@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgride hailing trips in SF (helped by chatgpt).
Uber: ~54%
Lyft: ~26%
Waymo: ~8%
Taxis: ~11%
so while waymo's seem to be everyhere, they are only 10% of lyft/uber
total/day ~150k
Uber (ride-hail). ~82k-90k/day
Lyft (ride-hail) ~38k–45k
Waymo (robotaxi) ~13k
Taxis (traditional) ~15k–20k
@mia@hcommons.social
@davej@dice.campIf anyone needs me, I’ll be right here rereading Butler’s “War is a Racket”(https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket/) with Creedence’s “Fortunate Son” (https://
@vosje62@mastodon.nlNachtmerrie die vogelgriep heet: hoe één veertje een hele Twentse industrie lamlegt
#vogelgriep
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Apple Scorpius CPU architectural specification. (1989)
https://archive.org/details/scorpius_architecture
saved 2019-12-29 https:/…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"A Critical Collection History of Nineteenth-century Women’s Letters: Overcoming the Occluded Archive with Data-Driven Methods"
https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000791/000791.html
@servelan@newsie.socialJD Vance says America is a ‘Christian nation.' Is it? | Opinion
https://archive.ph/O5NGT
@bourgwick@heads.social50 years ago yesterday, the jerry garcia band in #sacramento. decent audience tape: https://archive.org/details/jg76-02-28.019016.jgb.aud.unknown.martin-warn…
@gevoel@mastodon.greenOpinie | Maar waarmee wil dit kabinet stoppen ? - NRC
https://archive.ph/6nxwJ
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2/2/26☀️ AM: ... Congress is in the midst of a crisis -- again. (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/2226-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p21#a260202p21
@markhburton@mstdn.socialEnvironmentalists decry ‘crushingly disappointing’ (Pfas) forever chemicals action plan for UK | Pfas | The Guardian
Cookie free link
https://archive.ph/mIJdV
@detondev@social.linux.pizza
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usMount Depression – Watch Your Step Ep
https://archive.org/details/23DSK09
https://www.clongclongmo…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de#heiseshow: Autonomes Fahren, Archive.today, Lieferkettengesetz
In der #heiseshow: BMW bremst beim autonomen Fahren (Level 3), Wikipedia verbannt Archive.today und die EU stutzt ihr Lieferkettengesetz massiv zusammen.
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deWhat LLMs and the Turing test¹ tell us: most of us not only are² stochastic parrots³ but are also fine with that – otherwise we would not happily use LLMs to produce all the output we communicate to others.
One could frame this as “insult to humanity” but I prefer to call it telling.
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¹the Turing test does _not_ measure “intelligence”. I recommend to read the original paper:
@rmdes@mstdn.socialTibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"we need to open our eyes to the fact that the current industry many of us work in, not only doesn’t care about their workers, it actively resents them. In their eyes, we have gone from being the people who made things possible, to an unnecessary burden on the bottom line.
They hate that we charge money for our labor, and see that money as something we are stealing from their pockets."
(Original title: How to grow strawberries)
@vosje62@mastodon.nlTrump Gave Israel and Netanyahu Immunity When It Comes to Gaza. That's Not What Best Friends Do - Opinion - Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-01-01/ty-article-opinion/.premium/trump-gave-israel-and-netanyahu-immunity-on-to-gaza-thats-not-what-best-friends-do/0000019b-757e-d019-a9df-7fff6d3c0000
Archive link: https://archive.ph/Wjjtn
@wraithe@mastodon.socialFrom @… over on BlueSky:
“SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.
S1: https://archive.org/detail…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dejazz_collab: Jazz collaboration network
The network of collaborations among jazz musicians, and among jazz bands, extracted from The Red Hot Jazz Archive digital database, covering bands that performed between 1912 and 1940.
This network has 198 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted
https://
@benb@osintua.euIs the US peace plan for Ukraine falling apart? Moscow disrupts negotiations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/is-the-us-peace-plan.html
@matthiasott@mastodon.socialNote to self: if you block all the bots™, remember to not block archive.org_bot. Especially if you even wrote a Craft CMS plugin that notifies the Wayback Machine to crawl new posts on your site … 🤦♂️
@gwire@mastodon.socialIt's odd to see the damages in the Spotify/Anna's Archive case - derived from statutory infringement penalties - which has the implication that every inidividual file copied has denied the equivalent of the royalties on around 33 million streams.
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Guardian, FT, NYT, USA Today Co., and others are blocking or limiting the Internet Archive's crawlers to prevent AI crawlers from using IA as a backdoor (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-i…
@cdarwin@c.imThe English-language edition of Wikipedia
is blacklisting Archive.today
after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog.
In
course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS,
Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages
to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS.
The alterations were apparently…
@servelan@newsie.socialThe Effects of Tariffs, One Year Into Trump’s Trade Experiment - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/QYyP5
@memeorandum@universeodon.com3/3/26☀️ AM: ... Republicans on Capitol Hill are about to give President Donald Trump ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/3326-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p9#a260303p9
@gevoel@mastodon.greenKandidaten FvD voor verkiezingen gemeenteraad waren actief bij extreemrechtse organisaties | de Volkskrant
https://archive.ph/QQc3A
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deYou may want to #fediblock this pro-russian propaganda outlet which also happens to deny that the German Fascist Party #AfD is right-wing extremist: @ voiceofeast.net@voiceofeast.net
🚫 web.archive.org/web/20260102113448/https://voiceofeast.net/2025/12/27/us-intelligence-exposed-the-myth-of-rus…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org9.9k views on how the livestream of microfiche digitization works at the @… :
explainer: https://www.youtube.com/live/r93Q90CWhXo
livestre…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEnglish-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K links to be removed (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026 Public Domain Day Film Contest : From classic literature and silent films to musical compositions and visual art, the contest winners draw inspiration from the vast archive of cultural heritage from 1930.
https://archive.org/details/2026-public-domain-day-film-contest
@mela@zusammenkunft.netArchive .today verändert Webseiten. Damit kann man es leider nicht mehr für Snapshots verwenden.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-capt…
@janneke@todon.nlWe are happy to announce Dezyne 2.20 which introduces global function
and foreign function. This release represents 111 commits over three
years.
<https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/dezyne-devel/2026-02/msg00001.html>
@…
@der_raddler@dresden.networkIch fand den Typen von Anfang an komisch...
http://web.archive.org/web/20260226110010/https://www.saechsische.de/kultur/regional/john-rudat-das-andere-gesicht-des-dresdner-h…
@servelan@newsie.socialEpstein’s New Mexico Ranch Gets Scrutiny at Last. It May Be Too Late. - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/StDXL
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzIdentifying Astrophysical Anomalies in 99.6 Million Cutouts from the #Hubble Legacy Archive Using AnomalyMatch: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03508 -> AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/ai-unlocks-hundreds-of-cosmic-anomalies-in-hubble-archive/
@benb@osintua.euA summit has begun in Brussels to decide the fate of aid to Ukraine #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/a-summit-has-begun-in.html
@gevoel@mastodon.greenNormale mensen bestaan voor 90 procent uit water, maar bij Femke Wiersma is dat remvloeistof | de Volkskrant
https://archive.ph/HkKu3
@johnm@social.tchncs.de#Worldle #1502 (03.03.2026) 1/6 (100%)
🔥 Aktuelle Siegesserie: 1 Tage
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/share
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeFreeBSD 14.4 release candidate – please test
<https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20260228000136.2C0F81F863>
– via <
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgBoo-- an ad supposedly demonstrating something, but is AI generated (see the "player" getting into the front right door of this upcoming EV). Boo.
https://vimeo.com/1159800255?fe=ci&fl=sv&share=copy&syclid=d5uduknhbrrc73e5fo…
@kctipton@mas.toFree link --> A Democrat for the Trump Era - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/jasmine-crockett-democrats/683652/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3il9Yroz0IJ6lNuCh03g3o4 …
@poppastring@dotnet.socialA post from the archive 📫:
AI mistakes are very different from human mistakes
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/ai-mistakes-are-very-different-from-human-mistakes
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaFor the last few days i was avoiding the online as much as i could on a suicidal episode, self isolating from the noise of the world. Yet paradoxically to some, the best thing to happen during this time and the main reason im back so soon was listening to almost nothing but cassettes from the NOISE-ARCH archive. tap in.
https://archive.org…
@servelan@newsie.socialConnor Storrie Hosts “S.N.L.,” and His “Heated Rivalry” Love Makes a Cameo - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/nyFvK
@gevoel@mastodon.greenDat heerlijke synthesizergeluid van de jaren tachtig (‘Beat It’!, ‘Tainted Love’!) was er niet geweest zonder dit apparaat: de synclavier
https://archive.ph/Wtzob
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usEraser Ears – Blocks & Shapes
https://archive.org/details/eraser-ears-blocks-shapes
https://www.
@janneke@todon.nl @benb@osintua.euChart of the week: Ukraine's shadow war behind enemy lines is picking up: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/chart-of-the-week-ukraines.html
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgarchive.org now coming back online (repeated issues in San Francisco cuz utility blackout)
@…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Git as a tamperproof file archive using chained RFC3161 timestamps.
https://medium.com/swlh/git-as-cryptographically-tamperproof-file-archive-using-chained-rfc3161-timestamps-ad15836b883
@bourgwick@heads.sociallooking for a 13th floor elevators chronology, i spent time last night marveling the late patrick lundborg's site(s), one of the world's most incredible repositories of psychedelia research, now only preserved by @….
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 12 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
@benb@osintua.euFire breaks out at Russian oil depot amid reported drone strike: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/fire-breaks-out-at-russian.html
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaRemembering
Howling Dogs by Porpentine https://xrafstar.monster/games/twine/howlingdogs/
Solarium by Alan DeNiro
@cdarwin@c.im#eDNA Environmental DNA
The Core Concept: A non-invasive monitoring technique that detects the presence of species by extracting and analyzing genetic material shed into the environment (water, soil, air) rather than isolating the organism itself.
Key Distinction/Mechanism: Unlike traditional ecology which relies on physical capture or visual observation ("macro-organismal" interaction),…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgHorse Bots ! -- but not what you think-- but I couldn't resist.
Thank you, Department of Ag leaflets, this one from 1973.
https://archive.org/details/horsebotshowtoco450unit_2/page/n1/mode/2up
(lots of leaflets:
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Hunderttausende Links: Wikipedia verbannt Archive.today nach Cyberangriff
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUnsealed docs: Spotify and labels sued Anna's Archive over plans to release scraped Spotify data; a US court grants a temporary order taking down some domains (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/unsealed-spotify-l…
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usreFUGeeS From Beyond – Under The Radar
https://archive.org/details/refugees-from-beyond-under-the-radar
@rmdes@mstdn.social @grahamperrin@bsd.cafeTrueNAS CORE finally disappeared from the software status page for TrueNAS.
For posterity, November and December 2025:
<https://web.archive.org/web/20251114033428/https://www.truenas.com/software-status/>
<
@benb@osintua.euUkraine war latest live: Kyiv denies Russian breakthrough in Lyman, Donetsk Oblast, releases POW video: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/ukraine-war-latest-live-kyiv.html
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgBetter Rideshare: Airport Ubers lined up, and you can get into ANY car, driver scans your QR code, and go. Immediately.
No 10-20 minute delay. No clog to match riders to cars.
This is how Taxi's work, but they are more expensive and no universal app. This is how Waymo could work, but they are not at most airports yet. A new competitor might do well with this trick: "AirRide"?
Many people have opted for rideshare-- lets have it work better. Other ideas?
@bourgwick@heads.socialevening peace: brian eno & j. peter schwalm perform "4-D music" inside a volcano in spain in 2001, studio-quality radio broadcast. https://archive.org/details/01.-part-i
@servelan@newsie.socialActually, Putin’s War On Ukraine Isn’t Popular At Home
https://archive.is/uW1CC
@benb@osintua.euNATO allies pledge over $1 billion for US arms for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/nato-allies-pledge-over-billion.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"Rabbit Recipes," US dept of Ag 1930. (We are looking for things to cook to celebrate public domain day Jan 21st 2026 re: 1930!)
Not so sure about Rabbit Recipes, but nice layout. Thank you US Dept of Ag for digitizing this (I love my job).
What will you cook to celebrate public domain day?
http…
@benb@osintua.euUkraine's top negotiators to again meet Trump's envoys after Moscow talks, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/ukraines-top-negotiators-to-again.html
@servelan@newsie.socialIn the Northwest, Polyamory Finds Something New: Legal Protection - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/1I4sI
@benb@osintua.euUkrainians' trust in NATO membership as security guarantee drops, poll shows: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/ukrainians-trust-in-nato-membership.html
@servelan@newsie.socialEven Peter Thiel. And he's gay...
They Said They Weren’t Close to Epstein. New Documents Show Otherwise. - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/TO87J
@bourgwick@heads.social*screams in historian/normal person who uses the wayback machine* https://mstdn.social/@Mediagazer/115979614480582544
@heiseonline@social.heise.deAnna’s Archive veröffentlicht Millionen Spotify-Tracks
Die Schattenbibliothek Anna's Archive veröffentlicht Millionen Spotify-Tracks – trotz einer einstweiligen Verfügung. Weitere Dateien könnten folgen.
https:/…
@benb@osintua.euUkraine strikes Druzhba oil pipeline again, HUR source says, despite Hungary, Slovakia's appeal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/ukraine-strikes-druzhba-oil-pipeline.html
@gevoel@mastodon.greenGisteren had ik het nog over mijn gebrek aan magnetron-ervaring.
https://archive.ph/gF4LO
@benb@osintua.euInvestigation: Chinese military officials’ quiet visits to Moscow, exposed: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/investigation-chinese-military-officials-quiet.html
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgMassive San Francisco power outage.
Saved by one block!
@… is sooo lucky.
@servelan@newsie.social"The two anonymous accounts have spent months sharing strategic information, private polling, messaging advice and media-buying data in what may be an effort to skirt federal law."
How Wesley Hunt of Texas Is Working in Plain Sight With Outside Groups - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/wKJvr#selection-719.236-719.414
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgPublic Domain Day short film contest by @… on NPR!
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-56777
@gevoel@mastodon.greenOok in het oerconservatieve Odessa, Texas hebben de ongeborenen een streepje voor op vrouwen | de Volkskrant
https://archive.ph/O5VKT
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgnew way to see the breadth and depth of the web, in this case Dutch websites.
fun.
https://display.archive.org/nl
congratulations @…
@gevoel@mastodon.greenUw wekelijkse Sheila: Bij de volgende pandemie gaan we gewoon weer snel dood of langzaam failliet | de Volkskrant
https://archive.ph/7pyH0
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgarchive.org is temporarily down because of the San Francisco power outage (at least we made it most of the day). folks are heading in to get what we can going.
Sorry about this, we are doing what we can, and PG&E is bringing lots of SF back up.
@…
@servelan@newsie.socialWhat to know about the link between tattoo ink and cancer risk | National Geographic
https://archive.ph/UZkAJ
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org1930 is going public domain on Jan 1.
Some say Chocolate Chip Cookies started in 1938 ( wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_chip_cookie )
BUT, we have a cook book with from 1930 with a recipe!
@servelan@newsie.socialEpstein Files Live Updates: Justice Department Releases Millions of Pages of Documents - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/Jc3BJ
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgMoment of Gratitude, this time for GitHub.com
I have been having fun with claude-code and have been using github in ways I did not know existed (like hosting docker images), and so easy! (and, I think, for free)
Thank you GitHub!
https://brewster.kahle.org/2026/02/01…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"The Richmond is Home to 1 Trillion Web Pages
A Friday afternoon tour of the Internet Archive, which recently celebrated its 29th anniversary".
Nice article about the free tours at the
@…
every friday at 1pm.
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgSF power still problematic. hit a short outage at @… HQ
archive.org back online. (good news is , we are getting good at this 😀 )
SF's power situation is still problematic. go go PG&E
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"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.
ht…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org® (registered trademark) of an Article?
The Register is putting "®" at the end of the articles I looked at: e.g. https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/suse_runs_ms/.
What does that mean?
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgproject idea (possibly using AI): record a take of songs from old sheet music books
Starting with something like the Grange book of sheet music below and record them ... Apparently the music can get to midi via Play Score 2, and other programs can could sing the lyrics.
or better yet, if anyone wants to perform the songs and upload them to the archive, you could link it into a review of the book.
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgAI Policy Challenges in Europe Book (free!) by a true insider expert Caroline De Cock
https://carolinedecock.com/
(I wrote the foreword).
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"The Value of Public Domain Day"
a thoughtful piece on the economics and the loss by our overzealous locking up of our culture.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/01/01/the-value-of-public-domain-day/
but please celebrate on Jan 2…
