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W4LSR @w4lz44r.bsky.social · 21d

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.

W4LSR @w4lz44r.bsky.social · Sep 14

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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W4LSR @w4lz44r.bsky.social · Jul 16

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... 🍿

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W4LSR @w4lz44r.bsky.social · Jun 28

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

www.youtube.com

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Roos Groothuizen @roosgr.bsky.social · Jun 14

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

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Ian Milligan @ianmilligan1.bsky.social · Jun 22

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.

www.theatlantic.com

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W4LSR @w4lz44r.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

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404 Media @404media.co · Jun 9

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.

www.404media.co

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W4LSR @w4lz44r.bsky.social · Jun 9

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

Page Not Found

Page Not Found is a space for artists’ publications. It is a non-profit organization that works principally as a bookshop. Its aim is to share the luxuriant production of contemporary artists who use ...

page-not-found.nl

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · May 21

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.

A stock photo of two people doing business on a staircase.

Two dudes standing around a watercooler, presumably having a 'watercooler conversation' about last night's Seinfeld or whatever.

A woman reclining in a chair in a business suit with her shoes off.

A guy in a suit on a city street doing some damn business on a cell phone. The business never stops!!!!!

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · May 10

Corn Thresher Spam is back, baby

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · Apr 4

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...

www.politicshome.com

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · Apr 3

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

Digital Cultural Heritage Archives - University of London Press

uolpress.co.uk

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W4LSR @w4lz44r.bsky.social · Feb 25

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..

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · Feb 10

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...

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

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W4LSR @w4lz44r.bsky.social · Jan 31

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...

Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium

deanebarker.net

W4LSR @w4lz44r.bsky.social · Jan 29

2018 feels so long again, but 2012 feels so recent for me. It's weird how time and memory do the trick..

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Roos Groothuizen @roosgr.bsky.social · Jan 28

Super cool results from Telemagic colleague Cyanne made during their residency at UmArts ⚡️

cyannevdh.bsky.social @cyannevdh.bsky.social · Jan 28

After 3 weeks in Umeå as artist researcher in residence, i hosted an open studio and AI tinkering session yesterday where we ended up running local LLMs and sharing tools.
End of my residency at UmArts Taiga is near! In the video some of the micro AI experiments. Thanks for having me! 🙏

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · Jan 16

RIP, David Lynch. Truly one of the great weirdoes in film and television history.

David Lynch as Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Dec 25

🔥 Cozy up to a digital fireplace with Sierra On-Line's "A Computer Christmas" (1986). 🎄💾 This vintage software's Yule Log vibe reminds us why preserving digital works matters.

🎁 See the whole card. ➡️ archive.org/details/sier...

Preservation #Christmas #vanishingculture

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W4LSR @w4lz44r.bsky.social · Dec 17

People are still talking and asking about my 'My Hard-Drive Died Along with my Heart' book after 10 years. I know it's been referenced in a few student projects, and people are still asking about more floppy disk projects. Just sending a big thanks out in cyberspace. 💾 🙏 💾

W4LSR @w4lz44r.bsky.social · Dec 4

I was invited to interview for the book DEATH-DESIGN-DATA about data death, the loss of files and digital memories by Cecilia Casabona and Ginevra Petrozz. I just got my copy and I am looking forward to seeing and hearing people's feedback on the book and topic.

www.onomatopee.net/product/deat...

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Webrecorder @webrecorder.net · Dec 4

Want to archive some web pages? It's time for our next Hands-On Web Archiving Workshop, Dec 9th, 1pm ET: www.sucho.org/diy-archiving together with @quinnanya.me @akijas.bsky.social
You'll be able to walk away with you very own web archives and some ideas what to do next, and we'll be there to help!

DIY Archiving Workshop | SUCHO

www.sucho.org

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · Dec 1

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here:

archive.org/details/mit_...

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W4LSR @w4lz44r.bsky.social · Dec 3

With every hype cycle, the buzzword creeps out from its origins and into other parts of society. Let me introduce to you... the AI flavor energy drink... aka tuttifrutti...