Phil Nelson
@philnelson.bsky.social
The co-host with the co-most. Your +1 and only. I do computer vision, electronics, old gear and vintage media.
Founder RetroStrange.com & SetSideB.com
biz: [email protected]
SF, CA
Founder RetroStrange.com & SetSideB.com
biz: [email protected]
SF, CA
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Some outlets are reporting that DOGE "doesn't exist" anymore. But the fine print on that overturns the whole story: DOGE is just dropping its tarnished brand, not the chainsaw. 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Some outlets are reporting that DOGE "doesn't exist" anymore. But the fine print on that overturns the whole story: DOGE is just dropping its tarnished brand, not the chainsaw. 🧵
It really does feel like computers have gotten worse and worse every year since like 2015 or so.
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It really does feel like computers have gotten worse and worse every year since like 2015 or so.
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Coming next weekend, it's RetroStrange Leftoverfest 5! We're turning our live stream to nothing but non-tv, non-feature-length videos from our vast public domain library. Weird old documentaries, cool old cartoons, school filmstrips and more await you retrostrange.com/2025/leftove...
November 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Coming next weekend, it's RetroStrange Leftoverfest 5! We're turning our live stream to nothing but non-tv, non-feature-length videos from our vast public domain library. Weird old documentaries, cool old cartoons, school filmstrips and more await you retrostrange.com/2025/leftove...
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Sunday Sunday: Kirby Air Riders Meme Videos https://setsideb.com/sunday-sunday-kirby-air-riders-meme-videos/# animation# Gigantes# kirbyairride# sundrysunday
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sunday Sunday: Kirby Air Riders Meme Videos https://setsideb.com/sunday-sunday-kirby-air-riders-meme-videos/# animation# Gigantes# kirbyairride# sundrysunday
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Someone made a web app that lets you browse Jeffrey Epstein’s emails in a version of the Gmail interface jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Someone made a web app that lets you browse Jeffrey Epstein’s emails in a version of the Gmail interface jmail.world
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We are not a serious country, at all.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
We are not a serious country, at all.
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Field Notes Winter Release: The “1943” Edition. Two-Way Memo Books and a special reissue of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon.
fieldnotesbrand.com
fieldnotesbrand.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Field Notes Winter Release: The “1943” Edition. Two-Way Memo Books and a special reissue of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon.
fieldnotesbrand.com
fieldnotesbrand.com
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Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared. So did the air. That's because fossil fuels are massively polluting.
Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared. So did the air. That's because fossil fuels are massively polluting.
Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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Cops all over the country used Flock to surveil No Kings protesters, public records show: www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Cops all over the country used Flock to surveil No Kings protesters, public records show: www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Huh. 20 people watching @retrostrange.com TV right now, way more than usual. Wonder where they came from?
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Huh. 20 people watching @retrostrange.com TV right now, way more than usual. Wonder where they came from?
So desperate to be a victim www.newschannel5.com/us-news/crim...
Woman found zip-tied in woods staged her own political attack, DOJ says
A New Jersey woman who was found bound with zip ties in the woods and marked with a derogatory phrase referencing President Donald Trump is now accused of staging the attack.
www.newschannel5.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
So desperate to be a victim www.newschannel5.com/us-news/crim...
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On today's OpenCV live stream we're exploring ML and deep learning in CT, PET, and MRI, covering reconstruction, detection, and segmentation, while highlighting model interpretability, strategies for handling label noise, and methods for reducing bias in medical imaging workflows.
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
On today's OpenCV live stream we're exploring ML and deep learning in CT, PET, and MRI, covering reconstruction, detection, and segmentation, while highlighting model interpretability, strategies for handling label noise, and methods for reducing bias in medical imaging workflows.
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Tonight in 1983, more than 100 million Americans saw multiple thermonuclear weapons destroy Kansas City, Missouri, in “The Day After” on ABC. A.C. Nielsen Company reported that 62 percent of television sets that night were tuned to the film. I watched in my packed college dorm lounge. How about you?
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Tonight in 1983, more than 100 million Americans saw multiple thermonuclear weapons destroy Kansas City, Missouri, in “The Day After” on ABC. A.C. Nielsen Company reported that 62 percent of television sets that night were tuned to the film. I watched in my packed college dorm lounge. How about you?
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I wrote an obituary of celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman for Ars Technica:
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman dies at age 62
The gaming community mourns a beloved mentor and LGBTQ+ advocate with a storied career.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I wrote an obituary of celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman for Ars Technica:
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
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Good project to support if you’re cool.
only 25 hours and 2 minutes left to pledge please!
seedandspark.com/fund/girlie
seedandspark.com/fund/girlie
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Good project to support if you’re cool.
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Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.
Kristi Noem is mad that protesters are blowing whistles at ICE agents.
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.
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NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
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After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
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“heyyy you guys said you’d vote no with me, you promised me bro”
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“heyyy you guys said you’d vote no with me, you promised me bro”
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i will kind of accept this from some random person who barely pays attention. ben shapiro though? he's just lying
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
i will kind of accept this from some random person who barely pays attention. ben shapiro though? he's just lying
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📓 Logos From Planet Blip:
A Blippian Design Sourcebook
Our first Blippo+ book is a high-quality 40-page zine featuring logos, teletext screens, Blippian signatures, and discarded designs from Planet Blip.
Available from @theyetee.com
theyetee.com/products/log...
A Blippian Design Sourcebook
Our first Blippo+ book is a high-quality 40-page zine featuring logos, teletext screens, Blippian signatures, and discarded designs from Planet Blip.
Available from @theyetee.com
theyetee.com/products/log...
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
📓 Logos From Planet Blip:
A Blippian Design Sourcebook
Our first Blippo+ book is a high-quality 40-page zine featuring logos, teletext screens, Blippian signatures, and discarded designs from Planet Blip.
Available from @theyetee.com
theyetee.com/products/log...
A Blippian Design Sourcebook
Our first Blippo+ book is a high-quality 40-page zine featuring logos, teletext screens, Blippian signatures, and discarded designs from Planet Blip.
Available from @theyetee.com
theyetee.com/products/log...
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New from me: The same tactics marketers use to get you to find their toothbrushes or photography business on Google were also used by Jeffrey Epstein & co. to try to launder his reputation online. SEO to try to cover up the most infamous pedophile ring.
www.theverge.com/report/82231...
www.theverge.com/report/82231...
How Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes
“the google page is not good,” Epstein wrote
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
New from me: The same tactics marketers use to get you to find their toothbrushes or photography business on Google were also used by Jeffrey Epstein & co. to try to launder his reputation online. SEO to try to cover up the most infamous pedophile ring.
www.theverge.com/report/82231...
www.theverge.com/report/82231...
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Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this: