The calm pace of our livestreamed microfiche scanning may not show the scope of the work, so here’s a time-lapse revealing how many pages we can digitize in just one hour. 📡 Watch the real-time stream ⤵️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R... #Preservation #Digitization #InternetArchive

I ❤️ KWSX Webs Radio

"We say "seeing is believing" but actually, as Santayana pointed out, we are all much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe nearly all the time and only occasionally seeing what we can't believe." Robert Anton Wilson

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.” J.G.B.

Every Californian with an email address and an internet connection can now visit California’s Bookshelf and access more than 300,000 ebooks and audiobooks. www.library.ca.gov/uploads/2025...

Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it

Respect for Steve Duda, father of Serum

Microsoft research finds that we are outsourcing our brains to generative AI. the more we use it, the less we use our critical thinking

I donated to #wikipedia

Avatar 3, fanzine di fantascienza (2000) archive.org/details/avat...

At Roxie Theater for “S/He is still her/e” roxie.com/film/s-he-is... Short-circuit control

The more we share

On November 2nd, 1991, Vim was released. Happy cake day, #VIM! Let the celebration start with Vim Easter egg: Open VIM Type :smile

"For one night only I'll let you out." #Halloween Cotton MS Nero C IV; the Winchester Psalter; f.32r

People sometime ask me what I think about "AI art". Well, I can't find better words about it than uncle Bill's. He was right, again: "What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity" W. S. Burroughs

A gift from me to you. A much needed thread of anime data discs... Patlabor 2 (1993)

"It used to be the fight for the means of production, now it's the fight for the memes of perception." (G.B.P.O.)

*pets him very carefully*

if you are using the Chrome (last version) go to chrome://settings/adPrivacy and disable the awful TopicsAPI www.theregister.com/2023/09/06/g...

“Honor Your Mistakes as a Hidden Intention” Brian Eno

“Persistence is all”

On the shoulders of giants

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It’s pride month and I want to share with you the work of Julius Eastman, black queer artist from the 1970s. Minimalist, experimental and contemporary classical music https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22310-julius-eastman-femenine/

Today I’ve discovered the work of Petr Válek. Crazy talented avant-garde music artist. Don’t miss it. https://youtube.com/@thevape5030

Kenneth Anger (1927-2023) https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/24/kenneth-anger-underground-film-maker-and-hollywood-babylon-author-dies-aged-96

Happy International Synthesizer Day (happy birthday Robert Moog)

https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/20/crash-bark-boom-the-usc-sound-effects-library/ An enormous amount of sound effects saved from magnetic tape up at the archive.

Starting my day listening Basic Channel 🕺 stunz stunz stunz

Berlin Airport Bluesky

People would rather see nudes than nazis.

Heading the stratosphere listening Come Down to Us by Burial “This world that we imagine in this room might be used to gain access to other rooms, other worlds, previously unimaginable." (Lana Wachowski)

Such a great time in Berlin 💃🪩🕺