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Jason Scott

@textfiles

15 Jan

I realize I am an audience of one for my fanboyishness around DYNACOMP SOFTWARE, a discount software house that sizzled through the 1970s and 80s. Today I found out they had a retail store! Google Maps shows what the building looks like these days.

DYNACOMP PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

Here's a typical Dynacomp software manual. If you're looking for Frills, keep moving

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

9 Jan

https://twitter.com/MTW41592586/status/1348048349107265536

Ha ha this guy

https://twitter.com/MTW41592586/status/1348048349107265536

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

7 Jan

For my non-US friends (I always appreciate my Parliament-explainer friends):

* US House: Significant percentage of dumbs who get their seats in regions because they're with the dominant party

* US Senate: The scary legislative Machiavellians who you see portrayed in movies

It's a rule of thumb, of course - got a few dumb senators, a few clever-as-diamonds house representatives. But when you see Senators do clever walk-the-line speeches and house reps do "pull cork on the boat's bottom to let the water inside drain" out-of-touch things, that's why

That's why several senators quietly backed the votes to invalidate election results, and some included speeches but they were carefully phrased - for possible 2024 runs, to keep that base. They're thinking that far out.

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

6 Jan

Thank you for not blowing up my mentions asking if this is being archived

On the day of the 2016 inauguration, while I was at a conference of academics who brought me in to chat as they were all gathering science data, fearful that a lot of it would be taken down or deleted

I was sent a nice notification that years and years of alt-right and militia boards, subboards, postings and rants were already being packed up and preserved, and those mechanisms would run full bore

They've been running for years

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

6 Jan

Upon the death of Kelly Flock, I'm going to take this moment to mention some Video Game people who many of you never heard of, who (I believe) are still with us, just to not have accolades about them AFTER they're gone.