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@histoftech.bsky.social

Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. One of those they/thems.
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So a cop from out of town killed a homeless black man. That isn't murder?
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel confirms that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer detailed to the RNC shot and killed a homeless Black man (earlier reported to be in his early 20s) more than half a mile from the RNC arena. The man was known by the nickname Jehovah and took care of a pit bull named Isis.
Ohio police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.
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Please do not forget that this also killed his daughter Erica, who was an amazing woman. She died several years later from asthma, but...this killed her. Her health went into the shitter even as she tirelessly campaigned for justice. I really miss her.
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No one should be able to spend $45 million a month to get their preferred candidate elected. Absolutely broken system.
News that should shock no one: After assassination attempt, Elon Musk claims he'll donate $45 million a month to super PAC that backs Trump; Bill Ackman officially endorses; other Silicon Valley players and venture capitalists decree the "taboo" of supporting MAGA movement is gone.
More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believerswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.
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“Welcome to Sea World, your call may be recorded for training porpoises”
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There are folks who just walk around on tiktok live to show people their cities and the ones who do it in Chicago are making me really wish I still lived there😢
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This isn’t a secret but it also hasn’t gotten much attention: Bluesky outsources moderation to an AI-first third party content moderation company that has little to no interaction with civil society.
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I can't stop thinking about how Trump would eliminate our free, public weather service, NOAA. It's an institution that goes back 53 years and protects Americans everyday with warnings for tornados, thunderstorms and more. That's the Project 2025 plan. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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I've never seen a more accurate description of being a computer programmer.
he belpful 🥰
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Someone on here mentioned a remedy for paxlovid mouth (the metallic taste) and I think it was to take extra zinc but I can’t quite remember or find the post… anyone know?
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I also want to point out that Vance's whole "professors are the enemy" schtick came after he profited enormously from universities. Nowhere was "Hillbilly Elegy" pushed more than on college campuses. He cashed in with six figure speaking fees to talk about Appalachian poverty.
JD Vance has talked about emulating authoritarian Orban's gutting of academic freedom in Hungary open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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I just hate people cosplaying as poor people to shit on poor people
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Vance is a Theil-backed bag of shit in a man suit. But Teen Vogue went ahead and did an explainer on all the reasons why. (And is it just me or does he look like a colorized Bela Lugosi character here?)
Every Gen Z Issue JD Vance Is Againstwww.teenvogue.com From guns, and climate change to abortion and LGBTQ rights, the Republican VP is being called “Anti-Gen Z.”
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They will ABSOLUTELY be trying to ratfuck voter access in every single contested state
Lots going on today, so please be aware: Governor Whitmer is fighting for more voter access, and the Trump Campaign is suing to stop her. MI residents, worth calling and voicing support for her actions. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Trump campaign sues Michigan Gov. Whitmer over new voter registration siteswww.nbcnews.com The suit contends the Democratic governor and secretary state are improperly using some federal offices as voter registration sites.
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Of interest to my archivally minded friends: The tape is sitting there in the archives, but "NSA is not required to find or obtain new technology…in order to process a request"
“Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it: Intelligence agency claims it “no longer has the ability to view” 1982 recording” The FOIA response shenanigans described in the article are top tier🙄 www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release itwww.muckrock.com In a vault at the National Security Agency lies a historical treasure: two AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes containing a landmark lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper, a giant in the field of computer science....
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Lmao "NSA is not required to find or obtain new technology (outdated or current) in order to process a request"
“Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it: Intelligence agency claims it “no longer has the ability to view” 1982 recording” The FOIA response shenanigans described in the article are top tier🙄 www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release itwww.muckrock.com In a vault at the National Security Agency lies a historical treasure: two AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes containing a landmark lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper, a giant in the field of computer science....
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Just sitting here thinking about how murdering protesters with cars was a thing that became common under that guy's watch and he cheered for it.
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“Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it: Intelligence agency claims it “no longer has the ability to view” 1982 recording” The FOIA response shenanigans described in the article are top tier🙄 www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release itwww.muckrock.com In a vault at the National Security Agency lies a historical treasure: two AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes containing a landmark lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper, a giant in the field of computer science....
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“Its predecessors already produce hundreds or even thousands of words almost instantaneously. Now GPT-5 brings PhD writing skills to the table, meaning it can generate text at a rate of about ten words per day.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove Itwww.mcsweeneys.net “If you look at the trajectory of improvement, systems like GPT-3 were maybe toddler-level intelligence… and then systems like GPT-4 are more like ...
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The cognitive be dissonancing all over academia these days. So tired.
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Someone giving a literal keynote critiquing the history of eugenics, while unmasked, at a conference with no precautions. I wish it were a joke.
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New academia reality tv show in which hundreds of highly trained candidates get winnowed down to one champion, who is awarded the opportunity to teach intro classes outside their speciality with no research support!