@rafaelfajardo

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designer, researcher and educator at the University of Denver. Founder of SWEAT, a loose collaborative dedicated to creating socially conscious games. he/they 🇨🇴🇺🇸
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Stefanie Tam didn't just design the cover. She designed the interior, combining source code, annotations of that code, and scans of printouts of the code. Here are two excerpts.

What a feat! A work of art!

On July 1, 2026 We launch the Art, Culture, and Technology program within the School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver. This also signals the closure of the Emergent Digital Practices program which had commenced in 2012. EDP was itself an evolution of two programs; Digital Media Studies, and Electronic Media Arts Design.
This is an evolutionary measure in a time of contraction and existential uncertainties in higher education.
America's Library of Congress Officially Inducts... the Soundtrack for the Videogame 'Doom' - Slashdot

America's Library of Congress "is preserving a little piece of Hell," jokes Engadget, "by inducting the soundtrack to the original Doom into the National Recording Registry." The album of demon-slaying tracks is joined by several other notable 2026 additions to the registry, like Weezer's self-tit...

Star Wars is to 20th century American English language what El Quijote was to 17th century español castellano.

no, am not joking. it was the meme and soundbite phenomenon of its time.

#StarWars #MayThe4th

But, I would reply, look at how hard everyone is working in my factory, how much harder they are working than this time last year. So much raw material is coming in to be shelved and stored, my machinists are rushing about heroically, oiling machines today and putting out fires on the ones oiled yesterday, our floors are covered with the milled scraps piled so high, everyone helps to sweep them aside or walks around them, look at how we are all working so hard, how we are all working so hard...

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Ep 76:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/19087169-there-s-no-ghost-in-the-machine-with-carmen-maria-machado-2026-04-13

Carmen Maria Machado joins @alex and me to get into the why and how of writing and to soundly ridicule the idea that any of that could or should be automated.

The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now.

Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia.

Read the full announcement ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s-supreme-court-records-and-briefs-the-arguments-that-shaped-america-now-freely-available/

#DemocracysLibrary

Here’s a quick preview and location scout out of School Yard Beer Garden where the fourth Denver Comics & Arts Festival (DeCAF) will be held on Saturday, May 9th.

DeCAF is a free event that will feature an afternoon with close to a hundred independent and small press artists, cartoonists, publishers, local businesses, authors, and zine makers from all around Colorado and beyond. Come by and check all the comics and art about. I mean, it’s free. What do you have to lose?

Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA — original Command Module and Lunar Module code repos are now public domain resources

The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available to anyone to read, download, and tinker with.
#hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/original-apollo-11-code-open-sourced-by-nasa-original-command-module-and-lunar-module-code-repos-are-now-public-domain-resources

Your 1990s files are slowly turning into magnetic dust. Leontien Talboom at Cambridge University Library is leading a rescue mission for our digital past. She uses hobbyist tools to pull data from moldy disks that standard drives can't touch. She even recovered lost lectures by Stephen Hawking. You can use her Copy That Floppy! guide to save your own archives. It requires specialized hardware like the Greaseweazle to capture raw magnetic pulses. Don't wait until the iron oxide flakes off for good. Check your storage boxes for those chunky rectangles before they become silent plastic.
🧠 Magnetic decay destroys data after 20 years.
⚡ The Greaseweazle captures raw flux signals.
🎓 Cambridge recovered Stephen Hawking's notes.
🔍 Follow the Copy That Floppy! guide now.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/floppy-disk-archivist-project/
#TechHistory #DataArchiving #VintageTech

The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks

It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

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