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and this is not something that's new or enabled by modern technology. professional analog photography has a long history of retouching. the pros do it, don't be ashamed to do it as well

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"real photographers don't need to edit their shots" is just another instance of "no true scotsman" just like how we have it so prominently in computer sciences

RT @MuhammadBalochh@twitter.com

The edit. The shot.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/MuhammadBalochh/st

collectors who aren't interested in archival have a huge potential to wipe out video game history, nothing new under the sun

RT @frankcifaldi@twitter.com

Okay everyone, I've got a video game preservation tragedy here, make sure you're sitting down.

We were recently gifted a pile of loose EPROMs for video game console games from the 90s. I spent a lot of last week identifying and connecting them. Here's the results. (1/?)

🐦🔗: twitter.com/frankcifaldi/statu

kinda wanna hire someone to write a user manual for me

all i'm good for is designing the covers :P

RT @castpixel@twitter.com

So @ResistanceStdio@twitter.com just blocked me. I art directed their game, made all key art. They threatened me with legal action for wanting to leave, and haven't paid me *anything*, which violates even their extremely exploitative contract. Avoid.

@wingsfundme@twitter.com this is not a good look.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/castpixel/status/1

RT @doctorow@twitter.com

Apple is a true business innovator: For more than a decade, they have been steadily perfecting an obscure anticompetitive tactic, turning a petty grift invented by console games companies into a global, cross-industry mechanism for extracting rents and centralizing control.

1/

🐦🔗: twitter.com/doctorow/status/13

RT @science2_0@twitter.com

Today in 1964 BASIC made its debut, in an effort to take programming out of the world of machine language.

Share if you're old enough to have gotten your start with it.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/science2_0/status/

RT @luizacaires3@twitter.com

Gurgel Itaipu, criado em 1975, foi o primeiro carro com motor elétrico desenvolvido na América Latina.

O Brasil já teve seus sonhadores

🐦🔗: twitter.com/luizacaires3/statu

this is the camera i want to repair, a Kodak Hobby 35mm produced in brasil in the mid-1980s

i've taken it apart several times and i know most of the mechanism but i don't understand enough about the flash circuitry (and i haven't been able to pull the entire board out yet)

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hey everybody, we have less than 30 of these pins left, if you'd like one you should get one soon! ko-fi.com/s/891699232c

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