Is your child texting about media preservation?
wyd: where’s your data?
bff: broken file format
lol: love our library
dm: digital master
pda: preserved data already
lmao: local material archival originals
rotfl: recording on the final laserdisc
@BrianMannADK There ARE audio archiving standards and training and professional organizations for media archivists. But archives, storage, and archivists are investments that not every public media organization has the resources to invest in. We hope that can change!
Heard from a lot of archivists and audio people in response to this thread - grateful for the work and ideas and commitment. Some really good energy is moving in the direction of preserving and making available public media voices. Here's one example. +1 https://t.co/kfIcO4O3X6
I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"
As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
THREAD: The evolution of Pokémon cards through history, as generated by DALL·E 2
For starters, here’s what DALL·E 2 thinks 21st century Pokémon cards look like, using prompts like “A Pokémon card from 2001”
I just posted "How to turn your Apartment Building into a Giant Cheshire Cat Halloween Light Show with Free and Open Source Software" on Reddit
https://t.co/Rd4ujuMXZH
The Apollo Guidance Computer navigated to the moon, but can it mine Bitcoin? I tried it on our working AGC; at 10.3 seconds per hash, it would take a billion times the age of the universe to mine a block. Still faster than mining by hand or punch cards.
https://t.co/uGXfDYWAHd