Adam Kriesberg

My latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode is live, feat. Amelia Acker talking about her excellent book “Archiving Machines” out now from @mitpress.bsky.social with an OA version as well! newbooksnetwork.com/archiving-ma...

“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent.” – Common Sense (1776) 250 years later, Thomas Paine’s words still resonate. Explore the pamphlet that lit the fire of independence:

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/431

#ThomasPaine #CommonSense #Revolution250

Call me Ishmael.

From dial-up days to now, travel through Wikipedia's history. #wikipedia25 I got started editing in my dorm room in 2006, still here!

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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More Though it isn't the kind of thing one hears discussed every day, serious Disney fans do tend to know that Goofy's original name was Dippy Dawg. But how many of the non-obsessive know that Mickey's fai...

What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD (1930) 🚂

💪 Choo Choo Choo! We all learned about perseverance & trying from this iconic train. She thought she could, and she did 🥹

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

“Most of us live off Hope”

Ever true 💔

My latest episode on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Library Science channel is live! newbooksnetwork.com/preserving-g... it was a pleasure having @freegovinfo.bsky.social on the program to talk about the government information landscape past, present, and future

YouTube video by NPR Music Billy Strings: Tiny Desk Concert

Some music worth listening to this afternoon #bmfs youtu.be/WgqaxMOKfnI?...

I’m at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Crystal City, VA the next few days and presenting a paper tomorrow afternoon. If anyone I follow on here is around get in touch! Glad to be back #ASIST25 #ASIS&T

A copy of "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" by Amelia Acker on a plain background. The cover depicts a punch card.

In "Archiving Machines," Amelia Acker tells the story of the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage, providing a critical look at data archives and access to information. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...

Hath the Count all this intelligence?

"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, thogh methoughte she was sleepinge,
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America

The General

Going to listen to this song 810 times in a row open.spotify.com/track/6n6EXI...

Happy first day of autumn!!! (In the northern hemisphere at least... and those west of UTC-02:00). ⁠

Pictured here: Maple Trees at Mama (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige.

More works by Hiroshige → https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e

walter's hot dog stand sign, mamaroneck, new york, 1982

walter's hot dog stand sign, mamaroneck, new york, 1982

I referred to inform you that www.powermobydick.com is an amazing, albeit digital, resource for the book

corn palace, mitchell, south dakota, 1987

corn palace, mitchell, south dakota, 1987

My HS biology teacher had a laser disc set with all these science videos about things like mitosis, photosynthesis, etc that I remember watching. Also watching Gladiator in Latin class and having to point out historical inaccuracies, fun times

Clipse: Tiny Desk Concert The hip-hop duo delivers its best live performance ever recorded and one of the hardest Tiny Desks of all time.

The hip-hop duo delivers its best live performance ever recorded and one of the hardest Tiny Desks of all time.

The new Clipse album dropping alongside their Tiny Desk concert speaks to my white boy suburban millennial soul on a very deep level. So happy to see these guys back together and making music #grindin

Georgia Librarian Fired After Kid Chooses LGBTQ Book For Summer Reading - GO Magazine Lavonnia Moore says she was just following the library’s mission to serve everyone—but it wasn’t enough to save her job.

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We Can Still Save the Institute for Museum and Library Services Act now to help save the Institute for Museum and Library Services and ensure the well-being of public libraries nationwide.

“There is no more crucial time than now to speak up on behalf of libraries + the IMLS than now. There are 17 members on the Labor, Health + Human Services, Education, + Related Agencies Subcommittee... Each and every one of them should be contacted over the next couple of weeks”

Tiny pet dog credited with helping to save hiker trapped in Swiss glacier Dog stayed by his master, who was wedged in an 8-metre-deep crevasse, and was spotted by helicopter crew A small pet dog is being hailed as a “four-legged hero” for helping to save his owner’s life after he fell down an icy crevasse in the Swiss Alps. The Air Zermatt helicopter company credited the pint-sized pooch with drawing their attention to the location of the hiker, who he was extracted and taken to hospital. Continue reading...

Tiny pet dog credited with helping to save hiker trapped in Swiss glacier

X post from U.S. National Archives @USNat Archives June 25, 2025 We caused a misunderstanding yesterday in the way we communicated long overdue enhanced security standards that are going into effect at the National Archives at College Park, M.D. First things first: For those who want to come to College Park and look through the records, the research rooms were, are and will ALWAYS remain open to the public. Ensuring public access to records in the archives is part of NARA's core mission and the new security standards do not - and would never- change this. The National Archives is implementing long overdue enhanced security standards at College Park due to several recent incidents that have left those in the building-including researchers- and our nation's records vulnerable to threats. In addition to other measures, NARA is increasing video surveillance and mandating that traffic bollards stay up closer to the building. Many of these measures mirror security standards that have been in place for many years at the research rooms at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and research facilities at presidential libraries. We look forward to continuing to always welcome researchers to College Park.

@usnatarchives.bsky.social post on X:

Opinion | I testified at a congressional hearing on the JFK files — that was a mistake As a historian invited to speak before Congress, I expected to converse with serious people. That's not what happened.

I've never met a more disappointing group of people, and our fate rests in their hands

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...