How the Wayback Machine is trying to solve the web’s growing linkrot problem
As more sites collapse and shutter, the internet has increasingly become full of roads to nowhere.
#blessed : hallowed; consecrated
- French: béni
- German: adj: gesegnet
- Italian: benedetto
- Portuguese: abençoado
- Spanish: bendecido
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GOP's Biden corruption crusade goes up in smoke (Zachary Basu/Axios)
axios.com/2024/09/05/hunter-bi…
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Trump campaign threatens to fire staff who leak to the press (Katherine Doyle/NBC News)
nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elec…
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📣 Aufruf zur Teilnahme an der Umfrage “Shaping Open Source Collaboration in Europe” 🇪🇺
Bis zum 13.09. 🗓 können sich Open-Source-Experten, CIOs, Verantwortliche für die digitale Transformation, Softwareentwickler, Sicherheitsexperten u.a. aus der öffentlichen Verwaltung an der Umfrage von DIGIT OSPO und FOSSEPS zu Anforderungen an den Einsatz von #OpenSource in öffentlichen Verwaltungen in Europa beteiligen:
I've said it before, but it's really disappointing that you basically have to neglect your research and get a minor degree in computer science if you're a #humanities academic who wants to showcase their work on an ethical platform.
I don't expect to be able to do all the things that #tech folks do, but it seems like it shouldn't be as hard as it is just to get some text on a page.
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September 5th marks Amazon Rainforest Day.
To learn more about the Amazon rainforest, the challenges it faces and the reasons for hope, browse Mongabay's Amazon Rainforest stories here:
news.mongabay.com/list/amazon-…
#Amazon #AmazonRainforest #Rainforests #Conservation #News #Environment #AmazonRainforestDay
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This EU #openscience policy announcement, despite the somewhat underwhelming EU lingo in some places, is a bombshell, if/when properly implemented:
op.europa.eu/en/publication-de…
IMHO, many places around the world, especially the rich ones not running something like SciELO/Redalyc etc. (looking at you, USA!), should closely study this document and what it actually means and entails.
That could be more accurate, yes, but it'd cost me a ton of characters 🤣
Today in Labor History September 5, 1917: Federal agents attacked Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) halls and offices in 48 cities across the nation as part of the Palmer raids against the left.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #police #policebrutality #union #repression
Anthropy
in reply to Low Quality Facts • • •I mean actually "New supercomputer simulations have predicted that, in 3 billion to 4 billion years, there is a chance that Venus or Mars will slam into our planet thanks to the subtle gravitational interactions between Jupiter and Mercury."
chance is near-zero, but never zero :P
Vicente ⁂
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