Crazy Eddie's Used Computers

The ICL System 4

"It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stupidity is about to inundate us."

My issue with AI in the retro community specifically is that we don't need to talk to each other to get things done. It was lots of fun figuring things out together, getting to know each other as we go. Nowadays it's a stream of fait accompli "I made a thing!" posts. Feels passive, like watching TV.

no. i am not doing this to release marble madness.exe. if i wanted to play marble madness, i would open my emulator. i want to know how it works internally, how the development process worked, and any artifacts left behind in the process.

the "agentic" vision of computing is a spam world where everyone has their own personal army of spam bots working 24/7 on their behalf choking everything with spam to try and get one over on the next guy. and that's just not something that can really... exist, long term?

we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course

had a stray thought about this, decided to check, and inflation so bad adjusted guybrush passed $50 recently fineleatherjackets.net/monkeyinflat...

wild how we're getting a socialized Faces of Death before healthcare, college, free school lunches, or first world public transit.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

This is a project I really need to get back to and finish up... it's been in Beta for like two years now.

Two of MIT-MC.ARPA’s 256KW MH10 memory cabinets will be used to provide the KI10 with half a megaword. MC’s hardware is littered with notes by MOON.

More adults have made youth sports their entire personality in the last 10 years than any child in history. Why don't you go break up a game of hide and seek while you're at it, you fuckin' losers.

Well, now it's been 25 years, 3 years since I wrote this ode to remembrance and forgetfulness. And what have we done? www.the-reframe.com/never-rememb...

"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...

"Republicans and other supremacists are shameful because of the inhumanity of their supremacy; because they are my fellow citizens—human beings within our shared human community—and because they will not be ashamed of themselves, I will be ashamed of them." www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...

This may be my favorite Who album, it's light and carefree and goofy and it's just a lot of fun to listen to. And it's got a lotta beans on the cover.

That’s the goal of the Peter Thiel/Nazi/Big Tech centralized control of everything. All authoritative sources of truth can be updated as needed like Winston Smith revising history to conform to this week’s Party doctrine. And the excuse is just “they updated it, we’re not responsible.”

KICKI lives! icm.museum Thank you for supporting us!

Do you DIG the PDP-10? We’re hacking 36bits today at icm.museum #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

This was a very fun show, and everything worked flawlessly from beginning to end! Had a lot of fun talking with visitors about the Alto.

My score today during VCF load-in, courtesy of the amazing Friends of the Palo Alto Library’s book sale booth.

We are all loaded-in and set up for VCF West! Come by and see us tomorrow and Sunday at CHM!

The loading for the trip down to VCF West has begun...

Gonna be a good time!

KICKI is showing signs of life today as it can kind of examine memory locations. icm.museum #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Random impulse record purchase today. Not a ton of info on this band; Discogs (www.discogs.com/artist/43720...) says Tarwater is a "Self-described ‘hard-core country music’ band from Mountain Home, Idaho." I'm not so sure about the hard-core part but it's not bad.

This one comes to mind more and more often these days....

I made a new t-shirt that I think has an important message about the future and also about friendship and i think maybe you will like it roryblank.bigcartel.com

There's no way out of here, when you come in you're in for good

It's anchored on two pieces. I could honestly write 1000+ words about each one. The first one is by @baldurbjarnason.com about the disintegrating hegemony of US technopoly (and the conditions that served as the foundation for the VC-funded SaaS bullshit that funds 6-7 figure programmer salaries)

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

men only want one thing and it's fucking disgustig

Yes, I did the thing

More Sunday VCF PNW insanity.