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📺 How Anyone Can Save Video Game History | Preserving Play

Preserving Play is a documentary web series that follows those doing the work, preserving video game history. Through this series I hope the viewer will learn more about preservation, know why it's important, and get involved.

Preserving Play 1 follows Andrew Czudak of the Hitsave! nonprofit, as he explores how he got into video game preservation and how there's room for anyone to get involved as well!

So, save your disks.

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The Internet Archive needs your help.

A coalition of major record labels has filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive—demanding $700 million for our work preserving and providing access to historical 78rpm records. These fragile, obsolete discs hold some of the earliest recordings of a vanishing American culture. But this lawsuit goes far beyond old records. It’s an attack on the Internet Archive itself.

This lawsuit is an existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything we preserve—including the Wayback Machine, a cornerstone of memory and preservation on the internet.

At a time when digital information is disappearing, being rewritten, or erased entirely, the tools to preserve history must be defended—not dismantled.

This isn’t just about music. It’s about whether future generations will have access to knowledge, history, and culture.

Sign our open letter and tell the record labels to drop their lawsuit. 

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Baby bird season is incoming and I’d like to remind everyone that birds do not have a significant sense of smell. Bird parents will not reject birdlets because you have handled them.

If you see smol birbs with few or no feathers on the ground, you can safely put them back into their nest, bird parents will still care for them.

If you see smol birbs with some or most feathers on the ground, please leave them there, as bird parents are probably nearby watching and feeding.

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Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book

An emergency arbitrator ruled that former Meta staffer Sarah Wynn-Williams is prohibited from promoting memoir of her tenure at the social m

Hey did you know there's a tell all book about the behind the scenes of Meta and the author is forbidden from promoting it?

The good news is however that it's already published and can't be stifled and whoever didn't sign the NDA can promote it as much as they want.

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

If I could give Zoomers and Alphas one piece of advice, it would be this:

Get a cemetery hobby.

There are a ton of cemeteries out there where the last burial was in the 1970s and the living relatives are none, and at best someone might mow once or twice a month. Find one near you. Adopt it. Put your phone in airplane mode. Better yet, leave it home.

Clear the dirt and twigs from the graves. You can use plain water. Get one of those bamboo back scrubber brushes if you want to do a thorough job--it'll get into the cracks and crevices but also be gentle enough to not harm the stone. Take crayons and paper and take rubbings of stones you can't read. Think about what the lives of those people might have been like. Take a hobby with you that requires no technology, like fiberwork or drawing or reading. Sit for a couple of hours a week and listen to the birds and the bugs and the dead, away from TikTok dances and buy-buy-buy and CCTV.

You probably won't be questioned--it's highly unlikely a semi-feral cemetery has security. But if a security guard or cop does come by, the best part of this whole thing is that you can literally tell the truth: you're there because it's quiet, and you can think or participate in your hobby uninterrupted. You're showing respect, because it's sad that nobody is ever here. You don't want to harm anything--just to be still for a little while. Hell, depending on your religion you can even honestly say you're fulfilling a religious obligation by caring for the dead.

Cemeteries by design are meant to be stayed in for awhile. It's taken as a given that family and friends of the deceased will want to visit the graves, tidy them, and leave flowers. As long as you're not vandalizing anything, there's no reason for this to be called "loitering." You are using the cemetery for its intended function.

Here's the key to all this: this is not for public consumption, a thing for you to liveblog on social media or do a blow-by-blow writeup of. It's for YOU, only for you. Nothing you do in this time is for mandatory consumption by others. For a short space of time, you're off the grid. Technology can be great in its proper place, but the panopticon is not good for you, so make a blind spot for yourself.

Adopt a cemetery.

And if you happen to be in my hometown, you already know exactly which cemetery you're picking seeing as there's only the one, so do me a favor and mosey on back to the corner by the fence nearest the lake. You'll find a pair of depressions, each about the size of a coffin. If it's close to a federal holiday they'll have those little bronze flag holders on them.

Tell my Revolutionary soldiers I'm still getting them plaques someday, and enjoy my corner. Once upon a time I sheltered from the noise there, too.