Jason Scott

@textfiles

Proprietor of , historian, filmmaker, archivist, storyteller. Works on/for the Internet Archive. Rank Amateur.

The 1980s
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Joined March 2007
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    20 Dec 2021

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  2. 12 hours ago

    The Batman was exactly as expected

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  3. 21 hours ago

    And, as I can attest after this morning's work, a very very beloved service used by spammers. I'd suggest everyone blasting anything sent through fex dot plus or fexbox dot org right into the goddamned trash at the server level.

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  4. 23 hours ago

    WELL THAT'S QUITE A FEW VICTOR 9000 DISK FLUX READS

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  5. Mar 7

    An adorable 12 minute tale of betrayal inside the piracy scene

    Quake - The 1996 Beta scandal | MVG Watch Here :
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  6. Retweeted
    Mar 6

    From vintage Queensland tourism guides to house designs, there are 680+ digitised titles on our Internet Archive channel waiting for you to explore. Read on -

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  7. Mar 6

    Anyone want to read thousands of Cauzin Softstrips?

    "Bad Idea": the Table of Contents was printed as a barcode-like-thing in 2,600 of our millions of periodicals. Saying "it is being broadly adopted"... it wasn't. Verdict: "A bad idea." says: (see vid) Anyone up for reading our collection of them?
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  8. Mar 6

    Archive Team, would you kindly archive 30pin and this tweet from them

    We can’t pay for 30pin’s upkeep—as in, there’s no feasible way to do so from within Russia—and have to let it lapse. Please read the statement:
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  9. Mar 5

    Second, and I can't stress this enough, Peter Dinklage's commitment to this part and this movie is utter and complete. His every second of performance in this movie is like a master silversmith reworking his grandfather's favorite piece as a gift for his unborn son.

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  10. Mar 5

    Two call-outs. Seamus McGarvey was clearly told by the director, Joe Wright, to make everything look like a painting, i.e. give us Barry Lyndon using 2020s equipment and SEAMUS UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT. Every frame a painting indeed.

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  11. Mar 5

    Saw CYRANO today. CYRANO was fantastic, like Baz Luhrmann and Lin-Manuel Miranda got trapped in Sicily and decided to make a musical version of a French novel using a massive cast and top-notch crew.

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  12. Mar 5

    And a front row of recliners

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  13. Mar 5

    Also, the movie theater I was at tonight had some pretty awesome sinks

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  14. Mar 5

    Always love a good supermarket

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  15. Mar 5

    Oh shiiiii

    Your humble MC is pleased to announce a headline spot at ’s GDC concert on March 22nd! With . Half price w/ GDC badge. Be there. TIX:
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  16. Mar 5

    Specifically, things like where the year is 0 (which means "I just filled things with zeros), or 5000+ (I'm following the Jewish Calendar) to "1900"/"1899" (I get buzzed if I don't add a year so I put it at the beginning of the 20th century. "Metadata oddness" is our B27/6

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  17. Mar 5

    So, we added a cool, cool beta feature to be able to scrub across dates in collections of items. It's great. Of course, this has set off the all-time classic thing people who work with large sets of database entries, records, or digital materials knows well: WELL, THAT IS ODD

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  18. Mar 5

    He had his shot and he took it, bravo

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  20. Mar 5

    Clearly this needs to be sorted down into some collections by title, but until I get to that: 8,000 Anarchy Zines.

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  21. Mar 4

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