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"How Futurism gave us the word "robot," the movie Metropolis, and this map of the body as a factory."

Note: WordPress.com, not self-hosted sites. But who knows about Jetpack, Akismet, etc.?
"Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI." "The exact types of data from each platform going to each company are not spelled out in documentation we’ve reviewed, but internal communications reviewed by 404 Media make clear that deals between Automattic, the platforms’ parent company, and OpenAI and Midjourney are imminent."

"about nownownow.com and the /now page movement"

Hallgrimur P. Helgason. 3:30am on a September night in 2016 after "all of the other aurora watchers had gone home." Lasted only a minute. Composite of 3 photos: 2 of the sky, 1 of the landscape.

"Tips and tricks for making Microsoft leave you alone while you use your PC."

"Somewhere, somebody ran into this exact problem, but they never bothered to post a solution."

"[Judging by successful predictions] implies that the job of science fiction is to predict THE future, and it isn’t; the job is to suggest a smorgasbord of possible futures, so that society may choose the one it wants. "

webfinger, actors, etc.

"Any computer program can be designed to run from a single file if you architect it wrong enough! I wanted to create the simplest possible Fediverse server which can be used as an educational tool to show how ActivityPub / Mastodon works."