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I feel like I've seen a few of these tools before. I'm always skeptical that following something like Instagram through an RSS feed won't break eventually, but this one does look like one of the more well-polished versions, so I'm not opposed to giving it a try.
There is no widely available public tool comparable to the Wayback Machine, and if it continues to lose access to major news sources, its preservation efforts could erode to the point where early digital records of history become much harder to access, or are even lost altogether.
On the one hand, I get it—you don't want your stories to come out from behind the paywall and you don't want it to be used by AI (although I bet most of these publications have deals with AI companies—so that's the real reason). But no one is really reading everything via the Wayback Machine—since it's a snapshot, it's not a pleasant experience—and if they are, you are failing at presenting your journalism in a meaningful way.
Angine de Poitrine performing live at ESMA in Rennes, France, during Trans Musicales 2025
I am fully obsessed with these guys. Are the outfits and stuff a gimmick? Sure. But they still jam. I said it before, but they feel like a mix of Khruangbin and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and it's just a blast. It also has that GWAR performative nature to it, but it only adds to the music—it doesn't take away.
This isn’t the first time filmmaker Bong Joon Ho has created an appealing creature for one of his films (that would be Okja). But Ally is a new level of cute.
I get that he did Okja with the cute little animal, but man, this feels like it's coming out of left field. And I'm here for it.
Adam Jacobs, an avid concertgoer and once casual, later committed, concert archivist, began recording the concerts he attended in 1984 to tape. He went on to record over 10,000 concerts
I've seen this floating around for a bit, but you should also make sure you're familiar with the Relisten app. It's on iOS and Android, and it pulls concert recordings from the Internet Archive. I imagine these 10,000 concerts will eventually make their way there, which will be a huge boon on top of the already incredible number of concert tapes on the app.
I'm just trying to figure out why he went for the back heel. It almost feels like the guy just has no left foot. Should we give him credit for that?
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