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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2025-02-05 at 14:36

eduroam will sneak up on you where you least expect it

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2025-02-03 at 14:58

Christopher Walken claims that he has never "emailed."

In death, the rest of us will be stuck in purgatory, cleaning out our overgrown inboxes, while he ascends. Untouched, immaculate.

https://www.wsj.com/style/christopher-walken-severance-john-turturro-dune-memoir-1e300ca7

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2025-01-15 at 20:12

📞 Exciting new (open access!) article from Jacob Bruggeman comparing "telephone enthusiasts" in the UK and phone #phreaking in the US. He argues compellingly that each contributed to a global movement of telco hackers.

Love this note about the availability of documentation: "To anyone paying close attention, the electronic keys to the telephone systems of both countries were ready for the taking."

🔗 Jacob A. Bruggeman, "Phreaking the U.K.", Interfaces, vol 6, 2025. https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2025-01-14 at 14:05

For anyone bringing #AI into their teaching this term, Tom Haigh just shared the syllabus for a new course titled "A Short History of Artificial Intelligence" (based on his forthcoming book). The supplemental readings offer a nice slice through the literature, from subject area experts to popular perspectives.

https://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/TUW

[#]mediastudies #dh #commodon #communication

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2025-01-10 at 16:41

My office is moving to Zoom phones. Has anyone set up a VoIP-analog gateway that will ring a conventional POTS phone? I want to rig up an unholy connection to a Model 500 over twisted pair! 🔔👹☎️

[#]voip #telephone #retrocomputing #zoom

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2025-01-09 at 17:09

From Jacob B reflecting on this yt clip of two buds jamming on a CD-J:

"Your friends are gassing you up, and no one's dunking on anyone, they're just dunking. Everyone in the cipher smiling so hard their faces hurt."

That's the nrg I want for the month ahead:

"No one's dunking on anyone, they're just dunking"

"No one's dunking on anyone, they're just dunking"

"No one's dunking on anyone, they're just dunking"

https://pleasantrealms.substack.com/p/black-coffee-and-shimza-type-of-effects

💿💿💿💿💿💿

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2025-01-09 at 16:45

good luck with your typing and clicking, everyone!

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2025-01-07 at 19:04

Shaping up to be a chaotic year in email. I've already been added to two gigantic raw CC lists this year. BCC is for narcs. Solidarity with my fellow recipients, whoever you are.

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2025-01-05 at 20:55

Love this passage from Hua Hsu on the limits of Spotify streaming data to capture the significance of music:

"The most meaningful songs of my life aren't always ones I can listen to over and over. They're there when I need them."

I remember Holly Herndon making a similar argument about recordings you hear just once that nonetheless flip your whole perspective.

Repetition, spins, streams, clicks, and views are such partial measures of value.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/mood-machine-liz-pelly-book-review

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2024-12-22 at 17:59

Cybertruck drives by and this kid yells out, "Wow! It looks HOME MADE!" 🚚🛠️

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2024-12-22 at 01:04

@bourgwick (there's a grateful dead connection right from the start!)

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2024-12-21 at 15:06

Fascinating interview with Mary Eisenhart reflecting on her experience as editor of MicroTimes magazine-- a wildly influential Bay Area computer publication (despite Mary referring to it as "fish wrap"!!!) via @savetz https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-446-mary-eisenhart-microtimes-magazine

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2024-12-19 at 15:02

powering through the morning with the #motherbeat

Eris Drew & Octo Octa - Mixmag Mix 043

https://mixmag.net/feature/the-mix-043-eris-drew-octo-octa-b2b-dj-interview-t4t-luv-nrg-motherbeat

[#]thisismyjam

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2024-12-18 at 16:18

I wanted to highlight text and hit alt+shift+b to look it up on ZoteroBib.

Here's my hacky prototype in AutoHotKey:

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/482033/#Comment_482033

[#]zotero #autohotkey

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2024-12-18 at 14:37

the sub sub sub bass on this track is taking me. i didn't even really hear it until i put on headphones. the bookshelf speakers couldn't reproduce those frequencies #thisismyjam

https://skeemask.bandcamp.com/track/ad-dub

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2024-12-16 at 15:16

Trying to imagine what it was like being a senior in high school in 2020. Your school closes for "2 weeks" and just...never reopens! No graduation, no prom, no senior skip day, no rites, no rituals. It's mind-bending.

And these kids in Brampton ON end up creating a huge inspiring chaotic music/video collective: https://musicblog.substack.com/p/interview-doflame

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2024-12-16 at 13:37

Locked into an exciting interview with Trish Kahle about energy, citizenship, and coal mining when the podcast cuts to an ad break: "PROPANE IS HERE AT LOWE'S!!!" 🙃🔥💀

🎧 Peoples & Things 75: Trish Kahle on the Labor History of Energy Systems https://athenaeum.vt.domains/peoplesandthings/2024/06/24/75-trish-kahle-on-the-labor-history-of-energy-systems/

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2024-12-03 at 13:52

The media studies students went so hard on their digital archive projects yesterday that they maxed out our shared disk space. Woke up to a dozen panicked midnight emails so now it's not even 9 AM and I'm throwing together an emergency Omeka mirror. Pow! Let's call it le longue #dayofdh2024

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2024-11-25 at 23:43

Here's the original version of the corrido she sang about the legend of EL TORO on the mound #ThisIsMyJam ⚾ 🤠 https://youtu.be/1F-QwBTpKDM?si=7yr1RhjCy604YJpk

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Written by Kevin Driscoll 📳 on 2024-11-25 at 23:41

🎙️ 🤠 ⚾ Love this story ➡️ Kendrick heard Deyra Barrera sing a tribute to Fernando "El Toro" Valenzuela at Dodger Stadium last month, immediately invited her into the studio, and now she's the first voice you hear on GNX

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/kendrick-lamar-deyra-barrera-mariachi-singer-gnx-1235178355/

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