Ben Bradley

@benbradley@mastodon.online
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250 Posts
As a long-time electronic design engineer and programmer (from the 6502 to C and C++), I've always been interested in and informally studied #science and #mathematics. I'm resisting the illusion that if I move over to the mathstodon.xyz server that I'll suddenly know more math(s). Also, amateur musician.
Ben Bradley6d ago
Cory Doctorow on the enshittification of Facebook and just about everything else. Good stuff starts about 10 minutes in:
https://archive.org/embed/the-internet-con
The Internet Con : Internet Archive : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Join us for a virtual book talk with author Cory Doctorow about THE INTERNET CON, the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.Resources...

Internet Archive
Ben BradleyJul 4

Actual email from ssa.gov, surely ordered by the dicta ... Our Wonderful Leader, Trump:

"Social Security Applauds Passage of Legislation Providing Historic Tax Relief for Seniors"

Ben BradleyJul 4
I remember hearing it on the radio way back when, but I went about 40 years not knowing the name of the tune is ALBATROSS.
#FleetingMemoryASongOrPoem
Ben BradleyJun 22
We need a bingo card for various Trumpisms whenever he speaks. It'll be "a bingo card the likes of which the world has never seen before!"
Ben BradleyJun 2

"On Friday night — the traditional time for cowards to announce important but negative news — the Trump administration released ..."

So Trump IS a traditional President.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/trump-threatens-to-eviscerate-nasa-cb96

Trump threatens to eviscerate NASA

The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for the space agency

Bad Astronomy Newsletter
Ben BradleyJun 1
Photo of a cat and me taken a week or two ago, but posted today because it's #Caturday
Ben BradleyMay 30
Today's hot take: Any site that doesn't follow robots.txt should be fed Lorem Ipsum and other easily produced zero-value data. https://mastodon.online/@osm_tech@en.osm.town/114591053890272498
Mastodon

Ben BradleyMay 22
Damn You, Luckovich! Where's a kleenex ...
Ben BradleyMar 21
kottke.orgMar 21
A brave letter from a lawyer whose firm has declined to resist Trump. “[I wondered] what I would do in the moments…where my values were tested and demanded great sacrifice. I do not wonder anymore. I know who I am. I thought I knew who we all were.” https://kottke.org/25/03/it-is-now-or-it-is-never
It Is Now or It Is Never

There’s a letter at the end of this post that’s very much worth the read, but I have to explain some context first bec

kottke.org
Ben BradleyMar 21
It's another old-fashioned website with no GPDR popup, no SUBSCRIBE! popup, no autoplaying video or audio, no autorefresh ... I want my Web like this:
https://www.repairfaq.org/sam/lasersam.htm
Sam's Laser FAQ: Welcome Page