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brewsterkahle

@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org

Digital Librarian at the Internet Archive
http://archive.org http://openlibrary.org http://brewster.kahle.org https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive

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brewsterkahle, to random
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"Library workers have been subjected to a disturbing surge in bomb threats in Illinois.

Illinois House Bill 4567 would expand protections for libraries and library workers against bomb threats or other threats of violence."

geez.

https://action.everylibrary.org/ilhb4567

brewsterkahle, to random
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"Saving the First Draft of History:

When news sites suddenly shut down and former URLs are sold to the highest bidder, saving a publisher's archive becomes a time-consuming and rigorous full-time job in the digital age."

nice piece featuring @mark of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine!

https://niemanreports.org/articles/saving-the-first-draft-of-history/

brewsterkahle, (edited ) to random
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Steamboat Willie / Mickey Mouse went into the public domain 5 months ago, but Disneyland has not shut, nor has the company's stock has become worthless.

Is the zealousness of the copyright cabal worth the ill will and societal damage?

https://archive.org/details/steamboat-willie-16mm-film-scan-4k-lossless

brewsterkahle, to random
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Positive Ruling for libraries in Canada:

"Huge Win for Copyright User Rights in Canada: Federal Court Rules Digital Lock Rules Do Not Trump Fair Dealing"

Go Canada.

Now we need digital Fair Use for libraries US: Acquire, preserve, lend, and cooperate. all under attack or declared dead by contracts.

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/06/huge-win-for-copyright-user-rights-in-canada-federal-court-rules-digital-lock-rules-do-not-trump-fair-dealing/

internetarchive, to random
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Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable.

We are working on it & will post updates in comments.

brewsterkahle,
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@internetarchive is back up!

this is a back-and-forth with attackers. Sees weekends and holidays are popular.

we made adjustments, but we will see.

at least Happy Memorial Day!

RWA, to random
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@brewsterkahle Mr Kahle, any updates about the Archive being down? Thank you,

brewsterkahle,
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@RWA

up again.

the attackers have been changing strategies.

hopefully attacking libraries goes out of style.

brewsterkahle, to random
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"Confucius was once asked what he would do first if it were left to him to administer a country.

The Master said:
'It would certainly be to correct language.'

...

This matters above everything."

Wouldn't that be the way! Politicians lying is dangerous.

(I found this while doing Interlibrary loan fulfillment for the @internetarchive )

https://archive.org/details/disinheritedmind0000hell_h2l2/page/235/mode/1up

brewsterkahle, to random
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1,500 engines of the Panama Canal (1923):

"A greater economy because of 1,500 General Electric motors which do its work—pulling the ships through, pumping water, opening and closing the locks—all at such a little cost.

GENERAL ELECTRIC"

Love the graphic and the periodical. hope you do too.

Another point for libraries.

https://archive.org/details/survey-1897_1923-11-01_51_3/page/180/mode/2up

brewsterkahle, to random
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Branding consultant needed? Official title of this journal :

"Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America"

:) got any other strange magazine/journal titles?

brewsterkahle,
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@smpl5

darn, I hate getting scooped by expert librarians!

ethanjstark, to retrocomputing
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This chap is positively chuffed to be heading to work with his PBC. Top comment: "I'll bet this thing sounds like a dehumidifier when it's plugged in."

#RetroComputing

brewsterkahle,
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@ethanjstark

The Portable Companion!

brewsterkahle,
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@ethanjstark

Your ad in context--- thank you!

https://archive.org/details/computers0000otfi/page/76/mode/2up?q=%22osborne+personal+business+computer%22

brewsterkahle, to random
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InterLibrary loan lives!

Record numbers are getting articles and chapters through this reliable free method from the Internet Archive.

The long tail holdings are needed!

384 libraries are now getting docs through one system.

Go @internetarchive go #ILL

brewsterkahle,
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@Sector9 @MylesRyden @internetarchive

And no one needs scholarly works on the winter school break.

geez :)

brewsterkahle, (edited ) to random
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Happy May 1st-- Labor Day.

Now a few recordings of the Internationale on 78rpm records!

https://archive.org/details/78_internationale_eugene-pottier-adolf-de-geyter_gbia7034862a

https://archive.org/details/78_die-internationale_beka-orchester-degayter-f-kark_gbia7021653b

https://archive.org/details/78_internationale_aage-nielsens-orkester-adolphe-de-geyter_gbia7000996b

https://archive.org/details/78_die-internationale_odeon-streich-orchester_gbia7000019a

brewsterkahle, to random
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A reason housing is such a problem now? 1/2

bank crisis of 2008--

fed response was to bail out banks not homeowners. how?

fed lends money to banks at 0%--
and does it for years,

new trillions of $ thereby lent out to banks ("increase liquidity!")--

banks "put money to work" by lending for interest of a few % over inflation ("recapitalize the banks!") --

that new interest is 10's of billions a year, money that was not sucked up in interest before, but from where?

1/2

brewsterkahle,
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continuing... 2/2

largest asset class to lend to is real estate, therefore

10's of billions more $ are sucked out in new mortgages, renters...

10's of billions more $ goes from cash poor to cash rich.

10's of billions more $ generally from younger to older,

Making the rich 10's of billions richer, poor poorer.

We have a rent and affordability crisis.

--btw: i'm not an economist, but is this wrong?

brewsterkahle,
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@publictorsten

not sure it is totally fine because the problem with this is that it is sucking more than it used to.

and that translates into more money in mortgage (via higher price of houses) and higher rents.

we are feeling this all over the US and many other places.

I think that it is "more", but is it enough "more" to make a big difference?

By this calculation it is thousands of dollars more per family per year-- I think that might be enough to be a problem.

brewsterkahle, to random
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Digitizing Aruba's History, Culture & Heritage. go aruba go @internetarchive

(6 minutes youtube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNVNgNWyMKo

brewsterkahle, to random
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Working in libraries is... Fabulous.

Notice this fellow's beard and hand writing. I wish I could only...

https://archive.org/details/methodismofpenin0000revr/page/n9/mode/2up

janrosenow, to random
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The primary energy fallacy: Critics of the energy transition often point to primary energy to demonstrate that the transition is going to be impossible.

But most consumed primary energy is lost after conversion.

The problem to solve is a lot smaller than primary energy suggests.

brewsterkahle,
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@janrosenow Do you have citation for that compelling graphic? love to learn more.

brewsterkahle, to random
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"No one buys [their] books" a report on the big publisher's court testimony.

wow:

"The DOJ’s lawyer collected data on 58,000 titles published in a year and discovered that 90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies. "

Yet, they sue to make sure libraries can not buy them (above and beyond copyright). They changed the laws so copyright lasts 95 years-- so no one can get to them.

good stewards of our cultural legacy?

https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

brewsterkahle,
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@billseitz

he seems to say 50% of the published books sell fewer than 12 books per year, maybe 99/year. Thank you for pointing this out.

But the problem stands that these ebooks are not for sale at any price, and are kept from library collections.

big publisher's saying they are like venture capitalists of silicon valley mistreats our cultural legacy -- old books are valuable. unlike dissolved companies.

Locking up books does not help the public. it is simple-- sell ebooks.

brewsterkahle, to random
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Open Educational Resources— is the big money shuffling helping?

edX (more-or-less Open Educational Resources)’s owner 2U (company) is having trouble

(In 2021) Harvard and MIT to Sell edX for $800 Million
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/06/sale-of-edx

(In 2024) "Here’s how ed-tech company 2U spiraled from $5 billion to ‘going concern’ “ — cnbc.com
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/15/2u-earnings-miss-adds-pressure-to-debt-rankled-online-education-firm.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TWOU/

but, the acquistion dollars moved to... <see next>

brewsterkahle,
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$700M of the edX acquisition went to a new non-profit: Open edX run by Axim Collaborative (CEO salary > $1million 2021) to do OER things, apprarently:
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2023/03/axim-edx-successor-debuts

Don’t have deep knowledge of this, but seems rocky.

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