I first met Philippe Kahn and Turbo Pascal 40 years ago this month
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Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet
Complex or complicated?
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The History of Wordstar
Security Vulnerability of Switzerland’s E-Voting System
The Problem With Counterfeit People
Whole Earth Index
KeenWrite
*Pantographia*: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)
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EMERALD AND STONE
Borges and Heisenberg converged on the slipperiness of language | Aeon Essays
ninxsoft/Mist
No sacred masterpieces
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Neo6502 the credit card size Open Source Modern Retro computer with W65C02 processor prototypes are ready for test!
Time ran slowly in the early Universe, just as Einstein predicted - Advanced Science News
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu
Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well
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Our homunculus is showing | Seth's Blog
Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s — Amy Goodchild
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The Backbone – Creatures of Thought
The new way of work | Seth's Blog
The Interstellar Style of Sun Ra | Pitchfork
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ActivityPub is the next big thing in social networks - The Verge