i am opting to selectively read feedback from my co-authors today

my PC is nine years old and i think it is starting to have a serious memory problem. it hadn't been so bad until pretty recently, but programs keep crashing or going nonresponsive (esp, worryingly, my word processor). is this a windows 11 problem or are the violins playing

Sorry but if you want to have political influence you need to get out of your left-wing bubble on Bluesky and start converting eight year olds to Marxism on Roblox

1986: "The importance of public access cannot be underestimated at a time when the communications industry...is controlled by fewer & fewer corporations. New technologies have generally served to aid the few in their efforts to dominate the distribution of information to the many." #othernetworks 💚

i love baseball and i love my friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a full episode about baseball. not the baseball video game. the sport baseball

when UM's hospital was crypto-ransomed, we had to swap to a new 2FA system and if this means that we will soon migrate from canvas to another LMS i'll have to learn the kind of patience i've only read about in books

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

Happy release day friends and fans, we’ve got a spread here for you today: @goblinstunts.bsky.social with “Moulder” @acidwashwerewolf.bsky.social with “Ironscrote” @wormgully.bsky.social with “‘Till The Feeling’s Gone” That big orange cat never knew mondays could be so sweet. diskettepress.com

it all comes back to our old friend Tommy Kinkade. this is yet another reminder to read my very long essay Let's Play Life about right wing kitsch art, nostalgia, youtube, and the future of art if you still haven't ellaguro.blogspot.com/2024/03/lets...

dream team

I'd like to alert you to an upcoming event from the Computer History Museum on June 23 at 7pm Pacific: "Out Online." Featuring Avery Dame-Griff to talk about his book "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet." More info and registration link: computerhistory.org/events/out-o...

as i was saying …..

i think if you accumulate too much money, the money should kill you

thrilled to announce that i'm at a place with my cast iron skillet where i can fry sunny side up eggs on it no problem

now i am about to stream today's daily challenge :)

impromptu slay the spire @ twitch.tv/katbamkapow

he got into canvas

Greene: "AI is welcomed as a silver bullet precisely because there is no silver bullet for high-quality, accessible education, just the usual boring solutions: small classes, cheap or free tuition, well-resourced students."

Listen to the next episode of Side Story!

everybody calm down, college will still exist as a website or app

thinking about her (metadata)

buying tech in 2026 pick two

the semester is OVER, grades are IN, and now i'd like to share non-identifying information abt the coolest undergrad student project where one of my students built a WOODEN REPLICA of the PROJECT CYBERSYN ROOM................... i won't share pics but just know that it was so cool and i was so proud

Excellent reporting, alarming findings. Bloomberg's @dmehro.bsky.social et al found U.S. state government health websites are sharing people's personal info (sex, citizenship & race data) with tech giants via pixel-sized webpage trackers. Several states pulled the trackers after Bloomberg disclosed.

this bill would give the incoming director of the NSF power to award funding that would advance "AI literacy" for kids. guess how they define literacy? using it:

NAS, data storage, and server equipment supplier don't tell me about AI challenge impossible

trying to reconcile my nostalgia for the computer as i imagined it in 1998 (undeniably tinted by being a child, stupid & earnest) with an adult understanding that it's The Same As It Ever Was. the past never was like this but maybe the present or the future could be. maybe a little bit

im experiencing the comic

i want it to be like this

I wouldn't have done that, personally

found my MS paint guide to silent hills 1 and 2 that i used to summarize the games when jack and i played SH3 lmao

if you’re interested in this, resisting data centers via water was also happening 10+ years ago! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

yay! huge thank you to calvin for presenting without meeee, so sad to miss out on spain, but i know the work is in good hands :)

smashed white beans on toast with salted tomatoes

NASA astronauts are saying they discovered a heaven-like new planet while they were up there. it's where you can eat a hot dog and drink a beer in your backyard and they're calling it earth

I’m seeing lots of folks post about this article. If you want to read more on hostile architecture (removing benches is a form of hostile architecture), check out Robert Rosenberger’s book, CALLOUS OBJECTS. One of the Forerunners I was most proud to publish. www.upress.umn.edu/978151790440...

please, doctor

For the first time in our 9-year history: WE ARE HIRING! We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

just wanted to give a quick shout out to my favorite wikipedia page, list of fictional computers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

This is what going on the internet used to feel like

poll run by videogames.com, results printed by official u.s. playstation magazine (1999) archive.org/details/Offi...

InterfaceX26 starts today! a Steam event of games featuring fake and fictional OS. "Everything is going to be ok" is part of it. interfacex.net "More than 150 developers and publishers have come together to launch InterfaceX26, a week-long Steam sale and livestream running from April 27 to May 4."

made a fun new print today

my dang (beloved) cat hajs got asthma

anyway fan culture has to be a counter to the media object and if you allow the fan culture to subsume what it is meant to counter it cannibalizes itself and then there is no culture and there are no fans and there is no media object there's just a bunch of people shrugging and yelling in a circle

brie on toast with honey and salt

those push notifications that pop up when you get a signal message? the fbi just forensically extracted signal message content saved to an iphone’s push notification data for a case. here’s how to make that more secure

The NYPL is hiring two metadata specialists! Not only do you have the opportunity to work for one of the world’s great libraries, you also get to collaborate with the ✨ @infopetal.bsky.social!