Fab story from Margaret Hamilton, RIP, showing why Science-Mums are brilliant scientists! When innovating at the cutting edge of technology, it's so important to bring together a wide range of lived experiences. Sad that only ~20% comp-scientists are female 👩‍🔬🧪 ℹ️: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I will always love the neglected corners of #wikipedia

Yall need any 1970s communist org chart sigils

"If AI had existed in the early aughts, we could not have accelerated Zotero’s conception, because we did not know exactly what we wanted, and so could not have written coherent prompts for an LLM. Instead, it took a great deal of time and collaboration to develop a clear vision for what Zotero […]

Another notable transition in the infrastructure of scholarly life = the #HASTAC network is "sunsetting" after 25+ years. Goodnight to the original social network for online academics […]

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/

given enough time, the chance of human extinction is actually 100% so

🎓 Genuinely curious about how The Horowitz Andreessen Academy will handle gen AI in their classes. They explicitly say not to use AI to write your application essay: https://www.theacademysf.com/faq #highered #academia #AI

get me sam altman's ratemyprofessor page immediately https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/998813/andreessen-horowitz-ai-academy

Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta

It’s the latest attempt by tech billionaires to shape American education.

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"Soviet Blocks: The Bizarre Puzzle of How Tetris Embraced Western Values", the new book by Julien Mailland is out today! This one is wild, knitting together legal, technical, and business histories. Can't wait to get it on my desk 🕹️📕🤝 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262054582/ #history #books […]

👀🛒📚📚 Looks like the print edition of the THE MODEM WORLD is on sale right now for readers in the US + Canada. Use code YUP25 to get 25% off https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248142/the-modem-world/ #history #bbs #socialmedia #internet #mediastudies #books

"Farewell: ETAOIN SHRDLU" (1978) is a brilliant documentary about the last day of hot metal typesetting at the New York Times. The film details the operation of the Linotype, preparation of the layouts, cooperation among team members, and URGENCY of the work. https://vimeo.com/127605643 […]

"Telling the missile where to go...and how to get there!" "The button is pushed. The missile rises...then roars into space." "But the problem has just begun! Now, the 'brain' inside the missile takes over...It must 'think' it's way to the enemy." (ad for ITT […] [Original post on aoir.social]

Has YOUR smart TV been enrolled in a mercenary botnet (ahem, "residential proxy network") to spy on university faculty without your consent? https://www.theverge.com/column/885244/smart-tv-web-crawler-ai

Your smart TV may be crawling the web for AI

Some TV apps let you watch programming with fewer ads, as long as you allow your TV to participate in a global proxy network.

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🏆 One of the all-time best conference websites just dropped RESAW 2027 Telling Stories of the Web *Engaging Public Internet Histories* https://resaw27.neocities.org/ #RESAW2027 #dh #academicchatter #history #archives #web

DAY 37 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class Scams everywhere. But what exactly is a scam? What's legit & what's not when the meaning of the term "scam" seems like a moving target? @lanalanalana.bsky.social will provide a corrective with her book ✅ More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/lana-...

> "Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine--which was, after all, a very small miracle. We […]

✨ Take your ticket (free!) for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2026 🌈🥹⬇️⬇️ join us online from September 14 to 17 and listen to talks on fashion, manga, anime, video games, idols, etc by scholars from around the world!! events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...

Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2026

A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures

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On Tuesday, I'm participating in an online roundtable with @AoIR buds @couldrynick @paufder @aram @rwg, moderated by Meg Jing Zeng. We're going to talk about the origins of the aoir.social instance and the future of alternative platforms 📅 1 September 2026 ⏰️️ […] [Original post on aoir.social]

Michael's arts & craft store is practicing post-capitalism. Anarchic retail experience every time

ANNOUNCEMENT: ALL TECH CEOS ARE REQUIRED TO TURN IN THEIR ESSAYS BEFORE THANKSGIVING BREAK

Meet the dudes putting the "AI" in "DEFIANT" (but whose plush carpeted stairs are those???) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/business/jimmy-iovine-dr-dre-beats-usc.html

I don't think I've seen this 1869 Thomas Nast Thanksgiving cartoon before. That was another difficult time for the United States and in my opinion Nast is trying to show a positive vision forward. #Thanksgiving #ThomasNast #hope

The only upside to this week's scandal was learning about the state of the art in portable thermal printers 🖨️📄📄📄

I wish I had a dedicated button for voice memos like the old Nextel chirp

"I go crazy when I hear a cymbal" - Vanilla Ice

Does anyone still use "wiki" as a verb meaning "to search Wikipedia"? I haven't heard it in years. I wonder if I can wiki it...

Has anyone picked up the slack from Weird Stuff Warehouse in the Bay Area? I want to browse old computer junk in person #siliconvalley #retrocomputing