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Daneel

@stratotron

They/them. Sci-fi, synths, weirdo heathenry and chaos magic, plus cat pictures. Currently writing «SIGNAL // NOISE». NO USERS, NO MASTER CONTROL PROGRAMS.

 Gallium City // MI
argon.city/@sysop
Joined September 2011
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increasingly I'm spending more time in the fediverse (i.e., mastodon) and Tumblr. if you're leaving here and you want my discord handle, shoot me a DM. argon.city/@sysop proto-actual.tumblr.com
Daneel (@sysop@argon.city)

Daneel (@sysop@argon.city)

2.96K Posts, 263 Following, 356 Followers · Hey. I run argon.city, write #Tron and #DoctorWho stories, and make music sometimes. Relentlessly hopeful. Cranky old man in training (but I try my best to...

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In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain. Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵
Page from March 1997 Scientific American featuring Brewster Kahle’s article 'Preserving the Internet.' Text describes the Internet Archive’s mission to save digital information. Includes a photo of a Smithsonian exhibit with 1996 U.S. election web memorabilia.

ALT Page from March 1997 Scientific American featuring Brewster Kahle’s article 'Preserving the Internet.' Text describes the Internet Archive’s mission to save digital information. Includes a photo of a Smithsonian exhibit with 1996 U.S. election web memorabilia.

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there are powers that will do everything they can to convince you otherwise, but it should be said loudly that protest proves love. community is a conduit for love and oppression seeks to crush community. standing up to say no is an act of love
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Image from Effin' Birds (@EffinBirds)
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i really want you to become aware of the fact that you are beautiful
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Keep your homophobia out of our revolution please. 🙏🏼  #pride
Image from Rise Against (@riseagainst)
Image from Rise Against (@riseagainst)
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Sometimes we dance in the crossfire. RICOCHET. The new album. Coming August 15th.
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practicing bass until my arms feel like jello but I'm finally starting to suck less at the sorts of stuff I want to learn
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A painting of a bird beside the text "you should think about why so many people want you to fuck off"

ALT A painting of a bird beside the text "you should think about why so many people want you to fuck off"

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I did not have "@riseagainst goes full xeroxed physical mailing list" on my 2025 bingo card but I think we should do this sort of thing more often because it's neat! I am now several times more excited about this record than I would have been otherwise :)
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If not bean, why bean-shaped? These are not tasty legumes but rather sand dunes, surrounded by frosted ground, located in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars. This image was taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. 📸: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona
Image from Planetary Society (@exploreplanets)
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what's coming will harm many, many people, but statements like this reduce the progress of the last half-century down to a bevy of laws. you cannot, and they will not, erase the normalization of inter-racial marriage, broad acceptance of the public existence of queer people...
Domo Julio (@DapperDomo) profile pictureDomo Julio@DapperDomo12 Jan 2025
We’re about to see 40 years of social progress that was fought, scratched, scraped, and crawled for rolled back over the next 4 years because a decent amount of the general public didn’t believe the progress actually happened to begin with.
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No more villains with sympathetic back stories. I want a return to villains who are bad because they're gay
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Coming back here specifically to tell y'all about The Chilling Alpine Adventure's debut record. It comes out tomorrow, and it's absolutely STUNNING all the way through. (For the Falling Up fans: this is the new band!) thechillingalpineadventure.b…
The Chilling Alpine Adventure, by The Chilling Alpine Adventure

The Chilling Alpine Adventure, by The Chilling Alpine Adventure

11 track album

thechillingalpineadventure.bandcamp.com
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Very generally: This album is a hell of a ride. Some of @JessyRibordy's best narrative songwriting tbh. Several songs made me stop what I was doing to pay attention. And the penultimate track in particular absolutely rips. It's something very special and I'm glad it exists. ❤️
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The Talking Heads & Santa 🎅🏻 tumblr.com/1985alive/7706768…
Image from Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER (@doctorow)
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"But what about --" no. Shut the fuck up.
The Alternative (@GetAlternative) profile pictureThe Alternative@GetAlternative23 Dec 2024
It's crazy how there's never been any good AI art
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Hundreds of musicians are speaking out against the recording industry’s lawsuit against our library for preserving 78rpm records 👉 rollingstone.com/music/music… (🚫🧱) Want to show your support? ⬇️
Tommy Cappel, who co-founded the group Beats Antique, says the Archive is “hugely valued in the music community” for its preservation of everything from rare recordings to live sets. “This is important work that deserves to continue for generations to come, and we don’t want to see everything they’ve already done for musicians and our legacy erased,” he added. “Major labels could see all musicians, past and present, as partners — instead of being the bad guy in this dynamic. They should drop their suit. Archives keep us alive.”

ALT Tommy Cappel, who co-founded the group Beats Antique, says the Archive is “hugely valued in the music community” for its preservation of everything from rare recordings to live sets. “This is important work that deserves to continue for generations to come, and we don’t want to see everything they’ve already done for musicians and our legacy erased,” he added. “Major labels could see all musicians, past and present, as partners — instead of being the bad guy in this dynamic. They should drop their suit. Archives keep us alive.”

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BREAKING: 750+ musicians are now calling on major labels to drop their $621 million lawsuit against @internetarchive — a suit that could destroy the entire nonprofit. Letter sign ons remain open until Wednesday at SaveTheArchive.com

We ❤️ Internet Archive

Save Music, Save the Archive!

savethearchive.com
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I make no apologies to my friends about how annoying I'm gonna be about this record anyway this song creates a really intriguing narrative space and I don't know what's happening (yet) but the vibes are impeccable
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🎄❄️🎁 Unwrap Sierra On-Line's 1986 "A Computer Christmas" this holiday season! It's a retro slice of software history, showcasing early home computer graphic design. See the whole card ➡️ archive.org/details/sierra-c… #SoftwarePreservation #DigitalArchive #TechHistory
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