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"Here is the thing: the video describes, at an excruciatingly slow pace (at least by the standards of our generation’s TikTok-formatted brains), with the terms and phraseology of 1968, and during no less than one and a half hours, the very computer you are using to read this article. Yes, the one on your lap or on your desk."
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Doug Engelbart
As in any human group, there are certain pilgrimages, certain rites of passage that all software developers apparently must go through. They are various and equally anecdotical: to compile and boot their own Linux kernel; to read "The Art of Computer Programming" in its entirety (and then send their CV to Bill Gates); to give a presentation in a conference; and finally, to sit through the whole duration of "The Mother of All Demos", the recording of the unavoidable presentation made by Douglas …

At the SIGGRAPH conference in 1984, Bill Atkinson and designer Susan Kare did a live demo of MacPaint. People were blown away - the design, the ease of use, the responsiveness. It set the paradigm for almost every graphics application in use today.
I have a message into the SIGGRAPH history people to see if a video of the presentation survives, but back then it's not likely.

“TNC is where it all comes to life.”

In this video message, our CEO Lise Fuhr shares excitement ahead of her very first TNC, and why this global gathering matters so much to our Research & Education community.

Watch her personal welcome message below, as we all get ready for next week’s #TNC25 in Brighton 🇬🇧

And if you’re not coming in person, don’t forget to g…

ICME 2025 Generalizable HDR and SDR Video Quality Measurement Grand Challenge
Yixu Chen, Bowen Chen, Hai Wei, Alan C. Bovik, Baojun Li, Wei Sun, Linhan Cao, Kang Fu, Dandan Zhu, Jun Jia, Menghan Hu, Xiongkuo Min, Guangtao Zhai, Dounia Hammou, Fei Yin, Rafal Mantiuk, Amritha Premkumar, Prajit T Rajendran, Vignesh V Menon
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ICME 2025 Generalizable HDR and SDR Video Quality Measurement Grand Challenge
This paper reports IEEE International Conference on Multimedia \& Expo (ICME) 2025 Grand Challenge on Generalizable HDR and SDR Video Quality Measurement. With the rapid development of video technology, especially High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) contents, the need for robust and generalizable Video Quality Assessment (VQA) methods has become increasingly demanded. Existing VQA models often struggle to deliver consistent performance across varying dynamic ranges, distor…

Look at how Trump’s fascist government treats a journalist asking questions about israel’s Hannibal Directive and its illegal nuclear weapons.
Oh, sorry, I meant Biden’s.
Lesser of two evils and all that, I guess.
https://www.newsweek.com/s…

Video: Journalist Sam Husseini Forcibly Removed From Blinken's Last News Conference
Sam Husseini was grabbed by security members and escorted out of the room.

from my link log —
The Epic Verse calculus: a core calculus for functional logic programming.
https://simon.peytonjones.org/verse-calculus/
saved 2025-06-12

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was handcuffed by officers and forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles
as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country.
Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing the California senator by his jacket and shoving him from the room
as he tried to speak up during the DHS secretary’s event.
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Sen. Alex Padilla removed from Noem's press conference by security
Democratic California U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla has been forcefully removed Thursday by security officers from a news conference on immigration by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Video shows a Secret Service special agent on Noem’s detail grabbing Padilla by his jacket and shoving him from the room as the senator struggles to catch his breath while identifying himself.“I’m Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” he shouted in a halting voice. He tries to push back …

Great closing keynote on 'rewilding' the internet by @… at the 2025 PublicSpaces conference. She talks about how a few fucked up right wing men think they own the internet, why they DON'T, and why the web is still ours and just needs (more) rewilding.

Missing #TNC25 already?
We definitely had a tough time stepping off the rollercoaster 🎢 But all the connections, the chats, the ideas, the hugs, the insights and the energy of yet another incredible TNC week are still with us ❤️
🎠 Hop back for another ride and relive some of the TNC25 highlights by watching this recap video produced by our friends at PCSS.
And don't forget to ma…

"William Zani, one of the core programmers of the first BASIC compiler, tells the story of the demo of the DTSS system at the San Francisco AFIPS 1964 conference (minute 26:17), sending a BASIC program to from San Francisco to Hanover, New Hampshire over a telephone line, live in front of an audience, who (I quote) “went bananas”."

Dartmouth College
In August 2014, Dartmouth College published a video commemorating the 50th anniversary of the BASIC programming language, the subject of this month's Vidéothèque section. It features original footage from the 1960s and interviews of former students and team members, including Professor Thomas Kurtz, who was 85 years old at the time. But the heart and soul of the video is, without any doubt, Professor John Kemeny himself; not only his technical contributions, which were outstanding by every st…

Hey, Jörg Schoppmeyer opened his talk at the #SolarEclipse Conference in Leuven on imaging annular eclipses without filters with one of my Australian pictures from 1999 (upper right): see https://geocities.restorativland.org/CapeCanaveral/5599/aus99/story.html for how they originated. Schoppmeyer's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbtQrHdl5Og of the 2023 ASE actually found scientific use: https://www.iota-es.de/JOA/JOA2024_2.pdf#page=3 (once again confirming the larger solar diameter https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/114681336115327260 had determined by an entirely different technique). 6/n

Sen. Alex Padilla handcuffed at DHS press conference: Full video
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/alex-padilla-noem-dhs-handcuffed.html

An ETSI GS QKD compliant TLS implementation
Thomas Pr\'evost (I3S), Bruno Martin (I3S), Olivier Alibart (INPHYNI)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19409 http…

An ETSI GS QKD compliant TLS implementation
A modification of the TLS protocol is presented, using our implementation of the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) standard ETSI GS QKD 014 v1.1.1. We rely on the Rustls library for this. The TLS protocol is modified while maintaining backward compatibility on the client and server side. We thus wish to participate in the effort to generalize the use of QKD on the Internet. We used our protocol for a video conference call encrypted by QKD. Finally, we analyze the performance of our protocol, compa…