Elliot Shank ✶✶✶✶

Music-obsessed software geek. One of Breakmaster Cylinder's "Internet weirdos".

He/him.

ActivityPub/Mastodon-compatible: @[email protected]

[Elliot Shank ✶✶✶✶ @clonezone]

If Google really wanted "don't be evil", it would stop all click tracking and delete all user search history.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music), and given away all rights to them. The site will only be up for a limited time. This is a very niche tweet that will make a small segment of people very happy. https://t.co/sowetybPhT

[Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda @cmdrtaco]

I once ran an online platform that grew to be used by hundreds of thousands of people. some of them chose to use it to mock and insult me endlessly. It’s pretty wild watching someone actually do the sort of petty revenge I would only joke about in my despair.

[LegalEagle @LegalEagle]

huh, it worked.

[LegalEagle @LegalEagle]

My favorite extinct North American mega fauna is the mastodon.

[Tatsuhiko Miyagawa @miyagawa]

putting Mastodon handle in your bio will give an error now. Pathetic.

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video.

Well, I have good news.

[Elliot Shank ✶✶✶✶ @clonezone]

Looking forward to what @BrkmstrCylinder can accomplish with https://t.co/pJNMcoyIoW

[Objective-See Foundation @objective_see]

Recently @TrendMicro uncovered a new Mac malware specimen with a propensity for stealing keychains! 🔓

See: https://t.co/0YP3k0lZpt

Just added the "KeySteal" sample to our 🍎malware repo: https://t.co/i5Y1eNUSX0 (direct dl: https://t.co/24tHV5PyeV pw: infect3d) #SharingIsCaring

[poorly drawn lines @PDLComics]

faking it

[ULTRA🛸BLAST @ultrakillblast]

Friday

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

1943

[Julian Gough @juliangough]

So, eleven-and-a-bit years ago, I wrote the only written narrative in Minecraft: the story that appears after you kill the Ender Dragon. (A narrative which players often call The End Poem.)
Today, I officially librated that ending.

Er, what does that mean?

🧵

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

It is reckless and illegal to give your true love any amount of wild birds for Christmas.

[Ricardo SIGNES @rjbs]

Maybe the end of an era as the use of ' (single tick) as a package separator may be on the way out in Perl.

https://t.co/cZpApJXN1m

[Todd Vaziri @tvaziri]

time between "Star Wars" films' release dates

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[Elliot Shank ✶✶✶✶ @clonezone]

Run away! Run away!

[Onclusive Forward Planner @OnclusivePlan]

100 days away: Play the Recorder Day (18 Mar)

[David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery]

In 1826, Louis-Philippe commissioned the painter Horace Vernet to paint the Battle of Valmy. Louis-Philippe and his younger brother occupy a small but significant part of the frame, in the foreground presenting a report to a higher officer — the 1820s version of a PR campaign.

[Windy City Ballyhoo @WCBallyoo]

LIFE magazine captured this image outside of Rialto Theater, a skid row flesh palace on south State Street, in 1966. At that time, the venue offered a nudist film — Let's Go Native — and a live burlesque show to their clientele. #Chicago #photograghy #1960s #burlesque

[gabriel x. michael @_GXM]

Lower Wacker Drive