Crazy Eddie's Used Computers

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

A man, adorned in formal white labcoat and tie stares into your eyes through coke-bottle glasses. In his hands he holds an RCA SelectaVision Capacitance Electronic Disc. With a deft movement he slowly releases the catch... and slowly reveals the platter inside. You cannot resist it, you have no choice but to watch. To look into those eyes. To see... the future.

Well, hello ladies... can I interest you in the finest in home video entertainment?

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

a frame from Darren Aronofsky's 1998 film Pi. its protagonist, a white man, is crossing a Manhattan street and looking pensive. a subtitle reads: 12:45, restate my assumptions. One. AI fucking sucks.

Everything in the news right now is like the Blow Up the Moon sketch from Mr. Show. "The monkey wants to know why. Why did we collect millions of books just to destroy them? Haha..." (Bob Odenkirk looks worried)

Ugh, what if I'm incapable of independent thought or action?

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Where is our national press? The government has been shooting at and harassing clergy for months. This used to be a red line. The reality is their red line moved, not yours. They’re cowards.

YouTube video by Angela Collier this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain

This is a great video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF.... The thing that bakes LLM users' brains is the same thing that bakes billionaires brains: the outsourcing of any executive function, paired with constant flattery.

An ad from a 1965 issue of "Computer Design" magazine, reading (in multiple typefaces): "WHAT THIS COUNTRY *NEEDS* is a good $98 SHAFT ENCODER." You know it's true.

Now more than ever, I'd say!

if you can afford to spend 30 seconds chatting and trying to look nonchalant as you fumble with a gas canister, perhaps you are not in a scenario where chemical weapons are warranted

I’m doing my part!

Bruce, Charles and Jeff are hacking the DEC PDP-7a

We’re open Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays 10-4. Non-members welcome for just $9, book a time at icm.museum

"i serve the Lord, not a draft-dodging coward" is the kind of phrase that would be slightly cringe online and is incredibly badass when being stated by a man surrounded by armed men threatening to murder him

No.

Photo of the cover of Moby Grape's first album, sitting on a Teletype. The first track on this excellent psych rock album, "Hey Grandma" features the lyrics quoted in the post.

Robitussin make me feel so fine
Robitussin and Elderberry wine

Just gonna do a bit of reading about the future.

YouTube video by Folding Ideas This Is How You Get JARHEAD Sequels

This is How You Get JARHEAD Sequels

youtu.be/i5m-RHS1fU0

The closing track ("Perfumed Garden") has the worst lyrics ever written about /getting it on/ and also there's a section where it's just Ray and some unidentified woman moaning and nothing has ever, ever been less sexy. It was, however, at least a distraction last night from *gestures around*

A photo of me holding up a rather worn LP copy of Ray Manzarek's "The Whole Thing Started With Rock & Roll Now It's Out Of Control." This album has 4.5 stars on AllMusic and I am not in agreement.

My record listening adventure has taken me on many twists and turns over the past ~750 records. I've found records in my collection I forgot I even had, and among them were some real gems. I feel very secure in saying that this one is the worst I've listened to so far.

KEFKA: Life, dreams, hope, where do they come from? And where are they headed? These things... I am going to destroy! Weehohohohohoho!

MEDIA: Clown emperor outlines daring new vision for second year

that's a very Pink Cloid.

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying.

They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

I've become unstuck in time again, haven't I. Shit.

Yow!

Would you like to see UNIX V4 on MissPiggy? #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #unix #softwarepreservation

I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight.

1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral

[rant]