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Shout out to @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy, 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.
kevindriscoll.org/projects/ccs...
kevindriscoll.org/projects/ccs...
Code critique: "Altair Music of a Sort", CCSWG 2012
kevindriscoll.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Shout out to @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy, 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.
kevindriscoll.org/projects/ccs...
kevindriscoll.org/projects/ccs...
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LOU.ANS, 1994-07-17 from Hacker Chronicles 2 (CD-ROM)
October 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
LOU.ANS, 1994-07-17 from Hacker Chronicles 2 (CD-ROM)
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Seen on the Lawn.
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Seen on the Lawn.
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GRANNYS3.ANS, 1992-07-25 from Monster Disc 2: The Best of 1992 (CD-ROM)
October 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
GRANNYS3.ANS, 1992-07-25 from Monster Disc 2: The Best of 1992 (CD-ROM)
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Hey, can you all do me a big favor? My childhood friend Chris recently found out he has terminal cancer. He has two daughters.
One of them, Alivia, wants to go see Alex Warren with her dad in Columbus, Ohio.
If you know someone in his orbit, send it to him. If you don’t, please share this post. ❤️
One of them, Alivia, wants to go see Alex Warren with her dad in Columbus, Ohio.
If you know someone in his orbit, send it to him. If you don’t, please share this post. ❤️
September 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Hey, can you all do me a big favor? My childhood friend Chris recently found out he has terminal cancer. He has two daughters.
One of them, Alivia, wants to go see Alex Warren with her dad in Columbus, Ohio.
If you know someone in his orbit, send it to him. If you don’t, please share this post. ❤️
One of them, Alivia, wants to go see Alex Warren with her dad in Columbus, Ohio.
If you know someone in his orbit, send it to him. If you don’t, please share this post. ❤️
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It is with great sadness I share the passing of Caspian Shea youngest son of Johanna and Dylan. We are asking for your support covering medical and funeral arrangements during this unimaginable time. Please consider donating - but do share far and wide
It is with great sadness I share the passing of Caspian Shea youngest son of Johanna and Dylan. We are asking for your support covering medical and funeral arrangements during this unimaginable time. Please consider donating - but do share far and wide
Donate to Supporting the Shea Family in Loving Memory of Caspian, organized by Debra Kavaler Wysopal
On behalf of the Shea family, we have created this page of su… Debra Kavaler Wysopal needs your support for Supporting the Shea Family in Loving Memory of Caspian
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September 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
gofund.me/ae3e52797
It is with great sadness I share the passing of Caspian Shea youngest son of Johanna and Dylan. We are asking for your support covering medical and funeral arrangements during this unimaginable time. Please consider donating - but do share far and wide
It is with great sadness I share the passing of Caspian Shea youngest son of Johanna and Dylan. We are asking for your support covering medical and funeral arrangements during this unimaginable time. Please consider donating - but do share far and wide
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To explain this photo a bit more: back then, most programming was done on paper (sometimes on special coding sheets), then punched onto cards/tape, then fed into a mainframe to be tested (& if necessary debugged). Counterintuitively, needing LESS computer time was the mark of a better programmer!
Anne Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph with the baby—where Moffatt, then Technical Lead at Shirley’s company, Freelance Programmers, programmed the black box flight recorder for the Concorde
August 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
To explain this photo a bit more: back then, most programming was done on paper (sometimes on special coding sheets), then punched onto cards/tape, then fed into a mainframe to be tested (& if necessary debugged). Counterintuitively, needing LESS computer time was the mark of a better programmer!
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Some personal news: @jesgilbert.bsky.social and I just won the Nancy Baym Book Award, granted annually by The Association of Internet Researchers (@aoir.bsky.social), for our @mitpress.bsky.social book The Secret Life of Data. I am honored, chuffed, and oh so grateful.
aoir.org/2025nb_booka...
aoir.org/2025nb_booka...
2025 Nancy Baym Book Award |
aoir.org
September 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Some personal news: @jesgilbert.bsky.social and I just won the Nancy Baym Book Award, granted annually by The Association of Internet Researchers (@aoir.bsky.social), for our @mitpress.bsky.social book The Secret Life of Data. I am honored, chuffed, and oh so grateful.
aoir.org/2025nb_booka...
aoir.org/2025nb_booka...
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Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!
@histoftech.bsky.social Am obit of interest that you might have seen already. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
Stephanie Shirley, Who Created a Tech World for Women, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!
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Also: @tamigraph.bsky.social et al's Climate, Tech & Justice work at @datasociety.bsky.social
Climate, Technology, <br> and Justice
With a focus on people and communities, our research explores the full spectrum of environmental concerns connected to technology.
datasociety.net
August 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Also: @tamigraph.bsky.social et al's Climate, Tech & Justice work at @datasociety.bsky.social
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So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al
The making of critical data center studies - Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Mél Hogan, 2025
In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. Whil...
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August 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al
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![Star Trek The Original Series scene. Spock is onboard the Enterprise and shown holding a terrifying alien creature. A MONSTER! (The creature is a small dog, probably some kind of terrier, wearing costume of extra fur and a unicorn horn headband)
Closed caption reads, "[music]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i6ocendj65mmddfndihajsky/bafkreiblzxzgi7h65itrlmdpj365arpdb2ah5kfmqmt7vgomxhidtv7rlu@jpeg)
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People used to phreak their phones now their phones phreak them
July 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
People used to phreak their phones now their phones phreak them
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R. Crumb, "Education", The Whole Earth Review, January, 1985, pp 15.
June 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
R. Crumb, "Education", The Whole Earth Review, January, 1985, pp 15.
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Still gathering my thoughts but I think an anti-ICE stance is now a litmus test for influencers the same way support for BLM was. There’s a lot going on rn but I can’t immediately recall another issue in 2025 where people are literally making lists of content creators who’ve spoken out/who hasn’t.
June 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Still gathering my thoughts but I think an anti-ICE stance is now a litmus test for influencers the same way support for BLM was. There’s a lot going on rn but I can’t immediately recall another issue in 2025 where people are literally making lists of content creators who’ve spoken out/who hasn’t.
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AI is a force multiplier for scams, and there is SO much we' urgentlyneed to learn in order to know what to do about it
📣 Just published! This primer by @lanalanalana.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and Kate Larson maps what we know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts at play. 1/4 datasociety.net/library/scam...
May 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
AI is a force multiplier for scams, and there is SO much we' urgentlyneed to learn in order to know what to do about it
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I can only imagine that being an int'l student is incredibly anxiety-provoking right now. Jaj Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social will be leading an @ach.bsky.social session focused on International Scholars in DH. Join us Fri, 3/7, 12-1pm EST https://members.ach.org/civicrm/event/info/?id=29&reset=1
International Scholars in DH: Labor, Care and Careers – ACH Membership
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March 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I can only imagine that being an int'l student is incredibly anxiety-provoking right now. Jaj Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social will be leading an @ach.bsky.social session focused on International Scholars in DH. Join us Fri, 3/7, 12-1pm EST https://members.ach.org/civicrm/event/info/?id=29&reset=1
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In a small language like Danish, one of the big effects of AI, is the erosion of norms of writing. Normally e-mails from students would be 3-4 lines and to the point. Now I get half pages of flowery prose and formalities utterly alien to written Danish.
December 17, 2024 at 7:45 AM
In a small language like Danish, one of the big effects of AI, is the erosion of norms of writing. Normally e-mails from students would be 3-4 lines and to the point. Now I get half pages of flowery prose and formalities utterly alien to written Danish.
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We are gearing up at the Survey Research Center at ISR at the University of Michigan--to review, rethink, and potentially create new ways to approach survey research at the representative population level. If you have written anything on this or have a favorite paper to share-send it my way. Thx
a man wearing a beanie and a black jacket is smiling and saying `` yeah , science '' .
ALT: a man wearing a beanie and a black jacket is smiling and saying `` yeah , science '' .
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December 5, 2024 at 3:16 PM
We are gearing up at the Survey Research Center at ISR at the University of Michigan--to review, rethink, and potentially create new ways to approach survey research at the representative population level. If you have written anything on this or have a favorite paper to share-send it my way. Thx
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he should just abolish prisons, actually
December 2, 2024 at 1:42 AM
he should just abolish prisons, actually
They know not what a banana is, Mr. Alam 🙏 ✨
November 27, 2024 at 2:17 PM
They know not what a banana is, Mr. Alam 🙏 ✨