[macbethheadband]

Right click -> save as -> ancient curse

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[nchntd]

In the club

[tenebrobscuro]

The first simulated image of a black hole was calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.

[str-ngeloop]

the romance of hand-plotting. this guy looked at the numbers and drew each of those dots manually, and the image emerged. we can only imagine how he felt

[toyotathonics]

[userparamore]

HAYLEY WILLIAMS grammys 2026 outfit | photography by elsie joseph james and zachary gray

[smsomah]

Yemen, between 1985 and 2004. Peggy Crawford

[limulid-labs]

Television Cups (2024)

[nobrashfestivity]

Carl Urbano, A is for Atom, 1953 

[artsdrug]

minami illustrate ‘linger scarf’

[heraldic-thunderbolt]

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

[autheatrecesoir]

Julien Macdonald Fall/Winter 2011

[grayghostofthenorth]

Artist Riccardo Albiero "Quiet the Room" Oil and Watercolour on Board (2025)

[thunderstruck9]

Riccardo Albiero (Italian, 1996), Quiet the Room, 2025. Oil and watercolour on board, 50 x 49 cm.

[fairycosmos]

4pm total ego death

5pm phone in bed

[thesixthstar]

they should invent a secret second weekend so that you can see friends and do fun things while still having enough time to do errands and sleep in without dying of exhaustion all the time

[tsscat]

I don’t think people realize what keeping the internet running and producing most tech they use entails like. Physically, labor-wise, energy-wise.

[tsscat]

Purposefully included some older articles here so people can see how baked in this is:

Labor Conditions of Content Moderators (2021)

Inside AOL's "Cyber-Sweatshop" (1999)

Digital Labor and Imperialism (2016)

Amazon Mechanical Turk: The Digital Sweatshop (2012)

Gig Economy, Algorithmic Control, and Migrant Labor (2022)

The Rise of Cyber-Coolies (2003)

Ecological Impact of Computation and the Cloud (2022)

The Environmental Sustainability of Digital Content Consumption (2024)

Carbon Footprint of the Internet (2010)

I think a lot of times I see people talk about this stuff in relation to AI. It's right to talk about it, but I hate when people act like AI is the only tech that has these problems. What you see with AI now is a reflection of the broader tech and internet industry that has grown for the past 20-30 years.

[tsscat]

Listen, you can take away anything you want from this but just as a suggestion given a lot of responses I’ve seen here.

Conclusions from this which are not very productive: the Internet overall is bad and we should destroy it.

Conclusions that are perhaps more productive: Currently the Internet, which many lives depend on, takes up a lot of resources, has a climate impact, and runs on exploited labor. We need to find out how we can avoid this (it’s certainly possible), and work together to achieve this.

[brightdeadthing]

Come. And Be My Baby, Maya Angelou