ugh, I forgot random morning image again. good thing you folk don't really know when my morning is!
mmmmmm
F361.12
Fairies take revenge
on mortals
who destroy their homes.
RT EGVroom @egvroom.bsky.social
" #OutRun GB is OUT NOW for your Game Boy Color.🌴
- All the tracks, all the music, all the wind in your hair! "
Free rom on itch
https://rocketshippark.itch.io/what-if-outrun
(video from bluesky post)
#pixelart #indiedev #gameboy #retrogaming
I remember outlets like PragerU and Fox News getting so upset about it circa 2015, almost always in the context of "universities!" "people coming to universities and making them into nothing but women's studies, Black studies, and gender studies!"
and quite honestly, I found that so incomprehensible I basically wrote the entire thing off as a reactionary conspiracy theory that had nothing to do with real life.
Only much later did I finally find out that Antonio Gramsci had existed and I was like "......oh". Gramsci believed, in a nutshell, that Marxist parties would only successfully form if progressive types already controlled all the bourgeois positions of prestige and held them down from reactionaries.
What had seemingly happened was Tory types had found out about Gramscianism and freaked out about it and confused anarchism and anti-racism for Gramscianism when they were never the exact same entity.
From there things only got more confusing. I asked myself many times if Gramsci was remotely right on the particular point that people could occupy parts of society to change culture, or "the popular mentality" as he put it.
For a while I thought he was simply wrong. "It's like he thinks there's a single Spanishness Office that rules on what all culture will be. Can there really be such a thing?"
I was convinced for a while that there was no Spanishness Office. What Gramsci recommended might work practically for some purposes but it wasn't actually changing "culture".
Only after a lot of thinking did I realize that most likely, it was a deepity to try to claim this, because after everyone had been going on about "culture" and "mentality" and "attitudes" I'd made a wrong assumption in thinking that "culture" and "mentality" were actually what any of this was about.
What I think now after dissecting this concept over and over is that it is actually an argument about free will. What people are actually doing is arguing over whether corporations and government offices have free will.
And that may sound ridiculous. But if, say, a corporation is being misogynistic, it has to be making that decision somehow. This leads people to elaborate discussions about how they can basically hijack or rebuild the free will of corporations into a different "desire" to mitigate the damage they cause as fast as possible.
So, are there Spanishness Offices? Yes. There are going to be some ten million Spanishness Offices that will all do whatever they want in spontaneity to the detriment of everybody unless millions of people in millions of places can conquer each and every one of them separately.
The Spanishness Office — Q21,50
The abstract concept of the overall culture of a nation or population being a singular, nearly-physical place such that if people don't like how Spain's culture is treating the people of Spain they could just all flood into the Spanishness Office and take it over.
[Dimensionality:] S1 - motif or phenomenological description of concept
[Field:] Western Marxism / Gramscianism (W)
Mutual aid link for Camp Sovereignty
If you'd like to donate funds to the people at Camp Sovereignty who were attacked by neo-Nazis yesterday, here is a link with bank details.
Yes it's an Instagram link, do not @ me.
I'm hacking on a Wonderswan game now, and it's got a fun CPU:
An NEC V30, which is an 80186 clone. So this is basically an 186 portable!
So @rek made this fantastic illustration for Sunflower BASIC, a tribute to Moebius' cover for Alice BASIC. 🌻
👀 ooo there's a new "small vm" price segment up at https://colocataires.dev!
2 vCPU / 4G / 25G for CAD$10/mo
highly recommended, and not just for the delicious maple flavor 🇨🇦
I've just released the Elite Compendium Addendum for the BBC Micro B+.
It contains two bonus versions of Elite for lucky owners of the B+, including musical BBC Master Elite for the B+128.
See https://elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite_compendium.html for details.
some of you know that i wrote a book - "Mages & Modems" - soon to be published, about my experiences growing up in the 80s and 90s with microcomputers in northern canada.
back in 95-97, as a teenager, i worked at the arctic's first ISP. but before it became an isp, ssi micro was canada's only Gateway 2000 computer retailer.
a village of less than 500 people housed a massive 40,000 sq ft computer store.
i've been searching for photos of the old computer store, before it disappeared in the 2000s. the search has been fruitless for twenty years, until today.
today i found the one surviving photo of the store EXACTLY as it was the day i left it to go to university when i was 17 years old.
an annotated version of this photo will appear in the book. the photo is painfully low-res (digital cameras were VERY new in 97), but you can make out some of the details if you squint.
a few fun things: the cowprint sweaters in the center of the photo are official Gateway 2000 gear. i don't remember us selling a single one to a customer 😅
directly behind the sweaters are slatwall shelves (every computer store had 'em!) full of games. my big box copy of Dune CD-ROM - the one with the incredible sandworm mouth - came from that shelf
to the right of the sweaters and main entrance, along the shelves, are dozens of ISA and PCI upgrade cards. whenever a customer made a custom order, i'd walk over from the service bay, grab the upgrade card, and stick it in their machine. it was always exciting to get to test new weird stuff like SCSI and video capture boards.
the computer on the far right was supposed to be for customers to test out software and our internet service. i never once saw a customer use it, but i sure as hell got a lot of Quake DMing done on that machine 😆 it was a Gateway 2000 full tower with a Pentium 90. the fastest machine in the building.
i was a repair/ISP technician in those days, and my little service bay was beyond the wooden birch-coloured doorway. that room also housed our local dial-in lines (four of them!) and 33.6 Sportsters.
if you're interested in reading the book, i'll be posting about it more in the coming weeks. i've got a few review copies out, and once i've had more feedback and (made some edits) it'll be ready to go.
if you can identify some of the software or hardware in the photos, i'll be happy to include it in the annotated version with credit :)
anyone else remember the html code you could add from icq to show your on/offline status on your homepage 😅
source:
https://web.archive.org/web/19980212183219/http://www.icq.com/respondpanel/
@amoroso here is another blog, where he describes electronics and microcontroller projects: http://www.technoblogy.com/show?KVM
I came across a nice blog I didn't know, Lispology, by the developer of uLisp. He mostly focuses on Common Lisp and writes short, clear posts with readable code about interesting problems and projects, often with elegant solutions and the recurring theme of recursion. The blog offers a lot of tidbits and insights into using Lisp.
Thinking of the feed as a generic single-file export format. Does that make sense? Or would it make more sense to just zip HTML and images? It also only works if the feed items contain images as attachments or as data URIs 😨 I half remember some big blog platform doing this: offering import and export of the whole blog as a feed. Do people still do it?
My mate @kev has launched his #retrocomputing project - a comprehensive database of #cobalt #qube hardware and software!
https://social.cobaltqu.be/kev/p/1756331769.981318
Illustration from the Russian children's book, Tales of Gagarin.
