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-...

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...

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

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 !

First episode of the Dead Web Club is out💯

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"

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

🔥 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

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. 💾 🙏 💾

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...

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!

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_...

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...

My next book, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory comes out in just a few weeks (December 10th!) with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. It'll be open access. Can't wait to share it all with you. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

a vida imitando a arte

💫 deleting old social media account.. joining new social media 💫