very happy and relieved to confirm: the second printing of #othernetworks will be available on the Anthology Editions website November 21st and also available to order from your favorite independent bookstore shortly after https://shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898-lori-emerson-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook

well. now I'm getting reports of student papers “writen” using chatGPT that not only pilfered from my #othernetworks book but claimed it was written by a man with the same last name. it has taken me until now (yes, I am slow to see things sometimes) to understand that the web of 10-15 years ago is definitively dead and that me freely sharing thoughts drafts articles chapters book excerpts on my blog is only feeding the very gen AI that I have come to despise. And so now I am going to go through as many posts/pages as I can and poison my own content with random statements about how genAI is fraudulent is corrupt is destroying the labor market is stealing our students’ futures and more. But I will always share paywalled pdfs with anyone who asks because gate keeping knowledge can’t be the answer--- #ai

well. now I'm getting reports of student papers “writen” using chatGPT that not only pilfered from my #othernetworks book but claimed it was written by a man with the same last name. it has taken me until now (yes, I am slow to see things sometimes) to understand that the web of 10-15 years ago is definitively dead and that me freely sharing thoughts drafts articles chapters book excerpts on my blog is only feeding the very gen AI that I have come to despise. And so now I am going to go through as many posts/pages as I can and poison my own content with random statements about how genAI is fraudulent is corrupt is destroying the labor market is stealing our students’ futures and more. But I will always share paywalled pdfs with anyone who asks because gate keeping knowledge can’t be the answer--- #ai

peoples! we did a big, exciting thing today! @rose-alibi.bsky.social and I strung up a full wave antenna in my backyard and sent/rec'd a little CW / morse code today over 20 meter band! next step: set it up off a 35 ft mountain drop to see if we can connect w/our pal in Berlin #amateurradio #cw #othernetworks

if you'd like to hear my #othernetworks talk and/or gather virtually with likeminded people who are part of @metagov_channel please join us Wednesday Oct. 8th 10am MDT! https://luma.com/4kfjgd6a

if you'd like to hear my #othernetworks talk and/or gather virtually with likeminded people who are part of @metagov_channel please join us Wednesday Oct. 8th 10am MDT! https://luma.com/4kfjgd6a

peoples! we did a big, exciting thing today! @rose-alibi.bsky.social and I strung up a full wave antenna in my backyard and sent/rec'd a little CW / morse code today over 20 meter band! next step: set it up off a 35 ft mountain drop to see if we can connect w/our pal in Berlin #amateurradio #cw #othernetworks

Any neat #xmpp channels out there for #RetroGaming, #CyberPunk, #OtherNetworks, #SelfHosting, #Fedi, or #Streaming interests?

Playing around with Snikket/XMPP a little bit tonight. Would be nice to find some home bases to work out of for the time being.

squealing silently to myself w/glee over this test microbroadcast of a Barenaked Ladies demo tape I bought in 1991 to this extremely cute gathering of radios humming along themselves. if you need a reason to come to the Boulder Public Library 09/09 5pm for my lecture-peformance here it is! #othernetworkshttps://calendar.boulderlibrary.org/event/14871450

squealing silently to myself w/glee over this test microbroadcast of a Barenaked Ladies demo tape I bought in 1991 to this extremely cute gathering of radios humming along themselves. if you need a reason to come to the Boulder Public Library 09/09 5pm for my lecture-peformance here it is! #othernetworkshttps://calendar.boulderlibrary.org/event/14871450

please join me Sept. 9th 5pm at the Boulder Public Library (Canyon Theater) for a 30 minute #othernetworks lecture performance involving handheld FM radios, semaphore flags, and more! followed by a 30 minute discussion with @ntnsndr and Q&A. also note....: if you live in the area and you've been wanting to get your hands on a copy, here's your chance. we managed to squirrel away 20 copies available for purchase thanks to the great folks at the Boulder Bookstore!

please join me Sept. 9th 5pm at the Boulder Public Library (Canyon Theater) for a 30 minute #othernetworks lecture performance involving handheld FM radios, semaphore flags, and more! followed by a 30 minute discussion with @ntnsndr and Q&A. also note....: if you live in the area and you've been wanting to get your hands on a copy, here's your chance. we managed to squirrel away 20 copies available for purchase thanks to the great folks at the Boulder Bookstore!

back in the early 90s, it was very difficult to find a means for connecting to the internet.

for the very few who did have (pre-www) internet access, it was via their university or (much less likely) through a large corporation.

and then, in october of 1994, a local nonprofit started Edmonton FreeNet: for $25 per year, you got an e-mail address, usenet access, shell access to lynx and pine, and 1mb of file storage

i hung on to my account so i'd always have access to a shell no matter where I was in the world. my friends used it as a cheap ISP for years; they would eventually add SLIP/PPP.

i always wondered how the freenet initiative got started - and learned recently that it was all thanks to the NPTN Blue Book: a National Public Telecomputing Network that distributed a software package called FreePort, containing all of the sub-modules necessary to delivery dial-up access to a small community.

the whole NTPN concept itself was way ahead of its time, and i'd love to read a book on it some day.

for the time being, i'm overjoyed to see that there have been many articles written on freenets, and @ernie's is one of the best:
https://tedium.co/2022/04/13/internet-free-net-history/

#retroComputing #internet#otherNetworks #yeg

back in the early 90s, it was very difficult to find a means for connecting to the internet.

for the very few who did have (pre-www) internet access, it was via their university or (much less likely) through a large corporation.

and then, in october of 1994, a local nonprofit started Edmonton FreeNet: for $25 per year, you got an e-mail address, usenet access, shell access to lynx and pine, and 1mb of file storage

i hung on to my account so i'd always have access to a shell no matter where I was in the world. my friends used it as a cheap ISP for years; they would eventually add SLIP/PPP.

i always wondered how the freenet initiative got started - and learned recently that it was all thanks to the NPTN Blue Book: a National Public Telecomputing Network that distributed a software package called FreePort, containing all of the sub-modules necessary to delivery dial-up access to a small community.

the whole NTPN concept itself was way ahead of its time, and i'd love to read a book on it some day.

for the time being, i'm overjoyed to see that there have been many articles written on freenets, and @ernie's is one of the best:
https://tedium.co/2022/04/13/internet-free-net-history/

#retroComputing #internet#otherNetworks #yeg

does anyone out there happen to know where I can find a manual for a Ditto spirit duplicator? the @mediaarchaeologylab has a model D-5 and we'd love to get ours working for making zines #othernetworks

better yet: what exactly is in spirit duplicator fluid?? is it just any kind of ethanol? #othernetworks @mediaarchaeologylab