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Derek Reilly
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HCI prof at Dalhousie: spatiality, embodiment, mixed reality | Dad | I also quite enjoy running in the woods...
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psfsoftware is a mirror that reflects the times and the environment it was created in.
this is why much software created in the 1970s counterculture was joyful and humanistic, and why much software created in the 2020s capitalistic hellscape is soul-crushing malware (adware, spyware).
#retrocomputing can mean celebrating hardware limitations and creative coding, but it can also mean celebrating personal computing - computers that are tools for liberation - bicycles for the mind, not cattle trains to the slop farm.
Stephen FarrugiaNever before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
EUobserver"The US alone has already spent more money on this conflict in the last two and a half weeks than the $23bn (€19.9bn) I need to save 87 million lives this year," said Tom Fletcher, a senior official at the United Nations.
https://euobserver.com/207273/us-war-spending-in-iran-could-have-saved-87-million-lives-says-un/
Halifax ExaminerParliament must ban Canadian firms from doing business with ICE
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/parliament-must-ban-canadian-firms-from-doing-business-with-ice/
Morning File by @TimBousquet
Open Culture (Official)A New Online Archive Lets You Read the Whole Earth Catalog and Other Whole Earth Publications, Taking You from 1970 to 2002
A New Online Archive Lets You Read the Whole Earth Catalog and Other Whole Earth Publications, Taking You from 1970 to 2002
Today, if you want to get started in home brewing, shop for a synthesizer, find out what cybernetics is, order non-genetically-modified seeds, start your own mushroom farm, learn how to repair a Volkswagen, subscribe to libertarian publications, purchase the work of Marshall McLuhan, sign up for an outdoor excursion, read an essay on zen Buddhism, compare home-birth setups, gather homeschooling materials, build a geodesic dome, you go to one place first: the internet.
Juan Carlos MuñozDon't fall for those #mastodon verification scams! Please remember that the only way to verify you're a mastodon user is to post a picture of your arduino-controlled 3d-printed toothbrush.
Augie RayConservatives: It is outlandish that liberal performers would cancel Kennedy Center shows because of Trump.
Also Conservatives: Trump-appointed executive director Richard Grenell reportedly set aside 50 tickets for a conservative group with “instructions to harass” the performer.
Hazel WeaklyThe two hardest problems in Computer Science are
1. Human communication
2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important
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