Tao Neuendorffer
banner
taonf.bsky.social
Tao Neuendorffer
@taonf.bsky.social
🚋 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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
get it! its good!
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
"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
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
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
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
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
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
Mari Lwyd youtu.be/6ptel9C3Zhg?... via @YouTube
Mari Lwyd
YouTube video by Trac Cymru
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
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
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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.
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
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
illustration, login, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/logi...
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
You ARE the game...
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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!
am I even awake right now?
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
This is the original promo that CBS ran for a Charlie Brown #Thanksgiving, 52 years ago today.
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
Reposted by Tao Neuendorffer
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
“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