Jason Scott @textfiles

Proprietor of https://t.co/sdyjXHCZF7, historian, filmmaker, archivist, storyteller. Works on/for the Internet Archive. Rank Amateur. Pitiful Man. textfiles.com The 1980s Joined March 2007

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Jason Scott @textfiles

2 months ago

I No Longer Attend Vintage Computer Festivals. (But You Probably Should.) ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5774

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- No fair use -- parody, critique, commentary, teaching, news reporting, all can be blocked by this new watermark. So anyone (political parties, extremist groups, pundits, celebrities, influencers) can watermark their podcasts, propaganda videos, blog posts, and other media and

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Brandon Butler @bc_butler

6 months ago

So Getty can put a watermark on its copies of the world's public domain cultural heritage and *boom* - now it's all theirs forever. Bye bye public domain. …yoftheworldaccordingtogettyimages.com

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Brandon Butler @bc_butler

6 months ago

The COPIED Act is back, and it's still hot garbage. It dictates the design of every tech from spell check to Instagram filters AND gives every thin-skinned politician, celeb, and pundit a "don't parody me!" protection spell for everything they publish. commerce.senate.gov/services/files…

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Jason Scott @textfiles

7 months ago

Bodaciously True and Totally Awesome: ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5744

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Jason Scott @textfiles

8 months ago

This is fascist talk.

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8 months ago

This is fascist talk.

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Shank @ShankMods

10 months ago

Status update: @textfiles from the @internetarchive has agreed to accept them. Incredible. Thank you all for the signal boost. Still some logistics to work out, but I can't think of a better set of hands to pass them on to.

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10 months ago

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Jason Scott @textfiles

10 months ago

I paid $1,600 to repair two UMATIC decks and describe a pass-the-hat situation (and also how to enjoy the output of the thousands of tapes done so far) here: bsky.app/profile/textfi…

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Jason Scott @textfiles

11 months ago

Emulation in the browser is BACK at @internetarchive and there's a quarter million programs to try out! But first go play our #1 title: archive.org/details/msdos_…

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Jason Scott @textfiles

11 months ago

@mcubanhey, sir. A million dollar donation to the internet archive to help support its storing all of the deleted tweets for you would be really welcome.

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Jason Scott @textfiles

11 months ago

Archive team, would you kindly do what you exactly know to do.

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Jason Scott @textfiles

11 months ago

Thanks to everyone for sticking through the Internet Archive's recovery process. While not everything is back by any means, it is back enough that additional repairs will come across the next full weeks. To reach me in the future, refer to this account's pinned tweet.

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11 months ago

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Jason Scott @textfiles

11 months ago

I'm taking the brunt of the bug reports for the next period of time for Internet Archive while the services returns, so the help desk can handle emergencies and higher-priority issues. reddit.com/r/internetarch…