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Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

Gilbert Kaplan? The financier??

The West Wing - 1x9 - The Short List - Frame 43 of 2644

Reminds us of this @theonion.com banger.

I've become a fair but more circumspect about LLMs, but dissuading the kinds of antisocial people who make and follow such lists is good An important part of any community is finding ways to exclude people that add negative value. The people shoveling slop need to be excluded, as do these

We're nearly just a week away from the Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest which will be held at the Tukwila Community Center on May 2nd and 3rd. Come checkout over 25 exhibits and see what the community is up to. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing vcfpnw.org

After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.

SE/30 bsky.app/profile/erik...

Why bother with any of this when Excalibur (1981) is already available, tastefully restored and scanned from the original negatives, in 4K UHD bsky.app/profile/ign....

Time for eeePCs to make their comeback bsky.app/profile/slha...

i bet reticulation feels so good if you’re a spline

Update: it has taken 36 hours of hacking on the dark web but I have found the Code Class! video www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nab...

hating AI isn't an ontological good. hate it for reasons that are correct or keep it to yourself and maybe listen to people who are comfortable with arriving at stances using reasoning when you hate it for trivially disproven reasons or stick your fingers in your ears, it weakens our entire side

Bryce 1.0 (1994)

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That's right

Deus Ex (2000)

RIP Tracy Kidder, who inspired so many of us, and gave us permission to feel unapologetic passion for our chosen craft bcantrill.dtrace.org/2019/02/10/r...

aaahhh fuck~ ahhh~ uuuaahhhh my fucking bubble!~ youre gonna burst it! ahhh~

derek's right and good, but also consider: i use my RSS reader every day. i (obviously) post on a 30 year old vbulletin forum. i keep a gmail tab open all day. i'm still on soulseek ffs you can still live in the old ways. you will miss out on insta and fb, but i promise you, you will not miss them.

Deploying The Sign

Ok, I'm gonna start a little thread here for something I've been doing for fun lately: making designs for things that don't exist. First up: ah, yes, that classic computer game of the early 90s:

Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends https://theonion.com/crab-just-happy-to-be-in-bucket-with-all-his-friends/

The other year we found and scanned the best bits of a graph paper catalogue from 1958. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g...

lip mach2000. the french were wild for this one.

Le Samouraï (1967) - 0:16:11 Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville Runtime 105 minutes 🚬 x 24, or one cigarette every 4.38 minutes ⚠️ REAL SMOKER MOVIE ⚠️ https://howmanycigarettes.com/le-samourai/

found an incredibly important Marathon Infinity mod

YOSPOS bicht

goldilocks theory of computer size computer too big? unwieldy, have to go to a place to use it, inconvenient. computer too small? too pervasive, gives you depression. who will make computer that is just right size (friend, does not induce psychosis, runs Linux)

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

In the 70s, Sharp had a series of "Latte case" boomboxes; as the line went on, more and more got put into it, like TVs. One of the last in the line was the RatecaPuter - a latte-case boombox with a 2KB computer that could run SHARP Basic programs off of the built in tape deck.

In my aunt’s basement where there are distinct filing drawers for “minidiscs”, “cassettes“, “diskettes”, and “zip disks”

I've previously avoided mentioning this out of respect, but now seems like a good time to mention that Darren Aronofsky got his start co-directing the abysmal 1997 Full Motion Video (FMV) rail-shooter game Soldier Boyz

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