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i make things. The older i get the less i know. not real keen on chauvinists, tech or otherwise. traded corporations are the/an enemy of all that lives. queer […]
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@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy'Outstanding' is a great adjective and metaphor. It's so blunt!
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyBut also we know from the history its gonna be kids who cut new culture. And that it won't be ours. We can still take control of our own lives though.
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyI dont think online is a core feature. Its a lovely augment. For evidence i give you... Today.
We sre bodies that live and breathe, snd the idea that being online could replace that, is the same core foolishness behind the confusion surround us as intelligent beings vs language models […]
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyThe catch now is, so many people dejected by the turn tech just took are fully embedded in it. Thats the game everyone assumes is the only choice. It gave people money and purpose. It barely does the former now, and the latter not at all, unless you throw in with the fascists. Many do […]
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyAnd we do not have to have the same goals or paths that corporations have.
But what is your (our) vision for the world we want to live in, to create our own shit in?
Keep in mind that you will not get support from people and orgs on conventional paths. They'll think you're wrong or […]
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyYowza, here's a great example of embodied skill and knowledge. This geezer making a 10 foot diameter wagon wheel. His language around it uses interesting metaphors, 'strong' for I think tightness of parts due to compression. And shows where precision comes from! […]
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyThis doesn't make sense to me. Drawing isn't only about making artifacts. The lived process to me is the core of it. But it is true mundane shit like high rents means there's few/er casual ways to get together with other folks to share the process, or the artifacts.
If nothing else, I […]
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyI feel the same way, but I exited the biz side a long time ago; these corporate douchebags have always been here (read CYBERSELFISH).
All code is social. But I'm not in the tech biz at all and glad for it. For me code remains social, at times an audience of one; feels like no peer […]
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyOne of our dogs favorite things to do is to come running at high speed into a room and jump on a chair to make it slide, or to jump up on a sofa and slide to a stop on all four feet, usually knocking things over.
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyfkn white people suck. HOW DID I ONLY HEAR OF THIS YESTERDAY. I love[d] Blue and other stuff, but I'm not generally the kind of fan that wants all the meta-shit, performers are all too human and disappoint... But covering this up amounts to conspiracy, by white music lovers. What a momentous […]
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyIf you're super-geeky-into early Z80's, someone found a board with a chip with a 7621 date code (21st week, 1976), earlier than customer availability. It's also a lovely hand-taped board, clearly using crepe tape. It's not a very good board, probably a rough test hack, no visible memory, ROM […]
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyThis last/recent season is pushing it to a bit... But yeah wild show!
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyNetflix' SEARCH PARTY is umm very fucked up. How does it stay together? The main characters are all so horrible! Its great.
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyI did not know DEF CON was started by FidoNet folk. Wikipedia: DEF CON was founded in 1993, by then 18-year-old Jeff Moss as a farewell party for his friend, a fellow hacker and member of "Platinum Net", a FidoNet protocol based hacking network from Canada.[7] Looked it up after finding this […]
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyHe has the Midas touch, everything he touches turns to mufflers (American joke, Midas Mufflers is a nationwide car repair ripoff place).
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyRFC: 814 NAME, ADDRESSES, PORTS, AND ROUTES David D. Clark MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Computer Systems and Communications Group July, 1982 2. The Scope of the Problem "...Currently, the internet is fairly small. It contains no more than 25 active networks, and no more than a few […]
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy"For over a thousand years, the [Ptolemy's] Almagest was the authoritative text on astronomy across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.[34]" Think of the royalties he could have collected!
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyThat one time we were kicked off the internet. There were Consequences. To: [email protected], [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Alternet service to TLG Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 13:40:55 -0800 Rick, We've both been busy. I still want to resolve this. In the last two weeks we have […]
@tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy"When a student reads in a math book that there are no absolutes, suddenly every value he's been taught is destroyed. And the next thing you know, the student turns to crime and drugs." -- MEL GABLER, co-founder of Educational Research Analysis, a schoolbook review committee (from FORUM, the […]