It sometimes surprises me to learn that there are people who don't know that one of the first really big datasets used to train and evaluate computer language and social models was (and still is) a bunch of internal emails from Enron. Yes, that Enron. Collected as part of the investigation into its collapse.

Enron Corpus - Wikipedia

Can we please reclaim the ✨ emoji from the AI companies?

Okay, you're skeptical of AI, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?

I think that many of us are starved for participation in small-scale systems in which we interact with other humans, and are treated like humans in return

Started trying to debug the WiFi in the coffee shop but then decided I should probably just go somewhere else and do my real job

Scientists have discovered that it is possible to just do something, without making a podcast about it

The hardest problem in computer science is remembering where you put the correct USB cable

No, Teams, this is not good to know. I don't, in fact, know what this means. I don't, in further fact, want to know what this means. While we are on the subject of facts, it is a fact that nothing I have ever received on Teams has been "good to know"

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist:

UNIX Fourth Edition - Computer History Wiki

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing