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.

C'mon this can't actually be real, I mean no one actually came up with this idea and thought it was good and then actually ran it past other people who also thought it was a good idea and then hired actors to pretend it was a good idea and make this ad, did they?

I've been trying to express exactly this discomfort with modern interface design and especially LLM design and this lady nailed it back in *1993* ("A Small Matter of Programming", Bonnie A. Nardi)

Hey guys - does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? Haha happy Edmund Fitzgerald Day, you maniacs!

This is my favorite Elvis album; no music, it's an album comprised entirely of random chatter from Elvis between sets.

I just learned about the astounding story of Steve Kaczorowski and now you all need to read this, it's amazing. members.tripod.com/~lysergia_2/...

People will be mad at me for saying this, but I think we have to do it. Nothing is more important for the future of this country, and indeed humanity, than the app that makes you schizophrenic and helps you forget how to learn. The juice is worth the squeeze.

Now I've read there was a Christian mod They wrote for Quake, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for gaming, do ya

8 colors, pixelart

This entire album is Frank wasting your time and his talent but also I still love “The Radio is Broken” so all is forgiven. Also "Cocaine Decisions" seems to fit the current era, perhaps with a different drug substituted in, time is a flat circle, etc.

#1979 rb.gy/fmwa48

Remember to be considerate tonight while trick-or-treating!

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

AI is going to be used to justify/excuse/abdicate responsibility for *so* many awful things, and that's at least part of the reason it's being pushed so hard right now...

My uncle lent me this album (and a handful of other early Zappa titles) when I was 13 and it became one of my favorites. I was a total Zappa junkie through middle and high school and I'm still a big fan, though it can be difficult to reconcile some of his more problematic aspects.

Behold, the worst lyrics I've found in my record collection thus far on my listening adventures through stuff I bought 20 years ago and completely forgot about. *Subtle*. These aren't even the worst lyrics in the song but I'll be damned if I'm going to trranscribe them.

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

“yes”

#1984 rb.gy/sep1c rb.gy/5c46f

Beware of Amateur Hypnotism. Cavalcade, August 1951

I guess I'm just gonna keep posting into the ether about various items in my record collection. This is who I am now. This is what I do. So anyway I found this one, another from the "I can think of no other reason why I would have bought this other than the cover." It opens with a Hendrix cover...

This sounds exactly how you'd expect it to sound. Nice honest packaging.

I'm so depressed. I'm bored. Life? Don’t talk to me about life!🤖 Aquatron VX-33

Technology basically peaked right around when they figured out how to make auto-loading 9-track tape drives. Indistinguishable from magic.

In a vain attempt to distract myself from reality, it is now time to BAKE SOME TAPES. Tomorrow: I shall make a vain attempt to recover data from them. Some of these came out of a house that suffered fire damage, some from a garage that suffered water damage. Either way: fun on a bun.

YOU WILL REGRET THIS!

the hardest part of living in Portland is having your house burn down every single night and then having to rebuild it during the day. the amount of money i spend just in drywall is insane.

action/platformer speedruns: yea we have to do 100 frame perfect tricks to clip through all these sections and it's all skill based and precise practice and speed old jrpg speedruns: WE HAVE TO TORTURE THE GAME BY RIPPING ITS SOUL OUT AND REPLACING IT WITH DR MARIO TO FORCE IT TO DO OUR BIDDING

LMFAOOOOO STOP

All set up for ICF tomorrow, showing off my LMI Lambda; we'll see how long it takes before we blow a breaker. If you're in the Seattle area, drop by! Check out sdf.org/icf/ for the deets!

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Do the ska elders know Fishbone was just on KEXP? @brooklynmarie.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social "You're not a Proud Boy, you're just a fuckboy drinking the Kool-Aid of a mad orange king."

#1984 rb.gy/64262k

actress tilly norwood has been deleted after being found unconscious next to a script containing a mistyped wildcard. she was 0

This is it, and not just for higher Ed . Zero long-term planning, a society full of institutions run on a toxic combination of individual self-interest and pursuit of instant gratification. “This will be gone soon, how much of the copper wire can I get my hands on as it’s stripped from the walls.”