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Tao Neuendorffer
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🚋 on the T 😷 in Pittsburgh 🎤Songs and stories of computer science💾 We are none of us alone🎵 People of all colors and genders keep making tech history🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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For #TransAwarenessWeek - trans computer scientists have driven the frontiers of digital technology. If you're reading this on a mobile device, it almost certainly has an ARM chip, pioneered by Sophie Wilson, who I was lucky enough to know via Acorn. blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/celebrating-...
Celebrating Sophie Wilson and 40 years of the ARM microprocessor - Science Museum Blog
To mark 40 years since the production of the first ARM microprocessor, Assistant Curator Cait Scott explores computing history and the career of one of ARM’s pioneering programmers, Sophie Wilson.
blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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the device that saved the ARM processor (which now accounts for a quarter TRILLION cpu cores)
The Newton was beloved by almost everybody who had one. It came from an R&D group hidden deep within Apple and was developed by people who believed it was the next big leap in computers

The #LoveNotesToNewton film was made possible by Newton fans all over the world
lovenotestonewton.moosefuel.media
December 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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The last Global Newton Users Meetup (GNUM) of 2025 is coming up!

Global Newton Users Meetup #18
Saturday, December 27th, 2025 @ 17:00 UTC

Join in for a casual chat with other fans of the #AppleNewton platform.

Details on the mailing list:

lists.newtontalk.net/pipermail/ne...

See you there!
lists.newtontalk.net
December 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Abla Mehio Sibai researches healthy ageing and non-communicable diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, among older adults in underprivileged communities, including refugees.
adalovelaceday.subst...
Prof Abla Mehio Sibai, Epidemiologist
Abla Mehio Sibai is an epidemiologist and public health activist who researches healthy ageing and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in older populations.
adalovelaceday.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Michelangelo emerges as a queer icon through his poetry for Tommaso Cavalieri, revealing romantic feelings. Some works were later altered—revisionism! Despite sodomy laws, Florence had nuanced views on queerness. His art and writings reflect deep admiration for the male form. #QueerArtHistory
December 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Letters sent with @resist.bot are a barometer of our concern

A way to keep the pressure on

Every day, write or call your legislators
☎️ 202 224 3121
Congressional Switchboard

You can write a letter as easily as you text
December 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Contact your elected representatives. Call. Write. Protest.

Let them hear us.
December 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Urgent
URGENT

Phone!

Make the noise
Just like for the ACA the first time round

Then follow up with a @resist.bot
Congress must pass a clean extension of ACA premium tax credits—no anti-abortion riders, no attacks on gender-affirming care. Reject Crapo-Cassidy bill and act now to prevent nationwide premium spikes. Text SIGN PELAKZ to 50409 or go to: resist.bot/petitions/PE... @resist.bot @campaigns.resist.bot
Vote Today: Support a Clean ACA Extension, Oppose Harmful Riders
Text SIGN PELAKZ to 50409 to send this to your officials.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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There’s a lot to protest, but amongst all of Trump’s grift, there’s this: Bad for rate-payers, the environment, climate, and workers.

Call Congress, tell them
#NoCoal

202-224-3121

With @resist.bot you can also text ‘sign PSQLFL’ to send to your Reps in Seconds!

resist.bot/petitions/PS...
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Librarians kick ass! I asked for European hairstyles from before the 17th century and they gave me a pile of ancient tomes from various countries

But you need to ask for something real. LLM chatbots hallucinate fake references—you’re sending librarians on unachievable quests after imaginary books
As an author, I’ve already gotten multiple emails from people asking me for fake articles and books that I’ve supposedly written, because chatbots have told them fake references. I *cannot imagine* the frustration and time waste for librarians and especially ILL library professionals right now.
December 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
What I post from
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
#Muppet Monster Eats Machine youtu.be/nhzlsRvLQ2M
Muppets on Ed Sullivan: (Cookie) Monster Eats Machine
YouTube video by Muppet Songs
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Excellent video, well worth a watch. I completely agree. I love my tech, but I prefer to own my media. And having an analog backup of data or manual override for digital controls is mandatory for anything important.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvJe...
The power of analogue | Carissa Veliz | TEDxGeneva
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
December 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Another little festive treat, from THE MUPPET SHOW’s second season - “Sweet Gingerbread Man”. The production on those horns feels so 70s to me…
December 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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This interaction is just brilliantly sweet and sublimely played by a wonderfully present Frank Oz…
December 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This year, The Black Market has moved to the Cultural District inside the Merry Marketplace space on 7th Street

The Black Market will be open for the next two weekends and is a short walk away from other vendors at the Encore building in Downtown Pittsburgh
December 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I say this with love, CALL YOUR FUCKING SENATORS, especially the republican ones and give them the what-for about health insurance premiums and keeping the ACA funded.
Haunt them like they're Scrooge.
Brian Fitzpatrick, one of only three Republicans who hail from a district that voted for Kamala Harris, filed a discharge and said "It feels more realistic that our push will inspire the Senate to come up with some kind of compromise." #PA01
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Moderate Republicans revolt against Mike Johnson to force a vote on health care
As the Senate remains stuck and many oppose extending the subsidies, Republicans from swing districts try and find a bipartisan fix, Eric Garcia writes
www.independent.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Radioactive 50-ft. Woman Has Period in Space!

Constance Penley and Robin Moore

Science as a Prize in a Crackerback Jox
#Mondo2000 #Cyberpunk
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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We sometimes get asked why AmigaVision ships with scan lines and shadow masks out of the box. Why not use sharp pixels? Because the graphics on the Amiga were never meant to be shown as sharp pixels on a flat panel. Here’s a fun video talking about it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC-8...
what did you do
YouTube video by Noodle
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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🎄Der Computeum #Adventskalender🎄
🎅Türchen 13: Handlocher🖥️

Die Löcher müssen in die Karten. Das ging auch in klein und auf dem Schreibtisch. Einfach Buchstabe am Handrad einstellen und ein Druck auf die Taste stanzte den Code. Dazu automatischer Vorschub und sogar Tabulatoren für Formulare.
#Retro
December 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/annie-... and find more than 120 other women astronomers at www.infinite-women.com/category/sci...
December 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Local women crochet/knit woolly PJs for rescued vulnerable, ill and formally abused elephants to shield them from the nighttime cold, Elephant Conservation Care Center, India #UnravellingWomensArt
December 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Today I chat with Skyper & TMZ from @phrack.org magazine as they celebrate 40 years of phone phreaking, stack smashing and seminal filez like the Hacker Manifesto!

@hackerschoice.bsky.social @guitmz.bsky.social

podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/12/08/4...
40 Years of Phrack - Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast
Way before the world wide web, computer enthusiasts were sharing information via digital bulletin board systems (BBS). This amounted to attaching a modem to...
podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Super impressed with this extremely well-documented, and well-designed, open source hacking project. What a pleasant surprise: www.typeframe.net
Typeframe
A collection of open-source hardware and software for building writerdecks/cyberdecks.
www.typeframe.net
December 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM