#support internet archive

[lazycranberrydoodles]

hanguang-jun...

lan wangji in ace attorney!! turn on sound 🔊 / traced over edgeworth's sprites :) more info below the cut ↓

also including a bonus Happy Wangji that i couldn't fit into the video!

his share code is YCNKBA! the music used is Recollection -- Light and Shadow of the Film Studio. I thought it had a nice, contemplative feel, between Suspense, which was too intense for the scene, and Heartbroken Maya, which was too sad. the wwx/jc/lwj reunion scene is truly sososo interesting in every adaptation.

→ masterpost here! ←

[brilokuloj]

Join me and take action in the Battle for Libraries

As you may know, I am a passionate lover of the Internet Archive. Through 2020, I ran a section on my ephemera blog where I talked about hits from the Wayback Machine; I am a contributor myself, to the extent that my free time allows; even a lot of the music I play on streams is from there.

Yesterday, the worst happened: the future of 4 million digital books on the Internet Archive is now at stake, as well as libraries everywhere in the USA. I learned that the methods being targeted in this lawsuit (CDL, Controlled Digital Lending) are not just unique to the Internet Archive, but apply to the way even libraries like the fucking Boston Public Library, one of the largest libraries in the United States. This is a threat to public libraries and accessibility. The alternative we are expected to follow is book bans.

How can I help?

Donate if you have the money, obviously. But I know that's hard.

Sign the petition and sign up for email updates at Battle for Libraries. Not just a change.org petition but an established group that is working on organizing rallies.

They have some freebie graphics you can put on your posts (above). I don't see the harm in it.

Subscribe to the Empowering Libraries newsletter.

Support your local library. Even just going there when you can counts, they need the numbers! Check out books, look at their equipment if they have a makerspace.

Now's a good time to make personal backups of things that you could not live without. There's no real hope of an Internet Archive Archive (more on why it's more difficult than you think), but decentralized backups are always a good thing.

Don't just take it for me. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!

How to argue with "But piracy..."

First off, don't argue with trolls. But if you have an acquaintance who really doesn't get it, here's some resources.

Bandcamp's stance on piracy: "It’s not like they’d slap their forehead and open their wallet. Instead, they’d just move on to some other site where those restrictions aren’t in place."

"But if they steal it – how can I make money?"

Small Publisher Embraces Controlled Digital Lending to Connect with New Readers: "I think in the end, it drives sales because you are finding readers you wouldn’t normally have. Those readers aren’t getting a copy that they keep forever — it’s a copy that’s going to lead them to want to own it."

In the hopefully-near future I will be publishing a list of online library catalogues; coincidentally, I was reading a decade-old book about digital libraries, so I've got a ton of links for you guys.

[hannajay622]

Karaoke explained by Puffy AmiYumi

[spectrum-color]

Reddit is having a collective meltdown over someone saying Kadolin is a good ship. Just 200+ comments of rage about people liking things that aren’t canon

EDIT: link, now with almost 300 comments!

https://old.reddit.com/r/cremposting/comments/10k3r8z/theyre_fictional_characters_is_not_that_deep/

[caffeinatedhobbit]

Battle for Libraries

Today (3/24/23), Hachette v. Internet Archive was decided in favor of the publishers. This is a huge blow to the integrity of digital lending libraries across the country, and it is crucial that the Internet Archive wins its case if it makes it to the supreme court.

Libraries are a vastly misunderstood and vital resource, even (and especially) in the digital age. For centuries, public libraries have provided patrons with access to information regardless of economic standing, and as corporate greed causes paywalls and subscription services to rise in prominence, digital libraries are more important than ever for our minds and our democracy. In a profit-motivated world, public libraries are our saving grace.

Here’s how you can help:

Petition:

https://www.battleforlibraries.com/

Supporting your local library:

Libraries are very local, so I won’t post a donate link for any specific library. Instead, I encourage you to ask a librarian what you can do to support your local library. This may be in the form of volunteer work or a book donation, depending on your library’s needs :)

Have a library card, but can’t find time to get to the library? Find out if your library uses Libby! Libby is a free app that allows you to borrow e-books, audiobooks, and magazines from your local library. You get to read digital books for free, and you can support your library at the same time!

[ichthyorelationships]

ideas: i didn't really think of him being underwater but they deserve to have drama by crying there too so i just think you could say something about the composition being denser than water or w/e. proteins

i'm always like good thing he didn't try to exit asap via swimming in ciao alberto But What If He Did lol. just swim Somewhere else along the coast, maybe panic about [money??] & whether somehow this ruins school for luca, whether he can get in touch w/o it being On Sight b/w him & all marcovaldos, consider just kind of trying out other places, traveling after all...fascinating considering the other povs on the issue like: now there's the paguros to sympathize w/a kid vanishing, luca however in a somewhat more novel position there, giulia's throwback to alberto being a bit perplexing lmao, kind of thinking the best massimo could do is have a prewritten letter for luca to give to alberto If Possible, conveying something like i know you didn't set my livelihood on fire on purpose but even if you did i'd want you to stay. and luca in a position to do all of "maybe give the island fun facts so someone can check if he's there" & "wait & hope alberto can/does get in touch" & "have a lot of feelings"....not even the context of what this drawing is about necessarily, just tacking it on here anyways. ahead of time i went "heh now i Know they're gonna have it get little Real here b/c it's really about alberto wanting the security of feeling he can 'earn' a sustained relationship" then the short cleared & i was lying completely dead on the pavement

[burningvelvet]

guys. pls donate to the internet archive. even if it’s just $1. https://href.li/?https://archive.org/donate

[time-schwime]

we unconditionally support the Internet Archive and the free access to information in this house and if you don't, then fucking leave. support ALL libraries.

[viewmonster-deactivated20230122]

torn between "archive of our own is host to some truly vile and downright traumatizing shit including but not limited to romanticized depictions of racism pedophilia incest and abuse and the moderation does nothing about it and every asshole with that websites dick down their throat is really annoying about "censorship" because theyve been called out for jerking off to written CSEM and so honestly i would be glad if it went away" and "archive of our own is like the only dedicated place where any old layperson can put their written fanworks without having to learn an entire coding language and put together their own website and a lot of just regular people who havent been sucked into the horrific throes of fandom discourse who just like to read or write fanfiction once in a while are going to lose out on a good space to share it with others"

[charliespringverse]

rewatching house led to me infodumping at my mother about ao3 and gen z purity culture and honestly . if she didn't want these things to happen to her she shouldn't have had children with a man so incredibly neurodivergent

[the-sea-and-the-storm]

hi there, i love the site and the premise of the rp so far! i was just wondering if there was credit for the art you used in the site listed anywhere?

thank you anon! we're happy to hear that ^^

i've gone ahead and added a credit notice to both the site navigation and FAQ pages on our site. as we state there, artworks and images used on the site are primarily sourced from the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons, and antiqueanimals here on tumblr. 

this is something that i (mir here! main purveyor of the site's creative layout, images, etc) considered implementing when i was first working on the site. i work in the information field and definitely want to be sure we're accountable for the sources we use! we've also included a copyright statement in the credit, which reads:

To the best of our abilities, we try to only use images, photographs, and artworks in the public domain or otherwise unrestricted for use under creative commons licenses. TSatS is a noncommercial entity and we do not profit off of our site or content. We will remove/change images on request of copyright holders, when applicable.

if you have any further questions or concerns regarding our sources, please don't hesitate to ask! thank you again :]

[fuckmeyer]

do you maybe have a link to where you stole the twilight illustrated guide from? I would love to read it and NOT pay smeyer🙏

hey bestie! i got my PDF from a pal. here's a link to The Internet Archive where you can view & search the PDF for free!

[valravn72]

Fight for the rights of speech on the internet and save petabytes of archival data and saved media from being taken from us: https://www.battleforlibraries.com/

If you aren’t in the space to take action please reblog anyway

[nando161mando]

"This Martin Luther King Jr. day, I want to make a plug for the @internetarchive, They offer for free many of Dr. King's books, like Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story for free on their website."

#MLKday #DrMartinLutherKingJr #Books #Libraries #InternetArchive

[hauntu4ever]

Neil Gaiman was against the existence of the internet archive up until the most recent ruling against it. He’s made a turn around now that he’s apparently realized how bad this could eventually get for FF writers (due to increasingly litigious copyright restrictions being introduced) but honestly I’m really disappointed in him. He helped push the narrative that Internet Archive is stealing from authors and publishers by acting as a lending library and this turnaround of his is too little too late imo

Sources pls and thx

Also no, it's not too little too late. Unless you would rather that people never admit that they were wrong??

[thatgirlonstage]

If I wake up tomorrow morning and Twitter is gone and this hellsite is still here I’m gonna feel Complex Sad about it but I am, also, going to laugh