Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same. […] Link

“Imagine if we could begin our little life all over again. Imagine if it was all nothing more than some electronic game. Imagine if I knew then what I know now.” —Deus Ex Machina, Automata, 1984 […] Link

Historians have expressed growing interest in the intellectual influences of systems thinking during the early decades of the cold war. […] Link

Ludwig Hupfeld’s Model A self playing violin and piano. More details https://speelklok.adlibhosting.com/ais6/Details/collect/10814 […] Link

Rat Chaos is a 2012 stream of consciousness[1][2]art and browser game created by Winter Lake. While learning the software Twine, author Winter Lake[4][5] made the game “in a couple hours” on July 18, 2012.[2] Originally, the game was available via Winter Lake’s website monster killers. […] Link

Claude-Achille Debussy - Clair de Lune (Mondglanz, Mondschein, Moonlight), Suite Bergamasque, Debussy, piano. The Suite bergamasque was first composed in 1890-1905. “Claude Debussy Plays His Finest Works” Claude Debussy, Piano Roll, 1913.

Salamander Days in Banská Štiavnica remind the former fame of the most beautiful mining town in Slovakia, inscribed in the List of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of the UNESCO. The Days are concluded by a carnival procession. […] Link

If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underlying infrastructure and then chronologically. […] Link

Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. […] Link

Aside from the physical heft of data centers seen from highways and the fiber optic cables crawling into homes and offices, the digital world mostly exists in our imagination. That imagination is shaped by the people selling services that rely on that infrastructure. […] Link