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Brewster Kahle
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Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, Open Library. https://brewster.kahle.org https://archive.org https://openlibrary.org
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So nice to see *support* for libraries by the US government!

Go California and thank you Senator Padilla!

"Senator Alex Padilla Honors Internet Archive’s 1 Trillion Milestone in Congressional Record"

blog.archive.org/2025/10/31/s... @archive.org
photo of senator
November 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
brewster.kahle.org
"The two biggest barriers to progress are bitterness and nostalgia".
-- Andrew Pace, Exec Dir of ARL

Most important sentence I have heard in a long time. Does it work for you?
October 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Celebration of
1 Trillion Webpages! People are awesome.

over 1 billion people over the last 30 years have wanted to share what they know with the world.

@archive.org show video with tabs to jump around:
poster
October 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Bezos Earth Fund helping convert all US school buses to from diesel to electric by 2030 (480,000 of them!) www.bezosearthfund.org/grants/equit...

this is the program: electricschoolbusinitiative.org

Sounds bold, the right direction, and generally good to me. $37.5m grant in 2020, fingers crossed.
Equitably Electrifying Every School Bus in the U.S.
www.bezosearthfund.org
October 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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archive.org
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
Greg Newby
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
brewster.kahle.org
Wonderful piece about the Internet Archive's Web collections and the Wayback Machine.

Timely too-- San Francisco and California are declaring Oct 22nd, 2025 Internet Archive Day!

Thank you!

cybercultural.com/p/wayback-ma...
2001: The Internet Gets a Memory With the Wayback Machine
In October 2001, Brewster Kahle demonstrates a new time machine from the Internet Archive called the Wayback Machine. It will become a vital link between the Web's past and its present.
cybercultural.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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cdrom.ca
The Wayback Machine (November, 2001) web.archive.org/web/20011109...
Screenshot of a web 1.0-style version of the Wayback Machine, dated to 2001
October 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Internet Archive Europe progress: new network router is now installed in central switching point. Onward!

www.internetarchive.eu

(Will substitute for one supported by XS4ALL and KPN for 20+ years -- thank you!)
sign with logo
September 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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We also encourage you to make sure all of the reports on this page are in wayback machine! www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-...
Food Security in the U.S. - History & Background | Economic Research Service
www.ers.usda.gov
September 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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internetarchive.eu
Enjoying the Public Libraries of Copenhagen with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @brewster.kahle.org getting ready for today’s lecture at the Danish Royal Library. Copenhagen sure is a beautiful city, thank you for your warm welcome!
Three people going up an escalator in the Danish Public Library. They have turned around to face the camera and are smiling. Cityscape view with several church spires in the distance. The sky is a brilliant blue with a few wispy clouds.
September 4, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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nannathylstrup.bsky.social
Such a pleasure to tour Copenhagen libraries with @brewster.kahle.org, Mary and @internetarchive.eu to discuss libraries and archives as critical infrastructure, publishers as data cartels, digital sovereignty, data mirroring, public AI and - of course - the politics of data loss. @erc.europa.eu
internetarchive.eu Internet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu · Sep 4
Enjoying the Public Libraries of Copenhagen with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @brewster.kahle.org getting ready for today’s lecture at the Danish Royal Library. Copenhagen sure is a beautiful city, thank you for your warm welcome!
Three people going up an escalator in the Danish Public Library. They have turned around to face the camera and are smiling. Cityscape view with several church spires in the distance. The sky is a brilliant blue with a few wispy clouds.
September 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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nannathylstrup.bsky.social
Visiting public infrastructures and workers w @internetarchive.eu and @brewster.kahle.org: CPH public library, Danish National Radio (Prompt by @marcelfard.bsky.social and @moltke.bsky.social), @andersmyrvoll.bsky.social at the Danish Royal Library and @ucph.bsky.social + the University Library.
September 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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archive.org
SAVING CAMPUS & COMMUNITY RADIO HISTORY 🎙

At June's National Campus & Community Radio Association conference, #InternetArchive’s Jennifer Waits, Asst. Curator for the #collegeradio collection in DLARC, shared her work.

▶️ Watch her talk.
NCRC43: Saving Campus and Community Radio History
Session Info: WEDNESDAY - June 18th, 3:00-4:00PM Saving Campus and Community Radio History - Presentation Jennifer Waits, Assistant Curator, Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications…
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September 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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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
Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer
Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the
tomlehrersongs.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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freegovinfo.bsky.social
awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...
SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED
The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.
www.kqed.org
July 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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archive.org
📚 “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...
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…
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July 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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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.
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · Jul 17
And, uh, some personal news: This is also my last column for The Post. I was offered and accepted a buyout.
To answer one possible next question, I'm not sure what's next save taking some time off. If you want, you can enter your email at pbump.net and I'll let you know when I figure it out!
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · Jul 17
For my column today, I wrote about how Trump leveraged America's collapsing trust in institutions — and how his second term has accelerated that collapse. Gift link: wapo.st/3IzN4QA
July 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Right now, federal courts are deciding what type of AI training is fair use. California’s A.B. 412 would have jumped the gun and decided that copyright owners should win. We’re glad to see it has stalled for this year.
California A.B. 412 Stalls Out—A Win for Innovation and Fair Use
A.B. 412, the flawed California bill that threatened small developers in the name of AI “transparency,” has been delayed and turned into a two-year bill. That means it won’t move forward in 2025—a sig...
www.eff.org
July 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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archive.org
🗞️ 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/
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.
July 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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archive.org
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...

@internetarchiveca.bsky.social
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.
July 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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archive.org
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...
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.
July 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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"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-...
July 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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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...
www.internetarchive.eu
July 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Interview of the new librarian of the British Library :

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Q&As on AI:
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.
July 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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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.
June 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM