Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

“I am a stutterer. And the fact that I could do the voice of Darth Vader was a crowning glory.”

Farewell to James Earl Jones (1931-2024)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-earl-jones-dead-darth-vader-1235996060/

#JamesEarlJones

The long awaited alpha release of the new web browser developed by @fredldotme is now available in the OpenStore!!

Everyone: say hi to Mimi browser!

https://open-store.io/app/mimibrowser.fredldotme

#UBports #UbubtuTouch #OpenStore #Web

Hello, Fediverse! We're Kagi, and we're on a mission to create a friendlier, more human-centric internet that has the users' best interest in mind.

Our core product is a search engine that is ad-free, tracking-free, and fully supported by our users. We've worked hard to deliver a high-quality, fast, and reliable search experience without compromising user privacy: https://kagi.com/

Excited to engage with the community here.

#Search #Privacy #AdFree

Just saw the new 50th anniversary restoration of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE CONVERSATION (1974) at IFC Center in New York City.

“It remains one of my favorite films,” Coppola said in a pre-taped intro. And mine too.

Gene Hackman’s deadpan paranoia is my official mood of fall.

#FilmMastodon

Beyond impressive.

"Until ALICE, there hadn’t been a single mother on TV in a low income job, fighting for healthcare, fighting for benefits…Those stories came out of awareness of what was going on for working women.” — Linda Lavin

ALICE debuted on CBS tonight in 1976.

#ClassicTV #1970sTV #LindaLavin

Joan Blondell #BOTD and Tyrone Power in NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947).

She was always a natural, but she operates on another level in this film.

It's streaming free (with a library card) on Hoopla and nowhere else.

www.hoopladigital.com #FilmSky #FilmNoir #FilmMastodon #TCMParty

Hi y'all! I'm a writer, researcher, and organizer living on unceded Kumeyaay land. I profess and serve as Faculty Director of the #Labor Center at UC San Diego as my day job, where I teach in the Communication department, the Science Studies program, and the Design Lab. I write about tech workers serving capitalism and fighting capitalism. I help build #tech people want (such as the Ride United #coop #taxi app) and fight the tech we don't. I helped found AI data worker project #turkopticon.

The brilliant Melissa Dell first taught her course Econ 1342: The History of Economic Growth at Harvard, in, I think, 2015. When I learned about this, my reaction was envy: I thought that I would like to do that.So I do:

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Econ 135: Course Syllabus & Schedule (Preliminary)
Eight thematic areas, from humanity's evolution into an "anthology intelligence" to the development of modern economic growth institutions and beyond. The human progression from Malthusian societies of domination... 1/

An #introduction for my new mastodon home: I make graphics for the Washington Post, mixing journalism, data, design and programming. Expect to see posts about building graphics, open source projects and links that I think are worth your time.

Fan of #dataviz, #d3, #rstats, #opensource, #jazz and unfortunately the #cubs.

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The key slide for Day 1 of Modern Plain Text Computing

Just unveiled a new black sketchbook and have begun an experimental artistic journey. Excited to see where this takes me! 🖤🎨 #AliceInWonderland #sketchbook

A selection from the huge varieties of potatoes grown in Peru

📸 c/I The international potato centre

(TIL - Peru has 4000 varieties)

"Almost any scene we ever did, we could look into each other's eyes and be comforting or uplifting for each other.” — Mary Tyler Moore

Valerie Harper (1939-2019) was born on this date.

#ValerieHarper

Dropped a new episode of The Self-Host Cast with none other than @danb himself, open-source advocate and developer of @bookstack and RSS. Give it a listen and let me know your thoughts!

https://selfh.st/cast/episode-5/

#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #documentation #podcast #podcasts

Happy Birthday to the LVFS

9 years ago today I wrote 4 little PHP scripts and pushed it to OpenShift which was the beginning of the LVFS. We've since rewritten it in Python, switched the deployment from "sudo git pull" on the server under my stairs at home (literally) to deploying onto AWS with Terraform.

In 9 years we've onboarded over 140 vendors, shipped ~110 million firmware files and added support for ~85 firmware update protocols for ~1600 different devices. I'm pretty happy with that.

I left Adobe years ago, but many still use it.

In light of recent scandals, we felt it was time to make a video on Adobe's massively exploitive history and what to do against big tech companies like Adobe. Watch it now!
https://youtu.be/sOX8x5Fy6AA

Patreon screws me over, says a big Apple did it and ran away.

Patreon has two billing models, monthly (bills on the first of the month, or whenever they get around to it) and daily (charges you the moment you sign up.) For several years now, they have...
https://jwz.org/b/ykXg