Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti

@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

Not my first social media rodeo, probably not the last one either.

588 Followers 378 Following 1,955 Posts Joined Apr 2023
3 days ago

half-dead kennedys

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The Third Amendment, Privacy, and Mass Surveillance - Wake Forest Law Review 4 Wake Forest L. Rev. Online 1 Steven I. Friedland “The world isn’t run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money.  It’s run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data.  It’s all just electrons.”[1]...

if the AI is a de facto military agent, being injected into private spaces - maybe also violates Third Admendment
www.wakeforestlawreview.com/2014/02/the-...

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3 days ago

Wir brsuchen mehr Kaffeemaschinen, weniger Wasserkocher

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3 days ago

dot net dot org maxi over here still

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3 days ago

*Hate to break this to you. It truly *WAS* a technological marvel.

"The sense of wonder has a short shelf-life."

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Gugusse and the Automaton The Library of Congress recently discovered a copy of a “long-lost” film made in ~1897 by George Méliès called Gugusse and the Automaton (Gugusse et l’Automate), which “had not been seen by anyone

The Library of Congress recently discovered a copy of a film made in ~1897 called Gugusse and the Automaton, which "had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century" and "was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot". [kottke.org]

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Cypherkitteh 2026 YouTube video by Operator Burstup

Some of you asked me about the music that played in my "Using ChatGPT on a 42 year old Commodore 64" video. It's a new version of my tune Cypherkitteh, and I just uploaded it to Youtube and Soundcloud for you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEq...
#commodore #retrocomputing #8bit #elektron #syntakt

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1 week ago

spoilsport

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1 week ago
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a man wearing a cowboy hat and a denim jacket says " very hot " in white letters ALT: a man wearing a cowboy hat and a denim jacket says " very hot " in white letters
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1 week ago

lmao

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Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here
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My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you.
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“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

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1 week ago

can we just get to the guillotine phase plz bro

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Skateboard stop-motion

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Zcash Community Media Infrastructure & Support | Zk Av Club 2026 Zk Av Club — ZCG 2026 Month 2 Report (Milestone 2) Grant: Zcash Community Media Infrastructure & Support | Zk Av Club 2026 Reporting period: February 1–28, 2026 Milestone: 2 Complete: Yes "Fr...

Thanks to the communities supporting this work — including #zcash, @getdweb.net, and @archive.org

February 2026 report:
forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-comm...

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February was a building month for Zk Av Club.

Recording Station progress, Workshops launch, new roles, and infrastructure for open archives and community publishing.

Our goal is simple: help communities record their work and publish it in the commons, not on borrowed platforms.

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1 week ago

you misspelled cock

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2 weeks ago

publish them as a collection of short stories.

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2 weeks ago

The US Congress is dead.

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2 weeks ago

Bring back Crungus!

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2 weeks ago

This

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2 weeks ago

well done Alex. proud of you.

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2 weeks ago

Curious? This interview i did last october in Prague is now live :-)

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3 weeks ago

lmfao

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3 weeks ago

wth is a threeduce

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3 weeks ago
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Today 16:30 UTC: first Zk Av Club Open Call!

We’ll recap Jan + cover Feb progress: Recording Station updates, Internet Archive Batch #1 (10), Workshops, PeerTube, 2026 activations.

Get caught up before the call: zkav.club 📃

Join link in next post👇

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3 weeks ago

In this 20 min video @brettscott.bsky.social explains clearly and in non-technical terms what is at stake as monetary systems go digital, the role of cash, private and state digital money and stablecoins. Convenience vs resilience, surveillance and power and a great casino chip analogy.

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3 weeks ago

bistn Toni Polster ned begegnet nehm i ahn

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1 month ago

erm

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1 month ago
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Using ChatGPT on a 42 years old Commodore 64 breadbin. The juxtaposition of using a modern AI on a vintage box is quite amusing. Music is my tune "Cypherkitteh II". #commodore #chatgpt #retrocomputing TikTok video by Burstup

Using ChatGPT on a 42 years old Commodore 64 breadbin. The juxtaposition of using a modern AI on a vintage box is quite amusing.
The ChatGPT client runs on a BBS called Retrocampus.
Music is my tune "Cypherkitteh II".
www.tiktok.com/@operator_bu...
#commodore #retrocomputing #chatgpt

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1 month ago

I'm old enough to remember when vibe coding meant hanging out at qdot's buttplug programming booth at CCC

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