the streets, telling them to fuck off.

youtube.com/shorts/11ntk...
‘Paul Revere’ of Baltimore says he was shoved by apparent ICE agent
YouTube video by The Baltimore Banner
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
taonf.bsky.social
Skewering the Zeitgeist Piñata
by @rusirius.bsky.social

Mondo 2000 is a Joke on the Zeitgeist.
—R.U. Sirius. Misquoted in German Playboy 1990

I Accept Chaos. I’m Not Sure If Chaos Accepts Me.
—Bob Dylan. 1966

Illustration by Nina Ellsworth
#Mondo2000 #Cyberpunk
Zeitgeist? What Zeitgeist? First, your psyche was colonized by broadcast media. Slyly attempting to reclaim this occupied territory, you made yourself plastic phantasmagoric, toying with mediated psyche and psychotidelicizing media. You made fun. Looking beyond the stylistic range wars—from Beatles to Sex Pistols, from pop art to cyberpunk—the one thing we had in common was that we had something in common. A trend wasn't merely a trend. A trend was a zeitgeist. Every change in fashion signaled a new way to wrap your mind around the world while having intercourse with other vital and attractive media whores, subversives and perverts. It was good to have a zeitgeist. There were bright and shining stars. There was romance. Poignancy. Destiny. It was exhilarating. But then came the march of the Internet. And with it came Nicky Negroponte and the MIT Narrowcasters. Intelligent Agents. You found yourselves desktopped and given an infinite regress of your own trivial selectivity. Your psyche was now Balkanized. Deciding that only the trite is true, you tried to make a zeitgeist of banality. You packed your zeitgeist full of silly things—The Brady Bunch, !killbarney newsgroups, Hello Kitty fanclubs. It was an anti-zeitgeist really. A curtain call for rallying cries. A kiss goodbye to World Historic Generational Top 10 Revolutions. Branded with an X, it was nothing much. Of course there was always the utopian strain. Letting your identity drift into the global matrix, raving till dawn, singing "We Are the Whirled." But it all rang hollow—Fruitopian rather than utopian—a flavor of the month lacking the backbone to give good zeitgeist to the headless mass. With "Love Is All You Need" signifying megacorporate mergers in a new world order and "Anarchy in the USA" bespeaking only the liberation of the poor from Government handouts, the new new age never could capture the zeitgeist or even twitch its palsied dendrites. So. With attention decentered by the net, every passion commodified by the Time/Warner/Disney/Turner distribution chain, and destiny turned to ennui or a bad situation comedy, is there no great cultural zeitgeist for Mondoids, no new opportunities to be too far out in front of identifying what has already happened while nobody was looking? Give me forged histories. Ludicrous assertions. Naive hopes. Spaced-out icons. Whimsical elixirs. Doppelganger technopoliticians. Time and vision all dressed up and no space to go. The usual bag of tricks? Well, maybe. Or maybe there's a peculiar coherence for you to piece together, if only for your own amusement. The days of messaging might be at an end. The days of the shrouded allusion may be upon us. Slice open our aching and swelling head—already painfully over the edge of the world wide web of deceit—and the clues spill out. Zeitgeist piñata? The Truth is in there.
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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hackadayofficial.bsky.social
Unusual Circuits in the Intel 386’s Standard Cell Logic
Unusual Circuits in the Intel 386’s Standard Cell Logic
Hackaday Article
hackaday.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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rwmead.bsky.social
I was just reading an interview with Sonia Manzano where she discussed how she knew it was time to retire because she was the only remaining cast member who worked alongside Jim Henson.

Paradoxically, Sesame Street is immortal yet not immune to the ravages of time.
kenplume.bsky.social Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 3d
A lot of emotions tied up in seeing the familiar faces (& knowing some of the Muppet performers) on the SESAME STREET float from the 1982 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (plus a quick, & awkward, SPIDER-MAN & HIS AMAZING FRIENDS cameo at the top)...
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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adalovelaceday.bsky.social
Maria Vasilievna Pavlova, Мария Павлова, was a palaeontologist who discovered several hoofed mammals & proved Hipparion was not the direct ancestor of modern horses, changing our understanding Eurasian horse ancestry. adalovelaceday.subst...
Prof Maria Pavlova, Palaeontologist
Maria Vasilievna Pavlova discovered several hoofed mammals from the Tertiary period and changed our understanding of the ancestry of horses in Eurasia.
adalovelaceday.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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vghistory.bsky.social
illustration, login, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/logi...
two floppy disks with arms and legs and holes in the middle of their faces (disk fronts) play ping pong with the disk on the right hitting the ball through the middle hole of the disk on the left and the disk on the left exclaiming 'muha!!'
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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kenplume.bsky.social
The HE-MAN float makes its debut in the 1985 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade underscored with Mussorgsky's "Night On Bald Mountain"...
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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konstantinosd.bsky.social
Here's a nice video to introduce the younger generation to the wonders of Zork (and Colossal Cave Adventure) ⬇️
youtu.be/9B3pjzYM2cs?...
The Beginning of the RPG: Zork, 1981
YouTube video by Mapster
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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404media.co
A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
Inside an ICE Defense Training on Fortnite
A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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kenplume.bsky.social
You ARE the game...
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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theotherhappyplace.bsky.social
So apparently gay rams are often killed because they don't tend to make more rams.

So this gay farmer buys the gay rams to keep them alive and sells the wool!
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h
am I even awake right now?
telegraph article: Wool of gay sheep passes woke test for New York fashion debut Designer Michael Schmidt’s I Wool Survive line uses fleece from rams ‘that prefer same-sex partners’
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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boghuma.bsky.social
Overall flu circulation is still low in the US but is steadily rising. Was on inpatient ID consult service last week.
Anecdotally I saw more COVID positives than flu positives. Lots of rhinovirus & parainflueza. Interestingly no rsv.
Get vaccinated now is the time.
www.nbcnews.com/health/cold-...
Flu season is just beginning, but doctors are already on high alert
While flu levels are still low, a strain that has wreaked havoc in the U.K. and Canada is behind most cases so far in the U.S., mostly affecting kids.
www.nbcnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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contemprainn.bsky.social
This is the original promo that CBS ran for a Charlie Brown #Thanksgiving, 52 years ago today.
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
taonf.bsky.social
The emotional nature of singing makes it much more difficult to lie. It's more difficult to lie with one's heart than with one's mind. And it's almost impossible to lie with one's body.

We are creating a place, Norldsong, where people can sing in cyberspace
#Mondo2000 #Cyberpunk
The emotional nature of singing makes it much more difficult to lie. It's more difficult to lie with one's heart than with one's mind. And it's almost impossible to lie with one's body. Perhaps what we'll do is find ways of communicating that are quintessentially emotional. M2: How would we use it? MP: We are creating a place, Norldsong, where people can sing in cyberspace. After we get this up and running, people will be able to enter it and spacio-locate within the body of cyberspace. As you zoom in on the Earth, you'll be able to gather musical samples of that section of the planet. And as you get closer, it becomes finer and finer, until you can carry a single human being. People will be able to track each other, and be able to listen and participate at the same time. M2: You're creating tools that allow users to use the Internet to look out into the world. MP: Right. Or to create harmony between what's in & what's out, and it appears they're somewhat reflective. One of my friends maintains that people are living lives of greater and greater solitude. More people are working at home, more people are spending time at their computers. Perhaps the Internet will serve as a reality condom. M2: If we could move our jobs, commutes, all the destructive aspects to our planet, etc, online, does it replace the real world as reality? MP: And the real world becomes the dreamtime? If we spend our time in the real world as sacred time, that would be a total upending of how we see the world now, right? And yet, we have to do that in a lot of ways if we want to preserve the planet. M2: Is there a comparison between organic life and the Web? MP: I have this persistent feeling that there is some large organism at work on the Web. Now Netscape 2.0 puts Java on every desktop in the world which is like the phonetic alphabet of computer languages because it makes everything completely transferable & reproducible everywhere. MP: So if the Web turned the Internet into a giant disk drive, Java turns it into a giant processor. So now we've got not only the collapse of space, but we've also got the collapse of time. It's as if the Internet just acquired DNA. So now it can express itself, sending pieces here and there and so on and so forth. Now that the Web has DNA, well, what's gonna grow? M2: The real evolution of cyberspace will be data that hasn't any connection to the real world. 2nd-order data indigenous to cyberspace, like Tierra at the Electronic Media Festival, a creature that lives & travels within the Web. MP: Tierra lives on the Internet. And it's not just one creature; there is an entire community of them. They breed, they replicate, they engage in ecology—that is, they try to bend the environment to their own nature. They had it all plotted out using VRML. It looked like a model of the galaxy with these moving clouds. They're free-roaming among the hosts that they're allowed to be on. Tierra requires a virtual machine, a machine within the machine, that makes it possible. There's an ecology provided and within that ecology they are free to migrate wherever they see fit. M2: Are you optimistic about the future? MP: I really don't think I'm pessimistic or optimistic. I think I'm just practical. If I don't do what I can, then I've already resigned myself. There's this wonderful quote that "the Chinese Taoist laughs at civilization and goes elsewhere, while the Babylonian sets termites to it's foundations." And that is the governing ethic of my life, setting termites to the foundations. [laughter] "And these are the twin rods of my authority,' says Pesce in the pose of Osiris. Osiris in classical Egyptian mythology holds the rods of authority, which are the staffs of upper and lower Egypt. Pesce holds a span of tenbase ethernet cable in one hand, and a silver. starred lamé fairy wand, from his Halloween costume—the Good Fairy—in the other.
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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707kat.bsky.social
A really interesting video on Botnetworks and how to spot them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWK4...
Is the internet really dead?
YouTube video by Christophe
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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willmckinley.bsky.social
PBS is celebrating Dick Van Dyke's centenary w/ a new documentary.

STARRING DICK VAN DYKE debuts Fri Dec 12 on AMERICAN MASTERS.

www.pbs.org/wnet/america... #PBS #DickVanDyke
Starring Dick Van Dyke - About the documentary | American Masters | PBS
Ahead of his 100th birthday, celebrate the life and career of iconic actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke.
www.pbs.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
taonf.bsky.social
“As humans, we don’t want to admit that we’ve been taken advantage of, or we’ve been manipulated,” said Etienne Brisson. “It’s hard to make someone realize that, ‘oh, wow, okay, I was falling into that.’ It’s kind of similar to an abusive relationship.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM