This weekend, the International Space Station marks a quarter-century of continuous occupancy.
"By NASAβs count, 290 people from 26 countries have visited the space station. Seven are up there right now, representing the U.S., Russia and Japan."
On this day, 56 years ago:
"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute."
I'm now running 60 automated fediverse accounts, packaged in an award-winning project that once got mentioned in the Rolling Stone magazine.
"...offering up everything from a constantly-updated view of the weather at the South Pole to one that posts excerpts from the City of New York's archives of civic data..."
Go check them out!
My #FollowFriday recommendation for this week is @npub1p095...m5vl and @npub1nv8q...za59's list of authentic, verified accounts of people in Gaza, who all need our help.
"In this, I share tech journalist and Bluesky board member Mike Masnickβs informed belief that global centralized moderation is a dead end. And if centralized moderation isnβt a plausible way forward, then experimentation toward genuinely community-led governance of decentralized networks is necessary."
