Seeing Elijah Woods at New World Thorndon WLG buying Ramen and making eye contact and nodding at him from a distance.

At least they get computers... I remember writing XML by hand on paper for one of my last exams... fun times!

It's only a certain type of man thinking any of this... and it's a waste of everyone's time... All of our industries are drained right now, and some of them never had money in the first place. #NoAI

All the cool retro developers that were at @computinghistory.org.uk Retro Computer Festival 2025 event, including me. @onlyretrofans.com @matteusbeus.bsky.social @lockfarm.bsky.social @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social @breakintoprogram.co.uk @loudscotsbloke.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5CJ...

Tonight I succeeded in bringing a vaporware game from 1993 back to life! It's a blackjack game for BBSes called "Wildcardz!", built using a unique protocol for the Atari ST called "Instant Graphics and Sound" (IGS). (1/x) #atari #atarist #digipres #igs #retrocomputing #bbs #retrogaming #gamdev

Rescheduled for 2/10 (January) #OhioDIG virtual meeting w/ Alyssa Pierce, digital preservation libr, Case Western Reserve U, "Demystifying Digital Preservation"! Register by 5pm 2/6. Free thx to our presenters, hosts, planners! #DigiPres #DigitalArchives #Archives docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#BitCuratorForum is back for 2026! This all virtual forum will take place on June 17 Submit your proposals by March 8! bitcuratorconsortium.org/bitcurator-f... #digiPres #bornDigital #bitCurator

Letter From Alex Pretti's Dispatcher tenthousandbombs.substack.com/p/letter-fro... #Minneapolis #ICEOut #USPol #AlexPretti

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

LMAO EVERYONE knows it's not military grade unless you leak the plans to the journalists you've included in said same Signal chat! Try harder #FoxNews! #Excel #TheresASpreadsheetForThat

The irony of Google of all companies sending my "Good Internet" newsletter, and blocking a note on IPFS literally to myself is not unappreciated. I still haven't migrated but it does seem like time. #DoNoHarm #FOSS #DistributedWeb

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

This days old when I find out Python does basically have switch statements (3.10+) Match: www.w3schools.com/python/pytho... #Python #Coding #Software

I’ll never get used to sharing posts like this, but if you follow me here, I did this interview in December, and it might interest you

This position pays just slightly more than the equivalent of what I made when I started as an entry-level junior specialist at Christie’s in New York nearly a decade ago. In London. For a “lead” position.

There was some suggestion/conspiracy they degraded DVD so people would buy Blu-ray... but what do corporates want us to buy by degrading basic retouching FX by adopting AI based methods?! It's terrible!! #NoAI

I've thought about that scene everyday for like the past 20 years. youtu.be/dFUlAQZB9Ng

It will be interesting to know 2025/2026 #LinkRot stats one day. Just a sense that the various techno- and socio-political situations more than ever is causing many to take sites down or no longer be able to maintain them... #digipres #WebArchiving #NoAI

AI is literally a consent manufacturing machine.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

MAL founder & director @loriemerson.net talked to Fast Company about the lab - www.fastcompany.com/91483774/the...

I said some words about labs and the importance of old tech - hopefully the words I spoke align with what I actually think...

One thing I've wondered since the last election cycle is what are we missing? Are #MAGA running rallies on the down-low? I saw another "follower" mention the "surviving assassination attempts" in a "Christ"-like way just today. Are they using the mega-churches to promote him? #USpol #GOP

Some advice about LRAD's from YouTuber Ben Jordan. www.youtube.com/shorts/3dgPI... #Minnesota #USPol #ICE #LRAD #Protest #Protests

straight up Gestapo shit

Ocean Beach this morning… just wow!!

relevant to many of yalls interests.

If you're not in Brussels, you can watch the video. You can also read up on DASL over at dasl.ing.

Have you been curious about content addressing or DASL? Come to my talk in a few hours! I promise you bright colours and outstanding acronyms. fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

BBC News RN (and as always, unless it's platforming Reform) #Epstein

I was in a meeting recently where someone was wondering aloud about why sociology has faced more political scrutiny than econ and psych. And I think it's that sociology centers the social (i.e., systemic) causes of human outcomes, thus directly challenging the individualism on which fascism thrives.

There's 18 hours in a day Alex... whether Haruki does it or not most of us ARE and it's just called surviving. Except the dude probably has more money and paying the bills is probably a whole lot easier.

Forgot about #FOSDEM again :(

I'm starting to think the Trumpist mastery of propaganda is failing them. The DHS agents posing this way makes it look like they're ashamed of themselves.

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

Have a look at what paid- and non-paid services you are making use of in your #digipres stack. Take a moment to be uncomfortable; take time to contribute back to the commons. exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/when-yo... #GLAM #OpenSource #Commons #Community #Contributing #ProfessionalDevelopment

Same. But #SocialMedia

#digipres Stellenausschreibung am #Archiv der Uni #Wien zur Migration der Datenbank und zum Aufbau eines Digitalen Archivs. Bewerbungsfrist ist 2026-02-06. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Mitarbei...

Has anyone seen or used Mayan EDMS before? No specific use-case here, just haven't heard of it, but its own marketing is interesting. gitlab.com/mayan-edms/m... #CMS #EDRMS #DocumentManagement #OpenSource

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

Absolutely shameful to throw your employee under the bus when they’re murdered, but that’s what happens when you’re in the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the world

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

Nobel Peace Price #amirite? #NobelPeacePrize #NobelPeacePrice

I think #Messi having 8 Ballon d'Or is a bit much. Wondering if I invite him around for dinner next week for a mushroom risotto he might pass one onto me? #Nobel #NobelPeacePrize #PeacePrize #Venezuela

Discovering #DASL and I am once again asking the good people at #IPFS and #IPLD to not just ELI5 but describe to a 5 year old what the entry point looks like and how to get started. The five year old can then explain it to me, and I won't feel so dumb. dasl.ing#how #web3 #decentralizedWeb

I don't know what Bone Lake is or why it's trending so until I look it up I'm just going to imagine it's the next Tim Robinson vehicle.

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Good morning. A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive. That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power. Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.