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Radical Software Is “print about tape - a magazine by “underground” video people designed to spread ideas and applications for new television technology.” - Raindance Corporation, 1971
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Joseph Pedott, the man who brought us The Chia Pet and The Clapper, has died. Joseph Enterprises, a gadget company was founded in 1981.
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With the emergence of Large Language Model “AI”, everyone will have to learn something many disabled people have always understood. “Language skill indicates intelligence,” and its logical inverse, “lack of language skill indicates non-intelligence,” is a common heuristic with a long history. It is also a terrible one, inaccurate in a way that ruinously injures disabled people. Now, with recent advances in computing technology, we’re watching this heuristic fail in ways that will harm almost everyone.
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…by modeling a film camera in Blender to capture images in Blender. In excruciating detail. (SLYT) [more inside]
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On July 10, 2008, Youtube user mugumogu uploaded a video of their young cat Maru, but it was a collection of clips posted on January 11, 2009, with "まるです," "I am Maru," that made him a superstar, with over 26 million views. One of the first internet cats with a sizable following, last month, Maru celebrated his 16th birthday with fellow housecats Hana and Miri. Here's to a long and happy life of playing with boxes and sometimes embarrassing moments. [more inside]
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For most of her life, Nin labored in obscurity. Her nine works of fiction were ignored and passed over, so much so that she self-published four of them. Despite her certainty that she was a major force in literature, in the 1940s and ’50s she was still financially dependent on her East Coast husband, Hugh Parker Guiler, or Hugo. Swinging between two lovers may have started as a way to have everything, but it became a piecemeal existence full of guilt and obligation. From Anaïs Nin’s Decade-Long Adventure in Bicoastal Bigamy
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Word Solitaire is a browser game by Petri Purho. Clear the board by making five-letter words. "The Dark Souls of solitaire word games."
posted by Lirp at 10:48 AM PST - 27 comments

BREAKING NEWS: I'm a writer and I'm pretty sure this is not actually possible. I am speaking as someone who writes pretty much every day and changes positions often when I write. I carry my lap top with me from room to room where I sometimes can be found at desks and at tables. Other times I sit on sofas, in comfortable chairs and on beds. And yet I have never written a single word while lying face down on my stomach.
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Jason Belmonte’s two-handed technique made him an outcast. Then it made him the greatest—and changed the sport forever.
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For Disability Pride Month, check out these accessible ways to visit Nature. Accessible Nature: A Trail Guide for Disabled Hikers We highlight a selection of paths, overlooks and other sites in several U.S. parks that outdoor enthusiasts with disabilities can enjoy this summer. (NYT Gift Article)
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