My entry for Yuri Jam this year is a web shrine for my Yurivania games. I feel like this image is a pretty good pitch for the aesthetic and nerdy value of such a site—

🧱 = Fortified? 🚪 = Indoors? 🪨 = Underground? 🌊 = Underwater?

The cryptocurrency industry has been working overtime to sell a story: that there is a large contingent of voters voting based on candidates’ crypto policy stances. The problem is, it’s a story that does not seem to be well supported by data.

https://www.citationneeded.news/when-did-cryptocurrency-become-a-voter-issue/

#CitationNeeded #crypto #CryptoLobby #USpolitics #USpol

What the actual fuck Ottawa. This is was an ad on Reddit.

What we need is safe cycling infrastructure and to not victim blame road violence.

#BikeTooter #CANPoli #Autoawa #Ottawa #CarBrain

"I believe reCAPTCHA's true purpose is to harvest user information and labor from websites," asserted Andrew Searles

"If you believe that reCAPTCHA is securing your website, you have been deceived."

reCAPTCHA has used:

819 million hrs of human time

$6.1 billion USD in wages

134 petabytes of bandwidth

7.5 million kWhs of energy

7.5 million pounds of CO2

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/24/googles_recaptchav2_labor/

A wide ask here so please boost: my grandfather is trying to get rid of an old business computer, and I was wondering whether any vintage computer people might want it. It was purchased for $50k from The Ultimate Corporation in the early 80s. This ran the Pick operating system, and my best guess is the hardware was originally manufactured by GE or Honeywell. It's about the size of a half-rack and currently lives in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. It has sat covered in plastic in a chemical warehouse for the past 35 years. Where do people usually post stuff like this other than here? Thanks!

#RetroComputing

Haven’t read “Hillbilly Elegy”? Good. Here are some better suggestions. #bookstodon

https://bookriot.com/books-about-appalachia/