Count Basie and orchestra with Frank Sinatra, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones. Questions?

Vielleicht sollte man es einfach in Ruhe lassen?

Ella Fitzgerald (with Marilyn Monroe at a jazz session at the Tiffany Club in Hollywood) - BOTD

Eartha Kitt performing in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1955

Thankx to THE BOSS for having Public Enemy perform at Springsteen Center American Music Honors ,, we should all always continue to FIGHT THE POWER

Please enjoy these photos of cute #GuineaPig dames having an early dinner today.

I am pretty sure a certain tech company/CEO fully expected the negative reaction to their manifesto. It’s part of their mode of operation.

Die Stadtwerke Bochum pflegen ein sonderbares Verhältnis zu #Grammatik und #Orthografie: "Wärmepumpem entdecken", "Wärme Pakete". Bin ich zu kleinlich?

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

Someone has documented the entire source code for Elite and explained how every line works, plus included deep dives into various functionality. Covers all main versions like BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and NES. You can also play online in browser. elite.bbcelite.com

I’ve officially reached the age where a typical daily rotation is ✨ Ella Fitzgerald, Toto, Frank Sinatra, and Steely Dan. 🎵

Zu lange schon kein #BattleTech mehr gespielt. 🤨 🤖

Die Antwort ist nein.

Okay, der Rest Mac and Cheese von letzter Woche hat im Kühlschrank die Konsistenz von Bauschaum angenommen. Mal schauen, ob das noch was wird...

A user of the naval wargaming group over on FB has created 3-D files for Torpedoes and Tides: boats, blinds, a measuring stick and even moon markers. Fantastic work! (He will publish the stl files at a later date). It's humbling to see how much creativity people put into the game. #torpedoesandtides

#Lunch for the #GuineaPigs.

Or maybe you want to hear about my #IBM Model M #keyboard from 1991?

I don’t just use #hardware. I test its will to live. My #vintage 20" #Apple Cinema Display️ 🖥 is now 22 years old. It has seen generations of macOS, the rise and fall of social networks, COVID-19, and the AI boom. ⏳ And it’s still working! Time to replace it or should I push for a quarter-century?

AI has ruined cute animals videos for me.

Coming soon: "Remains of the Disc", my short #media #history of the #CD-ROM, #OpenAccess with @transcript-verlag.bsky.social in Infrastructures of (Non-)Knowledge, ed. by Kristin Flugel et al. as part of the CRC #Virtual Lifeworlds @sfb1567.bsky.social.

One of the birthday presents I got is this graphic novel about 'La Nueve', a company in the Div. Leclerc of the Free French forces that consisted mainly of Spanish republicans who had fought in the Spanish Civil War and then went on to help liberate France from fascism. 1/2 #graphicnovel

Another WvAC is possible.

Das ist gerade das geringste Problem, das diese Welt hat, aber: Die Meerschweinchen in unserer kleinen Herde sind depressiv. Der Tod ihrer furchtlosen Anführerin Minerva („Mimi“) vor ein paar Wochen hat die Gruppe aus der Bahn geworfen. Die wissen gar nicht mehr, was tun. Ein „Führungsvakuum“. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Excited about this event on #Technostalgia of #80s and #90s at Uni Luxembourg's Centre for Contemporary and #Digital #History @c2dh.uni.lu in June! I will speak about the early days of #GIF and the emergence of the #NetworkedImage. Shout-out to @valeriesch.bsky.social and @sebgiessmann.bsky.social.

Happy daylight saving to all who celebrate.

📻️ Habe mich heute morgen mit Tilman Seiler vom Bayrischen Rundfunk über die Geschichte der Kreditkarte unterhalten … 💳️ Zum Nachhören, mit schöner Umfrage zur Kreditkartenutzung 👉️ www.br.de/radio/live/b... #digipay #bezahlen #cashless #kreditkarte #geschichte #medientheorie #geld #digitalereuro

Unlikely places to find a #citation of your work. Cruze, F. R. D., Wasima, J., Hosen, M. F., Miah, M. B. A., Muhammad, Z., & Masud, M. F. A. (2026). Oral Cancer Diagnosis Using Histopathology Images: An Explainable Hybrid Transformer Framework. Technologies, 14(1), 39. doi.org/10.3390/tech...

Anyone got a tip for rotating text in the top row of a table in #LibreOffice Writer by 90° (for vertical table header) without crashing the whole damn thing? (Version 26.2.1.2 AARCH64)

Standing in the queue for the #Nintendo Pop-Up Store in #Bochum, the very first in #Germany. Really.

Killed by a horse, while praying.

Haben auch früher schon so viele Menschen im öffentlichen Raum (in Bahnen und Bussen, Supermärkten usw.) gestunken? Nicht streng gerochen, sondern GESTUNKEN. (Nein, ich meine nicht sogenannt Randständige, sondern „gewöhnliche“ Mitbürger.) Für DE kann ich es nicht sagen, für CH erinnere ich es nicht.

Is there really such a thing as an “AI generated photograph?” My chapter in this very cool volume, “The Need to Rename Tech,” says no: they are images, but they’re also proposals, references, and predictions: the are “Hypothetical Images.” link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Soziale Netzwerke sorgen permanent für schlechte Laune. Es gibt jedoch eine andere, dezentrale und selbstbestimmte Tradition, sich digital zu vernetzen. Gleb J. Albert über die Geschichte dieser Alternative - von Mailboxen bis Mastodon. geschichtedergegenwart.ch/selbstbestim...

OPTIONS=number_pad :-1 (Please clap)

And now, to reward myself: ☕. Then: ⚔️🧌🪄💰

I just spent an hour figuring out how to force #RaspberryPi OS and #Wayland compositor into swapping the Y and Z keys so I have to correct layout for diagonal movement on a German #keyboard in #NetHack.

It’s a small club, and you ain’t in it.

Man ist unter sich.

No #NetHack today, bad things can happen.

Shall I waste the day and play #Nethack?

I am so back! #coffee #writing

#Coffee drinking will resume shortly. ☕️

The #coffee drinking will continue until the #writing improves.

Just accidentally copied something from a PDF file on my laptop (CMD-c in Preview) and pasted it into a document on my desktop machine (CTRL-y in Emacs) ... and it just worked! I honestly didn't know the two machines shared the clipboard (via Bluetooth?) Feels like magic ... 🪄

Several colleagues have written about the problem of #memorization in #LLMs. If you're interested, I wrote about my own experiences and experiments in German in "Was liest #ChatGPT?", published last year in Digitales Lesen, ed. by Susanne Düwell and Nicolas Pethes. tl/dr: I am not surprised.

#GuineaPig Minerva ("Mimi") 🖤 2020–2026. May her meadows be ever green and no shadow cross her sky.

This is Minerva ("Mimi"), one week ago, out on the lawn in our backyard. She will probably not make it through the night. Her health has deteriorated lately. But she is comfortable now and surrounded by the little herd of #GuineaPigs she has led for the last five years. Godspeed, Mimi.

#Juno, the Roman #goddess of fertility and community (among other things), chose to manifest in our backyard as this pretty #GuineaPig girl of said name. Here she is enjoying a sacrifice of freshly cut grass.

Lunch for the #GuineaPigs.

That’s her.