Every time I see this brand of floppy disk, I want to cry. One of the worst I've come across - prone to fast degradation and a nightmare to back up. This one fell apart quickly (thankfully blank), but I barely rescued data from the others before they disintegrated! #preservation
"The surviving tiles and fireplaces are (largely) all that’s left of those homes and of some of Altadena’s most historic architecture."
Marah Eakin for Dwell: https://longreads.com/2025/03/17/the-grassroots-race-to-save-altadenas-historic-batchelder-tiles-before-the-bulldozers-move-in/
In the process of downloading the National Archives' youtube channel - 2914 videos. You know the fascists will start deleting these. I will have a shiny new torrent! #datahoarder #datapreservation #preservation #uspol #usgovernment #data #DataRescue #torrent #antifa #resistance #resist
Update. "The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge. Can #librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from #DOGE.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge
(#paywalled)
"Lynda Kellam, a social scientist and data librarian,…who’s served in leadership positions at two Ivy League universities, described the vulnerable data as “irreplaceable.”…Kellam told me that she’d participated in a small data-preservation effort during Trump’s first term, but had never seen anything like the frenzy that ignited in late January, when the #CDC began removing information from its website. Kellam was encouraged, but worried about a lack of coördination. What if the backups languished on private hard drives? What if archivists duplicated one another’s work? She created a Google Doc to centralize information about preëxisting initiatives—an archive of archives, with detailed instructions on how to contribute to each…Kellam met with the heads of other data-librarian organizations, and together they founded the #DataRescueProject."
Workers expressed fear that #Trump’s cuts will threaten a collection of precious #art housed in federal buildings across the country, including Alexander Calder’s 1974 “Flamingo” at the John C. Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago & Michael Lantz’s 1942 “Man Controlling Trade” outside the Federal Trade Commission building in D.C.
The future of a vast collection of public #artwork is in doubt as the #Trump admin plans to fire workers who preserve & maintain more than 26m pieces owned by the US govt, including #paintings & #sculptures by renowned #artists, some dating to the 1850s. #FineArts & historic #preservation workers at the GSA said that ≧5 regional offices were shuttered & that more than half of the division’s approximately 3 dozen staff members were put on leave pending terminations.
#DOGE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/03/11/gsa-fine-arts-layoffs-trump/
Current data preservation torrents being seeded: #datahoarder #datapreservation #preservation #uspol #usgovernment #data #DataRescue #torrent
