The West Wing - 1x9 - The Short List - Frame 43 of 2644

Reminds us of this @theonion.com banger.

I've become a fair but more circumspect about LLMs, but dissuading the kinds of antisocial people who make and follow such lists is good An important part of any community is finding ways to exclude people that add negative value. The people shoveling slop need to be excluded, as do these

Nothing better summarized opera people for me than an Amazon review from years ago that began (quoting/paraphrasing from memory): “I truly loathe Levine’s Parsifal, which I’ve had the misfortune of seeing some 30-odd times at the Met.”

We're nearly just a week away from the Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest which will be held at the Tukwila Community Center on May 2nd and 3rd. Come checkout over 25 exhibits and see what the community is up to. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing vcfpnw.org

After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.

SE/30 bsky.app/profile/erik...

Why bother with any of this when Excalibur (1981) is already available, tastefully restored and scanned from the original negatives, in 4K UHD bsky.app/profile/ign....

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

Time for eeePCs to make their comeback bsky.app/profile/slha...

i bet reticulation feels so good if you’re a spline

Update: it has taken 36 hours of hacking on the dark web but I have found the Code Class! video www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nab...

hating AI isn't an ontological good. hate it for reasons that are correct or keep it to yourself and maybe listen to people who are comfortable with arriving at stances using reasoning when you hate it for trivially disproven reasons or stick your fingers in your ears, it weakens our entire side

Bryce 1.0 (1994)

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That's right

I’ve been in Seattle for an hour and already heard the phrase “anthropic polycule”

Deus Ex (2000)

RIP Tracy Kidder, who inspired so many of us, and gave us permission to feel unapologetic passion for our chosen craft bcantrill.dtrace.org/2019/02/10/r...

aaahhh fuck~ ahhh~ uuuaahhhh my fucking bubble!~ youre gonna burst it! ahhh~

It really was true bsky.app/profile/ihav...

derek's right and good, but also consider: i use my RSS reader every day. i (obviously) post on a 30 year old vbulletin forum. i keep a gmail tab open all day. i'm still on soulseek ffs you can still live in the old ways. you will miss out on insta and fb, but i promise you, you will not miss them.

Deploying The Sign

Ok, I'm gonna start a little thread here for something I've been doing for fun lately: making designs for things that don't exist. First up: ah, yes, that classic computer game of the early 90s:

Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends https://theonion.com/crab-just-happy-to-be-in-bucket-with-all-his-friends/

The other year we found and scanned the best bits of a graph paper catalogue from 1958. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g...

lip mach2000. the french were wild for this one.

Le Samouraï (1967) - 0:16:11 Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville Runtime 105 minutes 🚬 x 24, or one cigarette every 4.38 minutes ⚠️ REAL SMOKER MOVIE ⚠️ https://howmanycigarettes.com/le-samourai/

This completely misrepresents what happened in Canada. Carney's win was fueled by being a fresh face after Trudeau, a reputation for competence, belief he was best suited to stand up to the USA and the deep loathing of Poilievre in large parts of the country. And it was still a minority!

found an incredibly important Marathon Infinity mod

YOSPOS bicht

goldilocks theory of computer size computer too big? unwieldy, have to go to a place to use it, inconvenient. computer too small? too pervasive, gives you depression. who will make computer that is just right size (friend, does not induce psychosis, runs Linux)

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

In Canada Pepsi is sold in bags

In the 70s, Sharp had a series of "Latte case" boomboxes; as the line went on, more and more got put into it, like TVs. One of the last in the line was the RatecaPuter - a latte-case boombox with a 2KB computer that could run SHARP Basic programs off of the built in tape deck.

In my aunt’s basement where there are distinct filing drawers for “minidiscs”, “cassettes“, “diskettes”, and “zip disks”

I've previously avoided mentioning this out of respect, but now seems like a good time to mention that Darren Aronofsky got his start co-directing the abysmal 1997 Full Motion Video (FMV) rail-shooter game Soldier Boyz

First trailer for Boots Riley’s ‘I LOVE BOOSTERS’: • Starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Don Cheadle, LaKeith Stanfield, and Demi Moore • Follows a ring of shoplifters targeting a cutthroat fashion maven • In theaters May 22 #ILoveBoosters #BootsRiley #KekePalmer

Is there anything more satisfying than preemptively being a hater of something, checking it out just to give it a fair shake, and discovering that it sucks even more than you had expected

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Jet Li has started a YouTube channel and it seems like his intention is “Jet Li wants to be your dad” and hell yes be all of our dads Jet Li

screenshots of the startmap I built for qbj3 or Quake Brutalist Jam III some fancy bits in here will be in the coming update, like the paintings and plaques