twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

🧵 Back when the internet was cool, I used to collect phrases that sounded like band names. There was a website that would generate cassette tapes with whatever you wanted on it, so I'd make fake tapes for these fake bands. Just found a bunch of them while digging through Google Drive:

GameCube done, next patient up on the operating table… This poor virtual boy has no image in left eye and occasional in right eye But with some VB eye patches, cap kit and iron ready to reflow some joints this will be good as new 👍🏻

here's a reminder that discord has adopted a new arbitration policy, which means you have under 30 days to opt out of it

@techconnectify.bsky.social Saw this, got mad, and thought of you.

now watching (via a PS2 as god intended)

Coming to your from the warzone that is Portland Oregon. Yesterday, 1:30pm downtown by the Federal Building and Police HQ: total mayhem! Someone was actually picking up some trash in the park! A couple miles away on Hawthorne, someone was driving a late 70s Ford Thunderbird. Oh the humanity!

OpenAI claims companies must opt-out of having their copyrighted characters & content appear in Sora Legal experts say studios have grounds to sue: “They’re setting up this false bargain where they can do this unless you opt out. And if you don’t, it’s your fault. That’s not the way the law works"

Uh oh! I have a PC on my testbench and I'm gathering benchmark data and B-roll... Who am I???? First Tech Ambrosia video of 2025 finally dropping in October???? Stay tuned!!

Unless RA comes back with a strong reversal of all of this AND a genuine apology I'd highly advise leaving the platform. The fact that it even got this far is absolutely pathetic. They really need to learn about the paradox of tolerance.

Throwback to lockdown 2020, when I made a woodgrain Xbox One. 😂

Happy Friday Retro Frens, today's aesthetic: Windows 2000 😍😍😍😍😍

I just love all the little weirdo systems in my collection. They make me happy ♥️ That's it, that's the post. #retrogaming #retrocollecting

Casio QV-2400UX digital camera (2001)

The OpenAI flagship data center is in Texas, and multiple other such centers are scheduled to be built here. My electricity bill last month was three times what it usually is. It’s a completely unsustainable situation.

AOL has now ceased dial-up service as of September 30. Let us play the forgotten music...

A late-night experiment in particle physics leads to an experience that's truly... Out of this World. The first truly cinematic introduction to a game that I ever saw. 📺: Another World, Delphine, 1991 (Amiga RGB Scart)

'Demolition Man' on 3DO released on this day in 1994. Jack of all genres, master of none: Stallone's involvement in FMVs shot specifically for this movie tie-in do little to elevate the dire state of its gameplay. As inconsistent as it is ambitious -- a true novelty for the 3DO.

tech used to be fun and useful :(

I've been bedridden for the last 10 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again. If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive. ko-fi.com/fooneturing

Quentin Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' movies will be released as one film in theaters for the first time on December 5 ⚔️ • Runtime is around 4 hours and 7 min • Includes a new 7-minute animated sequence • Select showings will be in 70mm and 35mm

I remember all the tech people who told me time and again that Apple will just keep refining their face computer and I’m “negative” for saying it’s DOA

Cognitive banking. Holistic accounting. Full-contact notary. Dynamic wash-and-fold. Longitudinal sandwich artistry. Strategic soft-serve. Just-in-time hairdressing. Kinetic charcuterie.

We are at a point where a PS2 is worth more than a PS4.

Pour one out for our homie

Forever thinking about the Irn Bru Dreamcast I saw at Retro Games at the Barras.

Just reminded of Trevor and Geoffrey Bastow. You owe it to yourself to listen to some of them today. youtu.be/t0CWOhosA5M?...

I like this: www.crowdsupply.com/centylab/poc...

...folks we have bad news We're missing one more issue. Volume 5, Issue 6, March 2005. Our nightmare never ends

"Went Super Sayin' by accident and now i can't turn the goddang thing off."

"Your system is correctly configured for playing WAV files." A welcome speech sample for Sierra Online game fans of the early-mid 90s, hoping their sound card was a-okay with their latest release.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Me when I see a DOS game

The Ninten-Drawer is one of my all-time favorite console mods I own. It truly is a... GAME CHANGER.... HAHAHAHAHAHAH

you won't believe what's saving rural towns HINT: IT'S SOCIALISM. SOCIALISM IS SAVING RURAL TOWNS. AND THEY LOVE IT. THEY CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THE SOCIALISM. A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF THEM VOTED FOR SOCIALISM. getpocket.com/explore/item...

As the very first standalone instant messaging software, ICQ revolutionized online chat and connected millions in the late ’90s 💬 It shut down in 2024, but its website survives on the #WaybackMachine. See ICQ’s web history ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19980724... #Wayback1T

Fantastic stuff!

PC creatures

If I ever come into some gigantic pile of money, I'll be spending part of it on a modern update to "Sam & Max Hit The Road" in the style of @doublefine.com's other remasters of games like "Full Throttle" and "Day of the Tentacle." Achievements, special features, HQ audio, a swatch of sasquatch hair.

Sometimes you just want to watch 12 continuous minutes of things getting crushed by a hydraulic press.

Always keep your balls up to date.

The DOS version may be how I was introduced to it, but I will always appreciate the artfulness of the black and white Macintosh version. I've played that recently on my Mac Plus. Astounding how smooth it feels.

Did you know in most old RPGs the world isn't actually round If you can go out the top of the map and emerge at the bottom that would imply the world is a torus

I just finished recapping my Commodore 1084s D1 monitor. I'm pleased as punch that I didn't fry it, shock myself, and that the image has vastly improved! There are some more things to fix on it, but this is a major step toward retro goodness.

Women improve everything. Genuine fact. No limit to the amount of problems that can be solved by having women around. What kind of women? Doesn't matter. They're all great.