Paul Philion

@acmerocket.com

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Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know? https://github.com/philion https://seattlecommunitynetwork.org/

A frame from Apple’s 1984 Superbowl advertisement for the original Mac, depicting a audience seated before a giant face, representing Big Brother from Orwell’s classic 1984.
Java Ring, a ring (worn by a human) with an embedded Java compute device based on 1-Wire technology. Introduced at the 1998 JavaOne convention.
Image of all caps black text on light background: A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a computer must never make a management decision
‪Jessica Pishko‬, @jesspish.bsky.social‬, posts: When people say "prosecute ICE," who do they imagine will do this prosecuting? Comments: 11 (closed), Reposts: 25, Likes: 127
Donald Sutherland in the final scene of 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Photo of the covers of a book, Kamikaze L’amour by Richard Kadrey, and a DVD movie, Two Evil Eyes (1990).
The "This is fine" meme of a dog sitting in a burning house, with the dialog bubble changed to "Strong floor, no ceiling."
dark gray color sample
An inflatable Halloween costume in the image of Gossamer, a Looney Tunes character. He is a large, hairy red monster. His body is perched on two giant tennis shoes, and his heart-shaped face is composed of only two oval eyes and a wide mouth, with two hulking arms ending in dirty, clawed fingers. He was first featured in 1946 cartoon Hair-Raising Hare.
Racial segregation maps of Seattle from 1936, showing a small cluster of neighborhood where non-whites where allowed to own property.
Low quality B&W headshot of Reverend Bob Dobbs, smiling and holding a pipe between his teeth.
The sun setting behind distant mountains, over calm water in shadow. Taken from the Olympic Sculpture Park, looking west at sunset, on a clear day.
Jean-Luc Picard shouting while tortured.
Black floppy diskette from 1990s, labeled: William Gibson Neuromancer Count Zero Mona Lisa Overdrive published by Voyager The floppy diskette contains a HyperCard stack with the contents of three Sprawl novels, intended to be read on an Apple Macintosh personal computer.
Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Halleck, the 42nd Doctor. A handsome, bald middle-aged man with prominent features, wearing a black military uniform with gold collar, epaulets and belt.
Tobias Funke, never-nude, shown mid-chest up, crying in an otherwise unremarkable shower.
The Adventures of Lady No-Kids, a single-frame comic showing a family looking at Lady No-Kids, in a feathered top hat, looking at a goose, exclaiming "Anyway, I'm gonna follow this goose for awhile and see where I end up."
Bugs Bunny lounging comfortably with a carrot.
Link, standing before Demon King Ganondorf, whose second-stage health bar has just regrown from zero and expanded to the very edge of the screen. Despair, puny Hyrulian.
All copies in use 22 copies 10 on order 107 on hold for Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author
Bob De Niro as a rogue plumber in the movie Brazil.
XKCD comic pane showing complex full-stack "All Modern Digital Infrastructure", precariously supported by "a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003".
Patrick Stewart, as Gurney Halleck in Dune (1984)