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This was floating around somewhere and I had the urge to remake it at a higher resolution and with a more appropriate font.

From my archives... this is what the command center of a mid-1990s dialup ISP looked like.

Later iterations would be more advanced, but this is how it started. A natural progression and leap of faith from the multi-line BBS it replaced.

#retrocomputing

OpenAI talks about ensuring AI is "aligned with human values" but if the CEO doesn't understand there are downsides to building a nuclear bomb and didn't even notice Mark Zuckerberg was the villain in The Social Network then it's unlikely the company is aligned with human values.

for just the price of a small silicon fab and injection molding equipment, we can deflate retro game costs to even lower prices

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Elon Musk is about to ditch the “Twitter” branding.

This is literally not a joke.

“Today In X” sounds like an algebra equation.

@pluralistic
"The problem with, say, Meta, is only partially that Mark Zuckerberg is personally monumentally unsuited to serving as the unelected, unaccountable, permanent social media czar for 3 billion people. The real problem is that no one should have that job. That job shouldn't exist.

We don't need to find a better Mark Zuckerberg. We need to abolish Mark Zuckerberg."

Cory Doctorow

craphound.com/news/2023/07/16/

This!

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I made a website today, by installing Microsoft FrontPage 98 on a 26-year-old laptop. And that website is about golf simulators. Well, more specifically, that website is about two bookshelves that contain golf simulators.

Get to know the Golfshrine at netizen.club/~wildweasel - retro browsers welcomed!

i was just locking down the office when in comes this dame. she looks desperate. husband's dead and coroner calls it an accident. his estranged brother was just made successor on his github she says. i take a drag. little did i know my life was about to git reset -- hard

I am finally getting somewhere with #uxn! There's no collision or anything, but you wouldn't believe how much work it was just to draw this.

So many people lining up to see the new Margot Robbie movie. Which is fair enough. After all, summertime is...

[Lowers shades]

Barbie queue season

[Flees]

A/B testing, aka automatic remote gaslighting at scale

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