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Intimacies of the User: From the Stolen Look to Stolen Time

Stewart Brand's Dec 7, 1972 Rolling Stone article on Spacewar! Addeddate 2018-09-04 17:30:48

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California runs a demo of Spacewar every first and third Saturday.

Added to the list of nerdy tourist destinations.

personal computing would also mean some-thing that may seem odd to a contemporary reader: the illusion that a person would be  “given the full attention and resources of the computer.” 

Becoming a more common understanding, for networks rather than individual computers tghough I guess. Are computers in-dividual?

Hallucinating senses individually 
Are in any combination, rhythmically
Shifting gears, focus upon intensity
Wait, big people a talk nobody try fuck with i-man clarity
Mind starts slippin' to familiar tracks
Bending warping, interfering with the facts
Sensory language leaves us with no habit for lying
We are hostile aliens, immune from dying

Spaceape, Burial and Spaceape.

Does the computer have my full attention? Which one? This tab. The tab with the PDF. My phone. My headphones. They are speaking to me. There are people saying things in the songs. What are they trying to say? What does it say in the PDF? I am reading and writing and listening.

More than a second
When reading the newspaper
I felt the war
I felt her exposed position
I saw myself in the picture
And I

I took a cab there to hold her
I took a plane there to feel what she felt
You make me like charity
Instead of paying enough taxes

You Make Me Like Charity, The Knife.

I took a train there to hold her. What am I trying to give. What am I trying to take. What the fuck is going on.

By spending a fraction of a second on one user ’ s pro-gram, switching rapidly to other users ’ s programs, then immediately moving back to the first program, it appeared as if the computer were responding  Figure  2.1 Spacewar!  running on a PDP-1. (The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California runs a demo of  Spacewar  every first and third Saturday.)  ©  Joi Ito, reprinted under Creative Commons BY 2.0 license. TIME-SHARING AND VIRTUALIZATION 39instantly to each user ’ s commands

What I paste is different to what I copy. I couldnt read the licence, it wasnt visible to me. I didnt read the title and page number because I told myself they weren't in the flow. Everything is in the flow. The caption for the figure, it wasn't where I expected it to be in the flow. The whole order of everything is getting looped and fed back. My notebook is open it says

I've fallen in love 
with you and I 
have no idea what 
to do about it.

What the fuck is going on. ꓤƎ it says under the laptop. I cant read the 𐤵ꓳꓶꓢ part but I know its there. I know because I have read it many times. and I also wrote it.

he  user ’ s  subject  position  is  created  not  just by software, as media theorists would assert, but by the economic system that  undergirds  whatever  relation  any  of  us  have  with  technology

Double spaces. A missing T. Genesis by Justice comes on which has a † which is almost a T. I am multi-threading. I have multiple cores. The school is closing, I can hear the announcement behind Genesis. This is the end for now.