Robbie Ostrow

Introducing the Repository of Ill-Advised Ventures. We all have times we should have known better. I've been collecting evidence of some of my favorites, starting with a Theranos centrifuge 👉riav.org (1/n)

I'm proud to announce the opening of the Museum of the Human Web. I grew up with the internet. RuneScape, MSN, Club Penguin, Wikipedia, Funnyjunk, Reddit. I knew my slice of it well and assumed that was most of the story. It wasn't. The web I grew up on sat on top of decades of work by people I'd never heard of, building things that didn't have to exist and mostly weren't paid to. The web isn't a product. It's closer to an organism — something that grew, and is still growing, and has reshaped us as much as we've shaped it. It's part of the human condition now. AI is now part of that organism too, so this felt like the right time to look back and celebrate everything human about the web. Massive thank you to @travers00, @paraga, @vanlancker, @chrisfralic, Marc Weber at the Computer History Museum, @MarkGraham , @rogaos , @DylanAbruscato, @asimov_co, @problemlibrary, @yangyou, Phoebe Darling... and to everyone who handed us a story or an artifact and trusted us with it. Come see it IRL on May 8th: museum.parallel.ai

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Happy to be a corporate shill for shipmas.

@eshear @graceschroeder It is at least a smidge nuanced; e.g. astralcodexten.com/p/change-my-mi… and all the comments

@graceschroeder it's really easy math too

It's truly astonishing that this was a question people debated

@itsRobPicard piping curl to sh

Mobile! Spin your organs around in 3d and cackle with delight!

@xkcd twitter.com/rogaos/status/…

Path Minimization xkcd.com/2821

Harold Hotelling was quite a guy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ho…

Today’s edition of nominative determinism: Hotelling. I’d always thought the concept of similar stores near each another was called “hoteling” because hotels were the quintessential example. Turns out I was backwards: hotels tend to cluster together because of Hotelling’s law!

@itsRobPicard @lcamtuf Come visit! Building up the collection at riav.org

Anchor Brewing with lines out the door for the last (?) time. The pre-liquidation liquidation has begun. Hoping @AnchorBrewing finds a buyer.

songgame.app is out now! 🎶 I made it for the talented Viraj and Ben Weems duo, but now anyone can dazzle their friends with their musical knowledge. Nobody has beaten @vrjbndr so far.

Thank god my bubble wrap came safely protected in bubble wrap

@kevinmart_in thanks for the centerpiece of the Repository of Ill-Advised Ventures

la biblioteca está aquí

@kevinmart_in @unspun_io What would you take from riav.org?

My company @unspun_io bought second-hand furniture at an office liquidation in SF. They gave us these for free. Offer me a trade— hoping they go to a good home :)

@CJSprigman I’ve been collecting this stuff for years! twitter.com/rogaos/status/…

5. Many others! DMs are open if you have access to anything that belongs in the collection. riav.org/about (6/6) #riav

4. A Florida voting machine from the 2000 US presidential election. Hanging chads and all. riav.org/florida (5/n)

Introducing the Repository of Ill-Advised Ventures. We all have times we should have known better. I've been collecting evidence of some of my favorites, starting with a Theranos centrifuge 👉riav.org (1/n)