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I wonder if anyone's gotten a Z80 emulator running CP/M in a browser?

(thoughts like these are how I know it's time to go to bed)

Everybody wants mermaids but no one wants to be the one to fuck a fish.

The Fine Sweater is finally complete! Great pattern by Yu Jie, based on the comic by KC Green. This is definitely the most complicated thing I’ve ever knitted, and I think it took me as long to embroider it and weave in the ends as it did to knit it, but I’m glad I did it. Not recommended for anyone who is a perfectionist, though.
#knitting @knitting
#knittersofmastadon

for the love of the internet: DO NOT USE TINY URL OR LINK SHORTENERS UNLESS YOU OWN THE SERVERS AND PLAN TO KEEP THEM RUNNING BEYOND YOUR DEATH

the amount of dead links on my pre-2015 tweets it absolutely painful. there's no way to salvage any of it: Twitter won't include the actual URL in the data dump they give you.

i know people use them for metrics but for what you're paying them, get a blog with ActivityPub (ohai Wordpress) and push your toots from there. voilá! now you have metrics

Burningman dpw stuff: I made an AMA

reddit.com/r/BurningMan/commen

Never done it before and not looking for praise. But I have poured a bit of emotional stuff out that may or may not be interesting

Chess Grandmaster Anna Muzychuk refuses to play in Saudi Arabia and says: "In a few days, I will lose two world titles, back to back." Because I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia. I refuse to play by special rules, to wear abaya, to be accompanied by a man so I can leave the hotel, so I don't feel like a second class person.
#saudiarabia #equalrights

After eight years and work by several scanners, every issue of the elite #cyberpunk #cyberculture magazine Mondo 2000 is now online freely on the Internet Archive! View a list of downloads here, anarchivism.org/w/Mondo_2000

Check out some cool articles from the '80s and '90s that shaped our cyber future! R.U. a cyberpunk?

"I'm suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts wtih 'step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,' especially if you can't do anything else until step one is done. Of all the ways that people kid themselves into doing nothing, that one is the most self-serving."
--Walkaway (by Cory Doctorow)

I struggle with the notion that tech companies do not understand consent.

IMHO, they do understand consent.

They understand that seeking consent - freely-given, specific, informed consent - won't get them where they want to be.

To my mind, that's not a misunderstanding of consent, but a determination to avoid consent.

That's typically why one sees language of "choice" and "control" and "transparency" to describe an opt-out regime.

They're not confused. It's by design.

Jon Shaw nailing the Butthole Surfers reissue. “Somehow, someway, Rembrandt Pussyhorse sounds like it could have come out yesterday on some currently über-hip, punk-adjacent underground label (say, Feel It Records from Cincinnati, or London’s La Vida Es un Mus).” dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post #ButtholeSurfers #matador #punk #music

Today's pro-tip:

If you have to do a Google search, use “before:2023" at the beginning of your search string. You get a completely different (and IMO much more usable) set of results.

The web has died.

#Stract is a new, #opensource, #nonprofit #search engine. It has a lot of interesting functions. For example, users can exclude known copycat sites from search queries, focus on indie blogs, or do fediverse search only.

You can test Stract over here:
stract.com

And check out the repo on #GitHub:
github.com/StractOrg/stract

There's also an interesting article on Stract by @404mediaco:
404media.co/this-guy-is-buildi

TIL the most successful pirate of all time was a Chinese woman. She became so powerful that she negotiated with the Chinese government to retire in exchange for not being prosecuted and was able to keep a fleet of ships.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Yi
#til #todayilearned
reddit.com/r/todayilearned/com

Ignoring me when you see me out in public lets me know you really get me.

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