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xssfox (crossy) @xssfox.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

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Reasons why I visit your meshcore/mestastic community website: 1. To find what preset/channel config to set Things on the community website: 1. Goals 2. Motto 3. Links to third party documentation 4. Maps Things not on the community website: 1. preset/channel config

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Anna 👩🏻‍💻 @annajobin.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Well played, @AoIR , well played! #AoIR2026

A screenshop of the AoIR webshop displaying a black t-shirt with the white slogan “I survived Velvet Vale gate #AOIR2026 “ printed in the front

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

DIVINATION ENGINES! Carefully rendered genealogy of data-intensive AI from the shifting epistemologies and practices of comp. linguistics, signal processing, speech recognition, telecommunications. This book explains how language became digital text, and meaning […] [Original post on aoir.social]

Hand holding the book Divination Engines: Natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and the making of digital culture.

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Tfw everyone in the michaels is singing along to "wide open spaces"

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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...

Right: A woman looking very cool in a 70's dress standing next to a massive pile of very thick books
Left text: Did your life as a software engineer and a mother ever collide?
Often in the evening or at weekends I would bring my young daughter, Lauren, into work with me. One day, she was with me when I was doing a simulation of a mission to the moon. She liked to imitate me – playing astronaut. She started hitting keys and all of a sudden, the simulation started. Then she pressed other keys and the simulation crashed. She had selected a program which was supposed to be run prior to launch – when she was already “on the way” to the moon. The computer had so little space, it had wiped the navigation data taking her to the moon. I thought: my God – this could inadvertently happen in a real mission. I suggested a program change to prevent a prelaunch program being selected during flight. But the higher-ups at MIT and Nasa said the astronauts were too well trained to make such a mistake. Midcourse on the very next mission – Apollo 8 – one of the astronauts on board accidentally did exactly what Lauren had done. The Lauren bug! It created much havoc and required the mission to be reconfigured. After that, they let me put the program change in, all right.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Yall need any 1970s communist org chart sigils

A copy of “ industrial democracy, Yugoslav style” by ichak adizes

A ludicrously complicated series of nested circles, illustrating the organization of an industrial company in Yugoslavia

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

"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 […]

Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

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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 […]

Sarah Perez 💙 @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

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Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is…

techcrunch.com

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

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

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

🎓 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: www.theacademysf.com/faq #highered #academia #AI

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

"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 🕹️📕🤝 www.amazon.com/dp/0262054582 #history #books […]

Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

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👀🛒📚📚 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 yalebooks.yale.edu/book/97803002481… #history #bbs #socialmedia #internet #mediastudies #books

Cover of THE MODEM WORLD: A Prehistory of Social Media by Kevin Driscoll. Beneath the title is a row of dancing ASCII art people (and one doggie)

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

"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. vimeo.com/127605643 […]

Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

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"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]

Ad for ITT. An abstract illustration shows a rocket launching toward a target, guided by a hand with the index finger extended. A headline reads: "Telling the missile where to go"

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

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

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~*~ RESAW 2027 ~*~ Groningen ~*~

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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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-...

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

> "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 […]

Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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✨ 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...

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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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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

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]

Promotional poster for the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Roundtable Series on Alternative Platforms. The poster features five speaker headshots with academic affiliations. The speakers are Nick Couldry, Patricia Aufderheide, Kevin Driscoll, Aram Sinnreich, Rob Gehl, and moderator Meg Jing Zeng. Event details: 1 September 2026, 17:00-18:30 UTC, and a QR code and link (https://members.aoir.org/event-6769944) for registration. Designed in a web browser-inspired layout with orange, yellow, black, and white colours, the event is open to AoIR members.

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

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

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

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

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Meet the dudes putting the "AI" in "DEFIANT" (but whose plush carpeted stairs are those???) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/business…

Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine hanging out on some plush carpeted stairs surrounded by framed portraits of rock stars with the word "DEFIANT" printed over their faces

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

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

Black and white illustration showing a large group of diverse people sitting down together at a table for a wonderful Thanksgiving meal. The title is "UNCLE SAM'S THANKSGIVING DINNER." There are paintings in the background labeled "LINCOLN", "WASHINGTON", "GRANT", and "WELCOME CASTLE GARDEN" The corners are marked "COME ONE COME ALL" and "FREE AND EQUAL". The people at the table vary in age, gender, race, and style of dress. The centerpiece is labeled "SELF GOVERNMENT" and "UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE". The overall attitude is cheerful and hopeful.

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

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

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

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

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

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...

Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

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

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Driving through the mountains today, trading tunes with old friends. Rediscovering the KEXP live version of "Años Atrás" by Balún. The way it deepens halfway through with accordion and ratchet and coke bottle 🌕🏝️ youtu.be/eUAg35jMb04?is=khX3QiMa2wn…

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

There is so much to recommend about Ellen Ullman's "Life in Code." It's generous and nuanced, sympathetic to those who find beauty in software while revealing the rot within the industry. I keep thinking about her observations about the 2010s MOOCs for aspiring programmers. Her comparison of the […]

Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

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The use of "PhD" in AI marketing suggests weird beliefs about credentials in tech. Meta promises us "a tutor [with] a PhD in every subject" despite the stereotype of PhDs as famously untrained teachers. I get what they're going for but I don't want a PhD tutoring me in algebra 2 or elementary […]

sky @scroeser.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

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Can anyone recommend a good *academic* reading about the way that investment is fuelling the growth of AI in tech?

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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

This listing of alt.fan.* newsgroups from 1995 is a provocative reflection of netizens' pop culture at the start of the dotcom boom. (Keep in mind, these were spaces for fandom AND anti-fandom!) A representative selection from the letter "D": alt.fan.dan-quayle alt.fan.devo alt.fan.dice-man […]

Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

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"Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a serious book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in barrels, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in […]

Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

My #cantopop summer can't sleep with Sandy Lam's version of Take My Breath Away aka 激情 (Passion). Wong Kar-Wai yoinked tf out of this for As Tears Go By. He was like, "Top Gun? Never heard of her." Meanwhile, it was 1987. Top Gun was still in theaters! […]