Conversations big tech doesn't want people having / Because we all want to scream Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at Ada's Technical Books, Seattle, WA Sponsored by @testtrack4.com https://smokesignal.events/did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/3mlpspv3hzc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/eliza.dayhttps://bsky.app/profile/eliza.day/post/3mmjvslte422pLook at her, a prisoner of the gutters, condemned by every syllable she utters [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 May 2026 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmjvslte422phttps://bsky.app/profile/eliza.day/post/3mlwqrwqx5s2tIn 1968, Douglas Engelbart gave "The Mother of All Demos" at Stanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center, presenting the next fifty years of technology in 90 minutes https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY?si=-nhEyFFKNvR_sTaB16 May 2026 01:59 +0000at://did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwqrwqx5s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/eliza.day/post/3mlu2g3utds2615 May 2026 00:14 +0000at://did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlu2g3utds26https://bsky.app/profile/eliza.day/post/3mltwx7g7a22sIn 1992, Director Barry Levinson made a movie anticipating the next thirty years of militarized youth culture and drone warfare, heavily influenced by the works of French surrealist painter Marcel Duchamp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_vxkIm9z8k14 May 2026 23:12 +0000at://did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltwx7g7a22shttps://bsky.app/profile/eliza.day/post/3mltwhijw422sIn the 1980s, one soul stood out among the people to raise a bold idea: establishing a human colony on Jupiter, an idea they would weave into the very material of transportation itself. That person's name? We have no idea. They were generally considered a crackpot. They most likely died in poverty. https://toynbeeidea.com/why/14 May 2026 23:03 +0000at://did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltwhijw422shttps://bsky.app/profile/eliza.day/post/3mltvscmkm22qcome to @eliza.day https://smokesignal.events/did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/3mlpspv3hzc2n14 May 2026 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltvscmkm22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/eliza.day/post/3mlttg6zgts2aIn 2002, the United States military-industrial-congressional complex organized a war game to prove how the forces of American technical superiority would fare against an outnumbered, out-technologized opposing force. They lost. Hard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_200214 May 2026 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlttg6zgts2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/eliza.day/post/3mlrpqehfx22wOn April 1st, 1990, David Waitzman of the Internet Engineering Task Force issued RFC 1149, a specification for establishing a connection to the Internet via packets taped to the leg of a carrier pigeon www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc114914 May 2026 01:57 +0000at://did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrpqehfx22whttps://bsky.app/profile/eliza.day/post/3mlro26jcbs2wNext week, on the 20th of May... https://smokesignal.events/did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/3mlpspv3hzc2n14 May 2026 01:27 +0000at://did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlro26jcbs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/eliza.day/post/3mkwq724do22t https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaman_(video_game)03 May 2026 08:24 +0000at://did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwq724do22thttps://bsky.app/profile/eliza.day/post/3mktbnlw5hs2dLooks like we've already got a couple followers, cool! We'll be heading back to Cal Anderson Park in a couple hours, featuring @box-din.bsky.social—if you're in the neighborhood, feel free to drop by and say hello! 😃01 May 2026 23:25 +0000at://did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mktbnlw5hs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/eliza.day/post/3mkrqf2vsec2s01 May 2026 08:44 +0000at://did:plc:7hcfawkdurjqnnxvore26fur/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrqf2vsec2s