Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Hey, I made a bunch of weird, quarter-scale retrocomputers. This is a thread, so feel free to share.

Or check out the documentation in non-mastodon form:

https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/BeBox.html

stolen from elsewhere

Meanwhile on Twitter:

#seattle! don’t forget we’ve got a toot-up this weekend! sunday @ 330p in cal anderson park or rachel’s ginger beer depending on weather. boost the heck out of this. <3

Hot-takes on how "bad" fedi is by people who joined a week ago remind me of this seminal piece of deep insight:
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

> Six reasons Mastodon won't survive

It was published 5.5 years ago (and counting).

I want David Cronenberg to design the new USB standard, so all the ports and plugs sigh and moan and writhe before finally accommodating each other’s anatomy in a blissful, disturbing union that allows charging and data transfer to occur effortlessly between all equipment.

If #Mastodon existed in the 1980s! Please boost this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV8Q0WOYoag

Hi everyone,

As of right now, I've identified 18 members of Congress/ committees/ office on #mastodon, of which 8 are confirmed as authentic.

The list is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1egupogzhZgPgcM1NcIxBC4iW2xgvs1qJPAG568YaCuY/edit?usp=sharing

#legislatures

Remember What They Took From You.

One of my favorite images in the category 'Future of Work'. From 1930!! 😳

"The futuristic world as envisioned by Echte Wagner advertising cards, 1930. Wireless Private Phone and Television."

Source: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/futuristic-visions-cards-germany/

#futureofwork #work #tech #innovation

How much public space we've surrendered to cars (Swedish artist Karl Jilg)

IN DEPTH: We previously reported that the GNU Image Manipulation Program would be renamed to LIGMA, as a result of long-standing controversy over its name. This article from our sister publication Fast Developer World covers the story in more detail. https://www.wpfastworld.com/11/23/open-source-graphics-editor-gimp-will-be-renamed-ligma-small-tech-news/

In the few weeks since I've returned to both Tumblr and Mastodon (following the slow death of the bird app), both of my timelines have been a veritable tapestry of what I tend to call the "weaponization of white weirdness"

specifically the fear of white folks who dominate specific subcultural spaces that the inclusion of more people who weren't already part of a subculture will somehow alter the cultural aesthetics, mores, etc

very "there goes the neighborhood" syndrome