#boingboing — Public Fediverse posts

Today is a national ICE OUT protest, so please consider not working, going to school, or making purchases in solidarity:

https://boingboing.net/2026/01/30/ice-out-national-shutdown-friday-protests-in-all-50-states-on-saturday.html

#peoplepower #boingboing #iceout #fascism #solidarity #ellsworthtoohey

@annika I read Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) https://pluralistic.net/ blog where he does a 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, 1 year ago links and yesterday one of his #25yearsago was his first #BoingBoing post https://web.archive.org/web/20010124080600/http://boingboing.net/2001_01_01_bloggerarchive.html

Made me #nostalgic I also realise how lucky I was to be in my early 20s back then just as the web was good, the endless possibilities.

#Singapore: Jail for man linked to crime syndicate that contro https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Singapore

#Concord, #NewHampshire: #House #Democrats release photos from Jeffrey Epstei https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-capitals.html#Concord

#Engineering #News: 'Architects of #AI' is Time magazine's 202 https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#12

#Irishnews: Taylor Swift brought to tears over Southport attac https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#irishnews

#BoingBoing: Gavin #Newsom woke again https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc-varied.html#8

From #boingboing.net

“#Byte magazine ran in print from 1975 to 1998, a golden age that began with the first commercially successful personal computer and ending with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or the introduction of the iMac, perhaps.) At byte.tsundoku.io, you can explore the visual history of the "small systems journal." You can zoom into it like a map of the heavens…”
All the articles, and the ads, too. Very cool.
https://byte.tsundoku.io

#Computing #computers

You wouldn't steal a font...

Font used in famous anti-piracy campaign was pirated
https://boingboing.net/2025/04/24/font-used-in-famous-anti-piracy-campaign-was-pirated.html

#YouWouldntStealA #AntiPiracy #boingboing

On a whim, I set a smol pornocalypse test for Google's Gemini AI chatbot. I asked it for summaries of the content at a pair of decades-old blogs: ErosBlog and BoingBoing. It returned a very nice summary of BoingBoing, but went all "Sorry, Dave, I can't..." on me about ErosBlog.

"As a language model, I’m not able to assist you with that."

Sure, Jan...

https://www.erosblog.com/2024/08/19/gemini-pornocalypse-test/

#Pornocalypse #Gemini #Google #AI #Chat #Chatbot #LLM #LanguageModel #Blogs #ErosBlog #BoingBoing #SearchInvisibility

Coin toss not so random after all, says groundbreaking study. A new study claims that the outcome of a coin toss can be predicted with 80% accuracy by using a high-speed camera and a machine learning algorithm. The study challenges the common assumption that coin tosses are fair and unbiased, and could have implications for gambling, cryptography, and decision making. #CoinToss #MachineLearning #BoingBoing https://boingboing.net/2023/10/10/coin-toss-not-so-random-after-all-says-groundbreaking-study.html

#sandisk
#ssd
#faulty
#WesternDigital
#BoingBoing

https://boingboing.net/2023/08/20/western-digital-still-selling-defective-sandisk-brand-ssds-that-it-refuses-to-answer-questions-about.html

I’ll believe UFOs are real when one lands on the White House lawn.

https://mastodon.cloud/@boingbot/110780492891602082 US Congress kicks off public UFO hearings today (Watch live here!) https://boingboing.net/2023/07/26/us-congress-kicks-off-public-ufo-hearings-today-watch-live-here.html #boingboing #Extraterrestrials #UFOs #UAP #Gort #NoKilli #KlaatuBaradaNikto

What happened to kids’ books about the future? Gray Stanback asks where are the children's books illustrating hopeful visions of the future. They were all the rage from the late 1970s.

#BoingBoing notes that #Usborne is reissuing 1979's "Usborne Book of the Future", a glimpse into a more optimistic age that some of us grew up in.

Kids need hope like adults need #solarpunk. We can get to a brighter future!

https://boingboing.net/2023/06/24/usborne-book-of-the-future-re-issued-in-uk.html

https://medium.com/illumination/what-happened-to-kids-books-about-the-future-16ec3efadd14

#hope #future #books #ChildrensBooks

https://archive.org/details/lp_sound-effects-volume-vii_unknown-artist/disc1/02.03.+Medieval+Battle+(15th+Century).mp3 Good they clarified it was 15th century, wouldn't like to accidentally use this sound effect in material about 14th century. #curosity via #boingBoing

Blink-182's Travis Barker is hawking enemas
https://boingboing.net/2023/04/25/blink-182s-travis-barker-is-hawking-enemas.html

‘In a video, Barker advertises the Enema of the State kit as the reason behind all of his success. "What's my secret?" he asks. "How did I marry the woman of my dreams? How have I had such a successful career in music? I use Liquid Death mountain water. In my asshole."’

#Enema #Kardashian #LiquidDeath #LiquidDeathEnema #Blink182 #BoingBoing #EnemaOfTheState

#TheMetalDogArticleList
#BoingBoing
Frank Zappa to David Bowie: "F you, Captain Tom" | Boing Boing
On guitarist Adrian Belews Facebook page, he shared this hysterical story about a surly encounter between David Bowie and Frank Zappa: In 1978 I did my first tour of Europe as stunt&#

https://boingboing.net/2023/04/10/frank-zappa-to-david-bowie-f-you-captain-tom.html

#FrankZappa #DavidBowie #CaptainTom #HonoraryKnighthood #LifetimeAchievement #MusicLegend #MusicIconsKneelbeforeCaptainTom

#BoingBoing
Hundreds pack a BART train car for a rowdy punk show | Boing Boing
Further proof that the kids are alright. Two San Francisco punk bands False Flag and Surprise Privilege performed in a BART train car Friday night.

https://boingboing.net/2023/01/09/hundreds-pack-a-bart-train-car-for-a-rowdy-punk-show.html

#punk #PunkShow

I just ran across this amusing vintage (2017) Boing Boing post about how Tumblr could be the new Dada. → https://boingboing.net/2017/01/16/is-tumblr-the-inheritor-of-the.html

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#Dada #ArtMovements #Tumblr #BoingBoing

A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at impeachment aquittal

https://boingboing.net/2020/02/12/a-calvinesque-and-hobbesian-lo-9.html

via #BoingBoing #TomTheDancingBug