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Jason Scott
Jason Scott
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Jason Scott
@textfiles
Proprietor of TEXTFILES.COM, historian, filmmaker, archivist, storyteller. Works on/for the Internet Archive. Rank Amateur. Pitiful Man.
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Guess what's back.
Yes, archive.org and openlibrary.org are back, as well as web.archive.org (Wayback Machine) and all those amazing items.
Some of the features are not up yet, but rest assured we're working on it and our tired devs will prevail.
The moment of stunned silence after someone suggested the ad copy. The two days of trying to come up with alternatives and failing.
I mentioned the whole way that the Jimmy Fallon/Paris Hilton strangely-stilted conversation regarding NFTs was likely part of a larger promotion plan and part of being a celebrity is being told to say weird stuff due to contracts.
Someone did the digging
Spread the word: The Internet Archive has put up *25,000* 78rpm records, digitized professionally. archive.org/details/george
Look at that data, heading out to a happy crowd. Thanks for waiting.
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I don't speak Portuguese, so spread as you see fit:
If you have Brazilian culture, content or data, please upload it directly to the Internet Archive, or mail hard drives out to us to store your material. An incredible amount of material is going to be lost. We will host it.
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I'm sure it is rolling out at various rates, but for most people using Google going forward, it will produce an AI generated summary of the links you were going to go to to read, killing basically all traffic to that site.
Remember: Just because you made a game in 1994 when you were 12 and only gave away one copy, doesn't mean it won't smack you in the face 25 years later emulated in the browser on the Internet Archive.
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Rick Brewster
@rickbrewPDN
Replying to @Srickshaw
Yeah but ... huh? How'd you find or hear about it? I don't even have a copy, it got lost, I think I only ever sent out a physical copy to 1 person and never even uploaded it to the Internet. (IIRC) Even Google has nothing on it
For the record, this is the goofiest, most infantilizing rejection letter I've gotten since, maybe, first year of college?
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This isn't about the "ethics of AI", by the way. This is squarely in the "we are doing a thing to choke and kill every website" camp. Google forgot what it is. Or, more accurately, Google finally got to the find around phase.
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Google, long moving into the hundreds of percent of turnover, forgot it was part of a social/transaction contract with the web. We will help people find you, and you'll let us crawl and analyze your stuff for various purposes, mostly advertising.
Discord Is Not an Archive
Treat it like a refrigerator with piles of post-it notes on front that constantly fall off when you reach inside to grab a beer
Anything else and you're fooling yourself
great news, we won the war on terror all of a sudden
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Cynthia Fodor
@CFodorKCCI
TSA now allowing 12 ounce bottles of hand sanitizer in your carry-on. @KCCINews
The 1977 source code for ZORK has been recovered from MIT tapes and released on github. I cloned the repository at github.com/historicalsour and the official MIT github set is at github.com/MITDDC/zork
When the cofounder of Apple reports Apple Pay has a sexist algorithm
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Steve Wozniak
@stevewoz
Replying to @dhh and @AppleCard
The same thing happened to us. I got 10x the credit limit. We have no separate bank or credit card accounts or any separate assets. Hard to get to a human for a correction though. It's big tech in 2019.
