Proprietor of TEXTFILES.COM, historian, filmmaker, archivist, storyteller. Works on/for the Internet Archive. Rank Amateur. Pitiful Man.

Joined March 2007
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Blog: ascii.textfiles.com Mastodon: textfiles@digipres.club IRC: sketchcow/hackint Mail: jason@textfiles.com Twitch: textfiles Youtube: textfilesdotcom Tiktok: textfiles Home: archive.org Heart: textfiles.com Podcast: textfiles.libsyn.com
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Finally, rent money
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As I discover people's alternative ways of communication elsewhere, I'll be unfollowing here. Don't take it badly - it's just optimizing for Not Here.
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Livestreaming at twitch.tv/textfiles - I don't post much on twitter anymore, so that's a good reason to subscribe to the twitch stream (or follow me on Bluesky)
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I'll take a shot at this. The Internet Archive is maintaining an archive of roughly 5 petabytes of what are called "Social Media Video" - twitch streams, capcut templates, tiktok, coub, youtube, and more. And that number is growing by the thousands every week.
Five days of seeking a response from the @internetarchive or @brewster_kahle. I'm sure there were multiple points in time when people didn't care - treated with silence, or couldn't conceive of the importance of these works. This is why we have so much lost film, lost media. But this is still happening today. All it takes is a wrongful ban, a suspension spurred by AI moderation, or a large company deciding that the libraries they let their users build up for years and decades is too expensive (or not profitable enough for their bottom line) to maintain. The most prominent example is at this link: x.com/TwitchSupport/status/1… I'm not looking for every video every created online to be saved. I want - at minimum, a thoughtful response, some show of support from the people who have made such headway into making sure important works don't disappear. But if someone dared to make innovation and serious effort possible - I will be here for that too. Best regards.
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Some people have attempted to mirror/archive specific accounts and specific groups, to keep a more robust and deep set for those groups/accounts. The groups/accounts sometimes decline that favor, and ask material to not be available.
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But in the aggregate, the Archive has been archiving live music, video, and other works by creators for over 25 years, and is doing so constantly, and the statement of the fact they're doing this was (is) the place itself.
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Jason Scott retweeted
- No fair use -- parody, critique, commentary, teaching, news reporting, all can be blocked by this new watermark. So anyone (political parties, extremist groups, pundits, celebrities, influencers) can watermark their podcasts, propaganda videos, blog posts, and other media and
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Jason Scott retweeted
So Getty can put a watermark on its copies of the world's public domain cultural heritage and *boom* - now it's all theirs forever. Bye bye public domain. ahistoryoftheworldaccordingt…
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Jason Scott retweeted
The COPIED Act is back, and it's still hot garbage. It dictates the design of every tech from spell check to Instagram filters AND gives every thin-skinned politician, celeb, and pundit a "don't parody me!" protection spell for everything they publish. commerce.senate.gov/services…

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This is fascist talk.
9 Feb 2025
If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.
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14 Dec 2024
Internet Archive's main landing page is not working. People are diagnosing what the cause is. The data is safe, the network works, and I'm sure they'll nail down the issue shortly. Thanks for the patience.
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14 Dec 2024
Looks to be a server in need of reset. People are on that.
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Jason Scott retweeted
25 Nov 2024
Status update: @textfiles from the @internetarchive has agreed to accept them. Incredible. Thank you all for the signal boost. Still some logistics to work out, but I can't think of a better set of hands to pass them on to.
24 Nov 2024
Please share. I have just acquired THOUSANDS of service manuals for old TVs from the 70, 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. They are not documented online. I do not have the capability to digitize and archive them all, and need help finding someone who can.
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24 Nov 2024
I paid $1,600 to repair two UMATIC decks and describe a pass-the-hat situation (and also how to enjoy the output of the thousands of tapes done so far) here: bsky.app/profile/textfiles.c…

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13 Nov 2024
Emulation in the browser is BACK at @internetarchive and there's a quarter million programs to try out! But first go play our #1 title: archive.org/details/msdos_Or…
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11 Nov 2024
@mcubanhey, sir. A million dollar donation to the internet archive to help support its storing all of the deleted tweets for you would be really welcome.
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