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Jack de Quidt Jack de Quidt is a writer and composer based in Ann Arbor. Avatar by lorhsdraws.

as usual, if you've been waiting to pick up any of my music at notquitereal.bandcamp.com, today's the day to do it. realis is in a really interesting place and perpetua is bursting at the seams with traditional FatT tracks and also crumbs of musical ephemera that are sticking the video game together

i love slay the spire!!!!!!!!!

still live! come thru for act 3 :)

i am now pushing the button to go live to play slay the spire come hang twitch.tv/katbamkapow

not even a little bit, arthur

i explained what "roguelite deckbuilders" were to my therapist the other week and that's real and not a joke even a little bit

i will play slay the spire at 7pm eastern time at twitch.tv/katbamkapow please come over

i am thinking about streaming slay the spire later today to fight the horrors

i have a complicated love for ocr & text search in archival/scanned materials, spreadsheets, printers, .txt files, irc. i miss aol instant messaging and geocities. i like local storage and the idea of mesh networks, pagers, phone phreaking, radio waves, solar power, eink.

trying to remember what i love about computers. went to a risograph workshop the other day where the studio runs a ripped version of a windows xp computer so that one of their risos will still print. that's the closest i've felt to fine in a while!

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

yeah that one's gonna take me out of commission if im not careful

i set myself some writing goals for spring break but i also started playing monster train 2 for the first time

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The number of times I had to explain to people while archiving Ukrainian cultural heritage websites in 2022 that "the cloud" is physical servers that exist in the real world, and are at risk of being destroyed, along with power outages, network connectivity problems, and the like... 🫤

eating potato salad with dill pickle potato chips

gee I wonder

quietly deleting my post "pico de gallo is pickled tomatoes and onions" upon reading the room

somebody get this guy on the calendar planning committee stat

february too short. steal a few days from those 31-day months (too long). january AND march have 31 days? february 28? who balanced this calendar... they nerfed february

too many march 1 deadlines............... save me resident evil 9

this is the best website that sucks

As far as I know, farm archives have never really been used to track queer histories before. Given they mostly record the financial ongoings on a given farm, you can understand why. However, my year of research at The MERL has proved their potential.

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like haha yeah dog what IF users rely on privatized communication networks and data storage facilities to access and manage an array of goods and services, from personal documents and music files to online shopping and e-mail, resulting in a portrait of the user made possible by fine-tuned tracking

Andrejevic, Mark. “Surveillance in the Digital Enclosure.” The Communication Review 10, no. 4 (2007): 295–317. doi.org/10.1080/1071....

ly on privatized communication networks and data storage facilities to access and manage an array of goods and services, from personal documents and music files to online shopping and e-mail. It is presaged by applications like Gmail and Google documents, which provide users with large amounts of storage space on Google’s servers to store their personal documents and correspondence. In return for this convenience, Google reserves the right to mine its rapidly expanding databases for commercial purposes. If this business model is still in its infancy, one of its dominant emerging characteristics has become evident—a reliance on the interactive capability of networks to gather information about users. The terms of access to the “cloud” will include the capture and commodification of information about how, when, and where, we make use of its resources, a fact that renders the metaphor doubly misleading. The portrait of user activity made possible by ubiquitous interactivity will not be ephemeral, but increasingly detailed and fine-grained, thanks to an unprecedented ability to capture and store patterns of interaction, movement, transaction, and communication. Patterns of users’ Web browsing, for example, could be correlated with those of online shopping, communication, and, eventually, advertising exposure. The information clouds here are far from ephemeral, fleeting forms: their details are captured and fixed in a manner

whenever i read pieces critiquing the adoption of cloud computing from the early 2000s, it's invariably soundtracked by the jaws theme

lauren,,,,, the alt text, please 🤿

i just included the memphis xAI data center story in my lecture earlier today & my students often ask, "but then what happened?" at the end of that one because they want to know that things ended up okay and i have to be like, "i have bad news"

woah congrats