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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾

@b33tk33p3r.bsky.social
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Digital preservation consultant. Systems analyst, software architect, domain specialist. Leipzig. linktr.ee/ross.spencer

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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 10h
Heisenberg's presentation uncertainty principle... your delivery, your recording, your video, your slides might all be perfect on their own, but *combined* you can only get three correct max... the fourth, you can neither know its speed nor location... perfection can not be obtained. Cheers Werner.
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 10h
Pope Leo XIV to keynote #iPRES2027 #digipres
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 10h
Very unpopular opinion. Stop gushing over politicians. Whomever they are. Sure, like them, appreciate them, recommend them, but stop gushing. History proves we're a term, or campaign, or just ONE decision from them letting us down. Judge, and gush for them at the end of their careers NO EXCEPTIONS.
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
About Christa Pike... she might be alive, but why is no one asking about her physical and mental state? I imagine someone surviving 2 x lethal injections would still require significant intervention just to be healthy again? 😔
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
populism reaches its apotheosis by treating a machine as an unimpeachable source of knowledge
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I will _help_ _us_ all out here by _recommending_ y'all don't waste your time reading this _because_ it is absolutely mind-numbing advice... (and frankly, even the first example seems completely made up!)
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dada perfection
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another good rendition of the impact of cuts facing friends, colleagues, and the country at Archives Library New Zealand. waateanews.com/2026/09/05/o... #GLAM #Archives #NewZealand #Aotearoa #InformationRecordsMGMT #Legislation #GOVT #NZPol #digipres #DigitalPreservation
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Our History on the Chopping Block: National Library and Archives Face 12% Workforce Cut - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
The institutions charged with protecting Aotearoa’s documentary memory are facing another major round of job cuts, with a proposal to axe 47 full-time equivalent roles across the National Library and ...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026
Democrats vs. Republicans in a nutshell. This absolutely nails it.
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
CNN watched him do it to others. Bent the knee. Published a book about “aging” Joe Biden. Didn’t once hold #Trump to the same standard. And are STILL surprised? Release the #Epstein files. Midterm the GOP #USPol
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don’t know who needs to know this but yesterday I got a little bit pooped on by a seagull and I did not win the lottery. Make of that what you will. #Luck #FolkTales
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Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Could the MPs maybe examine the decimation of UK HE; the state of the water companies; and the masked thugs attacking lifeboats volunteers before addressing poor scores in Eurovision?
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The problem isn’t proving AI won’t take your job. The problem is the years of people thinking they can replace you, doing it🪦 then spending years with the sunk cost fallacy… the problem was🪦 they replaced you; your cadence; your benefits; your uniqueness, costing you who knows? No one gets that back
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 15/09/2026
a lot of my frustration with the LLM onslaught has in fact been disappointment at realizing how many people do just want to pretend (at work, creatively, interpersonally)
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rhodzy @rhodzy.com · 06/09/2026
New blog post: 12TB of Steam 'Lost' History? Bit of a Cock-up, That. Steam's just had a proper leak – 12TB of old game builds and cancell... rhodzy.com/blog/12tb-of-steam-lost-… #gaming #steam #leak #pcgaming #gamedevelopment #digitalpreservation #gaminghistory
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12TB of Steam 'Lost' History? Bit of a Cock-up, That.
Steam's just had a proper leak – 12TB of old game builds and cancelled projects. Is it 'lost history' or just a massive digital mess?
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Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network (DPOE-N) @dpoe-n.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Learn what a Digital Asset Register (DAR) is, why your organization may want to create one, and what makes a good DAR in the toolkit. Step-by-step instructions and templates are included: www.dpconline.org/digipres/imp...
Free digital preservation toolkit. Building a digital asset register. Presented by the Digital Preservation Coalition. Link in bio
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
And you know it's only 15 seconds for now so they can sell 30 seconds... 30 minutes... 30 hours later... www.youtube.com/watch?v=a35V... #Dystopia #Apple #HellWasOtherPeople
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The Stone Roses - What the World Is Waiting For (Audio)
YouTube video by StoneRosesVEVO
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
FWIW, independent media on YouTube is fast becoming a new gold standard for political reporting. While everything cycles too fast, it does seem to pick up many many more stories than are reported in trad. media. Check it out. #KImmel #IndependentMedia #YouTube #USPol #Trump #MidtermHim #Epstein
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC due to threats from Trump’s FCC. The interview will instead be posted to YouTube.
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Jim Acosta... (paraphrasing) voters are younger than they were a decade ago, they do not have the same reference points. DO NOT LET HISTORY GET REWRITTEN BY THESE LIES. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl7h... #Trump #StolenValor #NineEleven #USPol #Propaganda #GOP #Spineless #BoneSpurs #WTC
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Acosta: Trump crossed a line on 9/11 today
YouTube video by Jim Acosta
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I don't have inbox zero but I think it counts the date ranges on the first page of my inbox span mostly a whole year right? #Email #Inbox #InbozZero
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Motivational speakers: Nothing is impossible AI: hold my beer krug! @stephenking.bsky.social #StephenKing #Similies #Writing #EnglishLiterature
Google AI summary telling us that listing every Stephen King simile from his 60+ books is IMPOSSIBLE 

Which I guess it probably would be were it not a finite task...
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sometimes I ask myself why do I hang onto Sundays until the latest possible hour... then I wake up to all the new dumb isht happening on a Monday and it all makes perfect sense... #NewMexico #SpaceForce #SacshenAnhalt #AfD
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
PyPi login... what's better than 2FA with an authenticator app..? 3FA! You logged in correctly twice... it's not enough, check your g*d email! #OpenSource #Python
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In case of Armageddon we've the Arctic Seed Vault to help us regrow the earth. I just hope they've got someone with *really* green fingers holed up in there to make it happen! #EndOfTheWorld #ArcticSeedVault
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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Here's a very rare treat for #DigiPres - I came across the first cover disc of the Nordic magazine Komputer for alle... And it turns out it's an attempt to allow people without internet in 1997 to experience what the web is like by fully downloading about a hundred different websites unto the disc!
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K-CD 1997-05: Internet uden modem
Coverdisc fro the Danish and Norwegian computing magazine Komputer for alle.This might be the first CD-ROM cover disc, replacing the previous floppies.This particular disc is meant to give people with...
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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French New Wave Memes @fnwave.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
good morning
Confidential Report (1955)  ("Mr. Arkadin") Dir. Orson Welles 

humans can be museums too, filled with history they can no longer touch.
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I suspect there's a pretty strong correlation between AI bros of this short-generation and the NFT bros of the last shot-generation. No, that's not a positive. #NoAI
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Rumor has it, our signature development workshop still has spaces at #ipres2026 Under the Hood: File Formats Unmasked, A File Format Identification Workshop, Clipsham, David; Mackenzie, Francesca; Spencer, Ross; Thorsted, Tyler ipres2026.dk/programme/ac... #PRONOM #DROID #Siegfried #digipres
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Accepted Peer-reviewed Submissions ​ – iPRES 2026
iPRES 2026 - The 22nd International Conference on Digital Preservation in Copenhagen, Denmark
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Does GTA 6 follow New Jersey or New York rules for pumping gas?
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Gerry Duggan @gerryduggan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Cars in GTA 6 need gas is how hard we lost the Iran war.
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
*brrrrr* socialism... #SoScary
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Or y'know, tax wealth not the work, reduce inequality, provide access to social welfare, fix the broken infra, and THEN get *your* nice things, instead of telling people they don't need nice things.
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The debate is not about data centers, or AI, or <pick your tech> it's about how ethically their deployment or application is. You want data centers? Don't drain the local grid, build an environmentally friendly grid, build a data center. Want AI? Don't steal content, source content ethically.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) used the following words to describe data center developers today; "Predators" "Bullies" "Secretive" Shapiro signed a new state exec order tightening restrictions on data centers, requiring they get local approvals & provide their own power
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I wonder if this is connected to power. The left don't really seek it, yes, to govern, it is a neccessity, but within self imposed limits. Every initiative I have seen trend toward control, coordination, broad influence, and collection of assets, tends to have the dullest of ideas.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026
I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
As a rule of thumb, if I don't want to be undermined, I try not making bed partners with the *worst* people on the planet. Y'know, try not to be so corrupt in general... but that might just be me. #FIFA #Infantino #USPol
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Given current skills being lost to AI, and generations lost to shitty teaching, I sometimes think to myself, at least there might be some job security for us old-school people one day... then I remember, there's no money, and there'll be less then, and so yeah... #FunTimesAhead
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So confidently wrong... I was actually searching for Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo... #BDXL #Storage #StorageMedia
An AI summary about a search for blu-ray disc XL and it confidently replying with what looks like a made up name of a veterinarian Dr B. Duncan X. Lascelles (BDXL)
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Luke McKernan looking at three lost digital resources making a strong case for a true registry of endangered and lost digital archives (not simply a high-level symbol of endangerment) lukemckernan.com/2026/06/28/l... #digipres #DigitalPreservation #Archives #GLAM #LegalDeposit #Registry
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Lost resources
To lose one database is a misfortune; to lose four feels like a conspiracy. Recently three online databases and one audiovisual digital archive with underlying database, on each of which I worked f…
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I don't know why folks are annoyed it's a bubble... no matter how varied the posts it sort of is. It's also very US-centric. But none of these things are issues if you're also engaging in the conversations elsewhere, e.g. Mastodon, YouTube, Reddit, and other local networks #BlueSky
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#Golang is by far one of the most ergonomic ways of building software and most resilient languages I can ask to work with. Trying out code from 6 years ago today - just works. 8 years ago? Works. 10 years ago and some of my first code in the language - works. The language of #digipres?
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Bensplaining... Ben Elton dryly explains comedy... #RikMayall
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
How late is later Zotero? - one rant post - check email - look at Mercury prize nominations try again. In. Still, glad this isn't an actually important service.
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
OMG...while I don't think there's a silver bullet to authentication that vendors are interested in (public private key architecture anyone?) but the "Too many attempts, try again later" approach with no circuit breaker is hostile AF #Zotero </r>
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💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I wrote about using the #JSONID declarative language to output the #PRONOM declarative syntax for file format signatures. Building PRONOM signatures with JSONID. exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/declara... #digipres #JSON #StructuredData #FileFormats #FileFormatIdentification #Archives #GLAM #MLIS
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Declarative all the way down: Building PRONOM signatures with JSONID - ross spencer :: exponentialdecay.digipres :: blog
A look at automating PRONOM signature development for JSON based file formats through JSONID's own declarative syntax.
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