Norbert Landsteiner

P.S:: The so-called Altar Stone was actually a test obstacle.

The Stonehenge monuments on Salisbury Plain in England, UK, seen from above.

Alternative Conspiracy Theories (#2309)

Stonehenge was a research centre where early Brits settled once and for all the optimal way of queueing up.

PS: The comparatively small size of the so produced Ancient Aliens™ shouldn't diminish the effort, rather, it makes the pyramids even more impressive!

One of the "Dandera Light" reliefs in the Hathor Temple at Dendera, Egypt.

Alternative Conspiracy Theories (#2308)

The Dandera Bulbs™ where actually devices for producing Ancient Aliens™. As can bee seen in this relief showing an Egyptian mass manufacturing Ancient Aliens™. (Size comparison reveals that Ancient Aliens™ were also pretty small.)

ANLEITUNG
ZO PRINTEN, KLICKEN IN BILDEN UND RECHTENKLICKEN ZO DOWNLADEN. SELEKTEN BILDEN ZO ÖFFNEN UND SELEKTEN PRINTENFUNKTION. HÄNGEN DRUCKAUS AN WANDEN UND ANSTAUNEN.

ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

Here's the Blinkenlights sign for print-out as a display in your very own computer room ("ZO PRINTEN UND OFFSCHAUEN IN EIGENES KOMPUTERRAUMEN.")

BTW, the finished game can be downloaded & played in emulation here:

masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#pe...

See also:

masswerk.itch.io/pet-invaders

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

Nice video by Forbrukerrådet, the Norwegian Consumer Council:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

The term "blinkenlights" originated in a mock warning sign found in computer rooms of English-speaking countries and can be traced back as far as 1955 (at IBM).

If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged that suing a small independent magazine over unflattering-but-accurate reporting would only guarantee that millions more people read it.

Love this headline and the whole first sentence 😂

«Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir»

@adfichter.bsky.social

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/p...

Canon X-07: The Japanese computer of the Future! YouTube video by Olipix Retrotech

A nice video by Olipix Retrotech (Musée Replay www.museereplay.com, @olipix.bsky.social ) on the Canon X07, a Z80 powered portable computer from 1983, which seems to be even nicer than I thought it may be:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoTV...

One-line C64 BASIC Dice Program: Default RAM Initialization YouTube video by 8-Bit Show And Tell

In case you haven't seen it yet, Robin @8bitshowandtell.bsky.social has released a new video today:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAx-...

I guess, the forthcoming war with Iran will be the first war about real estate valuation (namely in Gaza).

If true, this will be quite a nasty one, since this will require the removal of any remnants of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the political map.

Perplexity announces "Computer," an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents It's also a buttoned-down, ostensibly safer take on the OpenClaw concept.

I'm thinking of a smart traffic light that will be called "Car"…

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/p...

Unless they return search results for any React-powered site in Machine, I'm pretty sure this is some kind of -ism…

PS: Man stelle sich bloß die Freude vor, wenn die Louisianas das erste Mal in ihrem Leben Fisch schmecken dürfen! ❤️🙏🏌️‍♂️

In other news finde ich es wirklich angebracht, dass Dänemark eine Ladung Dosenfischsuppenhilfe schickt, um der Bevölkerung Louisianas beizustehen.

So the US has imposed new-new tariffs invoking Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, meaning, there are severe international payment issues.

So what are the international balance-of-payments issues with regard to the USA?
Are the US banks no good anymore?
Should we be alarmed?

If it walks like a duck and quacks like duck and there was a duck that used to be in your neighbour's garden, until it was run over by a car, it is certainly not the duck in your neighbour's garden. Nor is it your late uncle.

(What is this with the US and this failure to recognise identity?)

Words Without Consequence What does it mean to have speech without a speaker?

Actually a good article on LLM effects:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

(archived, w/o wall: archive.is/IXGlH)

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

There's also an update on this by Scott Shambaugh, who's the subject of the original story:

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

PS: The article in question in its original form on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20260213...

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.

So Ars Technica is retracting an article, because of AI artefacting.

The hillarious aspect to this is that this was a piece about an AI going rouge. Followed up by rouge reporting by, well, another AI. Happy future everyone!

arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...

Yes, please, at least a bit!

(I've always been convinced that ghosts tend to reflect the media technology of their time. The general lack of genuine computer related ghosts is kind of disturbing. Are computers even real?)

Screenshot: "Trending 1. Castlevania 2. Konami Games 3. Morvel Tōkon 4. God of War 5. MGS4"

I guess, if the only things trending are video games, it's a good day.

From the thread, regarding the original poster: "and they're actually a computer museum."

PS: This great album of actual PET labels may help recovering from this:

cbmsteve.ca/petlabels/

Who doesn't remember Commodore's famous less-or-equal logo?

Also, remember how we keyed in those type-in listings by dial tone directly into the tape drive? Those were the days…

Google is killing authentic websites & I made it worse 😔 YouTube video by Louis Rossmann

How to use Google in 2026:

1) Ignore AI Overslop. Totally. I mean it.
2) Ignore the first three pages of search results.
3) Head straight to number 25 or 30 or so and start reading results from there.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2Q...

I got one! I got one! Bring the pitchforks and the slings, bring the containment vehicle! Quick!
😀