law Bill from Missouri's Rep Ben Baker threatens librarians with prison sentences for allowing minors to read books banned by town committees Cory Doctorow
Business Newton's Principia Mathematica, George Washington's journal: archivist stole $8m worth of rare books from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library Cory Doctorow
canada Internal docs reveal that Canada's Exxon subsidiary knew about climate change risks and lied about it for decades Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism One of the world's largest private equity firms just bought one of the world's largest library ebook companies Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Library Socialism: a utopian vision of a sustaniable, luxuriant future of circulating abundance Cory Doctorow
books The Internet Archive's massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinformation wars Cory Doctorow
art Download hi-rez scans of all 435 illustrations from John James Audubon's Birds of America Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The Internet Archive's Open Library will let you sponsor a book, paying for it to be scanned Cory Doctorow
glam Yahoo Groups archivists despair as Verizon blocks their preservation efforts ahead of shutdown Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Library of Congress releases 11,700 freely usable photos of "roadside America," taken by John Margolies Cory Doctorow
glam Triple Chaser: a short documentary that uses machine learning to document tear gas use against civilians, calling out "philanthropist" Warren Kanders for his company's war-crimes Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Data-mining reveals that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain Cory Doctorow
