Paul Lindner @lindner@social.coop
A challenge to the data hoarders out there. Find the contents of the amazing music archive that one lived at archive.uwp.edu (FTP or Gopher) and was mirrored to mirrors.aol.com.
@textfiles - didn't see it in the boneyard. Ideas?
We've now entered the Cyberspace future predicted 30 years ago. Expecting a resurgence in Industrial Music..
St Patrick's Day Isolation mood...
🎵 Caffeine sugar and THC
Is all that the doctors are gonna find in me
When they do the autopsy
The micro-organism won't get me 🎵
Remember to support local artists like @boiledinlead@twitter.com
Post yur playlist plz.. There are only so many Neil Cicierega tracks out there... Save me before I start hitting the Nightcore...
True story: After too much time in the Fortress of Solitude Superman morphed into Bizarro.
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Dug up some thoughts on #coop movement strategy I wrote in the aftermath of the last financial crisis.
http://cuhistory.blogspot.com/2011/11/bank-transfer-day-populism-and-strategy.html
The gist: grow in a gradualist way in good economic times, and get aggressive during downturns...
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Looks like Adam Curry spoke about Internet Gopher on the Rogan Podcast, so I had to dig this out of the email archives from September '93
@noagenda@twitter.com @adamcurry@twitter.com @adam #cybersleaze: https://1500wordmtu.com/2020/gopherserver-coming-soon
Turbotax, you had one job.. Because of this bug surviving spouses have had to mail instead of e-file for years. I escalated with support. They said it would be fixed, but could not notify me when. Just keep trying...
@turbotax @freetaxusa
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Catch it, bin it, kill it, and unionise to keep the world safe, comrade
By popular demand I started (manually) cross-posting to Instagram.
https://instagram.com/1500wordmtu
One of these days they'll have a proper API for individuals. Their current on is just super hostile...
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/
It is proven! I am lindner on Keybase: https://keybase.io/lindner/sigchain#867c45b0a6158a5709c1431061d664b2a5eec2ab1e4430f5ccb47ecb8191c0570f
At DNA Lounge - Hackers 25th Anniversary Movie.
Wow
Ugh, sorry about the bad quoting... #indieweb is a hard life to live some times..
The "Internet Gopher and Adversarial Interoperability" EFF Deeplink Blog post is now on Cory Doctorow's most excellent Podcast.
@doctorow @eff
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The latest in my series of case histories of #AdversarialInteroperability and the role it played in keeping tech competitive is the history of Gopher, which I was able to write thanks to the generous assistance of Gopher's co-inventor @lindner@twitter.com.
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Sad to hear about the death of Larry Tesler.
“Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?”
http://nomodes.com/Larry_Tesler_Consulting/Complexity_Law.html
@nomodes
