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#madmen — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. “Always #connected, always #posting & #consuming, we resemble #madmen now, giving voice to thoughts that are normally the province of the eccentric ranting on a street corner.” (Good piece, but doesn’t mention some obvious countermeasures: stay the hell away from #X, etc) www.ft.com/content/5d06...

    Welcome to slop world: how the...

  2. #CarolLocatell, best known to horror fans as Ethel in #FridayThe13th: A New Beginning, has died at 82 after a long battle with cancer. Locatell's first TV appearance was on #TheFlyingNun, and she also appeared on #MedicalCenter, #Bonanza, #Mannix, #MASH, #Dynasty, #ER, #AllyMcBeal, #GreysAnatomy, #MadMen, #NCIS, and #Shameless. Film credits include #Coffy, #Paternity, #SharkysMachine, #BestFriends, and #TheFamilyStone. Broadway credits include #BroadwayBound, #TheShadowBox and #TheRoseTattoo.

  3. Babbage Patch Finds #5: Kemeny's book & #Gendering #Computing

    [CBI has about 17K books, many rare, not this]

    Kemeny's '72 book--did it influence #MadMen #design?

    Co-inventor (with Tom Kurtz) of #Dartmouth #TimeSharing System #DTSS & #Basic Prog. #Language, Mathematician John Kemeny--a prodigy, PhD at age 23 full prof at 27 Dartmouth Pres.at 44

    Kemeny aided #accessibility but it was largely limited by #race #class & his book title on #interaction, was #gender excluding

    #Histodons #STS #HCI