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Pinned toot

So let's test some of these pinned hashtags. Who is into on Mastodon?

“he knows what you’re encrypting / he has your private key / he knows if you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness’ sake”

omg - the timestamps for the SNES Classic’s executables is April 11th, 1992 - the European SNES release date. awoo.space/media/QOxJqJRDvX7Tv

Wikidata folks are the most kind. What a community. #WikidataCon

halloween costume idea: you dress up as a ghost. you write 127.0.0.1 somewhere. bam. localghost.

@despens indeed, you're right. it's just me, i feel more comfortable with sql :)

@atomotic SQL (or CSV, JSON for that matter) is great for abandoned datasets. A running SPARQL endpoint is great for data under stewardship.

Don't tell the kids but there is actually no way I'm going to "turn this car around."

idea: a group of friends decide to export his own twitter archive support.twitter.com/articles/2 and publish regularly on his own website. a job scrape js from user archives and makes an index to have
a minimal search engine of a small community subgroup of twitter.
does this already exists?
discuss.

Ah, I forget that we don't have autoexpanding media cards. osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/4da7 is a preprint entitled "Open Data and the Danger of Sympathetic Magic" By myself and my grad student. Contains: philosophy, ethics, archaeology, and a touch of magic.

A lovely quote about . “Why.. bring it to an end?” from The Invention of NZ: Art & National Identity as printed in Francis Pound’s funeral order of service R.I.P via. Unity Bools AKL. mastodon.social/media/bMwiM4PH

Who do you want to honor with a Free Software Award in 2018? @wietsevenema @tytso @drgell @lessig https://u.fsf.org/2bm

And now distracted by this long awaited publication:

nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/pro
Jonathan Farbowitz, Master's thesis at NYU

More Than Digital Dirt:
Preserving Malware in Archives, Museums, and Libraries

So let's test some of these pinned hashtags. Who is into on Mastodon?

As I clear up my office tabs I might share links like this: obsoletemedia.org/ 'Museum of Obsolete Media'