Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the History of Earth Day ⌘ Read more…

Women’s History Month spotlight: Honoring women developers ⌘ Read more…

I can’t believe it’s controversial to say “somebody with a 30+ year history making women uncomfortable shouldn’t be in a leadership position”. That’s not “cancel culture”, it’s just friggin’ obvious.

This is an awful take. The issue isn’t that he’s cantankerous and rigid; it’s that he’s sexist, misogynistic, ableist, transphobic, and has a decades-long history of making women feel unsafe. This isn’t “cancel culture”, it’s “consequences” (as is usually the case with that term).

According to my fish history, the previous post was not the first one of mine that started with “In case you were wondering…” and I’m not sure how to feel about that.

A brief history of melancholy ⌘ Read more…

Black History Month Spotlight: Honoring Black creators, activists, and community builders ⌘ Read more…

History is what we choose to remember “History is what we choose to remember”*… | (Roughly) Daily

Bash emacs command history via ^R ^P ^N ^S, who knew? https://blog.pythian.com/emacs-keybindings-in-bash/

A Dollop of History
A blog about medieval food, with recipes to bring the past to life! Fourteenth-century mushroom pasties anyone? ⌘ Read more

Unexpectedly amusing: my 24-line .zsh_history. (chsh is near the end.)

‘The Right Side of History’ is a Spook. On Whig History and Self-deception. ⌘

Bletchley Park & The National History of Computing Museum ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/bletchley.html

On the blog: Re-Imagining Law Enforcement https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/31/police.html #history #philosophy #politics

📚 Finished reading Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang

📚 Finished reading Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang

travels with a cat, quite a fine cat, its only flaw being that it refuses to enter any enclosed space whatsoever, bad history or something

The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart – The Art of Research https://theartofresearch.org/a-history/

Malfunctioning Doorbell Lessons: Hey, At Least It Wasn’t Hacked https://tedium.co/2019/04/16/doorbell-history-doorbell-malfunction/

Havel, Power of the Powerless, 1978 https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165havel.html

401(k)s, abortion, youth football: 15 things we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years - Vox https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18226563/50-years-wrong-side-of-history-future-prediction

Untold History of AI: Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/untold-history-of-ai-the-birth-of-machine-bias

Psychic Healing at the End of History | Hannah Gais https://thebaffler.com/latest/psychic-healing-at-the-end-of-history-gais

Bad idea of the day: twitter except it just updates your local ~/.plan file & keeps no history

Band name of the day: a game called history

The History of Text Generation | http://mathesonmarcault.com/index.php/2015/12/15/randomly-generated-title-goes-here/

Untold History of AI: When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/untold-history-of-ai-charles-babbage-and-the-turk

Random link from the archives: https://tedium.co/2017/10/24/public-domain-film-history-copyright/ originally archived Thu Oct 26 08:16:35 EDT 2017

Apparently, not only is Netflix making more FMV VNs, but Youtube Red is going to produce some too? As a VN author I can’t complain too much but jesus are we in 1993 again? The return to forgotten history in the tech industry gives me whiplash

Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/building-the-system360-mainframe-nearly-destroyed-ibm

Webcomics: an oral history - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18295369/webcomics-xkcd-questionable-content-dinosaur-comics-90s-internet-social-media

PSA History: It’s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Children Are? https://tedium.co/2019/04/04/public-service-announcement-psa-history/

SnackWell’s History: Eat More, They’re Healthy https://tedium.co/2019/04/02/snackwells-history-low-fat-cookies/

Space Exploration History: The Space Shuttle and the Horse’s Rear End http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html

The many counterfactual histories of Nazi Britain | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-many-counterfactual-histories-of-nazi-britain

📚 Finished reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Moondog History: Part Viking, All Musical Icon https://tedium.co/2019/03/28/moondog-musician-history/

📚 Finished reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Milk Crate History: Too Well-Made Not to Steal https://tedium.co/2019/03/19/milk-crate-theft-history/

Educational Toy History: Did The Erector Set Copy Meccano? https://tedium.co/2019/03/21/erector-set-educational-toy-history/

Who are the Public? Public Sphere, Opinions, Moods & History - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Yv0FamjCw

How Telegraphs and Teletypes Influenced the Computer https://tedium.co/2019/03/14/teletype-computer-evolution-history/

There are three kinds of haunted houses: the return of the repressed (the history-haunted house), the dressing room for werewolves (the house that just makes people crappier), & the house-that-is-monstrous (the amateur architect’s place)

History is the time-inverse of science fiction: While coming from different directions, both write fictional accounts that converge on the present, and both are inspired by facts but usually not true to them.

Adobe Antitrust Concerns: Is the Photoshop-Maker Too Big? https://tedium.co/2019/03/12/adobe-history-antitrust-concerns/

List: Revolutionary Quotes From Centrist History - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/revolutionary-quotes-from-centrist-history

GitHub - pirate/ArchiveBox: $ The open source self-hosted web archive. Takes browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more… https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox

Acne Medication History: Why Clearasil Was Marketing Gold https://tedium.co/2019/03/05/acne-medication-history-clearasil-oxy-proactiv/

Workplace OS History: IBM’s $2 Billion Microkernel of Failure https://tedium.co/2019/02/28/ibm-workplace-os-taligent-history/

Why Do Americans Love Ice Cubes So much? https://tedium.co/2019/02/26/ice-cubes-history/