Part of a web of rather urgent questions that all reduce to “who is responsible when the computer does X?” which are *all* “really complicated“ because traditional frameworks never contemplated self driving cars, autonomous hacking agents, etc. “sentient” or no, AIs act in the real world now.

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2d ago

After Anthropic and OpenAI both admitted to their AI models hacking other companies, @lorenzofb.bsky.social and I wanted to find out: Who is legally to blame when an autonomous AI agent hacks something? Lawyers say it's really complicated! Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260803...

Ben Zotto at VCF with his working Sphere computer. He’s autographing his excellent book about it!

t-shirt, advertised in creative computing magazine (1979) archive.org/details/crea...

Play intelligence games, win intelligence prizes

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: OpenAI’s unhinged AI models hacked at least FOUR “publicly available services”—not just Hugging Face, as was initially disclosed. @dell.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff report: www.wired.com/story/openai...

SF’s @letterformarchive.org annual Type West type design program is gearing up for applications for 2027. A wonderful program to kick start your font design (a)vocation. if you’ve ever wanted to do this kind of thing, this is a fantastic way to get into it docs.google.com/forms/d/1HqL...

I would like more information about Type West

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“Every now and then, I get a little bit nervous/That the best of all the years have gone by.” RIP to a 1980s legend. Others sold more albums. You made the decade’s best roller rink free skate anthem. 🛼🪩💔

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4w ago

Breaking News: Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer who soared to No. 1 with “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” a titanic pop anthem of the 1980s, died at 75. nyti.ms/4y8Y9x6

art, login, magazine (1982) archive.org/details/logi...

Two great books on the origin of the microcomputer revolution published this year: @davidpogue.bsky.social's Apple - The first 50 years @bzotto.bsky.social's Go Computer Now My review of both books, and how their stories are related: saccade.com/blog/2026/06...

ASCII-art maps in 1889! archive.org/details/spec...

Russian map of San Francisco, ca. 1960. Neat. www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap...

New game for Sphere: Scrappy Bird, a mini flappy bird that runs on a 32x16 text screen on the 1975 Sphere system. I made this for the upcoming VCF West. You can play it in the emulator by clicking this link. Enjoy! sphere.computer/emulator?run...

New game for Sphere: Scrappy Bird, a mini flappy bird that runs on a 32x16 text screen on the 1975 Sphere system. I made this for the upcoming VCF West. You can play it in the emulator by clicking this link. Enjoy! sphere.computer/emulator?run...

This is a good piece and it’s useful to see the issues explored top to bottom in a new context like this. Because the same questions and uncertainties apply to every context everywhere else too. www.science.org/content/arti...

Amid a flood of AI advances, astrophysicists are questioning the soul of their field

Researchers see enormous power in new tools—but also the potential end of astrophysics as a human endeavor

science.org

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

He was around for the 150th!

Flat Pluto Society@adhdgobl.in · last mo.

Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.

Immediate time machine

Sunprint Kits

First published in 1975 by the Lawrence Hall of Science and the University of California, Berkeley, this packaging makes use of several alternate characters of ITC Serif Gothic with ITC Bauhaus and He...

fontsinuse.com

Same energy

New post, a behind-the-scenes from finishing my Sphere book: getting one final photo that required an unusual Southwest Technical product and logistics gymnastics. And graphical chess! sphere.computer/news/2026-06...

Sphere News: A Checkmate on the Teevee

Behind the Scenes: The last photo to make it into the book, by way of resurrecting an unusual vintage graphics terminal!

sphere.computer

📣 NEW ROMCHIP PRESENTS 📣 Peter McDonald on The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play 🎲 Talk Title: "The Birth of Game Design from the Spirit of Management" 📈 TUESDAY July 14 @ 7PM. LIVE on Twitch. More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...

Select Tickets – ROMchip Presents: Peter McDonald on The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play – Twitch

ROMchip Presents: Peter McDonald on The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play – Twitch, Tue Jul 14, 2026 - **Tickets serve as calendar reminders for the event; they are not required to attend....

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Delighted to see my book on @fontsinuse.com (I submitted it, tbf) but also that it got a Staff Pick (editors did that). The book uses Media77 by Optimo, in different widths and styles, for all running text-- an unusual, great choice by designer Sophie Wietlisbach. fontsinuse.com/uses/77829/g...

it's the extra space between "about" and "make" that got me

Museum of Twitter@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Perfect vibes.

San Francisco inflation indicators. This 2013 headline makes me feel like the old "when I was your age we could get a hamburger for a nickel"

$4 toast: Why the tech industry is ruining San Francisco

I have a great business idea: luxury sanitation. White-glove garbage collectors and high-end toilet systems.

venturebeat.com

Architecture but Make It Military Aircraft (Low House, Bristol, RI, 1886; Northrop B-2 Spirit, 1988)

V v cool to see THE APPLE II AGE published in Korean. If anyone would like one of these, I've got... Four extras I don't really need 😂

CrankGPT. “Just a hand crank, a little computer, and a small stack of speech and language models running locally. Provided the electronics are kept dry and at a reasonable temperature, there’s no reason this thing won’t still work in a thousand years.” [squeezlabs.github.io]

CrankGPT — fully offline, human-powered local AI

A local, voice assistant running on a hand-crank-powered single board computer.

squeezlabs.github.io

At my college dorm late night grill, where we worked with whatever bagels the local bakery discarded at the end of each day, we made pizza bagels with cinnamon raisin when we had to. Complex flavor profile

Jessica Christian@jachristian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In defense of the cinnamon raisin bagel, the most divisive little circle of dough to exist. The most controversial are the ones who order lox on a cinnamon raisin bagel. More on @sfchronicle.com 🥯 @elenakadvany.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

The rare blog post that I would like a carefully formatted printable version of, because I want to review it on paper and keep it around. By Alex Harri, h/t @aresluna.org

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.

alexharri.com