Just learned a cool word: illfare.
There's "welfare", right? So it makes sense to have "illfare".
I learned about this from the preface to J. A. Hobson's book "Work and Welfare": https://archive.org/details/workwealthhumanv0…

Work and wealth: a human valuation : Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson), 1858-1940 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
xvi p., 1 l., 367 p. 22 1/2cm. O $2.25

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, and Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and got the Internet Archive Hero award in 2023!

RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/116615756889889576
The web shutting out the Wayback Machine is bad. But I'd turn this around: If someone wants to move their website into the darknet, so be it. But I won't link to thin…

Menschen haben ein Gedächtnis. Ein Kurzzeitgedächtnis und ein Langzeitgedächtnis. Ein episodisches Gedächtnis und weitere Formen des Gedächtnisses. Fällt eines dieser Gedächtnisse aus, funktioniert auch der Mensch nicht mehr richtig.

Auch die Menschheit hat ein Gedächtnis. Es besteht aus dem Google Cache, aus dem Internet-Archive, aus Archive Today, aus Annas Archive, aus Wikipedia, aus Grokipedia.

Den Google Cache gibt es nicht mehr. Archiv Today hat sich selbst komp…

Menschen haben ein Gedächtnis. Ein Kurzzeitgedächtnis und ein Langzeitgedächtnis. Ein episodisches Gedächtnis und weitere Formen des Gedächtnisses. Fällt eines dieser Gedächtnisse aus, funktioniert auch der Mensch nicht mehr richtig.

Auch die Menschheit hat ein Gedächtnis. Es besteht aus dem Google Cache, aus dem Internet-Archive, aus Archive Today, aus Annas Archive, aus Wikipedia, aus Grokipedia.

Den Google Cache gibt es nicht mehr. Archiv Today hat sich selbst komp…

Gedächtnis der Menschheit: Das Internet Archive schlägt Wurzeln in der Schweiz
Mit einer Stiftung in St. Gallen will das Internet Archive nicht nur bedrohte Archive retten, sondern auch die KI-Ära konservieren. Doch Widerstände wachsen.

Gedächtnis der Menschheit: Das Internet Archive schlägt Wurzeln in der Schweiz
Mit einer Stiftung in St. Gallen will das Internet Archive nicht nur bedrohte Archive retten, sondern auch die KI-Ära konservieren. Doch Widerstände wachsen.

Analysis: 382 news sites, including 342 local outlets, are blocking Internet Archive's crawlers amid AI concerns, an increase from 241 sites in January 2026 (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-tha

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism
McClatchy, Advance Local, Tribune Publishing and other major newspaper chains are restricting the nonprofit's archiving bots.

As so often, the Internet Archive has come to save the day.
At its newly opened Aadam Jacobs Archive, you can now listen to nearly 2,500 of the concert recordings that volunteers have digitized and uploaded so far.
In that more than a terabyte of files, you’ll find concerts by Nirvana, Phish, Tracy Chapman, Depeche Mode, Flaming Lips, Stereolab, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Björk, They Might Be Giants (recorded four times in 1988 alone), and the Mekons, a…

10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More
Perhaps you've had the experience of moving to a new city and immediately being told that you've missed its golden age of live music. To an extent, this has happened in more or less every period of the past fifty or sixty years.

Hier mal eine positive Nachricht über Online-Archive aus der Schweiz aber auch wider KI:
(Der Begriff KI ist eine breit gefächerte Formulation für Automatisierung)
«Internet Archive erhält Standort in der Schweiz:
Internet Archive Switzerland hat am 5. Mai 2026 seine operative Arbeit aufgenommen. Die Stiftung will Schweizer Inhalte sichern, KI-Modelle archivieren und gefährdeten Dokumenten einen digitalen Zufluchtsort bieten.»
🗃️

Internet Archive erhält Standort in der Schweiz
Internet Archive Switzerland hat am 5. Mai 2026 seine operative Arbeit aufgenommen. Die Stiftung will Schweizer Inhalte sichern, KI-Modelle archivieren und gefährdeten Dokumenten einen digitalen Zufluchtsort bieten.

This is an absolute gold mine for music fans, especially us #genx folks. After listening to pre-Grohl Nirvana, I'm now listening to Tracey Chapman from 1988. Thank you Aadam Jacobs and the @… !!

Aadam Jacobs ging 1989 mit einem Rekorder zu einem Konzert von #Nirvana. Seitdem hat er sich seinen Spitznamen "Taper Guy"" redlich verdient. Mittlerweile nahm er mehr als 10.000 Konzerte auf Band auf. Jetzt werden die Aufnahmen digitalisiert und bei

@… https://archive.org/details/typecatalogs

Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter supporting the Archive (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-to…

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.

Kaja #Kallas hätte es durchaus öffentlich sagen können: #Israel ist ein #Apartheid|systen. Schon 2017 hat sich die UN in diesem Sinne wörtlich geäußert.

Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid FULL Report : United Nations : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is the full report in which ECOWA called Israel an apartheid state, expanding on the executive summary which was previously posted here. It was basically...

Thread worth reading!
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:73dpznbu4wqwtcyurwbiulov/post/3mltfotpw232p

Internet Archive (@archive.org)
🧵 Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record. 🌐📰 Read Mark's letter ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a-thank-you-to-journalists-supporting-the-wayback-machine/ @mark.bsky.social #WaybackMachine

Internet Archive: Aadams Jacob Collection
No tapes left behind
#bootlegme
https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection

Aadam Jacobs has secretly recorded over 10,000 local concerts since 1989.
Now, they are cleaned up and ready to listen to for free online:
https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection

If you didn't know about this collection of shows, check it out. Aadam Jacobs collection at the Internet Archive. Seeing he was Chicago based I took the chance to search and sure enough, he has a few Troubled Hubble shows. Amazing. https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jac

"Do you need a liberal education? We say that it is unpatriotic not to read these books."
""The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
Robert M Hutchins (of Great Books fame)

I donated to the Internet Archive today.
They do valuable work and are a huge resource for humanity.
https://archive.org/
"The Internet Archive, a non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to rese…

A look at the Aadam Jacobs Collection, which is adding its 10,000 concert recordings to the Internet Archive; only one or two artists have requested takedowns (Christopher Weber/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/aadam-jacob

Inside a rare collection of 10,000 concerts, from Nirvana to Björk
In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz. In the crowd, with a compact cassette recorder in his pocket, was a music fan named Aadam Jacobs. He surreptitiously recorded the performance, documenting the fledgling band two years before their global breakthrough. That nascent Nirvana recording, with the audio cleaned up, is available for streaming at the online repository Internet Archive. It’s one of over 10…

The Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive is in peril
#WaybackMachine

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.

"Doom" soundtrack becomes a cultural asset in the USA
I just found it in the Internet archive and I can tell: that is NOT how Doom did sound with my Soundblaster16. 🤔
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Doom-soundtrack-becomes-a-cultur…

"Doom" soundtrack becomes a cultural asset in the USA
"Culturally, historically or aesthetically important": "Doom" music enters US National Library. Two other game soundtracks are already there.

The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet https://www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-drive-shortage-is-making-it-more-expensive-and-harder-to-archive-the-internet/

A voyage towards the South Pole performed in the years 1822–24. Containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude; and a visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular account of the inhabitants. To which is added, much useful information on the coasting navigation of Cape Horn, and the adjacent lands.
htt…

A voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the years 1822-24: containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude, and a visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular account of the inhabitants : Weddell, James : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
iv, 276 p., [4] leaves of plates: ill. (some folded, 1 col.), maps (some folded); 22 cm. Subtitle: To which is added much useful information on the coasting...

The "Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology" is simultaneously the most boringly titled book - though accurate, it's a super boring book - and one of the most useful for my current project. It's basically just a list of officeholders, regulations, laws, geographical divisions, etc., etc. But gloriously helpful. Thank you to my forebear, the historian Frederick H. Armstrong, for making the lives of the handful of us who work on early 19th-century Ontario so much easier.

Handbook of Upper Canadian chronology : Armstrong, Frederick Henry : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
1 online resource (278 pages) :

Time to mention my "First Law of the Internet" again...
# The First Law of the Internet
Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.
* The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
* Such a demonstration shall require clear and convincing evidence of public detriment.
* The public detriment must be of such degree and e…

RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/116698337681881625
Archivists are badass.

this is so depressing #media

@… https://archive.org/details/LinotypeCareMaintenanceMatrices_610_23_B_U_25X

The Care and Maintenance of Matrices : Mergenthaler Linotype Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Care and Maintenance of Matrices.  A booklet in the series Linotype Lifetime Extension by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company.  Printing code: 610.23 B...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kohnzn/116571527487946402
This vintage Commodore TV commercial is legit!
There's a whole collection on the Internet Archive with more of them. Ah, the 80s...

Does anyone remember this?
Little Computer People, by Activision (1985).
#gaming

Little Computer People : Activision : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Little Computer People (1985)(Activision)Developed byActivision, Inc.Released1985Also ForAmiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, PC-88, PC-98, ZX...

Lo strumento di archiviazione più potente di Internet è in pericolo
Mentre i principali organi di informazione bloccano la Wayback Machine, giornalisti e gruppi di pressione si stanno mobilitando per proteggere la vasta collezione di pagine web dell'Internet Archive.
https://www.

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

241 Newsportale blockieren bereits die Web-Crawler des Internet Archive — darunter Guardian und NYT. Ausgerechnet Medienhäuser, die von der Beweismittelkette des offenen Webs profitieren, sägen daran. Carla Siepmann @CarlaSiepmann auf @netzpolitik_feed mit einem wichtigen Text. #LinkRot #InternetArchive

Das Internet verrottet
Tote Links, gelöschte Webpages und geänderte URLs machen das Internet zu einem Ort der Sackgassen. Wie Informationen im Netz verschwinden, erinnert an einen der berühmtesten Bibliotheksbrände der Geschichte. Doch allzu oft sind es nicht Katastrophen, die Wissen vernichten, sondern Desinteresse.

A look at Disney's 10-year mismanagement of FiveThirtyEight as Nate Silver says Disney is refusing to negotiate with him about restoring the site's archive (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)
https://www.natesilver.net/p/disney-erased-fivethirtyeight

Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
Nothing on the internet lasts forever. But Disney’s 10-year mismanagement of FiveThirtyEight is its own story.

Claude Code is good at doing research!
In this case helping find the disposition of 126,000 digitized US Supreme Court dockets (cert denied or full opinion), and then reporting why in a archive.org review (using like a wikipedia discussion).
This took real hand-holding and QA to be sure, but it is super helpful. Looked at court listener, the supreme court site (and the old one via the wayback machine!), the Caselaw Access Project at harvard. So good.

Just released a small but useful update for my little Internet Archive Plugin for Craft CMS. 🏛️
You can now opt individual entries out of automatic archiving via a lightswitch field – and manually send any entry to the Wayback Machine straight from the Craft CP entries index. ✨
https://github.com/matthiasott/cr…

I really like Google Search’s stated mission to “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” but I’m curious what organizations do y’all think are most ideally invested in that mission?
Wikipedia seems like an obvious one. Internet Archive seems like another. Any others?

I love the internet archive so much

Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit currently block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter backing the IA (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-…

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.

Linking data with the help of AI.
There are old medical PhD theses coming online (yea!).
Found Wikipedia articles about the doctors, and then edit the wikipedia articles that would be improved by pointing to them. Also added a review to the Internet Archive items to point to the wikipedia.

An analysis of Internet Archive data finds that by mid-2025, ~35% of new websites published since ChatGPT's launch in late 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-gene…

Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.

I was able to pull up my old Dragon Ball Z website from the Internet Archive. I made this website 25 years ago on Angelfire. I was 12 at the time. Time flies by!
#memories #webdev

What in the hell am I looking at 🧐
https://toot.community/@internetarchiveeurope/116340086494523511

It looks like the Internet Archive @… is down at the moment.
#InternetArchive

History repeats itself more than it should.
If you think we cannot get out from under these ghouls, then all I can say is we did it several times before.
We should be getting good at it by now.
The closest Trump's gonna get to heaven is on an airplane.
Go figure, cause I can't
Keep protests peaceful.
Don't kill anyone.
They DO make a difference.
Here are some resistance related guides from around the world:
🇺🇸 Fundamentals …

Fundamentals of physical surveillance : a guide for uniformed and plainclothes personnel : Siljander, Raymond P : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
xvii, 268 p. : 24 cm

I should check to make sure this Turnip executive order has been archived in the Wayback Machine...
"Saved 641 times between February 5, 2025 and March 25, 2026."
*nods* Good job, Internet Archive.
#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine

An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generate…

Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.