Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@social.cleverlibre.org

Here's the kicker. It's not that Galactica picked the wrong law. It is that the Padua economist to whom Galactica attributes the law, Gianni Brandolini, DOES NOT EXIST.

Galactica's phrasing of the law itself? That does not exist either. No one has ever said that phrase online (rather a surprise, tbh).

Galactica doesn't let us "access and manipulate what we know about the universe." It generates *pure bullshit* — which, incidentally, will be orders of magnitude more difficult to clean up.

@dto crazy how many of the people here have been using #Emacs longer than I've been alive...

How does it feel to watch the rise and fall of so many technologies? Especially as someone already invested in the "right" one?

Babbage Patch Finds # 11 Cold War Computing

In 1957, at a #Washington DC trade show, Burroughs' message:

"COMPUTATION: THE HEART OF THE WEAPON"

Sadly, true & it played on Cold War fears in the year of #Sputnik

Computing key to nuclear weapons & command/control. It spawned some (rare) anti-nuke activists from CS like ACM co-founder Edmund Berkeley.

Burroughs supplied #USAF ATLAS #missile guidance #computers

#coldwar #policy #marketing #Military #AirForce #ATLAS #radar #Histodons #DoD #nukes

A first beta for Cosma CLI v2 is now available!
3 big additions: in the spirit of the Otletosphere, tabular data import & new graphical options; managing several projects; and chronological mode.
Beta-specific docs can be found here: https://cosma.graphlab.fr/en/docs/cli/user-manual/
Details: #thread ↓

Is there a good article on #Mastodon #Fediverse that compares it with similar decentralized communication systems such as #Usenet, BBS, mailing lists, telegram groups etc. including history and specific properties, benefits and limits of each system? I've only seen superficial references so far.

An anonymous donor sent me the "spritzer" feed of Twitter for October 2021-November 2022. (It's a much smaller sample than "sprinkler" or "firehose" but it's still many tweets.)

https://archive.org/details/twitterstream?sort=-publicdate&reCache=1

RT @fbuehring@twitter.com

Learn how De Gruyter's new open source font came to be!
(great cooperation and support from @letexml!)

https://twitter.com/fbuehring/status/1592830223590252550

Very happy with the list of accepted papers for #CHR2022! This is the third edition already. It is really starting to become a tradition!

PDFs will follows soon. Check out the programme here:

https://2022.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/

Hello everyone! Now, I have also arrived at #Mastodon, thanks to #fedihum! I am part of the #DigitalHistory unit @ #Bielefeld University, and I'm looking forward to toot with you about #DigitalHumanities, Digital History, #TheoryOfHistory and much more! #introduction #DH #theory

Do preprints need to change when they're published in a journal?

I answered that in my latest piece & discussed some of the evidence around how limited changes can be.

I'm working on a much longer piece on the data around peer review for next year too 🙂

https://researchsquare.com/blog/how-different-are-preprints-from-their-published-versions

If you’re a fan of early internet history (ARPANET, BBS, Homebrew Computer Club) then I’d highly recommend this interview with Kevin Driscoll.

Listening to it, I realized how narrow my understanding of this history was. Local pre-packet-switched BBS, actual physical bulletin boards, other early networks-of-networks. All outside academia and run by hobbyists and moderated by volunteers. Lots of parallels with the Fediverse.

Check it out: https://techwontsave.us/episode/129_how_the_modem_world_shaped_the_internet_w_kevin_driscoll

On concision, time, and the language of witness in A Mind Forever Voyaging
https://golmac.org/the-future-is-terse-the-constrained-rhetoric-of-a-mind-forever-voyaging/

#interactivefiction #infocom

[Nuit, hiver, #vélo et la loi suisse]

Si ton vélo est électrique, il doit avoir un phare avant (blanc) et arrière (rouge) fixes et toujours allumés (art. 178a, al.1 OETV)

Si le seul moteur de ton vélo, c'est tes gambettes, c'est différent:

"Si un éclairage est requis, les cycles doivent être munis au moins d’un feu blanc à l’avant et d’un feu rouge à l’arrière non clignotants [...] visibles à une distance de 100 m de nuit par temps clair. Ils peuvent être fixes ou amovibles." (art. 216 OETV)

Last Thursday, my colleagues and I were invited to talk about AI and games. Johan Cuda (left) and I (right) presented Pac-Man ghosts' "personnalities", while Isaac Pante (center) made the best demonstration of the game.

That happened at the Museum of the Hand in Lausanne. Scientific mediation is so rewarding. There were friends, students, and a lot of strangers, and a lot of great discussions.

Thank you @r2gf for the picture and being in the audience!

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