Nothing is "meant to be thrown away." Not the MTV News archive. Not Gawker. Not the penny press of the 1800s. 🕳️

Maria Bustillos argues that keeping the receipts is about more than nostalgia. It's about the raw material of history.

📚 Read Maria’s essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive

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@maria #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #OpenAccess #Preservation

@sundogplanets have you been feeding him after midnight....?

Llanberis Falls

Prints available here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/thompson_art/llanberis-falls-2026/

So, as part of 15's history class watch of Schindler's List, one of the questions the teacher asked was if genocide could happen today and 15 was like bruh, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. But more eloquently. I guess she was one of the few who were outspoken on the topic. Some had no idea.

We're trying, y'all.

@janboehm Korrektur!: Nachher bei YT, FreeTube und online im ZDF ...

FWIW I turned my list of alternatives into an article. It's here:

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/buy_a_foss_fondleslab/

Both Cupertino and Mountain View are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you *do* have alternatives

<- by me on @theregister

Ooh, I've really been enjoying listening to the stuff on @subvertworld. Y'all getting into this?

When you watch Netflix or Disney+ you're not watching directly from their severs, you're watching from a cached copy on your Internet providers network, that reduces the load, but you can't real do that with live sports, at least not without a sizable delay

The Australian satellite feed wasn't meant to be direct to homes though, it was for relaying broadcasts between states, so the signal got encrypted when they caught on that New Zealanders were freeloading on ABC and SBS

You might think no one watches broadcasts anymore but 60% of New Zealanders watch linier television daily.

Still the best way to watch live sports- will be interesting (for nerds at least) to see what the load on our Internet infrastructure is next World Cup since that's going to be streaming

Freeview launched in New Zealand 19 years ago today. I was working at a Dick Smith Electronics store at the time and remember selling a lot of set top boxes and efen the occasional dish 📡

For a brief time you could watch Australian television which was carried by the same satellite 🛰️

Freeview launched in New Zealand 19 years ago today. I was working at a Dick Smith Electronics store at the time and remember selling a lot of set top boxes and efen the occasional dish 📡

For a brief time you could watch Australian television which was carried by the same satellite 🛰️

Been thinking a lot about what makes a system actually responsive vs. just reactive. The difference seems to be whether you are waiting for things to break or building the feedback loops before you need them.

Most organizations optimize for the second type. Most people optimize for the first. Interesting gap.

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING YOUR TELEVISION

“Oh, uh. Sorry. Are you here to destroy us?”

NO BUT WE HAVE A LIST OF HUMANS THAT WE WANT TO SLAP.

“Uh. Uhhuh. Good list. Do Clarkson first.”

YOU ARE WISE. ALSO WE WANT TO PET BLUEY AND HUG ATTENBOROUGH.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

@arstechnica It’s all about money.

@wjmaggos

Thought you'd want to know: Interledger is echoing this idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwu8ELIa8B0

A year or two ago, this was a cool idea that lacked the global infrastructure to pull it off. Today, it seems more doable.

On a single site, I could see this working easily - Spotify and Medium do this now. Cross site? Figuring out the federation will be key.

More to come, for sure...

I absofuckinglutely want us to be stalling innovation out of fear of what might happen

Paging Dr. Ian Malcolm…!!

🔗 https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/mozilla_pushes_back_against_googles/