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  Professional Wrestling has been around for a long time. https://archive.org/details/professionalwres00smitrich/page/n5/mode/2up thats it. just that.

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  1TB in this tiny usb-c thing? a moment of gratitude to the amazing engineers that made this happen. Our first full web crawl (1997) was 2TB, and is housed in a sculpture by Alan Rath called "2Terabytes in 63 inches, the World Wide Web 1997" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FS87P1J7

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  Library geek corner: Some microfiche has super super small type, but we are getting great results from our super-camera / lens / stage / and processing. @internetarchive

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  Neal Stephenson. I had the pleasure to introduce Neal (foreground right) for his book talk on his new book @internetarchive . photo by friend

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  The French government yanks away cybersecurity from their citizens in DNS case (again). Copyright lobby wins (?) Not safe, Not good. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quad9-quod-non-when-copyright-enforcement-drives-out-jmfhe

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  Internet Archive ops staff were heroes last night. PHP vulnerability announced, soon saw attacks, isolated the vulnerability, used Claude to make fixes for our older php versions, used local models to run simulated attacks, deployed. reinforced WAF and other guards. Offline briefly, Back on new versions and running! Given the severity, there are heroes in many many orgs from last night. Could have been no lights, no traffic signals, real problems. Heroes. Thank you all.

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  InterLibrary Loan history -- (you can stop reading now :) -- there was some early centuries AD, but... First practical was UCBerkeley California State Library in 1894. but first call for it (in US) was 1876: https://archive.org/details/libraryjournalch1187dewe/page/n32/mode/1up?q=%22LENDING+OF+BOOKS%22 love live ILL

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  Big Batteries help with the electrification of everything. 800GW of solar was installed last year, and batteries help smooth the curves [previous post]. 1.8TWh of batteries were made last year (!) "global battery demand will grow from 1.8 terawatt hours last year to 5.7 TWh by 2030 and 16.6 TWh by 2050" from Researchers at Bernstein in Hong Kong https://www.ft.com/content/13351971-76dd-4284-a81e-3ffd8ec4e351?syn-25a6b1a6=1 lets double a few more times and be done with this transi...

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  Thank you Canada! A moment of Gratitude. A new Canada-US bridge opened that will be less congested and less expensive. The Canadians paid for building it ($6.4billion) and endured getting jerked around right before opening. Thank you, Canada! Gordie Howe Bridge! https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-gordie-howe-bridge-opens-to-cars/

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  The Internet Archive San Francisco tours on Fridays at 1pm are getting more and more people. So fun. 300 Funston Ave. Here are some other tiny bookie non-profits in San Francisco... Letterform Archive https://letterformarchive.org/ Prelinger Library https://prelingerlibrary.org/home/ San Francisco Center for Book https://sfcb.org The Whybrary Mechanics Institute Library https://www.milibrary.org/ im sure I am missing some....

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  Good-by to Gutenberg? Nope—Shrill Publisher Cries about Xerox Machine Were Wrong 1975 Xerox machine lawsuit: publishers vs libraries amicus briefs AI summary and then AI blog post it. The exhibits Exhibit A — the photocopier is a printing press Exhibit B — the journals will simply die Exhibit C — one copy replaces all copies Exhibit D — a censorship apocalypse Exhibit E — the slippery slope to the end of publishing Exhibit F — death of the marketplace of ideas 1/2

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  Happy news: in 2025 global new installed 814GW of wind and solar (solar is 664GW). china solar factories at 1/2 capacity! (US installing, but slowly, but you know that and why). big batteries working and improving a nuclear power plant is 1GW -- why still talk nuclear? so 1GW datacenters is one of siting correctly with local solar+batteries. could be not a big deal The water use is not consequential if sited with thought rare good news https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/world-adds-...

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  Chinese electricity is now 37% from renewables. In 2003, renewables’ share of electricity generation was about 15 per cent, nearly all of which was produced by hydropower. By 2025, this had increased to 37 per cent. getting there. have a sunny day. from https://www.ft.com/content/e67f40b6-48d6-4057-8d57-a9f5f6b0a741?syn-25a6b1a6=1

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  RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116908556846064206 What if datacenter builders built out there own solar panel farms around the center and battery packs so they were energy independent. then if the datacenter part is less needed in the future we are left with billions invested in solar infrastructure? gigawatts of solar infrastructure sounds like a win to me, and they have the motivation and capacity. lemonade.

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  full text of MoU Iran/US: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/18/nx-s1-5863027/us-iran-trump-memorandum-of-understanding-full-text. wow, that is readable and uh straightforward. (sorry if you have seen it)

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  fyi. First Tesla Semis (long haul 18 wheelers) come off of the new production line in dedicated factory. at 500 mile range (astounding) I wonder if it could mean destination charging (with solar) rather than lots of charging stations. https://electrek.co/2026/04/29/tesla-semi-first-truck-high-volume-production-line/

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  Linking data with the help of AI. There are old medical PhD theses coming online (yea!). Found Wikipedia articles about the doctors, and then edit the wikipedia articles that would be improved by pointing to them. Also added a review to the Internet Archive items to point to the wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mantoux /more on next

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  The Daily Weather Report, 1938 International and Upper Air Sections by Air Ministry Meteorological Office, London W.C.2. Check out the first pages at link below. Someone (or all AI's!) need to know! I love my job. pls post photos of why your job is awesome. https://archive.org/details/daily-international-upper-air-sections_1938-10

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  As programming gets easier (and more fun) via claude code etc... Will there be less programming or more? If there is latent demand for computer programs and ones that works, then the demand for programming, and therefore the number of programmers might increase not decrease. When lighting got cheaper with electric lights, people lit more things. maybe this will happen with coding and coders? What an interesting time to be alive.

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  Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-- good pick to endorse for your seat. Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, and Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and got the Internet Archive Hero award in 2023! https://blog.archive.org/2023/04/20/san-francisco-board-of-supervisors-unanimously-passes-resolution-in-support-of-digital-rights-for-libraries/ https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/03/supervisor-co...

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  The Internet Archive working with the NOAA Library to bring much of it digital and as accessible as possible is wonderful, and a wonderful model: lets flip more libraries digital. https://archive.org/details/noaa https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/27/two-libraries-two-sets-of-superpowers-the-internet-archive-and-the-noaa-library/

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  Lovingly handwritten title on the spine! Meteorlogical Observations / Royal Observatory / Sydney / 1874-77 I love my job. (do you have random photos from work that make you happy?)

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  Claude Code is good at doing research! In this case helping find the disposition of 126,000 digitized US Supreme Court dockets (cert denied or full opinion), and then reporting why in a archive.org review (using like a wikipedia discussion). This took real hand-holding and QA to be sure, but it is super helpful. Looked at court listener, the supreme court site (and the old one via the wayback machine!), the Caselaw Access Project at harvard. So good. https://archive.org/details/us-supreme...

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  @alienghic@octodon.social @dave fyi: https://worldhistory.medium.com/tech-journalism-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-mastodon-df1309f088a0 did not require me to sign in.

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  wow, china is leading on manufacturing renewables. https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/china/china-energy-security-global-oil-crisis-iran-intl-hnk

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  Eyelids for Autonomous cars! Cameras have trouble in the rain-- and now the new Waymo Ojai uses 10 windshield wipers to clean its sensors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo_Ojai

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  Stanford tuition to Be $335 Starting September 1958. (Things I learned today from scanning)

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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" "More than 50,000 hours of TV, parliamentary speeches and dialects. This is what the training data for KB's new AI model looks like. KB-Whisper has learned a wide variety of Swedish and can quickly transcribe speech to text – which can contribute to both subtitles on TV and better searchability in the library's collections....

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  "Bringing Collections to Life" in our libraries the Stichting Internet Archive held a meeting in the beautiful WAAG in Amsterdam to find how to help. Pls join the fun. New foundational LLM model for a small language was demonstrated. Look at the fabulous room! ( @stichtinginternetarchive https://stichtinginternetarchive.nl/ )

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  ® (registered trademark) of an Article? The Register is putting "®" at the end of the articles I looked at: e.g. https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/suse_runs_ms/. What does that mean?