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NEW POST | 'Choose Your Own Adventure' by Anna Beresin
Reflecting on the research process behind her latest book, 'Make/Unmake: Play at the Centre of Culture Change'
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When installing Windows 3.1 as a retro system, you should never forget to update the file manager to its Y2K-compatible version from 1999. The old, original WINFILE.EXE should not be allowed to touch your files in 2026. 😉
#Y2K #Winfile #Win31 #RetroComputing #Emulation #Windows #90s #2000s #FileManager
Ports, Past and Present is a joint initiative with University College Cork (UCC) and Wexford County Council in Ireland, and in Wales with Aberystwyth University and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. The project is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Cooperation programme and is led by UCC.
Ports, Past and Present is a joint initiative with University College Cork (UCC) and Wexford County Council in Ireland, and in Wales with Aberystwyth University and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. The project is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Cooperation programme and is led by UCC.
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Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program.
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/
see also the book 'Data Cartels' (2022) by Sarah Lamdan.
> Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/discord-faces-backlash-over-age-checks-after-data-breach-exposed-70000-ids/
And in more shameless #fuckery:
> Discord's data breached.
> Give us your ID or else. (Talk about shameless.)
Oh yea, I feel confident and trust my data will be safe. Yea, right. Time to #DeleteDiscord
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