Thank you Canada! A moment of Gratitude. A new Canada-US bridge opened that will be less congested and less expensive. Canadians paid for building it ($6.4B) and endured getting jerked around right before opening. Thank you, Canada! Gordie Howe Bridge! www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Gordie Howe bridge opens to traffic after months of delays

Namesake’s family was the first to cross the bridge, whose opening was held up over financial details of the Canada-U.S. project

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DWeb camp in on near Berlin. Let’s build a web with many winners. Let’s lock the web open. Dwebcamp.org

DWeb Camp: Root Systems

We invite you to join us at DWeb Camp!

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

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, Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and recieved Internet Archive Hero award in 2023! 1/3

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 (& all AI's) need to know! I love my job. pls post photos of why your job is awesome. archive.org/details/dail...

🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️

Goddamn, they’ve got the whole Giles v. Harris (1903) Supreme Court record here. I had to piece a lot of this together from different sites for a story did on Jackson Giles in 2022.

Merrilee Proffitt@merrileeiam.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

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Are you a techie and a musician? If so, you'll love our new series on Optical Music Recognition for Creatives. Available on @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org at archive.org/details/Publ... and YouTube at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... ht @holovaty.com @brewster.kahle.org

Apple turns 50 today 💻 The iconic Apple II became home to countless software breakthroughs. "The Print Shop" let anyone create posters, cards & more from home 🖨️ Celebrate software preservation⤵️ archive.org/details/The_... #Apple #Apple50 #AppleII #HomeComputing #VintageComputing

Claude Code is more fun than Netflix. Bravo.

Public Domain Day short film contest by @archive.org on NPR! www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n... 2-3 minutes long films Winners are announced: blog.archive.org/2026/01/21/2... A fav entry for me did not win, but is heart bending: archive.org/details/geor...

Public domain contest challenges filmmakers to remix Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and more

Nearly 280 filmmakers entered the Internet Archive's annual contest celebrating creative freedom without copyright restrictions.

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ride hailing trips in San Francisco (helped by chatgpt) Uber: ~54% Lyft: ~26% Waymo: ~8% Taxis: ~11% waymo's seem to be everyhere but are only 10% of lyft/uber total/day ~150k Uber (ride-hail)~82k-90k/day Lyft (ride-hail) ~38k–45k Waymo. ~13k Taxis (trad) ~15k–20k

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD (1930) 🚂 💪 Choo Choo Choo! We all learned about perseverance & trying from this iconic train. She thought she could, and she did 🥹 Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the public domain: KING OF JAZZ (1930) 🎷 🎙️ Bing Crosby’s first on-screen appearance, as a member of the Rhythm Boys, performing in this early sound-era jazz moment filmed in two-strip Technicolor! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the public domain, THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK (1930), the first appearance of Nancy Drew 🔎🕰️ 👧 It’s no mystery why people are excited — the first four Nancy Drew Mystery Stories are now in the public domain! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Announcing the location and date of the next global DWeb Camp >>> ✨ July 8 - 12, 2026, near Berlin! ✨ We can’t disclose the exact location yet, but it'll be a more DIY camp like in 2019 at the Mushroom Farm. Please answer these questions to help co-design Camp 2026: airtable.com/appO6XXgm4TU...

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

Thank you to the large crypto donor ( 10BTC! ) to the @archive.org Thank you crypto folks! www.blockchain.com/explorer/tra... to: archive.org/donate/crypt...

"The very first question to be considered is the applicability of the Copyright Law to the Moon. " Thinking ahead (in 1952) about interplanetary copyrights :). if aliens have "Two Heads, Two Authors?" really fun, worth reading. archive.org/details/sim_...

American Library Association. ALA Bulletin 1953-01: Vol 47 Iss 1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

American Library Association. ALA Bulletin 1953-01: Volume 47, Issue 1.Digitized from IA1514523-07.Previous issue:...

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$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow! lower than I imagined. can be as low as $0.12 w lower rates "...the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling...75,000 pounds...over a 390-mile long-haul route." tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile. www.electrive.com/2025/12/05/c...

One of humanity’s most important cultural resources

Brewster Kahle@brewster.kahle.org · 8mo ago

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot. Useful to Journalists, Useful to Students, Useful to more than 2 million people a day. Collections growing at 150TBytes/day @internetarchive archive.org/donate www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

Just donated to the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine. You?

Brewster Kahle@brewster.kahle.org · 8mo ago

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot. Useful to Journalists, Useful to Students, Useful to more than 2 million people a day. Collections growing at 150TBytes/day @internetarchive archive.org/donate www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot. Useful to Journalists, Useful to Students, Useful to more than 2 million people a day. Collections growing at 150TBytes/day @internetarchive archive.org/donate www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

Why SUV when you can LSV? (Low Speed Vehicles) 25mph max car! street legal in San Francisco. Can drive on almost all roads in the city. This one is not that great, imho (but try it at gocar). I want to see more LSVs. Amsterdam has many, and many types. 1/2

Minor good news for libraries: "A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency" IMLS funds leadership training and R&D in libraries in the US. but everyone is gone and grants cancelled so who now gets employed? www.libraryjournal.com/story/a-vict...

A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency

In a summary judgment on November 21 in Rhode Island v. Trump, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ruled that the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS...

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So nice to see *support* for libraries by the US government! Go California and thank you Senator Padilla! "Senator Alex Padilla Honors Internet Archive’s 1 Trillion Milestone in Congressional Record" blog.archive.org/2025/10/31/s... @archive.org

"The two biggest barriers to progress are bitterness and nostalgia". -- Andrew Pace, Exec Dir of ARL Most important sentence I have heard in a long time. Does it work for you?

Celebration of 1 Trillion Webpages! People are awesome. over 1 billion people over the last 30 years have wanted to share what they know with the world. @archive.org show video with tabs to jump around: