Where is our national press? The government has been shooting at and harassing clergy for months. This used to be a red line. The reality is their red line moved, not yours. They’re cowards.

This is a great video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF.... The thing that bakes LLM users' brains is the same thing that bakes billionaires brains: the outsourcing of any executive function, paired with constant flattery.

Now more than ever, I'd say!

if you can afford to spend 30 seconds chatting and trying to look nonchalant as you fumble with a gas canister, perhaps you are not in a scenario where chemical weapons are warranted

I’m doing my part!

Bruce, Charles and Jeff are hacking the DEC PDP-7a We’re open Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays 10-4. Non-members welcome for just $9, book a time at icm.museum

"i serve the Lord, not a draft-dodging coward" is the kind of phrase that would be slightly cringe online and is incredibly badass when being stated by a man surrounded by armed men threatening to murder him

No.

Robitussin make me feel so fine Robitussin and Elderberry wine

Just gonna do a bit of reading about the future.

This is How You Get JARHEAD Sequels youtu.be/i5m-RHS1fU0

My record listening adventure has taken me on many twists and turns over the past ~750 records. I've found records in my collection I forgot I even had, and among them were some real gems. I feel very secure in saying that this one is the worst I've listened to so far.

KEFKA: Life, dreams, hope, where do they come from? And where are they headed? These things... I am going to destroy! Weehohohohohoho! MEDIA: Clown emperor outlines daring new vision for second year

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

Would you like to see UNIX V4 on MissPiggy? #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #unix #softwarepreservation

I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight. 1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms" 2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral 3) How tools are productized is not neutral [rant]

Moral of the story: if you're not doing youtube stuff or similar for the love of the game, at least in part, then it's going to kill you in a way that is impossible to i-frame through. Also if I ever intentionally call myself a content creator you're allowed to kill me with hammers

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

I wrote much less this year than I've written in the past five, so there's not a whole lot to revisit. This piece, though, I still think is probably the best article I've ever written, even if it was a dumb professional move to write it [free to read] www.patreon.com/posts/empero...

Happy DEC-20 day to all those cool cats all around the world. You know the ones.

Happy DEC-20 day to all those cool cats all around the world. You know the ones.

'Magic balls' installed by drones could conquer US market thanks to game-changing performance: 'It's never been like this'

Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.

Ned is right.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

I don’t think we as a society have thanked @papapishu.bsky.social for obtaining, ripping, and uploading a master copy of the essential Ricky Jay And His 52 Assistants, Jay’s 1997 HBO special and the best distillation of his one of a kind talent archive.org/details/rick...

Sometimes you just gotta spend $2.99 on an LP that catches your eye at the junk store. Who loves ya, baby?

If you gaze long into Peter Gabriel, the Peter Gabriel also gazes into you...

Happy DEC-10 Day from icm.museum !! 2026 will be year of 36 bits! Come play on the two SC40s and XKL TOADs #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

it's a strange thing to ponder that you might have seen the peak of human technological achievement in terms of usability, adaptability and capability and it was running Windows 98

Purple records sound better.

I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30

Did you ever see the Thinking Machines Connection Machine 2 at the Wing Luke Museum? youtu.be/g0v2Lgugh9c

to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes

OK, folks, I may in fact be going insane. Because I cannot for the life of me understand what these options are doing here. Is this an advanced 3D game? Is it some kind of modeling software? Is it the latest Photoshop? No, it's the goddamn terminal console in Windows 11.

The journalistically appropriate sequence of follow-up questions here are: -why? -no seriously, what possible social value would that have? [then unveil a guillotine.] -repeat question 1 and question 2.

If you're gonna start an ASCII collection, it's best to keep it on a robust storage device.

There’s a good chance that when it finally happens it will happen on camera and you’ll get to enjoy watching it over and over and over for the rest of your life, and while that’s not much, it’s not nothing. We’ll have that.

Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.

I declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin. Dan Ingalls came up with a working implementation on the Xerox Alto as part of his work on Smalltalk.

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

Musk is a parasite on the future; he preys upon the imagination of others, taking any vision of a better world and depreciating it by hawking options on a transparently fake facsimile. He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.

Yes. This is proper music right here.

learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, you’d inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you weren’t particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research i’m afraid that’s all gone

This is an album that takes me back to a major turning-point in my life; in 2002 I finished college and got a job offer at a large software concern in Redmond, WA. Taking that job entailed a 2,200-mile cross-country road-trip and this album was in the car's CD player for most of it.