Historical Tech Tree
The tech tree is an interactive visualization of technological history from 3 million years ago to today. A work in progress, it currently contains 1988 technologies and 2369 connections between them.
⏳ https://www.historicaltechtree.com
Claudia Sheinbaum made history when she became Mexico’s first woman president — and the first of Jewish heritage. But on the night of September 15, she made history again. Standing on the Palacio Nacional balcony, clad in white, royal purple and gold, flanked by an all-female military honor guard and wearing a sash created for her by female military officers, she gripped the bell rope and, as required of the ritual, shouted. Normally soft-spoken and measured, the tone was a shift for the climate scientist, who visibly trembled under the weight of the task, but not as big a shift as what she shouted:
“¡Mexicanas! ¡Mexicanos!”
The inclusion of the feminine “Mexicanas,” and naming them FIRST matters.
#GoodThingsInTheWorld #Mexico #progressive
https://alisav.substack.com/p/she-cried-mexicanas-first
LGBTQIA Book History Bibliography by Alex Wingate: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2025/08/22/lgbtqia-book-history-bibliography/
"The following collaborative bibliography compiles and celebrates book historical work about and for LGBTQIA communiti…
Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters
i'm getting increasingly intolerant of people who call cryptocurrencies a scam because they're basically the only way to pay for stuff that's not captured by christofascists https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/114907994076068205
Historic Ichkeria: Taking a Stand During Perestroika#shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/historic-ichkeria-taking-a-stand.html
Since 2018, the project “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade” https://enslaved.org/ at Michigan State University has collected and linked datasets about the lives of people involved in the historical slave trade to create visualizations and let people explore biographies.
It was one of the f…
Happy 50th birthday, BYTE Magazine!
#retrocomputing