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Profile photo is me at a puttputt course in pouring rain. My son is having a blast in the background.
Found a 2009 Mac Pro at the dump. #cambridgeMA . seemingly in working order, with upgraded RAM, GPU, and an M2 flash drive (which was not wiped, tsk tsk.) Gorgeous case!
This is the conclusion of one section of a really good article about the modern web and the people trying to control it. https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/
Surveillance Graphs

Vulgarity and Cloud Orthodoxy in Linked Data Infrastructures - A critical history of the semantic web and linked data, grappling with the next generation of surveillance capitalism, where grand corporate knowledge graphs devour the planet and sell it back to us as a glassy-eyed LLM personal assistants, will we remain stuck in the ideology of the cloud, or can we have better dreams?

Surveillance Graphs
Now my insurance's website is pushing _six_ different for-profit therapist companies

Just hooked up my #recordPlayer for the first time in a long time, and decided to test with this 50-year old album by #WendyCarlos (neƩ Walter Carlos).

First time I noticed it's "presented" by "#Trans-Electronic Music Productions, Inc."

This crazy thing is in the lunchroom at my work. #bloomScrolling
Same here, sunflowers. #bloomScrolling