What is advice you might over-index on / misinterpret?
For me it's Clear's, "You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems".
I use this to rely way too much on safe systems.
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Iran state TV yesterday excerpted American media to convey that violence against women is endemic in the US - notable in light of Iran's crackdown on women's rights
Collaborative source analysis Archive's and 's GDELT
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Today is voting on a long-overdue resolution that will kickstart transparency and justice when it comes to surveillance tech.
I spoke to on today's 2 pm hearing.
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Wayback Machine is used in a Jan 6th Proud Boys trial...
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Jauregui: When doing your investigation, did you use a wayback time machine? What is that? How does it work?
Agent: It takes snapshots at specific times, it doesn't copy the webpage every day of the year.
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The 20th Century is largely unavailable to digital learners because publishers pushed to get 95 year copyright terms and now suing to stop libraries from digitizing and lending their 20th century materials
So a generation is not learning the lessons 20th C.
Does not bode well.
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Fun image for historians that the 20th century could be the richest period for primary sources than anything before or after. twitter.com/PhDhurtBrain/s…
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For All Eternity
Information feels more accessible than ever, but the ways we store data are surprisingly fragile. Can we save anything forever? This hour, TED speakers explore preserving our past, present and future. npr.org/programs/ted-r *even mentions the Belgrade library!
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BBC took down own Modi documentary from Internet Archive
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TED Radio Hour on NPR
"How do you create an internet archive of all human knowledge?"
founder of the
"...we can't everything, but we collect a lot..." (the understatement of the century!)
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Each of these was an extension of my mind for a while. Pulled the hard-drives out of them today & they are off to e-waste.
I couldn't bear to get rid of the $100 laptops though - I have ~8 different versions .. they stay - too much of my blood, sweat, tears and joy in them.
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We fixed some issues with our GifCities service that were impacting some users. Now get back to enjoying some old-school Geocities GIFs! Gifcities.org
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"Our hope is that with better technology, we can create abundance while not falling into old patterns of haves and have nots. "
On Scarcity, Law, and Abundance... thoughtful
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33
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I grazed the large number of amicus briefs in Gonzalez v Google. The best one so far, imho, is the Cox-Wyden brief that explains not only their bipartisan intent with the bill that became sec 230 but also that interactive services even in 1998 were ok with recommendations
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We don’t say this enough: The is an amazing resource for journalists. I just went to look up an original web page I’d visited a few months ago – gone! Fortunately I quickly found it on the Wayback Machine.
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Check out all the winners and honorable mentions ⤵️
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For the First Time on any stage… with “The Brewster” awarded to the winners of our film remix contest. And the winner is….#publicdomainday2023
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Thank you, for Amazon Smile-- it was good while it lasted.
The got >$1000 over the years
Donating to charity like this is rare,hope others continue (e.g. )
Anyway, Amazon, thanks for all the fish.
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Today we are excited to announce that in collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, coverage from Iran International from October 27, 2022 to present is now available in the Visual Explorer!
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🥠That confirms it. When your fortune cookie tells you something, you have to listen.
👉Come to 's "The Best Things In Life Are Free" Public Domain Day party this Friday 1/20, 6PM in SF for free #publicdomain music, dancing & films.
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🧵 An inside peek at books, for hackers who like nonprofits, digitization, & solving automation challenges at scale.
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This was my short story on a proposed world (7 pages-- at least it is short): would like to know what you think:
archive.org/details/Kronos
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As of today, most published works from 1927 have entered the public domain in the US! Celebrate with us on Jan 19 & 20: blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/the
Welcome to the #PublicDomain:
🎞️ The Beloved Rogue, starring John Barrymore
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Welcome to the #PublicDomain:
🎞️ The Cat and the Canary, a silent comedy horror film directed by Paul Leni
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Today we welcome works of art from 1927 into the public domain. Check out the movies, music, periodicals & books that are now free to remix & reuse in our latest blog post:
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The January 6th Committee has released 170 transcripts, a Final Report and a Summary Report.
Those files have been archived with the and also uploaded to Archive.org here: archive.org/details/jan-6t
Thank you for your support: archive.org/donate/
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Hello World!
Applying machine transcription and translation to produce English closed captioning of Russian TV
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Thank you for your partnership with the 's TV News Archive.
You are helping to make our service more useful.
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, most of the published works from 1927 will move into the public domain in the US. Celebrate these works at one of our two Public Domain Day celebrations, January 19 & 20:
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The bedrock of the free press is publicly-available government information. 's Democracy's Library protects journalism and democracy.
I wrote about it:
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Here's 's new essay on Democracy's Library:
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A true national treasure, esp for independent scholars! Thanks for everything.
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We've had several inquiries about our book donation program following this article.
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Please donate to the Internet Archive if you can.
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We are a bargain! Serving millions every day with books music video and web archives.
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Here is Twitter's deleted their policy page and their tweet about it.
Patrons of used the Save Page Now feature to save it.
old tweet page and current missing page (/w to archived policy page): web.archive.org/web/2022121818
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Happy Birthday, Stewart! You lead inspiring movements. Keep it coming.
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Focus on #TrueFans, tells creators. He explained why he strongly believes in this concept by during his #BookTalk co-hosted by the &
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📕 Read: walledculture.org/the-book #FreeEbook
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The past 7 years have been the 7 warmest/ 1900.
The last year was the 6th-warmest in the Arctic since 1900.
A 1/100 event (warmest) became ~100% event for the last 7 years...
(bad math, but good comms)
Let that sink into your risk models
arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Re
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PETITION: Mega-corporations are trying to ban libraries from owning digital books! Sign on now to tell to turn over a new leaf in 2023 by standing up for libraries + diverse voices.
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Yesterday we filed (w/ , & ) an amicus brief in ASTM v. Public.Resource.org.
If you care about how copyright law can be used to undermine fundamentals like due process and democratic self-government, you should read on... /1
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