Hi! The @archive.org has many epic features like saving sites and viewing deleted pages, but it's also got some little useful functions like tracking edits, searching broadcasts and visualising topics in news items. I visit all of them in this YouTube tutorial 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...

What happens to democracy when government records vanish? James Jacobs, Jim Jacobs, & Shari Laster discuss how libraries, archivists & advocates protect public access in the latest Future Knowledge #podcast, PRESERVING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION. 🎧 Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm

The California Local Government Documents Collection of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social (hosted by Internet Archive) is digitizing 10,000+ publications from cities, counties, & regional agencies across California. Explore the collection ⤵️ archive.org/details/igsc...

THIS WEEK: Join us for PRESERVING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION: a vital #booktalk on public access & digital threats, co-hosted by @Auths_Alliance. 📖 📅 Thurs Aug 28 🕙 10 AM PT /1 PM ET 📍 ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1513557303... #opengov #libraries

Once-cancelled hurricane-monitoring data to stay online (for now) freegovinfo.info/node/14888/

"The Department of Defense has said it will cancel plans to discontinue a program that makes public satellite data that is crucial for hurricane forecasting and sea ice monitoring" via @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/c...

What rights do libraries & archives need to preserve our shared cultural heritage in the digital age? We explore the Four Digital Rights statement with global librarians, incl. Stephen Wyber of @ifla.org. 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/fou... Co-hosted with @authorsalliance.bsky.social

Damn. Yo. Wow.

awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

Yes, the King files are a desperate distraction, but also, this: "The King files were compiled by the FBI in projects associated with its COINTELPRO...These projects illegally surveilled and worked to discredit Americans that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover thought were a danger to American society."

Hi yes hello this is 1 facet of exactly why we told you not to use "generative AI" in the regulatory production pipeline: Eventually the bullshit it spits out— even its citations— will fail to agree w/ consensus reality, but they'll sure *look* like they do, & by then you'll have started trusting it

The even trailer by Densho’s Brian Niiya is both beautiful and historic.

Today at Noon PT: Will be the launch of the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films - a project of @archive.org & @denshoproject.bsky.social to make 100 films available for teachers, historians & the public. To register 4 launch event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Lots of confusion around Epstein. Hope this helps!

Please join us for a virtual book talk August 28th at 10am PST hosted by the Internet Archive (FREE!) to talk about our new book “Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future.” freegovinfo.info/node/14881/

I’m going to be very honest and clear. I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime. That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t. But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.

No, you really can’t make this shit up.

Reminder: The Wayback Machine is your friend. And democracy's and science's friend, too. web.archive.org/web/20250000...

BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S. This is what you get when you try to access them online

Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice. Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice. Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice. Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP are choosing to do this.

This is a fucking disgrace

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Mamdani's win could produce a ripple effect across the country of young people deciding to run for office.

Looks like climate.gov is officially dead, for now. 💔

I did a handful of interviews yesterday on the imminent shutdown of SSMIS data flow and the expected consequences for hurricane forecasting at NHC. I've tried to collect and polish up my thoughts on the topic, attached...

I sought comment from NOAA and the Department of Defense on this and received this reply today from NOAA's spokesperson. They suggest we use the surviving ATMS microwave that degrades significantly at the edges. You can see how much worse off we'd be with Erick last week if we only had ATMS.

A current Noaa scientist who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation said that the action to halt the DMSP, when taken in context with other recent moves by the Trump administration, amounted to “a systematic destruction of science”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Congrats to Maria Matienzo. OCLC dropped their suit against her in their ongoing windmill-tilting against Anna's Archive. 🎉 www.courtlistener.com/docket/68157...

Love this new fundraising tagline from @archive.org Wayback Machine: "We keep the record straight by preserving government websites, news articles, historical data, and more. If you find our archive useful, please CHIP IN."

I said what I said.

Trump’s Big Ugly Bill is getting worse. The House bill takes nutrition benefits away from millions, but that’s not cruel enough. So the Senate bill also ends policies that helped vets, homeless people, and foster youth receive SNAP. All for tax cuts for the rich. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Juneteenth. We weren’t ‘granted’ freedom, we claimed it. June 19, 1865, the day our ancestors in Galveston, Texas were finally told what should’ve never been kept from them. This is our history. Our power. Our fight. #FreedomDay #Juneteenth #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory ✊🏾

At a Congressional Transparency, Caucus event in DC, good governance experts warned of increased secrecy & corruption in U.S. government: e-pluribusunum.org/2025/06/19/a... Video, courtesy of yours truly: m.youtube.com/watch?v=WjVG...

The thing I find myself asking most on being presented with a 25 page slide deck of clear vomited nonsense or a 40 page GPT document is "so what insights did you glean from this and how do we operationalize it?" And there's this long pause where I realize they are just now thinking about it.

Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder: freedom delayed is freedom denied. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #FreedomDay #NeverForget

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

I’m shocked having someone write your essay doesn’t make you smarter

I figure since there's been a recent influx of people here on Bluesky, it might be worthwhile to do "highlights reels" of sorts for my newsletter, which is at www.baldurbjarnason.com The biggest topic on my newsletter is software and web development, usually from a bit of a systemic perspective.

What is Juneteenth and why does it matter? Check out this informative video kottke.org/25/06/what-i...

Tin soldiers and TACO coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming

We just added a new library guide to our resources page! This one from @unclibrary.bsky.social ! guides.lib.unc.edu/federal-info... Do you have a library guide? Let us know if so! www.datarescueproject.org/resources/#l...

Double.

Trump underwater in literally every single issue. 38% approval overall. 27% approval on his spending bill. 40% approval on deportations. Musk also at 30% approval. 38% approval for RFK Jr. 35% approval for JD Vance. Nobody fucking wants any of this. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Need a break? Come chill out to the Internet Archive’s microfiche lab livestream & see how history gets preserved. 😎🎞️ Tune in now ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R... #InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow

The House votes TOMORROW (Thursday) on Trump’s Rescission Package — which includes major cuts to foreign aid. Please call your Representatives today.

Last week in ICRs (May 31-June 6, 2025): 66 ICRs were submitted 25 ICRs were in response to Presidential Actions 22 of the 25 were typed as "nonsubstantive changes" 13 of the 25 came from HHS 10 of the 25 came from DOC 🧵: 1/5

May the anti-ICE movement continue to spread nationwide! This is the Los Angeles spirit your news broadcast isn’t showing…