Public Domain 1929 Party at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on Wednesday night. Please come!
Great works are going Open, celebrate with a remix film contest winners and period drinks and party.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-public-domain-day-2025-at-the-internet-archive-tickets-1117297439719
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wow: nytimes: "Biden’s Push to Cancel Student Debt Surpasses 5 Million Borrowers
With Monday’s authorization and 27 previous ones, the Biden administration has forgiven over $180 billion in student loans, even as its larger policy vision never took root."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/us/politics/biden-student-loan-forgiveness.html
must be such a relief. and for 5 million students.
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"Review Spam," or commercially motivated posts, on the Internet Archive spiked to 99.9% of our reviews just before the election and when we were hit with a cyber attack and ddos.
When we recovered, spam outnumbered real reviews 20-to-1.
It has always been a cat-and-mouse game, but the mice became RoboMice.
So now the @internetarchive has RoboKitties!
RoboKitties-- Go Eat them RoboMice! (Robokitties are currently winning.)
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Cool tool of the day: wormhole.app
Ever wanted to send a big file (up to 10GB) file to someone easily? it expires in a day, but I have found it super useful for sending around zip files.
this free service that is secure and built by Feross, a genuine wizard.
https://wormhole.app
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Public Domain movie this friday night in SF: Please come!
Meet John Doe w/Gary Cooper by Frank Capra- "regular people faced with fascism"
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-john-doe-gary-cooper-screening-hosted-by-the-internet-archive-tickets-1129220050569?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
review: https://www.cineaste.com/summer2011/meet-john-doe
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Donations to the @internetarchive this year are helping-- Thank you!
Donations have come in money, stocks, corporate matches, and crypto.
As well as physical materials, time, uploads.
Thank you all for keeping the Library building collections and offering Free Public Access!
https://archive.org/donate
https://archive.org/donate/cryptocurrency/
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Space Oddity by Bowie-- ever seen the film version from then? I hadn't.
It endears the song even more for me. What a velvet punch.
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/david-bowie-space-oddity-song-history/
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Overview of cyberattack response on Calgary Public Library: it was a ransomware attack, like Toronto Public Library. they shut down all servers.
6 weeks "holding pattern" to get first services back up. Said it could have been much worse. And back stronger!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-calgary-public-library-cyberattack-handling/
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Interlibrary loan requests keep coming in even over xmas eve-- often from Asia and the Middle East.
Short story "The Hypnotist" by Ambrose Bierce
Fulfilled. Scholarship marches on!
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US AI regulatory uncertainty helps the huge publishers and co's.
Europe regs encourage cultural heritage and research orgs, but not commercial players.
Japan regs favor innovation by small and large via regulatory clarity.
"More recently, companies such as OpenAI and Google have struck exclusive data-sharing deals with publishers, major forums such as Reddit, and social media platforms on the web. But this becomes another way for them to concentrate their power."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/18/1108796/this-is-where-the-data-to-build-ai-comes-from
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Please consider donating to the Internet Archive this year.
Good news is people are looking for reliable sources to learn from. Lets help them find them!
@internetarchive
https://archive.org/donate
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Dear #Waymo : Are your cars allowed to rest in the neighborhoods? (uber's are, but you guys?)
I get a thrill every time I see a Waymo in SF. Really.
But I don't see them hanging out in legal parking spaces-- which I would think would be more energy efficient as you wait for a ride request.
I know there are depots (and loved @via ' streaming of one). you could leave a legal parking spaces if someone wanted it. At least you saving energy, money, and wear.
And being closer to requestors...
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I hope we can make digitization into something like a maker space in libraries-- you can bring things over and walk away with a URL or a thumbdrive.
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Digitization as public performance-- visit the Vancouver Public Library's prominent book scanner!
"Bringing Vancouver’s Past to the Present: Digitizing Rare Collections with Vancouver Public Library and Internet Archive Canada". https://internetarchivecanada.org/2024/12/18/bringing-vancouvers-past-to-the-present-digitizing-rare-collections-with-vancouver-public-library-and-internet-archive-canada/
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2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made By You!
Virtual and in-person events on Jan 22, 2025. Deadline Jan 17.
Please make a film!
(my personal fav from last year, so captivatingly strange: https://archive.org/details/domaincullenjsanchez )
https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2025-public-domain-day-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/
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A fake group representing themselves as "Planned Parenthood" in soliciting donations via guidestar.org and a donor advised fund.
The DAF is now contacting donors to make sure the want it to go to a Texas based anti-abortion group.
https://parentplanner.org/contact
geez.
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"Toronto Public Library says more than 4,000 non-employees affected by cyberattack"
Sounds like there were not fully back for 5 months, and now sharing more of what they discovered.
Through all of this Libraries are getting stronger!
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/toronto-public-library-says-more-than-4-000-non-employees-affected-by-cyberattack-1.7139986
Thank you Toronto Public Library!
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"what is the biggest change in computer software in recent times?" (question from a friend)
his answer: the move away from the filesystem.
Another answer: Software is increasingly "trained" rather than procedurally programmed.
any other?
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"New in Two"? [years]
"New in Three"?
flex, turns out to be "New in Five"
how often does your org replace your laptop?
how often do you replace your phone (in practice, including accidents)?
KPMG, 30 years ago, had a 3 year rule for laptops, the Internet Archive adopted this, but most people voluntarily seem to keep their laptops for 5 years.
I have been keeping my phone for 5 years, often cut short by accidents.
how about you? Any experiences?
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Good article on the @internetarchive and "library" in the 21st century.
https://insidestory.org.au/what-is-a-library/
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