Jason Scott

@textfiles.com

Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.

I'm in Nebraska for a relatively short time and I just wanted to check if somebody thought there was something in Omaha or the surrounding area that it would be a true tragedy for me to miss.

My secret, Cap, is that I'm *always* angry about old books. For instance, here's a tiny slice of the millions of books 1931-1986 that have no commercial value, that are digitized, but that we're unable to use in large-scale research because they are illegal to share or display.

a tiny random fraction of books in HathiTrust 1931-1980 in English that include the word "philosophy" somewhere in metadata

I always have a moment where I remember that the murderous psychopathic crimelord who terrorized the city with deadly plans and major catastrophes had a brand logo

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So, if you message me using two different accounts on bluesky demanding a thing, and I investigate and say nothing can be done, do you think opening 5 reddit threads, attempting multiple DMs on reddit to contact me, and e-mailing me as various obviously fake people demanding the thing is good?

stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-... Throwing this one out here. Even textfiles.com is getting hit with this situation. The scraper-writing guys are among the laziest, most inefficient forces browsing websites right now. I totally get why, but that's not helping.

What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.

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