*Did you ever think about the people who hand-painted glass slides for magic lanterns? For a good long while, they were "magicians," almost #deadmedia

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*This woman's very genuine expertise in 100+ year old silent film is serving her well here. #mediastudies #deadmedia #deadAI

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An edge-notched card for a picture filing system, categorizing images by attributes / characteristics like "spiritual or mystical" and "protesting or in revolt" (but not "that have just broken the flower vase" or "that at a distance resemble flies"). From Stanley Rice's Book Design: Systematic Aspects (1978). #deadmedia #punchcards #indexing

*Polish guys inventing steampunk monster pianos, and they happen to hire Frederic Chopin to play them because he's young and hanging around #deadmedia #Aeolomelodicon

*Tell me that you've never been a computer-history museum curator. #deadmedia #functionality

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In a remote corner of Vancouver airport domestic Terminal B, in a nook that formerly held a payphone, a 2008-2010 yellow pages and two white pages #DeadMedia

*There is probably some arcane Bluesky reader who would fully appreciate this bizarre exchange and that guy would probably be me #deadmedia #postapocalypse #ancientweirdness #computation #archival

*AIs "taking over the world" while dying like mayflies. #deadmedia *Also why this Blade-Runner-esque euphemism "retiring"

"The "Computer Family Tree." They're all extinct. A petrified forest couldn't be deader. #deadmedia #computation

*I'm quite the fan. #deadmedia #Lovecraft medium.com/@bruces/the-...

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