I've been friends with VisiCalc over the past five years, and always turned my nose up at 1-2-3. "Thinks he's so special. He's not special. Just a copycat wannabe jerk and..." well, I'll save all that for therapy. I finally broke down and learned it, and didn't hate it. I liked it! Maybe loved it?!

Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

After this interview, I told Conan that I’d traded “Hips and Makers” for my contractual freedom from Warner Brothers to escape the corporate demand for vapid product over real music. His response: “Never look back.” I never did. Thank you to all of you who came with me.

Sprite sheet export is now a launch feature for #picoCAD2 ☺️ #gamedev #lowpoly #pixelart

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

I was just looking at Scala on Amiga and look how beautiful! (Source + kudos to Stone Tools: stonetools.ghost.io/scala-amiga)

After the multimedia extravaganza of the last post, I went back to basics with this one. I'm talking barebones, green monochrome text on a black screen, 64K RAM, hardcore, "getting business done" stuff. Help me lift this 28 pound "portable" Kaypro II onto the table and I'll show you what I built.

Orchard vec3 p,v=normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyx),c=v/v.y;c.z+=.5*t;for(float z,i,b,g,m;i++<5e1;z+=.8*max(b=length((p.y-m)/1e2/(abs(sin(c.xz/.1))-.05/v.y)),min(4.-m,g=length(sin(p.xz)+1.-.1*(1.+sin(p.y-p.zx*.5))*m))-b),o.rgb+=(.7-v)/(g+b))p=z*v+1.,p.z-=t,m=abs(++p.y);o=tanh(o/5e2);

We need to talk about three of the most devastating revelations from the initial partial release of the Epstein files—most of which is being ignored by corporate media.

Video production has always been a little terrifying for me; I simply have no head for it. That didn't stop me from diving head-first into those unknown waters for this week's post.

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

Wow. The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.

idea i had

there is a post from the US gov 'department of war' on here that includes video of them actually murdering people and threatening to murder more people & it's been up since november

The Strong is honored to announce the acquisition of the Curt Vendel Atari Collection. Curt was a pioneer in video game preservation. The collection contains retail material, schematics, documentation, prototypes, and more. www.museumofplay.org/press-releas...

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Ok, but can we all agree this is super weird? He can’t remember which country he threatened to invade and he says they “call him daddy”….?!?

Fascinated by this @stonetoolsblog.bsky.social post - the idea of trying to implement an expert system on a *Commodore 64* is something I'd never even considered! stonetools.ghost.io/xper-c64/

Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…

I looked up the real answer, but it’s boring, so I’m just going to stay irritated at the concept of putting crackers in a barrel. Why would anyone do that? Crackers are square. Barrels are round. The geometry is unpleasant to imagine. Also fuck ICE.

The tension between my interest to grow closer to this software and its constant moves to push me away was the highest I've felt yet.

Congrats to @doublefine.com for being the first video game company ever to use the term "deep dive" appropriately! 105 minutes just on their use of the Unreal Engine - this is what a deep dive looks like, people! It even rhymes. Magnificent. youtu.be/VMa5xbjL3BU...

One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.

what a legend lmao

He drew it himself. www.gq.com/story/police...

Achtung-tied. @theonion.com

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

I wanted to understand the first AI boom a little better, so I looked at how the #c64 was put to work in the #ai mines. Japan's Fifth Generation Computing, Campbell's Soup, Sputnik, the movie PI, and a Connection Machine all make appearances. Enjoy! #stonetools #retrocomputing #computerhistory

🪨 XPER on the Commodore 64🛠️ We draft a #c64 into the #ai wars. This "expert system" software promised it could predict weather, so I took it at its word. Was it more accurate than a coin flip? Also: Fifth Generation Computers and the first guy to concede his job to AI stonetools.ghost.io/xper-c64

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

I had to write about Cheifet. christopherdrum.github.io/posts/2026/0...

Sad to hear that #stewartcheifet, host of #computerchronicles and #netcafe, has passed Tiny influences on a pivot point can exert large effects on the trajectory of a projectile, or a life. Stewart was one such influence on the trajectory of my own life. obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...

Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.

CBS filed a copyright claim against my YouTube channel for posting Canada's version of the CECOT story that Bari Weiss killed—SO—I downloaded the transcript and read the transcript verbatim. Here it is. Please watch & share to fight fascism & censorship. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uRf...

How many lives and careers were influenced by #HyperCard? @cyan.com started life with the HC stack, The Manhole @worrydream.com built "HyperCard in the World" @wikipedia.org came out of experiments in it For my latest post, I get to know HC better and consider English as a development language.

Trying stuff out in Deluxe Poly. Vector/frame animation is gonna be so good :D

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Sneering douchebag: "You're gonna be famous on the internet!" The Internet:

🪨 Bank Street Writer on the Apple 2 🛠️ The "Oregon Trail" of word processors. Ostensibly built for children, it also hooked adults, including at least one lawyer who refused to give it up. I find out why! stonetools.ghost.io/bankstreetwriter-apple2 #RetroComputing #apple2 #wordprocessing #bankstreet

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

Addressing the claim that America was built by "hard working people" by reminding everyone that America was *actually* built on the backs of enslaved Africans and on the genocide of Indigenous people. Support my advocacy: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

My childhood computing path never crossed with Bank Street Writer, though I've met many over the years who hold very fond memories of it. It wasn't just popular with kids, adults loved it too. I spent some time getting to know it, and explored the whole "classroom of tomorrow" a bit as well.

Happy Amazing News Day opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

I already have it shared everywhere and commented on Mastofon. But again, what a great article ! Thanks for the kind update about pydpainter, it means a lot to the dev team.

I've never gotten into "outliners" and other, similar "knowledge management" software. More to the point, I've never *allowed* myself to get into them, for reasons I cannot articulate. For Stone Tools, I spent a couple of weeks getting to know ThinkTank, the first outliner, to see what it can do.