happy mutants OLIVE: a system for emulating old OSes on old processors that saves old data from extinction Cory Doctorow

happy mutants A deep dive into the race to preserve our digital heritage Cory Doctorow

Science Rats' nests are rich with unrecorded history and urgent scientific data David Pescovitz

Copyfight News organizations have all but abandoned their archives Cory Doctorow

News FCC closed due to government shutdown, Ajit Pai won't be at CES Xeni Jardin

History A giant wooden model of 1930s San Francisco has been put online Jason Weisberger

History Hi rez images from NASA's 1967/8 Lunar Orbiters were withheld to hide US spying capabilities Cory Doctorow

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happy mutants Family-owned Smugmug acquires Flickr, rescuing it from the sinking post-Yahoo ship Cory Doctorow

music Help wanted: Archivist for the Prince museum at Paisley Park David Pescovitz

data A "digital rosetta stone" for translating obsolete computer files Rob Beschizza

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Gadgets This NES Classic jailbreak is a perfect parable of our feudal future of disobedient dishwashers Cory Doctorow

politics Trump and Brexit are retaliation for neoliberalism and corruption Cory Doctorow

I'm With Her To find Hillary Clinton likable, we must learn to view women as complex beings Caroline Siede

picks #NoDAPL: U.S. orders halt in North Dakota pipeline construction on Native land Xeni Jardin

floss Software Heritage: Creating a safe haven for software Paul Brown, Free Software Foundation Europe

politics Peter Thiel's lawyer threatens Gawker for talking about Donald Trump's "hair" Cory Doctorow

3d printing Technoheritage has a property problem Cory Doctorow

science fiction The Android’s Prehistoric Menagerie A Merc Rustad