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mek.fyi
Hi, I'm http://mek.fyi, a country squire no longer young. Neutral Good. 📚 OpenLibrary.org at the Internet Archive 👨‍💻 Berkman Klein Center '22, '23 affiliate 🗺️ Let's map the world's knowledge.
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Hi, I'm @mek.fyi and for 9 years I've run the @openlibrary.org at @archive.org, where 11M patrons world-wide rely on us to preserve society's library books, many which can't be accessed elsewhere. 🎲 Markets, politics, employment could change: I pledge to keep Aaron Swartz's Open Library OPEN 📖. Why?

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First follower of @openlibrary.org!

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More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️ Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...

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fortune.com/2023/11/18/s... 😟

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Yikes www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/10... Yes to a neutral net that both favors equitable access and consumer protection & privacy

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Lots of mushrooms on our hike in the white mountains.

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Made a chess set last week!

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Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, MA

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But really, seeking investment

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When you bump into your undergrad friend in the woods across the country

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When you spontaneously bump into your Cambridge neighbor across the country at a techie event in the woods.

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I think I now have enough photos over the last decade in SF to create an album dedicated to @danny.spesh.com

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Been a while since the first two decentralized web summits. Fun to catch up on the latest news about Solid w/ Tim

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Wonderful listening to the delsolquartet.com quartet play among redwoods and chirping birds.

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A good one with @ant.bsky.social

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Hi @bnewbold.bsky.team!

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Did you hear about the excited historian that wanted to archive a rabbit?

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Re: valuing engineering versus soft skills, I'm growing to appreciate that cultivating honesty, diplomacy, and trustworthiness is a "hard" Sisyphean endeavor requiring time, energy, & consistency. If one doesn't follow the practice, it's easy to discount the difficulty.

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This overview covers a lot of ground and demystifies what's going on beneath the @archive.org court case. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/05/book-publishers-are-trying-to-destroy-public-e-book-access-in-order-to-increase-profits

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What's a thing you wish you could spend more time learning/practicing for the purpose of enjoyment?

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I'm @mek.fyi, that's satisfying.

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