publishing Internet Archive ending free e-books program over publisher lawsuit, National Emergency Library to close for 2 weeks Xeni Jardin
Post-truth is pre-fascism Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion Mark Frauenfelder
coronavirus "Hello (from the Inside)," a funny Adele parody about the struggles of being socially isolated Rusty Blazenhoff
V/H/S The Internet Archive has a treasure/trash trove of 20,000 VHS recordings from the 1980s and 1990s Mark Frauenfelder
greta thunberg Bristol newspaper publishes names and photos of local men calling for violence against Greta Thunberg Rob Beschizza
books "The Art of Computer Designing": stark, beautiful black-and-white images from 1993 Cory Doctorow
Technology Twitter tells facial-recognition app maker to stop scraping photos, Clearview AI used by 600+ US law enforcement agencies Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
yahoo As the end nears for Yahoo Groups, Verizon pulls out all the stops to keep archivists from preserving them Cory Doctorow
politics The Oligarch Game: use coin-tosses to demonstrate "winner take all" and its power to warp perceptions Cory Doctorow