Public Domain Day short film contest by @archive.org on NPR!
www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...
2-3 minutes long films Winners are announced: blog.archive.org/2026/01/21/2...
A fav entry for me did not win, but is heart bending: archive.org/details/geor...
graph of ride share vs waymo in SF
thank you, rajbot. here is the graph from that presentation. I did not dig into their references.
It listed references to where it got each datapoint. and for what it is worth, the ones I had (few) were in line with its numbers. So I think it is as good as my (non-insider) numbers could have been.
ride hailing trips in San Francisco (helped by chatgpt)
Uber: ~54%
Lyft: ~26%
Waymo: ~8%
Taxis: ~11%
waymo's seem to be everyhere but are only 10% of lyft/uber
total/day ~150k
Uber (ride-hail)~82k-90k/day
Lyft (ride-hail) ~38k–45k
Waymo. ~13k
Taxis (trad) ~15k–20k
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 🥹
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Welcome to the public domain: KING OF JAZZ (1930) 🎷
🎙️ Bing Crosby’s first on-screen appearance, as a member of the Rhythm Boys, performing in this early sound-era jazz moment filmed in two-strip Technicolor!
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Welcome to the public domain, THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK (1930), the first appearance of Nancy Drew 🔎🕰️
👧 It’s no mystery why people are excited — the first four Nancy Drew Mystery Stories are now in the public domain!
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Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎
🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain.
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Announcing the location and date of the next global DWeb Camp >>>
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We can’t disclose the exact location yet, but it'll be a more DIY camp like in 2019 at the Mushroom Farm.
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Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
Wow! this is so great. Lets work together on this!
Thank you to the large crypto donor ( 10BTC! ) to the @archive.org
Thank you crypto folks!
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Thank you for finding that! (and in the @archive.org ! extra points)
"The very first question to be considered is the applicability of the Copyright Law to the Moon. "
Thinking ahead (in 1952) about interplanetary copyrights :). if aliens have "Two Heads, Two Authors?"
really fun, worth reading.
archive.org/details/sim_...
And In person in San Francisco. Light food, good people, bunch of the Internet Archive UX group.
This presentation will show many different ways that people have built services on archive.org data and API's.
The idea is to find others that want to do this, and how the @internetarchive can improve.
$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow! lower than I imagined. can be as low as $0.12 w lower rates
"...the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling...75,000 pounds...over a 390-mile long-haul route."
tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile.
www.electrive.com/2025/12/05/c...
Each day we collect over 1 billion URL's.
and try: display.archive.org/nl
Please come! best time is the tours every friday at 1pm. free. I give the tour when I am in town.
We bought that building *because* it matched our logo. Our logo came first: by 15 years.
Great building. Former Christian Science church.
One of humanity’s most important cultural resources
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Yes, souped-up golf carts and they are being used for general mobility... In Rome they are common, in Amsterdam they are everywhere!
And in gated communities, like in Palm Springs.
Americans can keep the SUV in the garage and drive LSVs.
(ala 15 minute cities en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minu... )
It is slower than I would drive around on some roads in SF, but it works. In the city you dont average anything like 25 miles per hour, but I go faster than that often.
but I quickly got used to it. In France, I just learned the Citreon Ami can be driven by 14 year olds.
little car
Amsterdam little cars. Starting to happen in the US!
all roads w/ 35mph limits or less are ok for LSV, therefore almost all roads in SF.
Here are all limits on all roads in SF:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
from: catalog.data.gov/dataset/spee... (go sf data!)
zeromax car
zeromax car
Why SUV when you can LSV? (Low Speed Vehicles)
25mph max car! street legal in San Francisco.
Can drive on almost all roads in the city.
This one is not that great, imho (but try it at gocar). I want to see more LSVs. Amsterdam has many, and many types.
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I found IMLS supported community projects-- like ones that helped train librarians and ones in remote locations.
