This terrifying story is not getting nearly enough attention @theguardian.com

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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Need help making the case for digital preservation? The new DPC Advocacy Toolkit provides practical resources to help you engage stakeholders and build support for your work. Explore it here: buff.ly/cEOi9IB #DigitalPreservation #Advocacy

Google's proposed workaround for installing unverified apps: 9 steps, a 24-hour wait, delivered through Play Services (which Google can change at any time without consent). It exists only as a blog post. @keepandroidopen.bsky.social #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org

Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

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It's the European "Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" combo. 👨‍🍳😘

Current fucking mood

Anyone with tip about European alternatives to zoom that's stable and where you can record meetings?

also, this happened this year: Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared. www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.

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All I wish personally for the new year is more dopamine and less burnout..

I can't wait until the trend with heavy perfumes are gone and I don't feel like some is punching me in my brain everytime I go into shop .

Interestingly (to me anyway) this is an increasingly important part of my work, preserving websites that are due to vanish from lack of funding, labs shutting down, etc.

For the Holiday, what a great time to check out TOTAL REPLAY, a years-long project to make hundreds of Apple II games easy to boot up, play, and discover. It even works on original Apple II hardware (with a little modern trickery). Emulated in Browser, of course: archive.org/details/Tota...

Total Replay : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

100s of games at your fingertips, as long as your fingertips are on an Apple ][DownloadDownload Total Replay (version 5.2, released 2024-09-09, 32 MB disk...

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Thanks to @roosgr.bsky.social for joing me for the first chat..More to come.... www.deadweb.club

Roos Groothuizen@roosgr.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thomas Walskaar interviewed me for his first Dead Web Club Podcast episode. Listen to us yapping about reclaiming digital agency, unsexy extinct elephants (talking about you, Mastodon!) and carrying your digital front door to a birthday party. buff.ly/U9lMrzu Thanks @w4lz44r.bsky.social !

Thomas Walskaar interviewed me for his first Dead Web Club Podcast episode. Listen to us yapping about reclaiming digital agency, unsexy extinct elephants (talking about you, Mastodon!) and carrying your digital front door to a birthday party. buff.ly/U9lMrzu Thanks @w4lz44r.bsky.social !

01 DWC Podcast - Roos Groothuizen

First episode of the Dead Web Club Podcast with guest Roos Groothuizen. We talk and discuss about social media, Roos Groothuizen is a media artist who cares about digital human rights. In her own…

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First episode of the Dead Web Club is out💯

Roos Groothuizen@roosgr.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thomas Walskaar interviewed me for his first Dead Web Club Podcast episode. Listen to us yapping about reclaiming digital agency, unsexy extinct elephants (talking about you, Mastodon!) and carrying your digital front door to a birthday party. buff.ly/U9lMrzu Thanks @w4lz44r.bsky.social !

I really want to continue using a browser like Firefox, but I'm having more and more issues with website bugs. I am afraid our decade-long friendship might be coming to an end.

I really wish sometimes I did not have 246000 different hobbies and interests and was one of the people who only had one or two hobbies. Instead of burning out on trying to fit them all in my "spare time"

a cat is laying on its back on the floor with the words me today below it .

ALT: a cat is laying on its back on the floor with the words me today below it .

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with so much online "anti w00k3 rage" there is now about the new Superman movie, it's a clear sign it's probably pretty decent fun movie... 🍿

Cool video about jailbreaking rental e-bikes. I've seen this model before, I think.. "I Tried to Jailbreak a 'Pay-To-Ride' Ebike — Total Nightmare" www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJC9...

I Tried to Jailbreak a 'Pay-To-Ride' Ebike — Total Nightmare

YouTube video by Berm Peak

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It's officially live! "Someone is at your Front Door" is an artistic research on the smart doorbell. -> someoneisatyourfrontdoor.com 💥 Many thanks to @lauraodbeke.bsky.social, @simoonhermus.bsky.social, @zeno4ever.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, @danhf.bsky.social, Stimuleringsfonds & CBK Rotterdam

Some irony in that multiple engineers/computer scientists have confidently told me that the solution to our university’s budget crisis is to “close the humanities and social sciences.” This is, of course, silly; all disciplines are critical and important. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting

Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it.

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Don't wait, you don't know when you meet someone for the last time.. have the last laugh together.. shits weird

DHS Black Hawks and Military Aircraft Surveil the LA Protests 🔗 www.404media.co/dhs-black-ha...

DHS Black Hawks and Military Aircraft Surveil the LA Protests

Local police, state authorities, DHS, and the military all flew aircraft over the Los Angeles protests this weekend, according to flight path data.

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If you are in Den Haag on the 25 June 18:00 – 20:00, book presentation published by Onomatopee, featuring Death, Design, Data and Floppy Disk Fever. a collective reflection on how art and design can reimagine grief, ritual, and remembrance in an increasingly digital world. page-not-found.nl

Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.

Corn Thresher Spam is back, baby

They have no honour in adhering to already agreed contracts for funding, so expect to lose it, even if previously awarded. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

British Universities Receiving US Funding Asked By Trump To Fill Out Diversity Surveys

Exclusive: Universities receiving funding from the United States are being asked by the Donald Trump administration to fill out surveys on diversit...

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The University of London Press is now accepting for new proposals for short-form books (20,000–30,000 words) on Digital Cultural Heritage on themes of use, access, value(s) and ephemerality uolpress.co.uk/book-series/... #BDCAM25

Sometime I think about the small group of kids going around putting up Kony2012 in the small town Nordics I was living in at the time..

I'm continually impressed how much yeoman's work the Bitsavers Collective (which is really a couple folks) is putting into scanning and providing from computer documentation realms. Here's all they've added in the last month: archive.org/details/bits...

Found a fun review of Floppy Disk Fever! Great to see how different people react to our 💾📕 book project. "I did like a look back at a more innocent time of computing, so I didn’t hate it. But I didn’t quite get it, either." deanebarker.net/library/titl...