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  Someday, maybe soon, your favorite computer language will be as Linear B.

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  I make it a point to not get involved in other peoples’ elections, I feel very strongly that local people should make decisions locally. But I am rooting so hard (privately except for this one post) for a candidate in Clacton.

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  The year before this concert Prince was not listed among the top 100 guitarists in a Rolling Stone list. At the rehearsal for this performance he didn’t play his solo, just strummed some chords, then at the performance went on stage burned it to the ground. https://youtu.be/dWRCooFKk3c?si=o-7EE3UsgrT-MM64

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  Enshittification started when they standardized on VHS instead of Beta class dismissed.

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  For several thousand years they suspected we existed. We were in that magical life-possible distance from our star.They could see we’d popped a few things off the surface of our planet. They feared us in the way all dark forest dwellers fear the known unknowns. The Critters received a flurry of high energy signatures half a century ago—strong enough to be genuinely dangerous yet we’d managed to avoid the self-annihilation. That, of course, made them even more anxious. Their military protocol fa...

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  Gentle reminder that “strategic bombing” has never won a war.

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  An eco-centric music collective I’m a part of, re:natura, regularly puts out calls for works and releases compilations. If you make music and are interested in exploring themes in nature check out the current project and put them on your radar: https://forms.gle/ZkDayzR3Wn2wgJjq5 Please spread, #music

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  the three Rs: refuse, rollback, repair. If you can’t do those then your tools and systems own you and you are the butt part of the centaur.

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  got a strong feeling hunni space is a problem instance

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  My friend Bruno did a TEDx on tech that doesn't spy on you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVktfvXrL0w

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@coyotebroad/116371475346574527 As an artist I have seen this in quite a few grants, not all, but many, and most of the large resource grants (ie the grants that pay for more than the cost of doing the grant report).

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  I would like you to buy my no input mixer ep. But also you can listen to it. https://gahlorddewald.bandcamp.com/album/arousing-fenestration-2

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/116379909931495767 New Oulipo Sciences

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  I have an old mac mini intel box that I can wipe and do whatevs with. What can I do with it that is in line with #permacomputing / #neighborhoodfirst / #solarpunk My skillset for coding/dev is firmly in the “your worst cowboy QA engineer nightmare” but I am willing to learn to do things better. Current aspirations would be to set up one of those digital prepper systems that could provide weather, agriculture, knowledge system/archive. Thoughts? pointers? and even “learn to set up a linux s...