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A goodbye to Stewart Cheifet, who hosted Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe, two critical computer news programs through the 80s and 90s. His entire collection was handed to the Internet Archive a couple years back. They are being re-digitized where needed.

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Stewart Cheifet Obituary December 28, 2025 - Goldsteins Funeral
View Stewart Cheifet's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
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December 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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seamus.bsky.social
The person who wrote this simultaneously demonstrates a deep lack of understanding and also an extraordinary deficit of seriousness in a very remarkably small number of words.
bryantfrancis.me Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · Jul 29
This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation. After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.
July 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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rokhanna.bsky.social
Trump struck Iran without any authorization of Congress.

We need to immediately return to DC and vote on Rep. Thomas Masie and my War Powers Resolution to prevent America from being dragged into another endless Middle East war.
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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cathygellis.bsky.social
This is worse than shooting someone in the middle of 5th Avenue.
June 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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samthielman.com
I think the Catholic Church should do this every day in every city
richraho.bsky.social Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · Jun 20
.@CBS8 in San Diego reports that due to Bishop Michael Pham’s presence in the courtroom, in effect, cases of migrants today were postponed.
June 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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xanindigo.bsky.social
“I asked ChatGPT and—”

ok, i’m going to stop you right there and save us both some time
March 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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kislingconnection.bsky.social
What are we doing here, man?
Just the most baffling Star Wars news imaginable. The Bear is playing Jabba's son, I guess, because that's what the people want.
December 10, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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propublica.org
Some involved in the Microsoft offer likened it to a drug dealer luring in customers with free samples. “When it comes time for us to take the crack away, your end users will say, ‘Don’t take it away from me.’ And you’ll be forced to pay me.”
Biden Asked Microsoft to “Raise the Bar on Cybersecurity.” He May Have Helped Create an Illegal Monopoly.
When the White House welcomed Microsoft’s offer of $150 million in tech services, it helped the world’s largest software provider tighten its grip on federal business and freeze out competitors.
propub.li
November 15, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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spencerhumphrey.bsky.social
***NEW***

Okla. State Supt. Ryan Walters sent school leaders across the state this email today, requiring them to play students this video of Walters discussing "woke teachers unions," before asking them to join him as he prays for President-Elect Trump and others.

THREAD⬇️

#OklaEd #News #Oklahoma
November 15, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
July 6, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
Sometimes I will say something out loud and I will be reminded that not everyone is constantly assembling a heist team in their heads and pursuing new skills because they may be useful in a heist.
June 20, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
Reality always outdoes the people who make stuff up. We have an obligation to be convincing. Reality is under no such obligation.
vanders.bsky.social Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · Dec 10
Reality has outdone you on this occasion.
December 11, 2023 at 2:39 AM