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𝒻𝑜𝓁𝓀𝒾𝒻𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 how we create and commune on the web with @folkjs.org
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In November 1999, the Zombo dot com website was created as a parody of the creative, but, largely pointless flash intros, which were trending at the end of the 1990s. Welcome... to ZomboCom.
#WebDesignHistory
#WebDesignHistory
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In November 1999, the Zombo dot com website was created as a parody of the creative, but, largely pointless flash intros, which were trending at the end of the 1990s. Welcome... to ZomboCom.
#WebDesignHistory
#WebDesignHistory
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Most people see the web as a glorified document viewer, I look it as a malleable computing substrate that has yet to be fully actualized.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Most people see the web as a glorified document viewer, I look it as a malleable computing substrate that has yet to be fully actualized.
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
How did I miss the qr show this spring? (organized by @greg.technology and Sasha friedenberg)
qrshow.nyc/retrospectiv...
qrshow.nyc/retrospectiv...
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
How did I miss the qr show this spring? (organized by @greg.technology and Sasha friedenberg)
qrshow.nyc/retrospectiv...
qrshow.nyc/retrospectiv...
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Absolutely WILD that the development of sofrware proceeded with so little heed to record-keeping that 52 year old source code is a major archaeological trove that requires special tools to gain access to, like it's a treasure room in a sealed royal tomb from 3500 years ago.
Bell bottom-era tape unearthed, could contain lost piece of Unix history
www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/u...
It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
<- by me on @theregister.com
www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/u...
It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
<- by me on @theregister.com
52 year old data tape could contain Unix history
: It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
www.theregister.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Absolutely WILD that the development of sofrware proceeded with so little heed to record-keeping that 52 year old source code is a major archaeological trove that requires special tools to gain access to, like it's a treasure room in a sealed royal tomb from 3500 years ago.
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It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
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I've been listening to a lot of playlists lately and wanting a way to learn more about the currently playing artist without pulling out my phone. I put together a little raspberry pi setup to sit on our shelves and display info about the current playing artist.
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I've been listening to a lot of playlists lately and wanting a way to learn more about the currently playing artist without pulling out my phone. I put together a little raspberry pi setup to sit on our shelves and display info about the current playing artist.
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i used millions of files from @archive.org to make a website where you can watch how the internet evolved
scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline
alivetheory.net
scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline
alivetheory.net
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
i used millions of files from @archive.org to make a website where you can watch how the internet evolved
scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline
alivetheory.net
scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline
alivetheory.net
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There's a deep irony that the personal computing "revolution", which arose to challenge the authority and centralization of the corporate mainframe of the 50s and 60s, ended up creating and distributing the office desktop metaphor of computing to the world.
Been grappling with the paradox that any "liberatory" computing movement either dies a subculture or grows big enough that it becomes co-opted (through enclosure, commodification, and extraction) that it loses any sense of liberation.
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
There's a deep irony that the personal computing "revolution", which arose to challenge the authority and centralization of the corporate mainframe of the 50s and 60s, ended up creating and distributing the office desktop metaphor of computing to the world.
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Been grappling with the paradox that any "liberatory" computing movement either dies a subculture or grows big enough that it becomes co-opted (through enclosure, commodification, and extraction) that it loses any sense of liberation.
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Been grappling with the paradox that any "liberatory" computing movement either dies a subculture or grows big enough that it becomes co-opted (through enclosure, commodification, and extraction) that it loses any sense of liberation.
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You just beat The Last Judge and its brutal, demoralizing runback and realize, as the citadel unfolds before you, this is just the start of Act II.
serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
You just beat The Last Judge and its brutal, demoralizing runback and realize, as the citadel unfolds before you, this is just the start of Act II.
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Been grappling with the paradox that any "liberatory" computing movement either dies a subculture or grows big enough that it becomes co-opted (through enclosure, commodification, and extraction) that it loses any sense of liberation.
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Been grappling with the paradox that any "liberatory" computing movement either dies a subculture or grows big enough that it becomes co-opted (through enclosure, commodification, and extraction) that it loses any sense of liberation.
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September 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
November 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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A great talk from @jenson.org on why and how to move the desktop paradigm forward. I especially loved the prototypes/concepts; even if not perfectly refined it’s still nice to see someone put some stakes in the ground. (And FWIW I think they were all pretty solid!)
Thoroughly enjoyed speaking at #UbuntuSummit today. Thank you organizers! I spoke about the need for new foundational #UX improvements to the Desktop UX. Very lively audience!
www.youtube.com/live/WvNgMEu...
www.youtube.com/live/WvNgMEu...
Ubuntu Summit 25.10 | Day Two
YouTube video by Canonical Ubuntu
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A great talk from @jenson.org on why and how to move the desktop paradigm forward. I especially loved the prototypes/concepts; even if not perfectly refined it’s still nice to see someone put some stakes in the ground. (And FWIW I think they were all pretty solid!)
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It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves.
A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves.
A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
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Computationally, whitespace gets little attention—it’s usually standardized or stripped.
But in poetry, whitespace matters!
Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.
New paper ⬜️ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
But in poetry, whitespace matters!
Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.
New paper ⬜️ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Computationally, whitespace gets little attention—it’s usually standardized or stripped.
But in poetry, whitespace matters!
Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.
New paper ⬜️ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
But in poetry, whitespace matters!
Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.
New paper ⬜️ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
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Incredibly good presentation of humanity's largest existential threat, capture by the would be vicious e1 global elite barbarian class (there citing church's 3 ladder system).
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Incredibly good presentation of humanity's largest existential threat, capture by the would be vicious e1 global elite barbarian class (there citing church's 3 ladder system).
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info
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Over the past year, my lab has hosted a cohort of people from around the world who are trying to move their communities to online tools under their control. OUT TODAY: Learn about their thinking and doing in our collectively authored Open Social Network Cookbook. https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Over the past year, my lab has hosted a cohort of people from around the world who are trying to move their communities to online tools under their control. OUT TODAY: Learn about their thinking and doing in our collectively authored Open Social Network Cookbook. https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/
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Server Charms are tiny, portable microcontroller setups made with recycled vape batteries. They create their own Wi-Fi network, inviting curious people to connect with their devices where a captive portal opens, leading to small webpages.
codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Server Charms are tiny, portable microcontroller setups made with recycled vape batteries. They create their own Wi-Fi network, inviting curious people to connect with their devices where a captive portal opens, leading to small webpages.
codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
While I enjoyed this essay, I wonder if it follows a similar fate of "The California Ideology", in the words or Barbrook, "that it will make any difference without our words being turned into action"?
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
While I enjoyed this essay, I wonder if it follows a similar fate of "The California Ideology", in the words or Barbrook, "that it will make any difference without our words being turned into action"?