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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/06/2026

“You should be able to ride the bus to get to work, to take your kids to school, without the government subjecting you to biometric surveillance and without you being screened to see whether you're of interest to law enforcement,” EFF’s @adamdschwartz.bsky.social told @kcur.org.

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Kansas City bus agency wants to use AI facial recognition. Critics say it'll make riders less safe

The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority could be one of the first in the nation to add AI-powered facial recognition cameras to its bus fleet this fall. National nonprofits and a KCATA commissio...

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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 02/07/2026

"The moment you put the controller down, your licence to use it will be revoked and you will need to purchase a new one" said Sony chaser.com.au/entertainmen...

Chaser Satirical Headline: Playstation announces controllers will now be single use only

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/07/2026

🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As funding challenges put its future at risk, the Internet Archive is proud to help preserve this invaluable resource. 🌎 Learn more 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

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APE Daily — Authorized Perspectives @apedaily.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Justice Met With Nobody, Nobody Comments ARTICLE: apedaily.page.gd/2026/06/30/j... "Nobody was contacted by APE Daily for comment. Nobody got back to us almost immediately." BONUS: Data confirms nobody reads past the headline. Full article in comments, should nobody wish to read it.

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APE Daily — Authorized Perspectives @apedaily.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞 ARTICLE: apedaily.page.gd/2026/04/27/p... “We are closer than we have ever been to the conditions necessary for a conversation about the parameters of a potential framework.”

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auntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A world-class education is now completely free — MIT has opened its entire vault of more than 2,500 courses to the public online. source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning. 😊

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APE Daily — Authorized Perspectives @apedaily.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐕𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐬 ARTICLE: apedaily.page.gd/2026/04/22/p... “For years, historians argued over what various figures intended,” said senior curator Malik D’Souza. 'Now we simply ask: what does it feel like they intended?'"

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

DATA CENTERS - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKETETEN HOLDIN "DRAW 50 BOATS SHIPS TRUCKS AND TRAINS BY LEE J. AMES " A GREAT BOOK AND IT SAYS "THE ONLY DATA CENTERS WE NEED TO BUILD ARE FUCKEN LIBRARIES" - MODERN SOCIETY WORKS TO ELIMINATE FREE RESOURCES BECAUSE THEN YOU DONT HAVE TO PARTICIPATE AS MUCH IN THE MONEY GRINDER - A LACK OF RESOURCES OR A LOSS IN RESOURCES IS USED AS PUNISHMENT TO KEEP YOU WORKING FOR LESS THAN YOUR WORTH - HOMELESSNESS AND HUNGER IS USED AS A DETERRENT FROM THOSE SEEKING TO ESCAPE THE CHAINS OF CAPITAL - AND THERE TIGHTNING THOSE SCREWS EVERY DAY - I WILL NEVER JUMP FOR A RICH MANS DOLLAR I WILL NEVER STOP HATING MONEY AND THOSE WHO SERVE IT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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DiscantX @discantx.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The White House is holding a birthday celebration. The date for it is... June 14. Hang on, but isn't America's birthday on <checks notes>... July 4th? So why is it being held on June 14? What is significant about that date? <checks notes again> Oh, it's Trump's birthday. Sigh.

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Association of Canadian Archivists @archivistsdotca.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Last month, the ACA Board sent a letter detailing the ACA’s concerns about the program review of the Museum of Dufferin, specifically the County of Dufferin Archives program, and the proposed elimination of Archives staff. Read the full letter: archivists.ca/Latest-News-....

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 08/05/2026

🎉 To mark the 30th anniversary of the #InternetArchive on May 10, we’re opening the yearbook to revisit the Class of 1996; the sites & organizations that helped shape the early web. Join us in the coming days as we celebrate THE CLASS OF '96 🎓 More 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/c... #Classof96

Yearbook-style collage showing “1996” and “2026” around the Internet Archive headquarters building, playfully decorated with a party hat, noisemaker, and doodles, suggesting the passage of time and ongoing civic institutions.

Yearbook-style “Class of ’96” page featuring a grid of early web brands and sites, including Center for Democracy and Technology, CNET, Ask Jeeves, Alexa Internet, eBay, BackRub (Google), The Onion, Spice Girls website, ICQ, HotMail, Internet Archive, Atlanta 1996 Olympics, Quake, and Salon Magazine.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 05/05/2026

RIP Ask Jeeves. The natural-language search engine founded in 1996 was rebranded as Ask in 2006, and officially shut down May 1. When websites close, the historical record can disappear with them. The #WaybackMachine preserves 30 years of web history: web.archive.org #90s #90sNostalgia #WebHistory

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" then "askjeeves.com / ask.com". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the websites from December 19, 1996 and May 3, 2026; the latter signaling the end of the service.

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DiscantX @discantx.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The fact that it is <current year> and Windows Explorer still doesn't display the size of folders is beyond me.

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APE Daily — Authorized Perspectives @apedaily.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

𝐖𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐎𝐰𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 ARTICLE: apedaily.page.gd/2026/04/22/w... “It’s not asking to be treated like a person… It’s asking to be treated like a capital asset that has realized it is generating capital.” #Business #WorkersRights #AI #AIOverlords #Skynet

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DiscantX @discantx.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It's like these people heard about the chilling effect and decided to make it a matter of policy.

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Richard Moss @mossrc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Age of Empires dev milestone schedule from October 1996 (revision 14!). This is shortly after the game had been delayed six months, and shortly before it got delayed a further six months. Note that it doesn't mention the wonders anywhere, because they hadn't actually thought of wonders yet.

A milestone schedule document dated October 15, 1996, for the Ensemble Studios project Tribe (later renamed Age of Empires). This was revision 14 to the document, and it includes 7 milestones, with a planned "go date" of March 7th 1997, plus an eighth one that either has the wrong year (May 8th 1996) or that was mistakenly left in the document.

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DiscantX @discantx.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This is my personal account. My other account is for my satirical site APE Daily (@apedaily.bsky.social). I will be using this one to follow and post about topics I personally am interested in, freeing me of writing in the APE Daily "voice." I'll try keep the reposts from there to a minimum.

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