Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website

The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone, according to two separate people who found the vulnerability and shared it with 404 Media. […] Link

Mechanical Movements

Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements, now Animated for the Internet. […] Link

Mastodon Blog Survey

Why did you start blogging in the first place?

Humans Are All More Closely Related Than We Commonly Think

The late esteemed English actor Christopher Lee traced his ancestry directly to Charlemagne. In 2010 Lee released a symphonic metal album paying homage to the first Holy Roman emperor—but his enthusiasm may have been a tad excessive. […] Link

Interview with Eddo about the UCLA Game Lab

The UCLA Game Lab, housed within the Design Media Arts department and supported by the School of Arts and Architecture and the School of Theater, Film, and Television, fosters game production and research within an experimental art and design context, emphasizing conceptual risk-taking and new modes […] Link

Tech Workers Coalition

Guided by our vision for an inclusive & equitable tech industry, TWC organizes to build worker power through rank & file self-organization and education. We are a coalition of workers in and around the tech industry, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends. […] Link

Allison Parrish- Language models can only write ransom notes

“I would prefer for my poems to not also be threats.”

DIY Web Archiving

A 22-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Quinn Dombrowski, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kremer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti. CC BY-NC. Current version: v2, 1/22/2025. v1, 01/03/2025. […] Link

Digital Archive at VGHF Library

The VGHF Digital Archive is the portal for our digitally preserved content. You can directly access our digital collections and search through the full text of documents, magazines, transcripts, and more. This library is a permanent work in progress. […] Link

Studio Notes Jan 1 2025

I’ve been trying to extricate myself from Meta platforms. I took a day to try to turn some sloppy image galleries on this site into something a little more robust. What I’d like is to be able to throw images in a directory, and have Jekyll make autopages from them with masonry layouts and a separate rss feed for each collection.