Omar Rizwan

tomorrow at 11am 👇 tea + snacks provided! make sure to RSVP!! boshis.place/events/25-11...

This used to be how they made desktop wallpapers too…

ABSTRACT In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased. But When Prophecy Fails (1956), the now-canonical account of the event, claimed the opposite: that the group doubled down on its beliefs and began recruiting-evidence, the authors argued, of a new psychological mechanism, cognitive dissonance. Drawing on newly unsealed archival material, this article demonstrates that the book's central claims are false, and that the authors knew they were false. The documents reveal that the group actively proselytized well before the prophecy failed and quickly abandoned their beliefs afterward. They also expose serious ethical violations by the researchers, including fabricated psychic messages, covert manipulation, and interference in a child welfare investigation. One coauthor, Henry Ricken, posed as a spiritual authority and later admitted he had "precipitated" the climactic events of the study.

Whoa, “When Prophecy Fails” debunked? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Question from my rare book cataloging class! What is the longest amount of time you have spent working to catalogue one rare book? (You can DM if you don't want to admit it "out loud"). We are fascinated to hear your answers.📜

Large: I’ve been developing a take that computer history is one of the worst types of histories in terms of its body count on readers It’s just misleading and full of exaggerations and romanticism rivaled only by that of war history Thereby ruining young lives

alltom.github.io/programmingi...

Microsoft researcher Raman Sarin holds the Coffee Compass, which will locate the nearest Starbucks. It was "a study in user interfaces" that could be developed for other items. Paul Joseph Brown/Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"I could probably dig down into the water table and find better software"

Coffee Discord...

if you are a “maps never work indoors” kind of person, try the target app while in store at a target

It's not using the exact same cut and cloth as the past, not text-over-sockets, but the new world that's held up here for despisememt here looks so much like all the virtues and upsides of what the author is celebrating, that the old world only quasi delivered.

(because you need, like, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi services running all the time, you want to hot-plug USB flash drives, you want more permission granularity for random stuff you're installing, you want packages to be fenced and easy to install and uninstall, etc)

you can read posts like pappp.net?p=969 in an inverted way as a _critique_ of the Unix philosophy, that Unix just hasn't been good enough to construct a modern desktop environment and it's necessary to invent a new philosophy

automatically interposed by your text editor!

html tags should have timestamps of when they were created

leaning into this text editor/visual editor dual, i've made the code colourer detect comments like /*====*/ and turn them into sliders. I really like how plain old source code remains the 'source of truth' for all state and the editor just doodles over it.

WHOLE EARTH CATALOG
access to tools
[black sky]
[gibbous Earth]
[surface of the moon]
Spring 1969
$4

setting up a computer somewhere to continuously rerun your program to find a nondeterministic bug. once the bug appears, the computer halts the program and calls you on the phone, so you can connect a debugger and poke around that exact living program state

are u thinking of sunlit.place?

What's the website for when the dappled light filters down between the trees...

A phone with an insert coin slot

That could be us! We could do that here! #atproto

a laptop with an Insert Coin slot

(remembering my mom trying to read that hugo winner the windup girl years ago & it's sort of where I realised that thing where you figure out how a sf world is built based on like diegetic hints & non-explanations is a skill separate from the skill of making sense of normal narratives)

a social network where you can see all your friends' battery levels

unwrap/expect is essentially a lesson in how defaults matter a lot; it's good that you can do the dangerous thing easily with a *little* bit of ceremony to make sure you don't do it unintentionally

Good afternoon 🌳

I have a fire escape at my apartment… Sunday or Monday there, or Tuesday at Hex House lol