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music The Internet Archive has recovered 500,000+ of the 50,000,000 songs Myspace "accidentally" deleted during a server migration Cory Doctorow

archive.org Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 Cory Doctorow

Business Facebook deathwatch: a decade ago, it was impossible to imagine the fall of Myspace Cory Doctorow

twitter Myspace hasn't tweeted since 9/11, and we're starting to worry Andrea James

History Rip.so, the graveyard of dead internet things Rob Beschizza

Technology A guy bought Friendster for $30K and is rebuilding it to be more social, less network Ellsworth Toohey

politics State Department is deleting all X posts from before Trump's return — even from Trump's first term Ellsworth Toohey

mistakes Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsoft's cloud app that steals then deletes all your files Rob Beschizza

Don't sing love songs Saint Etienne's "Like a Motorway" in Japanese Rob Beschizza

vanity plates DEZNUUTZ, 2HI, VENMO, and 3,000 other vanity license plates rejected by New York's DMV David Pescovitz

education Kansas teacher fired for joking (?) about farting on students now having success as a comedian David Pescovitz

humor Dr. Oz trolled for supporting predatory multi-level-marketing scams Jennifer Sandlin

cover songs Fall Out Boy re-wrote "We Didn't Start the Fire" for 1989-2023 Thom Dunn

zoom Plastic surgeons say the pandemic has caused "Zoom dysmorphia" Clive Thompson

books Why Goodreads is bad for books Mark Frauenfelder

facebook Facebook announces plans to make a new Facebook that's basically the same as what Facebook was originally Thom Dunn

happy mutants Radicalized makes the CBC's annual Canada Reads longlist Cory Doctorow