Mastodawn

The city, in spite of its numerous wires, poles, erected structures, and lights, even using its best-effort reaching-for-heaven contrivances, cannot completely hide the beauty of the sky from us.

John Wilson 22h ago

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occult Feb 17

Here’s an ad for cross-compilers and assemblers for UNIX environments.

My favorite detail here is this brag: “Over the past 3 years, we’ve built over 1MB of working code.” Cross-compilers, assemblers, simulators, and debuggers targeting six architectures across a dozen hosts. This code was dense.

The 80’s #UNIX wars were a wild time.

It’s also very fun to read the articles from the time and see what they were predicting for the future. “UNIX for the masses” was a popular topic.

John Wilson 23h ago

Computer Facts 1d ago

metaverse wasn't inevitable
ar glasses weren't inevitable
blockchain wasn't inevitable
nfts we'rent inevitable
ai isn't inevitable
nothing is inevitable!!!!
the ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make
and could just as easily make differently
make choices
make choices
make choices

John Wilson 1d ago

CarveHerName 1d ago

#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", was arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.

She was later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #DutchHistory #Histodons

John Wilson 1d ago

RE: https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/116266446181775620

Also if you are out of lasagna noodles, you can just cook up a crapload of elbow macaroni and make lasagna with it - that’s what happened at our house last week

John Wilson 1d ago

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the kamala harris of going to bed at a reasonable time 1d ago

how about instead of everyone does this shit you let them make linux illegal in california and see how quick the tech ceos show up at evil ken doll gavin newsom's chateau to get this shit reversed

John Wilson 1d ago

Global Museum 1d ago

The Man Who Went Shopping For Dining Chairs and Accidentally Bought Stonehenge.

On September 21, 1915, a British barrister named Cecil Chubb was given a very simple task by his wife, Mary. She sent him to a local auction in Salisbury with strict instructions: buy a nice set of dining chairs for their home.

But as Chubb sat in the auction house, he got distracted. "Lot 15" came up for sale, a 30-acre plot of land featuring a crumbling, dilapidated ring of ancient rocks.
@VisionaryVoid

John Wilson 2d ago

░▒▓█ 𝕘Ｒαᐯ𝕀т𝐀ѕ █▓▒░6d ago

dude cmon, take a picture of your ID. it's not a big deal just upload your ID to the computer. bro don't be weird, just take your social security card and tape it to your forehead. what are you, a pedophile? mail a notarized copy of your birth certificate to chipotle headquarters

don't you get it? the only way to make sure children are safe is for you to put your genome sequence in your ad reads on youtube. bro cmon. look. i've mailed you a usb-c blood test. upload the results to www. hitler .com or i'm IP banning you from spotify

I was urging someone younger today to really appreciate the regional accents of the old folks around them, because after tv and other media spread, accents started to die and our generation will pretty much live to see the end of them. I've already outlived many I remember personally. I miss them - perhaps especially the ones that at the time I considered bumpkin.

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