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Thanks to @internetarchive for the pointer to @bourgwick 's excavation of Psyche Pscene, a late 60's early 70's independent zine published here in Chicago
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Digitizing Aruba's History, Culture & Heritage. go aruba go @internetarchive (6 minutes youtube) 🗣️ Free range archivist Jason Scott (@textfiles) takes Whisper, the open source speech recognition project, out for a spin on 5+ years worth of his weekly podcasts, preserved on archive.org ▶️ https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/28/taking-the-words-out-of-my-mouth-with-ai/ x  @internetarchive @textfiles I can confirm that Whisper is useful for generating transcripts of podcasts that are 80% “good enough” for local text searching with non-LLM #FLOSS tools such as Recoll https://www.recoll.org/ https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/recoll #search LLM audio transcription is like a bulldozer tunneling a straight line into an otherwise inaccessible jungle; sure, stuff gets mangled, but it gives you quick access to biomes too costly to survey on foot. The California Historical Radio Society contributed hundreds of video and audiotapes documenting various DXpeditions, going back as far as the 1960s (though most from the '80s and '90s.) 80 of these presentations have been digitized so far — check them out at https://archive.org/details/dx-peditions  @brewsterkahle and they forced a huge increase in the prices of ebooks, to match paper books. @brewsterkahle Owning and controlling information is the same kind of imperative for publishers that preserving and disseminating it is for the IA. It, not books, is their asset. Yet it's so hard to value individually that they simply hoard it until some nugget shows potential, and they will milk it dry and speculate and diversify to improve their odds. It is as much quantity as quality, and the more, the better. Past sales be damned; there's always a chance for more as long as you own it. The all-hands monday meeting at Internet Archive featured Wylie Gustafson, who you may have heard as the Yahoo! yodel. Move over Mickey...Let's give a round of applause to Tigger, who also moved into the public domain this year, thanks to his debut in 1928's "The House at Pooh Corner" 📚🐯 Read, remix, and share for free! https://archive.org/details/the-house-at-pooh-corner
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@internetarchive Part oof the Garrick Club's major income was from the estate of A A Milne. I guess that will be coming to an end soon. As will the male-only rule: reduxing the threshold of votes means that women are certain to be admitted in the next few weeks. @internetarchive Internet Archive Files Final Brief in Publishers Lawsuit “Resolving this should be easy—just sell ebooks to libraries so we can own, preserve and lend them to one person at a time. This is a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.” Brewster Kahle https://mailchi.mp/519141338ca1/empowering-libraries-12084078 Today, we filed our final brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers’ lawsuit against our library. For four years we've been fighting for library rights—what our founder, @brewsterkahle, calls “a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.” https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/19/internet-archive-stands-firm-on-library-digital-rights-in-final-brief-of-hachette-v-internet-archive-lawsuit/
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@internetarchive @brewsterkahle I also hope you win, all the more because Hachette was recently purchased by an awful fascist media magnate who's pushing his far right agenda in French politics through all his radio and tv channels, papers and now publishing company (Hachette is the main oublisher for school books in France if you see what I mean) @internetarchive @brewsterkahle The Internet Archive is a treasure. I was searching for a quote from script-writer Russel T Davies from an interview published on the BBC Writers Room. The page and interview no longer exist on that site, but the Internet Archive has it, and the quote I was looking for. I'd rather have IA than AI. 😎 If you missed yesterday's book talk with authors Aram Sinnreich (@aram) & Jesse Gilbert (@jesse) about their new book, THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA, facilitated by tech scholar Laura DeNardis, the session recording is now available: https://archive.org/details/the-secret-life-of-data?start=28 Internet Archive's founder & digital librarian, @brewsterkahle, reflects on last week's move by the island nation of Aruba to endorse digital rights for memory institutions. Why is it so important for libraries to own, not lease, their collections? 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/18/arubas-bold-support-of-library-digital-rights-by-brewster-kahle/  @internetarchive @brewsterkahle I have to agree... Can we have people having regular free access to information? Like free as in freedom, and free as in without cost both? That seems like a good way to go. I *hate* that so much is ebooks, and that with ebooks, there can be only so many loaned out at a time. It seems like there's got to be a way to handle that so someone doesn't have to wait 6 weeks (maybe more) to get an ebook. May end up ordering through inter library loan. @internetarchive @brewsterkahle I don't mind streaming or renting works. What I *do* mind is never owning a work. It's almost like they treat these digital goods as ancient art - "You may look, but don't touch!" Our screening party for the "accidentally public domain" film, CHARADE, was great fun last Friday night! If you weren't able to make it, you can host your own screening party with the film, preserved & accessible in our collection. 📽️ https://archive.org/details/Charade19631280x696 “Give them the opportunity to search for the truth.” That’s what the Prime Minister of Aruba, Evelyn Wever-Croes, said about the next generation of digital learners in a conversation yesterday with our founder, @brewsterkahle. Aruba is leading the way! https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/09/aruba-becomes-first-country-to-endorse-statement-protecting-digital-rights-of-memory-institutions/ Aruba leads the way as the FIRST nation to sign a statement safeguarding the digital rights of memory organizations online. 🌐 This historic move sets a powerful precedent for protecting our digital heritage. Read more: https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/09/aruba-becomes-first-country-to-endorse-statement-protecting-digital-rights-of-memory-institutions/ #LibraryDigitalRights #Aruba  Internet Archive's founder & digital librarian, @brewsterkahle, is in Aruba today, celebrating the launch of the Coleccion Aruba, the documentary heritage portal for the island nation. Follow along for today's symposium: https://coleccion.aw/stream/ HAPPENING NOW: 12-hour livestream marathon hosted by @reziorenji 😺 in support of the Internet Archive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_jCj6qjitE Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain. 🥳 So what does that mean for our shared culture? Free-range archivist Jason Scott takes readers on an enlightening tour of copyright, the creative ecosystem & film preservation in a thoughtful new post: https://blog.archive.org/2024/01/05/mickeys-bad-day-or-the-ecosystem/  I don't think I had ever watched Steamboat Willie all the way through. What a bastion of violence and animal cruelty.  @internetarchive Mickey Mouse is not in the public domain. The Steamboat Willie cartoon strip is. Dear @artemesia seems like the @internetarchive is right. Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie
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 Celebrate this Christmas Eve with a touch of nostalgia 🎄 🎶 Listen to the preserved & digitized 78rpm recording "CHRISTMAS EVE AT GRANDMA'S" (1923) https://archive.org/details/78_christmas-eve-at-grandmas_holy-trinity-male-quartette_gbia0240989a @internetarchive this one from Louis Armstrong has some great quality to it, & just a fun, ripping performance all around: https://archive.org/details/78_cool-yule_louis-armstrong-and-the-commanders-steve-allen_gbia0491610b We hear this often—"Why would the Internet Archive preserve & digitize an out-of-print textbook from the 1930s?" Because you never know when the information within is going to solve a decades-long puzzle, like this fascinating story about American theoretical physicist Richard Feynman: https://gwern.net/maze
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@internetarchive All accumulated thought and knowledge of the human race should be available to absolutely everyone, at all times.  Why wouldn't you digitize out-of-print textbooks from the 1930s if you could? Every time we lose the last copy of a physical book or photo, we lose a piece of what led us to this moment. |
