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

MTV News Is Back (Kind Of) Thanks to the Internet Archivewww.rollingstone.com The Internet Archive has created a searchable index of the old MTV News website, after it was unexpectedly pulled down last week.

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@AspenPolicyHub is hiring a Program Assistant! If you are passionate about operations, logistics, and supporting cyber civil defense apply here 👇: aspeninstitute.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...

Program Assistant - Careers at the Aspen Instituteaspeninstitute.hrmdirect.com ABOUT US Aspen Institute The Aspen Institute is a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free just and equitable society Since its founding in 1949 the Institute has been driving chang...

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Call for Papers | Displaying the British Museum: Past, Present, Future British Museum, London Conference: Thursday 20–Friday 21 February 2025 Deadline to apply: Friday 30 August 2024 Info: britishartnetwork.org.uk/uncategorise...

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"Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. In the rest of the country, infant mortality increased less than 2% over the same period."

Infant deaths increased after Texas banned abortion in early pregnancywww.statnews.com Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.

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“On Tues the SC BoE will impose a centralized + expansive censorship regime on every K-12 school library in the state. The new regs cld result in the banning of most classic works of literature… The rules were championed by SC Supt of Ed Ellen Weaver, who is closely aligned with Moms for Liberty…”

South Carolina poised to impose draconian censorship regime on school librariespopular.info On Tuesday, the South Carolina State Board of Education will impose a centralized and expansive censorship regime on every K-12 school library in the state. The new regulations could result in the ban...

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The Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine are too important to lose. i've only been able to retrieve digital items for the local video game archive because of it. www.cbsnews.com/news/the-way...

The Wayback Machine, a time machine for the webwww.cbsnews.com Because the web is ephemeral, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has made backups of websites continually since 1996, with nearly 900 billion pages preserved. But making books and music freely ava...

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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...

The Wayback Machine, a time machine for the webcbsnews.com Because the web is ephemeral, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has made backups of websites continually since 1996, with nearly 900 billion pages preserved. But making books and music freely ava...

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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...

Can I ask you to voice your support for access to books? Half a million books were removed from use at our library. Please urge publishers to make things right for library readers by bringing back the 500,000 lendable books. Please share this petition: chng.it/C5pDPw4TYj

📚 Fight for Fair Access to Knowledge: Sign the Petition to Restore Removed Books from the Internet Archivechng.it Dear Publishers, We, the undersigned, are lifelong beneficiaries of libraries. We are avid readers, educators, researchers, librarians, authors, publishers and lifelong learners whose lives and commun...

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Just in case you hadn't heard, Bluesky has free algorithmic choice. You are in control of what you see here. Don't trust the algorithm, choose your algorithm. Or write your own.

Ongoing ddos disruptions have carried over from the weekend. Updates will be posted by @archive.org

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.

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Read more about the feature here:

Just shipped: Bluesky Direct Messages! - Blueskybsky.social You can now send direct messages (DMs) to people on Bluesky! Say hi to a friend, colleague, or a crush.

🏛️ The End of Term Web Crawl has begun! Submit any government URLs for inclusion into the 2024 #EOTArchive Check out the preserved 2008 to 2020 transitions and help us add URLs to the current effort, more details in the announcement blog: blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogsblog.archive.org

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With Jack’s departure, we are searching for a new board member for the Bluesky public benefit company who shares our commitment to building a social network that puts people in control of their experience. More to come!

Carla Hayden 🎉Librarian of U.S. Library of Congress. Nice that she notes 17mins in that the LOC participates in Inter library loans with all the public libraries in the country.

Dr. Carla Hayden is the Top Librarianopen.spotify.com Listen to this episode from The Book Case on Spotify. Dr. Carla Hayden is the Librarian of Congress. In the 222 year history of the Library of Congress there has never before been a female Librarian o...

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With it looking like the Tiktok ban is going to become law, I wrote yesterday about how this will backfire badly, as we signal that the US no longer believes in an open internet. www.techdirt.com/2024/04/19/t...

The US Banning TikTok Would Play Right Into China’s Hands, And Destroy Decades Of US Work On Promoting An Open Internetwww.techdirt.com Apparently, the TikTok ban bill is back. Speaker Mike Johnson plans to include TikTok divestiture legislation already passed by the House in a fast-moving aid package for Ukraine and Israel that th…

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Here's the audio of Gov. Greg Abbott's exact words, in which he says a male teacher wearing a dress "is the type of behavior that we want to make sure we end in the state of Texas." youtu.be/qzXD03cZwFw?...

TX Gov. Greg Abbott suggests he wants to ban gender nonconforming people from public school teachingyoutu.be Texas Governor Greg Abbott made these comments at the Young Conservatives of Texas convention held at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas on April 19, 2024

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And loan such books out in a 1-to-1 ratio, just like they would the paper book sitting in their warehouse, without paying totally atrocious licensing fees over and over.

E-Books for Usebooksforus.com Demand for e-books is at an all-time high, but library collections are being hijacked by corporations.

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What the Archive’s book #library does is scan paper books to make their own digital copies so that they can loan them without letting tech companies and publishing conglomerates spy on readers.

25+ Human Rights Organizations Call on 2024 Congress to Investigate Big Tech and Publishing’s Stranglehold over Digital Bookswww.fightforthefuture.org A broad civil society coalition is sounding the alarm on Big Tech and Big Publishing’s unchecked power over digital books—and surveillance of those who read them. 25+ human rights organizations are ca...

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you can now embed your posts in web pages! (the "embed" tool is available on web only at the moment) this does respect your "only logged in users can see this" settings. shout out to @samuel.bsky.team @bnewbold.net @danabra.mov @haileyok.com for getting this done

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By the way... we lifted our "no heads of state" policy. 🤐

When books get personified it’s a party 🎉 Happy weekend! Here’s a bit of humor to kick off the weekend youtu.be/6CE1t5rJg_c?...

When Books Throw a Partyyoutu.be If Books Had a Party#comedy #sketchcomedy #books We have one last show of Hogwash on the 7th of April in Vicar Street in aid of the Red CrossAnd our new show...

If you are weeding your book collection this weekend be sure to scan them and see if any are needed by the Internet Archive! It super easy with the donate books app apps.apple.com/us/app/donat...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced its support for public access to research! Their position is terrific news for all of us “it will take 70 years to see the big five publishers flip their journals to fully Open Access. Urgent global problems do not work on this timescale.”

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Announces a New Open Access Policy That Will Take Effect on January 1, 2025www.infodocket.com UPDATE (March 29, 2024): Statement From Coalition S / Plan S on New Gates Foundation Open Access Policy Johan Rooryck, Executive Director at cOAlition S commented: “Five years on since Plan S was firs...

I’m back @archive.org !

Do you know someone talking about AI training data transparency and provenance? I’d love to listen

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The only LLaMA I would feed voluntarily 😁

Why do we build a wall and call it freedom?

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Paying generous Congressional salaries is literally the best investment we can make to avoid corruption and it's an indictment of "populism" that so many low info voters oppose it

When I want to buy used ones I go to BetterWorldBooks where they are often ~5$ They have a 25% off of 6+ books sale right now (and they ship to US & FR free probably other places too) www.betterworldbooks.com

Buy New & Used Books Online with Free Shipping | Better World Bookswww.betterworldbooks.com The socially responsible bookstore with cheap new & used books at bargain prices. Quality bookseller with free shipping that donates a book for every book sold