#Bitcoin’s clinging to $100K like a washed-up celeb. Behind the scenes? Debt, desperation, and denial. #Trump’s raising funds (won’t put his own on the line). Saylor’s begging Big Tech. Nobody’s buying. Nobody cares.
Tick tock.
#CryptoCrash #BitcoinBubble #PonziSeason #DigitalDecay #BlueskyFinance

Students used ChatGPT. Their brains stopped firing. This post is written by ChatGPT.

#AI #CognitiveScience #ChatGPT #MIT #DigitalDecay #TheInternetIsCrack

Systems don't age like wine.
They rot.

Keep them fresh - or embrace the decay.

#CyberSecurity #InfoSec #SystemHardening #DigitalDecay #ThreatModeling #DeadSwitchSignal

Just saved this project, which was stuck on Glitch dot com. Now that Glitch is shutting down their hosting service, it was time to move everything to my own website. Another example of digital decay in real time...

#digitaldecay #glitch #webarchive #internetarchive

🔐 DeadSwitch Protocol: 02 — The Password Graveyard #DeadSwitch #PasswordGraveyard #CyberGhost #DigitalDecay #OPSEC #CyberSecurity #KeePassXC #PasswordSecurity #SecureYourAccess #Infosec #DataProtection #NoMoreReusedPasswords #DigitalFortress #CyberTips #MFAIsNotEnough #EncryptionFirst #GhostKeyMethod #FearTheSwitch

http://tomsitcafe.com/2025/03/28/%f0%9f%94%90-deadswitch-protocol-02-the-password-graveyard/

Digital Echoes.
#ArtDigital #Cyberpunk #Abstract #TechArt #GlitchArt #Dystopian #Futurism #DigitalDecay #Retrofuturism #Surrealism #AIArt #Midjourney #DigitalAesthetic

Retro-Tech Dreams
#ArtDigital #Cyberpunk #RetroFuturism #TechCollage #GlitchArt #AbstractTech #Vaporwave #NeonFuturism #DigitalDecay #SynthWave #AiArt #Midjourney

"Who am I, if not my content?": Zum Jahresende noch einige mehr oder weniger philosophische Überlegungen zur Frage, ob das #Internet wirklich nicht vergisst, denn auch unser globales #Datennetz ist abhängig von den realweltlichen Gegebenheiten: #digitaldecay
"We are watching the internet slip away as websites and apps rise and fall, swallowed by private equity, shuttered by burnout, or simply frozen in time — taking with it our memories, our cultural phenomena, our memes"
https://www.theverge.com/24321569/internet-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture

IGT, game over? When the house gets hacked, e v e r y o n e ' s data becomes the prize. Glitch in the matrix? Or just Tuesday? #digitaldecay #entropy

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1619762/000161976224000114/a6-khoneysuckle19november2.htm

Sadly, this is far from the first time researchers have heard this story, and if anything, we seem to be entering a period of digital retrenchment. Digital specialists have long warned that legacy is among the most urgent challenges of doing this kind of work. If you don’t have money to pay someone to host your resource, to update it, and so on, it cannot last online.

https://williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/all-the-kings-horses-and-their-official-job-titles/

#history #histodons #histodon #archives #digitaldecay #digitalretrenchment #hisco

A lightly-scheduled week wrapped up with my wife and I seeing two D.C. teams that didn’t exist 20 years ago play against two Seattle teams: the Spirit’s 3-2 win against the Reign Friday night, then the Nats’ 9-5 loss to the Mariners Sunday afternoon. In between, a bike ride to and then through Rock Creek Park offered me a peek at actual construction progress of Maryland’s snakebit Purple Line light-rail project.

5/20/2024: The Internet Is Not Forever: 38% of Web Pages From 2013 No Longer Exist, PCMag

I missed this Pew Research Center study when it landed Friday of the previous week, but the problem of link rot is an evergreen topic, and my own career has provided numerous examples of it.

5/22/2024: Microsoft and Google’s new AI sales pitches: We’re your last line of defense against your scatterbrained self, Fast Company

This was originally going to be a recap of how Google used its I/O developer conference two weeks ago to position AI as your last line of defense against hostile humans. But then Microsoft unveiled an implementation of AI that could vastly expand the privacy attack surface of Windows users, so I had to rewrite a large chunk of this post.

5/22/2024: Which Tech Company Has the Worst Reputation?, PCMag

Seeing the former Twitter ranked at 99 out of 100 brands, above only the Trump Organization, caught my interest. But as I noted in my writeup, some of the results of this Harris and Axios project invite some skepticism about the methodology.

5/22/2024: T-Mobile Raises Rates on Many Older Plans by $5 or $2 a Month, PCMag

Halfway through writing this post, T-Mobile made me part of the story by sending a text message informing me that I’d be paying an extra $5 a month on the Business Unlimited Advanced plan that T-Mobile introduced barely three years ago.

5/23/2024: Bluesky Adds Direct Messaging, But It’s No Signal Replacement Yet, PCMag

If T-Mobile hadn’t grabbed so much of my attention Thursday, I could have written this post then. Instead, I had a little more time to try out Bluesky’s new DM feature–and to cobble together my own photo to illustrate this piece after seeing Getty Images offer nothing current.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/05/26/weekly-output-link-rot-microsoft-and-googles-ai-sales-pitches-tech-brand-reputations-t-mobile-rate-hikes-bluesky-dms/

#BlueskyDirectMessaging #BlueskyDMs #brandReputation #digitalDecay #directMessaging #error404 #GoogleAndroidScamCallDetection #GoogleIO #instantMessaging #linkRot #MicrosoftBuild #MicrosoftRecall #TMobile5RateHike #WindowsRecall

#DigitalArchiving #DigitalPreservation #InternetHistory #DigitalDecay: "The headline finding from "When Online Content Disappears" is that 38% of the web of 2013 is gone today. Wikipedia references are especially hard-hit, with 23% of news links missing and 21% of government websites gone. The majority of Wikipedia entries have at least one broken link in their reference sections. Twitter is another industrial-scale oubliette: a fifth of English tweets disappear within a matter of months; for Turkish and Arabic tweets, it's 40%.

Thankfully, someone has plugged the web's memory-hole. Since 2001, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has allowed web users to see captures of web-pages, tracking their changes over time. I was at the Wayback Machine's launch party, and right away, I could see its value. Today, I make extensive use of Wayback Machine captures for my "This Day In History" posts, and when I find dead links on the web.

The Wayback Machine went public in 2001, but Archive founder Brewster Kahle started scraping the web in 1996. Today's post graphic – a modified Yahoo homepage from October 17, 1996 – is the oldest Yahoo capture on the Wayback Machine:"

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/21/noway-back-machine/#pew-pew-pew

Digital decay
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/21/digital-decay-media-trends

#DigitalDecay

Research on #DigitalDecay: a quarter of all websites from 2013 had vanished 10 years later, either because its domain stopped (9%) or because of link rot (16%). Tweets disappeared even quicker
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

#DigitalArchiving #DigitalPreservation #DigitalDecay: "The internet is an unimaginably vast repository of modern life, with hundreds of billions of indexed webpages. But even as users across the world rely on the web to access books, images, news articles and other resources, this content sometimes disappears from view.

A new Pew Research Center analysis shows just how fleeting online content actually is:

- A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible, as of October 2023. In most cases, this is because an individual page was deleted or removed on an otherwise functional website.

- For older content, this trend is even starker. Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are not available today, compared with 8% of pages that existed in 2023.

This “digital decay” occurs in many different online spaces. We examined the links that appear on government and news websites, as well as in the “References” section of Wikipedia pages as of spring 2023."

https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

I was in the Sauna this weekend, and I met a guy from Austria. He had been working in #regensburg for a while, and I just started at a Vienna startup. After a while, he nodded, and sighed. "You know, after ten years in Germany, I realize a certain digital degeneration, almost a #digitaldecay inside me."
#Germany #digital #digitalization #DigitalDivide. #vienna

Just a reminder that you can save a local copy of any website's state for archiving purposes.

All main browsers support it.

It''s fun to look at some frozen state of my #facebook wall from 2014.

#internet #decay #digitaldecay #archive #URL #web #firefox #chrome #safari

Platform ephemerality is real and even the mighty can fall. In responses to my writing about mortality and the social web, sometimes people push back against the idea that today’s globally entrenched platforms can decay. But they obviously can #platforms #digitaldecay #commscholars #internethistories