Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer
Songs and Lyrics
by Tom Lehrer DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the
Tom Lehrer, Musical Hero gave away his songs before he passed. Even more reasons to love this man.
"All copyrights to lyrics or music written or composed by me have been permanently and irrevocably relinquished, and therefore such songs are now in the public domain. " tomlehrersongs.com
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CNI 2025 - Brewster Kahle - Libraries at Risk:Borrowed Infrastructure and and Institutional Resilience
This is "CNI 2025 - Brewster Kahle - Libraries at Risk:Borrowed Infrastructure and and Institutional Resilience" by EDUCAUSE on Vimeo, the home for high…
📚 “Every citizen should know that libraries are under attack.”
In a new interview, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle outlines the structural threats facing libraries today & the paths forward for an enduring library system.
@cni-org.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org
vimeo.com/1103555091/8...
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Philip Bump of Washpo always anchored his articles with data, and data well presented. Sorry to see him leave that prominent organization.
22.07.2025 23:03 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Five photos of people in various settings with the Press Forward logo centered between them. Description: Press Forward invests $22.7 million in local news infrastructure to meet the urgent challenges newsrooms face.
🗞️ Local journalism matters.
Thanks to a $1M Press Forward grant, we’ll support 300+ newsrooms with training, tools & services in collaboration with Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) & The Poynter Institute.
Details ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/16/
18.07.2025 18:39 — 👍 214 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 2
Cover of Dark Fantasy No. 22 (1980), published by Shadow Press. The title is printed in bold, stylized yellow and black text at the top. The central illustration features a medieval knight in armor leaning against a large, leaf-covered tree, holding a bow and arrows. A castle is faintly visible in the background. A diagonal black-and-yellow banner across the bottom reads, “Nominated for 10 SPWAO Awards.” Price is listed as $1.50.
New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible.
⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s...
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Promotional poster for Episode #5 of the podcast “Future Knowledge,” titled “Averting the Digital Dark Age.” The design features a retro-futuristic aesthetic with grainy textures and a collage of images, including three speakers: Ian Milligan, Brewster Kahle, and Takara Small. Their photos appear above bold text reading “FUTURE KNOWLEDGE.” In the background are stylized digital and classical elements like a vintage computer labeled “NEW,” the Space Needle, a Roman statue, and abstract shapes.
In the latest episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast, historian IAN MILLIGAN discusses his book AVERTING THE DIGITAL DARK AGE with Internet Archive founder BREWSTER KAHLE. Moderated by TAKARA SMALL
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
16.07.2025 13:03 — 👍 89 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 1
"In an age of informational chaos, the Wayback Machine feels like one of the few institutions that never lies to us."
Nice comment from Current Affair editor
www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-to-...
10.07.2025 20:54 — 👍 85 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
From @internetarchive.eu: "Internet Archive Europe proudly announces the launch of Our Future Memory, a global campaign dedicated to safeguarding the digital rights of libraries, archives, and museums worldwide." www.internetarchive.eu/protecting-t...
07.07.2025 14:18 — 👍 449 🔁 122 💬 6 📌 7
![Can we talk about some of the wider challenges to creativity? We’re living in a world where AI is scraping writers’ creations and the creations of other artists. Do you share the concerns of creators that safeguards are either insufficient or not present?
I absolutely understand that. There’s a current debate in Parliament around legislation on exactly that. 9 We have a proud tradition of intellectual property laws. Alongside that, this explosive technological development age means that we have an extraordinary opportunity of computational power to analyze, to understand, to discover. What I do think is these two should not be set up in opposition.
footnote: 9 Elton John and Dua Lipa are among those urging the UK government to rethink plans to allow tech companies to use copyrighted material to train their AI models.
But they are in opposition, aren’t they? I looked online and discovered that both of my books have been scraped by AI. I didn’t agree to that.
Every country in the world is grappling with this; no country has yet fully cracked managing this boundary. But certainly as groups of libraries, we can both value creative content and put in best-practice ways of how you can get the best of AI in a bounded, ethical way.
Let me give you an example around our historic collections. We have 170 million items in 200 languages — a huge imprint of the world’s authentically created, human-created content. We’ve done a project through all our texts in older Javanese languages to use [the] mass computational power of AI to do machine discovery of what those texts say, and machine-supported curation of how to flag and catalog that. But that’s very different from AI scraping of your books, which as an author I would be really distressed about.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6zcjb6gz4dg3mvjlxhzdlbaa/bafkreic5iuraiopexowmqozk5gd73simtrx23iyig52f5yx7x42nf7mzk4@jpeg)
Can we talk about some of the wider challenges to creativity? We’re living in a world where AI is scraping writers’ creations and the creations of other artists. Do you share the concerns of creators that safeguards are either insufficient or not present?
I absolutely understand that. There’s a current debate in Parliament around legislation on exactly that. 9 We have a proud tradition of intellectual property laws. Alongside that, this explosive technological development age means that we have an extraordinary opportunity of computational power to analyze, to understand, to discover. What I do think is these two should not be set up in opposition.
footnote: 9 Elton John and Dua Lipa are among those urging the UK government to rethink plans to allow tech companies to use copyrighted material to train their AI models.
But they are in opposition, aren’t they? I looked online and discovered that both of my books have been scraped by AI. I didn’t agree to that.
Every country in the world is grappling with this; no country has yet fully cracked managing this boundary. But certainly as groups of libraries, we can both value creative content and put in best-practice ways of how you can get the best of AI in a bounded, ethical way.
Let me give you an example around our historic collections. We have 170 million items in 200 languages — a huge imprint of the world’s authentically created, human-created content. We’ve done a project through all our texts in older Javanese languages to use [the] mass computational power of AI to do machine discovery of what those texts say, and machine-supported curation of how to flag and catalog that. But that’s very different from AI scraping of your books, which as an author I would be really distressed about.
Interview of the new librarian of the British Library :
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Q&As on AI:
06.07.2025 23:52 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
A Win for Fair Use Is a Win for Libraries: blog.archive.org/2025/06/29/a...
What the Anthropic decision means for preservation, access and the future of libraries.
29.06.2025 13:37 — 👍 547 🔁 136 💬 13 📌 13
A Burger King ad on Russian TV (featuring an AC/DC riff from Thunderstruck). Fun, and kind of surprising. (thx roger)
archive.org/details/RUSS...
22.06.2025 23:24 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
spielberg was 27 when he directed jaws. (feeling a bit old :) )
20.06.2025 23:42 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How to destroy 500,000 books
A report on the end point of the National Library's long, controversial cull
The National Library of NZ really tried to save these unique pacific island books from pulping
@archive.org offered to save the books @no cost
Years of trying
But the trade associations teamed up stop gift.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/16/h...
bookguardiansaotearoa.wordpress.com/2021/11/30/a...
16.06.2025 03:41 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
CloudFlare and the Internet Archive have been working together for a long time now. All good.
@cloudflare.social
16.06.2025 00:08 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Moment of Gratitude: CloudFlare
CloudFlare saved the Internet Archive servers from a DDOS yesterday.
Max rate of this DDOS attack was 525 Gbps (44.93 Mpps) of a "TCP flood"
@archive.org does not have enough bandwidth to fend off that kind of attack = wouldbe bad saturday.
Thank you #CloudFlare
15.06.2025 23:13 — 👍 1231 🔁 181 💬 12 📌 6
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
A power outage shut archive.org down, and some equipment did not come back-- argh, sorry.
Replaced and back!
06.06.2025 16:45 — 👍 336 🔁 33 💬 9 📌 5
YouTube video by Sophia Tung
This is where all of The Internet is stored
📹 Setting up a livestream isn’t easy. That’s why we turned to an expert: Sophia Tung.
See how this creative software engineer brought her signature mix of tech + chill to our new microfiche scanning livestream—now preserving government records in real time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93Q...
29.05.2025 16:58 — 👍 321 🔁 63 💬 3 📌 4
"The Electric-- the simplest of motor cars" ad in Vogue magazine in 1912.
(nytimes has an article about that era of electrics with a cool ad: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/b... )
loving our electric vehicles in 2025.
archive.org/details/sim_...
26.05.2025 16:03 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
YouTube video by Internet Archive
📄 The scanners are humming, the film is flowing.
The microfiche livestream is up—digitizing government docs in real time for Democracy’s Library.
Perfect second-screen vibes: Preservation in progress.
🕢 Live M-F, 7:30am–3:30pm PT (except U.S. holidays)
➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
22.05.2025 14:37 — 👍 360 🔁 76 💬 4 📌 11
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
YouTube video by Internet Archive
🕗 The microfiche livestream runs until 8pm PT tonight—then switches over to silent films & NASA images from Internet Archive collections. 🚀🎞️
Scanning resumes tomorrow during normal hours:
📅 Mon–Fri
⏰ 7:30am–3:30pm PT
📴 (Closed on U.S. holidays)
🎬 Watch: www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
22.05.2025 01:43 — 👍 278 🔁 55 💬 1 📌 4
From the microfiche scanning center: www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
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graph going up
I love the idea of #microfiche trending :)
up and to the right:
21.05.2025 15:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
YouTube video by Internet Archive
New livestream (lo-fi chill) -- Microfiche -- US govdocs online&free. (important)
Work of Many many people now in production! join in the fun:
>> fun: www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
archive.org/details/demo...
go @archive.org !
21.05.2025 15:48 — 👍 109 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 3
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