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"The pandemic resulted in approximately 1.7 million excess deaths among individuals aged 25 and older between 2020 and 2023" In United States. First I have seen this number. from www.nber.org/system/files...

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Building AI in Europe for the public good! Enabled by regulatory certainty there. "Well-trained AI model turns speech into text" in Sweden Using more than 50,000 hours of TV, parliamentary speeches and dialects for training data by the National Library of Sweden. www.kb.se/samverkan-oc...

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It feels like forever ago, but only last weekend we were at @fosdem.bsky.social and had a great hallway discussion with the Software Heritage Foundation. We look forward to collaborating even more. Thank you for all your amazing work preserving Software.

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Today is "I love Free Software Day". Thank you to the @commoncrawl.bsky.social Foundation for all their hard work. Onwards! @pjox.bsky.social - So great to meet in person.

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We're proud to support this NYT article citing CourtListener over 100 times. This is how we do it folks, and if you're looking for a solid, well-organized list of all the Trump Administration lawsuits, this is a great list: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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omg y'all. If you buy a digital product and you cannot download it and store it to your own devices permanently you are RENTING, you do not OWN it.

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We are grateful for the work by the Free Software Foundation Europe. @fsfe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Thank you for your commitment to Software Freedom and openness. It was great to meet up at @fosdem.bsky.social this past weekend. Folks, please consider making a donation to their great cause. 🙌

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Dr Lisa Käde gave a good overview of the Text and Data Mining exemptions made in Articles 3-4 of the Directive EU-DSM. Thank you for sharing your expertise. @fosdem.bsky.social

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provocative report: "Copyright, AI, and Great Power Competition" -- Foundation for American Innovation "Getting Copyright Wrong Means Falling behind China" "Copyright Maximalism Supports Chinese Model Developers and the CCP’s AI Ambitions" is right? www.thefai.org/posts/copyri... more... ->

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The gag order was lifted in late 2023 - so I'm coming at this late, but this is the first I'm hearing of it, so sharing in case others didn't know. So if you use Signal, for example, change the setting for Notification Contents to "No Name or Content". 🧵 /1

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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. www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-...

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"Review Spam," or commercially motivated posts, on the Internet Archive spiked to 99.9% (1000-to-1) of our reviews before the election always cat-and-mouse game, but now with RoboMice So now the @archive.org has RoboKitties! RoboKitties-- Go Eat them RoboMice! (Robokitties are currently winning.)

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Welcome to the public domain, THE OPRY HOUSE (1929), where #MickeyMouse dons his iconic gloves onscreen for the first time & performs a one-🐭 vaudeville show! 🎞️ 🎭🧤 Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025 #PublicDomain #InternetArchive

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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 is secure and built by Feross, a genuine wizard. wormhole.app

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Public Domain movie this friday night in SF: Please come! Meet John Doe w/Gary Cooper - "regular people faced with fascism" www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-john-... review: www.cineaste.com/summer2011/m...

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Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

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fiery piece on the future of libraries (from 1936): ...crazed dictator of the future could repeat the holocaust of Alexandria. archive.org/details/sim_... <keep reading next>

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Did you use the Internet Archive this year to research, read, explore web archives with the Wayback Machine, or discover something new? Your support makes it possible! 👉 Like & share to spread the word. 💙 Consider donating to keep Internet Archive growing: archive.org/donate/?orig...

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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like: ⚓️ Popeye 🕵️ The Maltese Falcon 📖 The Sound and the Fury 🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms 🏠️ A Room of One's Own 🙌 Hallelujah 🎺 Bolero and many more! 🧵👇

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Space Oddity by Bowie-- ever seen the film version from then (he was 22 years old)? I hadn't. It endears the song even more for me. What a velvet punch. www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/davi...

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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.bsky.social archive.org/donate

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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". internetarchivecanada.org/2024/12/18/b...

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(via @[email protected]) Man, corporations really want to put a stop to libraries: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... "the e-book may be up to six times the price, librarians told CBC." "Those publishers ... will often license copies of e-books for just 12 or 24 months..."

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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 Jan 22, Deadline Jan 17 Please make a film! (my fav from last year, so captivatingly strange: archive.org/details/doma... ) blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2...

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From salvaging 1914 Orient Express archives for The Last Express to the fight for digital preservation, legendary game designer Jordan Mechner shares why safeguarding our cultural artifacts—like video games—is vital. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/11/21/v... 🕳️ #VanishingCulture @jmechner.bsky.social

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"I make money from my writing. But I don't want money that comes at the expense of the values and culture that made me become a writer" - Maria Bustillos, from The Brick House, speaking in defense of the Internet Archive and all libraries. "Writers!Raise hell!!" thebrick.house/press/

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Congrats to Internet Archive’s Nick Norman, who has won a 2024 Anthem Community Voice Award in the category for Best Use of Technology! 🎉🏆 Learn more about Nick & his work in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/11/19/c...

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Thank you @archive.org and @brewster.kahle.org for trying to prevent a digital dark age. #digipres #archives #library 📚 www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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My daughter wrote a book about Disneyland (I did not have editorial input). “This Disneyland is very very bad!” “You have to pay all of your money.”

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The Long Game of Creativity: If You Haven’t Created a Masterpiece at 30, You’re Not a Failure www.openculture.com/2024/08/the-...

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I was delighted to be a guest on MSNBC's @chrislhayes.bsky.social show "Why is This Happening?" #WITHpod w/ @brewster.kahle.org (founder of Internet Archive)! I got to discuss my work, scholarship #libraries #copyright & Controlled Digital Lending. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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This is one of the coolest things we've done in a while.

submitted 235 days ago • 10 comments

Watch please. This is an important story. 5 mins. The Wayback Machine. @brewster.kahle.org #CBSNewsSunday. Can't rewrite history if it can't be erased once it has been published. "Time machine for the web." Since 1996. #TheInternetArchive #TheWayBackMachine

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Did you catch the story about the Wayback Machine on CBS News Sunday Morning? 🌞 David Pogue chatted with @brewster.kahle.org about archiving the web, and the lawsuits from publishers & the recording industry that threaten our mission & your access to information. Watch: cbsnews.com/news/the-way...

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