mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06The revolution will not be computed. Lead curator, Gallery 404. Researcher, Beyond the Frame. Born: 335ᵖᵖᵐ CO2. Find out more: `finger schmudde@tilde.club`.
👥 CTO of Yorba in Turin, Italy.
ANSI artwork sales - one stop in the long-running effort to make a living off of digital art.
"Around the same time, Lora Ruffner decided to see if she could turn her artistic talent into a business."
~ https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/16/business-of-bbsing/
As @captaincalliope@indieweb.social identifies, naming harms w/o the power differentials that caused them makes manifestos easy to co-opt:
“Terms like ‘private,’ ‘dedicated,’ and ‘prosocial’ can be deployed to legitimize enclosure, concentration of control, and unaccountable personalization by organizations whose underlying structures remain extractive. A manifesto that wants to reshape computing must speak directly to the power arrangements that define computing today.” https://spacecadets.love/author/captaincalliope/
"Tenfold" by @spiralganglion@merveilles.town et al. for @inkandswitch.com's 10th anniversary is beautiful and lots of fun to play with!
If you're curious about what I'm working on right #now, I've updated my now page with the latest: https://schmud.de/pages/now.html
Book nerds, map nerds, music nerds are all invited.
I'm often humbled by how little I know about the problems I'm trying to solve.
But "Fixing Without Understanding" by @jessitron@hachyderm.io has the unintentional consequence of reminding me of how infrequency I use Gerry Sussman's "programming by poking" approach.
Being able to inspect the dryer's internals before you attempt to fix it makes a tremendous difference.
https://jessitron.com/2025/05/18/fixing-without-understanding/
TIL that Steven Frank, co-founder of @panic@social.panic.com, announced the @playdate@social.panic.com on Gopher. That's a sweet move.
gopher://stevenf.com/0/2022-04-18-first-playdates-shipping.txt
Microsoft will enforce software IP until the bitter end. Here's their recent archival release of Tim Paterson's DOS:
"[it] targets Seattle Computer Products' ASM assembler, so you will need a copy. It can be obtained from any release of 86-DOS or MS-DOS by Seattle Computer Products."
Hyperlinking to this could be dangerous. Just look at the (c) notice:
> Seattle Computer Products 8086 Assembler Version 2.24
> Copyright 1979,80,81 by Seattle Computer Products, Inc.
"Cash is Back Baby!", by @davi@mastodon.social, points out how a long-time trend in Germany is ticking up and becoming codified in Australia:
> The 2026 laws mandated acceptance at groceries and petrol stations, and banned surcharges on cards and digital. Policy followed a strong and growing cash preference.
On aerial phenomenon from the year 1561. With a surprise twist at the end: https://flashbak.com/celestial-phenomenon-over-nuremberg-april-14th-1561-463809/
Oh to be in Stuttgart:
“It is 2026. We have tried all the key combinations and helped to build the world in which we are hardly needed anymore. Computer users have generated enough data, uploaded enough videos, photos, texts, and documents for AI slop to thrive and for the Dead Internet to zombie around forever. The world we once saw as a place where we can be ourselves … has squeezed and evaporated our dreams, producing a [repurposeable] concentrate.”
