Garden State Brick Face and Stucco (a fine NJ prob mob backed construction company) used to have a commercial where they were giving away an Atari 400 with a stucco job. Damn...I wanted our house to be fake stone stuccoed for that 400! Damn!

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Design a kick drum with Moritz Klein Learn how to design your own kick drum circuit with Moritz Klein. *full workshop fee is £185*

Moritz Klein (designer of Erica Synths edu modules) will be in London on 22 November to host a workshop on how to design and breadboard an analogue kick drum
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Price includes the module kits.
#electronics #ModularSynth #ElectronicMusic

Protect Democracy - Protect Democracy is hiring an IT Specialist! Protect Democracy seeks an IT Specialist to join our growing team. In this role, you’ll support and improve upon the technology infrastructure that safeguards and enables our high-impact work defendin

NOW HIRING: IT Specialist to support and improve upon the tech infrastructure and internal systems that safeguard and enable our high-impact work defending democracy. Remote, salary range: $112K–$125K + great benefits.
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the early #90s confusion of being on the #usenet group for some band with english and american fans not understanding what songs people are talking about because the track listings on their #CDs are different

Let's take a temperature reading shall we? There are United States government officials actually debating the potential suspension of habeas corpus... publicly.

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.

uhm, surely this can't be the first instance of such a thing. anyway this is why we all need to support open and actually-censorship-resistant internet protocols such as #ATProto and #Nostr that are beyond the control of any one person or company. especially now.

cool TR-808 shirt!

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Donald Trump is deporting legal US residents to a foreign gulag, and he has stated publicly that he is moving on to citizens next. This is a Constitutional crisis. Will a single Republican stand up for our Constitution?

"Off The Hook" airs at 7 pm EDT at wbai.org & 99.5FM in NYC, "Overtime" at 8 pm EDT at www.youtube.com/live/iCiVlAS...

Holy shit. I just realized if the DOGE guys fire anyone on the NIST time keeping project the entire internet might be at risk

i've been reading the "Distributed Operating Systems" textbook by Tanenbaum. it's crazy how much stuff we reinvent through struggle, experience and trial and error. it would have probably saved me a lot of time to just read this when it was assigned. #distributedsystems

Just so that they can give more tax cuts to billionaires.

How do we beat this? Republicans hold a very slight majority in the House, they can't lose any votes. House Republicans who are not in deep red seats will notice if their constituents are very loud and very angry about this bill.

Really weird line in one of yesterday's executive orders that sounds like something from a Xi Jinping speech, with its charge that America's global policies threaten"harmonious relations" (a phrase only the Chinese government uses) and its awkward English.

Wonder how it got there?

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

Nazis are pumped about Elon’s salute. They’re not questioning what it was.

Trump revokes Biden's order for federal agencies to promote voter registration President Trump has reversed an executive order by former President Joe Biden that calls for federal agencies to promote voter registration.

President Trump has reversed an executive order by former President Joe Biden that calls for federal agencies to promote voter registration.

Heartless. Cruel.

Keep saying it.

Bluesky feels more like old Twitter than X does As more users flee X, a clearer, sunnier social media age is dawning.

“I’m really excited that folks can choose the social media that’s right for them," EFF’s @falsemirror.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy told @vox.com. Some might want to talk to barely a dozen people, “and then if folks want a really big audience and to really blow up that’s also available.”

Don't have much to post unless and until i have something positive or interesting. I just wanted to say, this is me. I am not a bot. Hope you are all doing well.