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Turn the World Around The theme of becoming engaged & making a difference jibed well with Jim’s efforts to make the world a better place. The Henson workshop designed a new group of characters based on African masks specifically for this performance w/ Harry Belafonte www.henson.com/jimsredbook/...

The Cube (1969) dramatizes the complex, baffling problems of reality versus illusion —Jim Henson www.henson.com/jimsredbook/...

Women used to be present in computer work in higher percentages than they are today Ever wonder what happened? Turns out that the story of gender and the progress of computing are a lot more tightly linked than we once thought… programmedinequality.com

The Thomson TO7/70 was supposed to become the French computer standard. Its prompt invited you to choose between BASIC and cassette loading. The interface used the light pen pointer.

How to Become a River Raider: Hints & Tips from one of the First Ladies of Video Games herself: Carol Shaw. You'll see her credited as the first female video games designer, but I feel it's fairer to call her the first (recognized) female console game designer employed within a company.

A couple of years before Carol Shaw started working at Atari, Joyce Weisbecker had already designed, programmed, and sold her first piece of video game software in 1976 for the RCA Studio II games console as an independent contractor, making her the first indie dev to boot.

The last chance to request a mail-in or absentee ballot for the upcoming election is Tuesday, October 27, 2026. Completed applications must be received by the Elections Division by 5:00 pm. Learn more at https://www.alleghenycounty.us/Government/Elections/Mail-in-and-Absentee-Voting.

A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 “obsolete” Mac Minis, complete with iconic padded bench seating. The only thing missing is Robert Redford and Ben Kingsley having a discussion on SETEC Astronomy arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

👨‍🎤 You remind me of the babe What babe? 👨‍🎤 The babe with the power What power? 👨‍🎤 The power of voodoo Who do? 👨‍🎤 You do Do what? 👨‍🎤 Remind me of the babe 🎶 Labyrinth: The Computer Game (1986) developed by Lucasfilm Games before #ManiacMansion #RetroGaming

🤣This might be the single greatest miscalculated hit piece in history. They may as well have titled the article, "If you like Obama (and you do) you'll love Mamdani!" Using police resources to play basketball? This is great! And it makes the "whistleblowers," sound like some petty, salty, haters.

I dug into this and it's not Generative AI. It's plug-in tools built into DaVinci Resolve to do artificial depth of field and parallaxing on images. This is stuff docs have been doing for decades and has since been more simplified with pre-built tools.

“While we could go on about how great Eric was, we think it best we let him speak for himself. Enjoy this clip of Eric voicing Baby Fozzie.”

Hey remember a couple months ago when I almost died from sleep apnea and begged y'all to be checked if you have symptoms of sleep apnea? Eric Bauza just died from sleep apnea. We were the same age. Don't ignore sleep apnea.

CA Lab played from the keyboard like a "color organ," or programmed to follow whichever rules you care to devise… Use as a lab for simulating physical processes, or enjoy the play of mandalas, chaos eggs, 🦋 @rudytheelder.bsky.social #Mondo2000 #Cyberpunk issue 01 (1989) archive.org/details/Mond...

DISCMASTER just added support for screencam files. What are screencam files? Super old video files that means we now get 1997 reviews of websites.

command & conquer, print ad, imagery, macintosh (1997) archive.org/details/MacA...

WHY AM I VOTING STRAIGHT DEMOCRAT? Not because I'm a Democrat. Not because I'm a liberal. Because every Republican on my ballot, and your ballot, is a Trump enabler. Trump can't exist without these guys. They make Trump who he is. They have to go. All of them. Clean sweep. VOTE THEM ALL OUT!

For no particular reason, sharing my 2015 single page comic Upwards from the Boston Globe, which reworks elements of Unflattening and a look at moving from a solitary perspective aided by the astronomical calculations of Al-Tusi to shift our viewpoint… spinweaveandcut.com/nytimes-glob...

This is the one I can’t get over when people tell me that Palantir is unusually evil. It is very bad, and it is very big, but California companies building computers and software to kill innocents is older than most of us on this website and we’re all pretty damn old.

Yep, when I titled the first chapter in my book “War Machines” I wasn’t being hyperbolic. And even tech workers themselves have long recognized this—for example, take this 1971 pamphlet from the group Computer People for Peace:

HARVARD STRIKE HARVARD STRIKE HARVARD STRIKE HARVARD STRIKE www.instagram.com/reel/De9j6Tb...

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Progress.

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

The U.S. has no national law for paid parental leave. But in states that do, more dads are using the benefit, sometimes more than moms. The change comes as Americans say having kids is unaffordable. www.npr.org/2026/10/25/n...

Electric stoves helped people with asthma breathe easier. Swapping polluting gas stoves for electric ones reduced asthma symptoms. www.sciencenews.org/article/asth...

Cherry Audio shared this video on his last #newsletter: Early Electronic Pop was Awkward and Glorious www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPaY... #music #tech #hardawre #software #synth #synthetizer #cherryaudio #moog #analog #modular #history #pioneers #artist #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #press

Really important thread. Not pleasant. But very important.

This is very good advice!

The first personalized mRNA cancer vaccine has now succeeded in a phase 3 clinical trial, reducing the risk of melanoma returning by 42% compared with standard immunotherapy alone. www.sciencealert.com/world-first-...

The group preserving queer zines of the past to propel their messages into the future - LGBTQ Nation

You can't argue with that logic.

Danielle Bunten Berry, American game designer and programmer known for M.U.L.E. (1983), one of the 1st influential multiplayer video games. Dani insisted that the future of gaming is interconnectedness. She was one of the 1st in gaming to publicly identify as transgender dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK...

Showing MULE game on Atari 7800, 6 rounds, with NES, Intellivision, Atari 2600, MSX, Sega Master System, Bally Astrocade, and even RCA Studio 2, coming and leaving, spectating. youtu.be/5mTMjNgtk_Y

Loads of fun and powerful support for civil servants tonight with Michael Lewis in Pittsburgh.

Sexist people more likely to support trans sports bans, study finds www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/peop...

A part of this not mentioned is that Texas used to let kids transition. I volunteered at a camp for trans kids in Houston when I was in college (pre transition I know I know how did I not know I was trans). Guess where part of that camp was? Texas Children’s. That’s how much we lost

Check out what I've been working on. youtu.be/uvcpGmoitG0?...

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.