I do have a soft spot for computer programming books from the 1970s.

Not easy to find Kernel magazine in Turin. But got it shipped overseas and it’s worth it. No better read on the intersection of tech and society. (h/t @kuppermann.xyz )

Robert Longo's video for "Bizarre Love Triangle" by New Order remains a great piece of 1980s contemporary art and really captures a moment of time in our burgeoning information society. www.robertlongo.com/films/neword...

The Italian Tech Resistance starts tomorrow in #torino! See y'all there.

Il nostro documentario “In the Belly of AI” continua il suo tour dei festival italiani. Dopo Bologna (INDL-8), Modena (finalista DIG Awards), Piacenza (Festival del Pensare Contemporaneo), appuntamento il 1 ottobre alle 21.00, a Torino per il controfestival Italian Tech Resistance.

Last week I watched a city burn from a rooftop in Kathmandu. Here are my reflections on what sparked a revolution: a government social-media ban, rage at corruption, and the unchecked power of global tech. schmud.de/posts/2025-0... #buddhism, #nepal, #nepokids, #genz

To help people manage their online footprint at Yorba, we first need to wrangle the web presence of countless businesses and organizations. This is a technical piece on how we use #Clojure to query and classify the world's knowledge. schmud.de/programs/202... #wikidata

#Kathamndu protests have spread to Patan-Lalitpur. Here’s the scene outside my office. After killing 19 protesters yesterday, the Prime Minister refuses to resign. So the streets remain dangerous today.

Very impressive design fail. Which box is checked, which box is not? Chef’s kiss IRS.

Loving this Padmasambhava stencil around Kathmandu. The Olivetti graffiti in Ivrea is the only equivalent in terms of coolness.

Pretty great energy policy yah got there. substack.com/app-link/pos...

Best error message ever? At least the first time you see it. "Line printer output following a MAD compiler error on an IBM 704 computer at the University of Michigan, c. 1960" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAD_(pr...

Can software express critical reflections on its own nature in the same way post-modern architecture does? I don't have the answers, but I wrote a long text with some early thoughts: tomasp.net/architecture/

Same goes for Benjamin Franklin, btw, who changed his variolation skeptic ways after losing a child to smallpox. (variolation was imperfect, with a ~2% mortality rate, though mortality from natural infections with smallpox was around 14.6%) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

If I Give Up All My Platforms Will I Ever Be Published? If I Don't Give Up My Platforms Will I Ever Write Anything? A Memoir

For the friendly and curious, what I'm working on right now. A bit of art and code: schmud.de/pages/now.html.

“The relative progress of the five BRICS countries in dedollarization and green energy and manufacturing. China has made significant progress in non-dollar trade invoicing and commodities pricing; but tackling dollar centrality remains more difficult.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

It’s a computational notebook, where all cells are running all the time. Fascinatingly, the UI is the code, adorned with small widgets. I think legibility could be improved for other users, but this points to possibilities in other domains.

It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.

Only in Italy would someone think to smash a flaky, lovely looking slice of Börek in a panini press before serving. This is a crime against pastries.

I just love this part. I know it’s silly but putting all of these together so I can see the color gradient is so pleasing.

“Heavyweight lets you create important-looking letters in seconds.” heavyweight.cc

"An invasive species known as the Asian Moon jellyfish, native to the Pacific Northwest, was first sighted in the North Sea in 2020." And now they're clogging up French nuclear power reactors. Nothing to see here, folks. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

Nice renders of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mike High skyscraper. www.hookedonthepast.com/mile-high-il...

Glad I finally found my GDR pocket constitution. One has to know one’s rights!

The thing that the dumb left vs. right media debate fails to acknowledge is that there is *no* perfect media ecosystem. Plurality is what counts. Removing public funding narrows the field - now owned by only a handful of megacorps in the USA - even more. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

What a beautiful shot of Chicago.

“The problem isn’t the intention—it’s the architecture. You can’t optimize one part of a child and expect the rest to unfold naturally. Learning isn’t modular. Once efficiency takes hold, it doesn’t stay in its lane. It reshapes what matters.” nisheethvishnoi.substack.com/p/learning-i...

Midwest is best… for ye olde raves. djmag.com/news/midwest...

Springer Nature’s “AI textbook Mastering Machine Learning” sells for $220. Many citations “either did not exist or had substantial errors. 3 researchers cited confirmed the works they supposedly authored were fake or the citation contained substantial errors.” retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

maybe this is it in 2025 nyc-noise.com

coda.io continues to wage the WWW-wide war on hyperlinks. It's impossible to export a document from their website and include hyperlinked text (only PDF and TXT are supported). I mean, they already render HTML. Why not make this easy? help.coda.io/en/articles/...

#GeorgiaO'Keeffe, New York Street with Moon, 1925

The Earth Room is one of the most wonderful gems of Soho in Manhattan. Hopefully they find the right caretaker to continue this work. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/a...

In "Engineering the End of Work" I look at how we can resist the future promised by LLM ghouls through the lens of the labor movement. This one is from the heart of the Rust Belt. I hope you enjoy! schmud.de/posts/2025-0... #llm #union #labor #ai

Towards building healthy network-based ecosystems - the opportunities for emerging data intermediaries are at an inflection point in history. Let's take advantage! mydata.org/2025/07/04/i...

Love this deceptive pattern from Microsoft in which they bundle something many want (listing better jobs) with something else few people care about (ads). Are you ready for the same lack of enforcement with DMA consent that we are getting with the GDPR?

Submissions are open for the Source Code Exhibition, which will be unveiled during the Software Heritage Symposium 2026, hosted at UNESCO headquarters in Paris in early 2026: cnam-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mat...

Such a great graph.

Happy birthday to the Dalai Lama. To celebrate, An Overgrown Path republished a post that takes a refreshingly sober look at the man’s many paradoxes. www.overgrownpath.com/2025/07/happ... #buddhism

Always love paper abstracts that go hard. Here's "Finding and Understanding Bugs in C Compilers by Yang et al: www.cse.unr.edu/~fredh/clas... "Compilers should be correct. […] We reported more than 325 previously-unknown bugs to compiler developers."

We're thrilled to announce our new project: docs.coop! Building on the great work of Suite Numerique (docs.numerique.gouv.fr), we're offering an opportunity to be part of a new collaborative Docs platform as a service, that provides an ethical alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, Notion etc.

really happy to finally get this out in the world: @romchip.bsky.social is finally launching it's FREELANCER FUND. This initiative is designed to PAY FOR original work by journalists, public historians, & others who work on a contract/freelance basis. Read more: donate.romchip.org/freelancer-f...

On INTERCAL, “Use the command PLEASE too little & the interpreter will be offended & ignore the whole program; use it too much and it writes you off as a suck-up &... also ignore the whole program. Its subjectivity feels particularly relevant in an age [of] AI systems” esoteric.codes/blog/publish...

Seems everyone is saying the quiet parts out loud these days. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: 'There's long existed a "silent majority" who wanted to pursue defense projects.' A tiger can’t change his stripes; the Silicon Valley peace movement has always been fraudulent. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Microsoft offered no roads to refunds when they shut down Skype. $50 here, 4€ there, etc… might be a rounding error for MS but it’s still just 100s of thousands of dollars they stole without a peep. Seems of dubious legality. Is there precedence for this?

Evergreen...

On the Chicago Sun~Times and others publishing AI slop and the non-outrage, “Institutionalized Not Caring remains the coin of the realm, an easy path to profits and power.” marthabayne.substack.com/p/journalism...

E-paper is still emerging as a platform. What is it good for, beyond book readers and price tags? It's an open tech design question. (tech design is also called full stack design).

My painting WISCONSIN FARM