How about some #RetroComputing#LongReadsbreakintochat.com/blog/categor...#AtariST BBSes using a protocol called "Instant Graphics and Sound."

really can't be overstated that a core pillar of MAGAism is to steal your tax dollars and give them to Donald Trumpreally can't be overstated that a core pillar of MAGAism is to steal your tax dollars and give them to Donald Trump

PLphillewis.bsky.socialOct 4, 2024 1:39pm

Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters is looking to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. Out of 2,900 Bibles, only one fits Walters’ criteria: The Trump Bible.

'Trump Bible' one of few that meet Walters' criteria for Oklahoma classrooms

Bibles endorsed by former President Donald Trump cost $60 each online, with Trump receiving fees for his endorsement.

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This is equally maddening and encouraging.

BHbradheath.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 7:02pm

Good news: DOJ is going to start releasing even more data from its case files, including stuff that's obviously public like case numbers. All it took was <double-checks> 18 years of litigation.

St. Louis keeps withholding public records. This time, SLDC and the city counselor's office claim a recent legal opinion related to grant funds is a closed record. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

SLDC requested legal opinion on grant program conflicts. Now it won’t release that, either

SLDC asked St. Louis City Counselor Sheena Hamilton’s office whether there were conflicts of interest in its awards under a north St. Louis grant program, but the opinion is secret.

There were quite a lot of text adventures in the 80s. Some were fantasy. Some were mystery. Some were horror. Some were science fiction. But others, well... (Source.)

From full-blown GUIs, to strategy and dice games, the point-and-click features of "Instant Graphics and Sound" made some radically different experiences possible on a humble Atari ST bulletin board system. breakintochat.com/blog/2024/09...#RetroComputing series on IGS.

Instant Graphics and Sound, Part 5: Point and click - Break Into Chat

This is the fifth part of a multi-part series. Thirty hours into his “world tour,” Jon Clarke was discombobulated. His business trip had begun on July 19, 1991, with a scary false alarm: during takeof...

Most #AtariSTbreakintochat.com/blog/2024/09... The results varied widely, a preview of the weirdness to come in the wild woolly early days of the WWW.

IGS’ mouse-interaction features also had enormous potential for BBS games. breakintochat.com/blog/2024/09...#RetroComputing

As Hurricane Helene batters the Southeast, NOAA says it can't disclose potentially lifesaving data because of stipulations in a 2020 agreement it signed with a private vendor. This secrecy wrongly places commercial interests above public safety.

Government hides its best hurricane predictions

It’s hurricane season, but the government is placing ‘trade secrets’ above public safety