"Why kick the cat?" - @brewster.kahle.org, speaking to Daniel Wu of the Washington Post about the attacks against the Internet Archive ➡️ https://wapo.st/4f998w2
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I don’t know why people keep saying that link’s behind a paywall. Wasn’t for me? But I use Firefox’s Reader View which typically stops annoying pop-ups from occluding information
What happened to the Internet Archive was a violation of Article I of the Roerich Pact. X( It is the digital equivalent of committing arson to a library.
I still want to read from the site, and the associated Biodiversity Heritage Library! I need the books back up before October 26th (the twentieth anniversary of Baby Noah from Baby Einstein)!
BPC - an extension for some popular browsers. Works for tons of paywall sites. Can also be used on mobile (I'm on Android) if using Firefox or Kiwi Browser (my fave). One should really pay for content but the current paywall model is broken IMO...
Protecting the Internet Archive is going to become more and more important during the climate crisis. Yall are doing God's work preserving civilization.
From the publishers' lawsuits for IA letting us check out books during Covid lockdowns, to this kiddie hacker, things are getting expensive for Internet Archive. They've got two online events coming up (US $10-$15) and a PayPal on their homepage... https://archive.org/
Centralized systems will fall. Terrorists in power will pass a law, bandits will detonate a bomb, saboteurs in the rescue services will not arrive in time to a fire, a flood will destroy. Every reader must save and hide the texts he has read on his computer. From this the Internet will be reborn.
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The neofascist global oligarchy has fucking HAD IT with democracy.
https://archive.ph/8rzKC
https://archive.ph/Jkh7o
Here’s the OP article snapshotted, which takes out the paywalls.
BPC - an extension for some popular browsers. Works for tons of paywall sites. Can also be used on mobile (I'm on Android) if using Firefox or Kiwi Browser (my fave). One should really pay for content but the current paywall model is broken IMO...
https://archive.org/
Any news on https://OpenLibrary.org (OL)? I don't see mention of OL anywhere. Will their api's for software be resumed?
Unrelated but important: RIP Aaron Schwarz.
(gif unrelated, I wanted to find a pac-nes gif but couldn't.)
It's so childish.