Stewart Brand joined The Maintainers listserv in 2019 - see below - and he attended the Maintainers III conference, also in 2019. He knows there are entire scholarly communities studying maintenance and repair. He's not ignorant; he's just a dick.
Not to be confused with Reamde by @nealstephenson.bsky.social!
(To be clear, both books are related--either directly or indirectly--to the history of computing, but that's where the similarities end...)
#histSTM #histtech #Booksky #scifi 🗃️📚💻
#Booksky friends: Do you know anyone studying Asian translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass?
A recent @ransomcenter.bsky.social fellow is trying to organize a panel on the subject for the 2027 @asianstudies.org meeting.
#Alice #Wonderland #LewisCarroll 📚
There’s nothing quite like leaving the climate-controlled confines of an archive and crashing headlong into the excessive heat of a spring evening in Austin!
(Remember, we’re still a few days out from the solstice…)
#ATX #weather
