Nostr notes by Brewster Kahle

The French government yanks away cybersecurity from their ...

2026-10-29T15:11:09Z

The French government yanks away cybersecurity from their citizens in DNS case (again). Copyright lobby wins (?)

Not safe, Not good.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quad9-quod-non-when-copyright-enforcement-drives-out-jmfhe

Internet Archive ops staff were heroes last night. PHP ...

2026-10-21T22:18:05Z

Internet Archive ops staff were heroes last night.

PHP vulnerability announced, soon saw attacks, isolated the vulnerability, used Claude to make fixes for our older php versions, used local models to run simulated attacks, deployed.

reinforced WAF and other guards.

Offline briefly, Back on new versions and running!

Given the severity, there are heroes in many many orgs from last night.

Could have been no lights, no traffic signals, real problems.

Heroes.

Thank you all.

Neal Stephenson. I had the pleasure to introduce Neal (foreground ...

2026-10-17T04:06:19Z

Neal Stephenson. I had the pleasure to introduce Neal (foreground right) for his book talk on his new book internetarchive (npub1umd…wfr7) . photo by friend

nice going! my hat is off to the camera sensor guys. stunning.

2026-10-16T15:36:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…5mmy
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nice going! my hat is off to the camera sensor guys. stunning.

Library geek corner: Some microfiche has super super small type, ...

2026-10-16T00:00:32Z

Library geek corner: Some microfiche has super super small type, but we are getting great results from our super-camera / lens / stage / and processing.

internetarchive (npub1umd…wfr7)

1TB in this tiny usb-c thing? a moment of gratitude to the ...

2026-09-12T16:51:10Z

1TB in this tiny usb-c thing? a moment of gratitude to the amazing engineers that made this happen.

Our first full web crawl (1997) was 2TB, and is housed in a sculpture by Alan Rath called "2Terabytes in 63 inches, the World Wide Web 1997"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FS87P1J7

full text cluster was out after an outage, but is back but slow: ...

2026-08-19T00:18:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…efng
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full text cluster was out after an outage, but is back but slow: https://archive.org/search?query=flywheel&tab=fulltext

1912

2026-08-06T01:51:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…sdnz
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1912

Professional Wrestling has been around for a long time. ...

2026-08-06T01:26:59Z

Professional Wrestling has been around for a long time.

https://archive.org/details/professionalwres00smitrich/page/n5/mode/2up

thats it. just that.

wouldn't it have been great if publishers SOLD ebooks, even ...

2026-07-29T23:15:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…vz6q
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wouldn't it have been great if publishers SOLD ebooks, even at the price they charge for a printed book?

but they do not. they license.

And then buy each other.

Living based on the rule of law, not the rule of licenses. I want that world.

And it is causing all sorts of problems, and not just for libraries like the Internet Archive, but for authors etc etc.

3/3 But true camelCase, the pattern you originally asked about, ...

2026-07-29T14:22:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…ljra
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3/3

But true camelCase, the pattern you originally asked about, does not appear to be an actual historical convention in American (or Canadian) library literature at all. It's essentially a myth as far as our holdings can show — likely a modern misreading or conflation with genuine tech-branding camelCase (like "PowerPoint" or "YouTube"), rather than something librarians themselves ever did.

2/3 Final, well-supported conclusion: our holdings confirm a ...

2026-07-29T14:22:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…uxth
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Final, well-supported conclusion: our holdings confirm a stable, real four-way coexistence (title case, lowercase, all-caps-in-headers, and hyphenated variants of the first two) that persisted for decades side by side — often within the very same document.

claude set me strait using the Internet Archive's holdings: ...

2026-07-29T14:21:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…tc4c
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claude set me strait using the Internet Archive's holdings:

True camelCase — "InterLibrary Loan" (internal capital L): still zero.

Across several hundred read snippets spanning ~70 years of library literature, genres, and geographies, not one single genuine instance of the internal-capital camelCase form turned up.

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...Other familiar words followed the same arc — lifestyle, ...

2026-07-29T13:42:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…l97k
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...Other familiar words followed the same arc — lifestyle, boilerplate, doorbell, screwdriver, tailwind, rowboat, and postcard all had eras when they were encountered more commonly as open or hyphenated compounds.

2/2 The crossover: 1925. In the Ngram data, "interlibrary ...

2026-07-29T13:35:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…lzj6
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The crossover: 1925. In the Ngram data, "interlibrary loan" (closed) first overtakes "inter-library loan" (hyphenated) in frequency around 1925, and from that point forward it never looks back — closed spelling stays dominant continuously through the rest of the 20th century.

(summary by claude)

"inter-library loan" vs. "interlibrary loan" ...

2026-07-29T13:34:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…hhnx
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"inter-library loan" vs. "interlibrary loan" Google Books Ngram Viewer data comparing across the full corpus (1870–2019), and it gives a real number: around 1925.

Here's what the data shows:

1870s–1910s: The hyphenated form dominates entirely — this matches Green's 1876 "Inter-Library Loan of Books" and the early ALA-era usage we found in Library Journal.

~1900s–1920: Both forms are climbing in frequency (unsurprising, as ILL practice was growing), with hyphenated still clearly ahead.

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thank you for the paper! (the 1876 was the US, and there ...

2026-07-29T13:23:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…nyu8
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thank you for the paper! (the 1876 was the US, and there references at the time to copying Europe)

InterLibrary Loan history -- (you can stop reading now :) -- ...

2026-07-29T04:19:34Z

InterLibrary Loan history -- (you can stop reading now :) --
there was some early centuries AD, but...

First practical was UCBerkeley <-> California State Library in 1894.

but first call for it (in US) was 1876:
https://archive.org/details/libraryjournalch1187dewe/page/n32/mode/1up?q=%22LENDING+OF+BOOKS%22

love live ILL

Big Batteries help with the electrification of everything. 800GW ...

2026-07-28T22:46:37Z

Big Batteries help with the electrification of everything. 800GW of solar was installed last year, and batteries help smooth the curves [previous post].

1.8TWh of batteries were made last year (!)

"global battery demand will grow from 1.8 terawatt hours last year to 5.7 TWh by 2030 and 16.6 TWh by 2050" from Researchers at Bernstein in Hong Kong

https://www.ft.com/content/13351971-76dd-4284-a81e-3ffd8ec4e351?syn-25a6b1a6=1

lets double a few more times and be done with this transition.

YES! absolutely.

2026-07-28T05:01:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…lyfn
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YES! absolutely.

Thank you Canada! A moment of Gratitude. A new Canada-US bridge ...

2026-07-28T00:17:55Z

Thank you Canada! A moment of Gratitude.

A new Canada-US bridge opened that will be less congested and less expensive. The Canadians paid for building it ($6.4billion) and endured getting jerked around right before opening.

Thank you, Canada!

Gordie Howe Bridge! https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-gordie-howe-bridge-opens-to-cars/

Every Friday, 1pm. Please come! free. (the last couple have been ...

2026-07-28T00:13:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…54gs
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Every Friday, 1pm. Please come! free. (the last couple have been huge-- super fun). and we generally have ice cream at the end.

I give the tour when I am in town, but this week I will be at DWeb Camp Cascadia near vancouver. (lets invent a better web)

The Internet Archive San Francisco tours on Fridays at 1pm are ...

2026-07-27T19:24:04Z

The Internet Archive San Francisco tours on Fridays at 1pm are getting more and more people. So fun. 300 Funston Ave.

Here are some other tiny bookie non-profits in San Francisco...

Letterform Archive https://letterformarchive.org/

Prelinger Library
https://prelingerlibrary.org/home/

San Francisco Center for Book
https://sfcb.org

The Whybrary

Mechanics Institute Library
https://www.milibrary.org/

im sure I am missing some....

True, it might be part of what we are seeing, but it is a bit ...

2026-07-24T23:20:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…57cp
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True, it might be part of what we are seeing, but it is a bit before what we have seen other years.

US War cost? A datapoint Container shipping with Asia is now 2x ...

2026-07-24T17:21:53Z

US War cost? A datapoint

Container shipping with Asia is now 2x more expensive and does not involve the Straight.

Sometimes it gets this high at Christmas time.

a datapoint.

2/2 Internet Archive all the US Supreme Court filings (not ...

2026-07-21T01:04:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…6wzd
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Internet Archive all the US Supreme Court filings (not available on the Internet before) https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s-supreme-court-records-and-briefs-the-arguments-that-shaped-america-now-freely-available/. making analysis like this possible.

AI summary of briefs:
https://archive.org/details/micro_IA40385001_1623/review/Williams_Wilkins_Briefs_Guide.pdf

AI summary blog post
https://brewster.kahle.org/2026/07/20/good-by-to-gutenberg-nope-shrill-publisher-cries-about-xerox-machine-were-wrong/

Good-by to Gutenberg? Nope—Shrill Publisher Cries about Xerox ...

2026-07-21T01:02:35Z

Good-by to Gutenberg? Nope—Shrill Publisher Cries about Xerox Machine Were Wrong

1975 Xerox machine lawsuit: publishers vs libraries amicus briefs AI summary and then AI blog post it.

The exhibits
Exhibit A — the photocopier is a printing press
Exhibit B — the journals will simply die
Exhibit C — one copy replaces all copies
Exhibit D — a censorship apocalypse
Exhibit E — the slippery slope to the end of publishing
Exhibit F — death of the marketplace of ideas

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good point, the batteries need to be managed thermally, and AI ...

2026-07-19T13:03:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…ln7l
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good point, the batteries need to be managed thermally, and AI answers say it is doable.

I am hopeful that the high $$ going into AI, the engineering skills in that sector, and their desperation will be channeled into increased solar capacity that will be useful long after the AI field finds efficiencies making it unneeded for themselves.

(I worked on supercomputers in the 80's that are the architecture of an nvidia chip and about as powerful. Engineers are good at optimization.)

Yes, you are right-- we need enough solar+battery for when the ...

2026-07-19T12:50:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…wkyn
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Yes, you are right-- we need enough solar+battery for when the sun goes down. I understand it is abou 6x, and you cite 8x.

so a 1GW datacenter would take 6-8GW of solar. it is less than $1/W to installed, so $6-8Billion which is alot until you calculate what the servers will cost, and also the investment that is going into this sector, and that this may be the easiest way for these guys to get the power they need. (and no new long distance power lines if co-located)

good question. If the power is from solar / wind, then we do not ...

2026-07-19T02:59:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…plfq
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good question. If the power is from solar / wind, then we do not have that water use (about 5x what is used in cooling according to article below).

The Internet Archive Canada's datacenter is sited, well, where it is cold most of the time, so it only needs water a few weeks a year for cooling. Needs a bit for humidification to help with heat transfer, but not much.

so site where it is colder, and even so, if you are not in.a desert then seems ok anyway.

try:
https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake

Happy news: in 2025 global new installed 814GW of wind and solar ...

2026-07-19T00:32:21Z

Happy news: in 2025 global new installed 814GW of wind and solar (solar is 664GW). china solar factories at 1/2 capacity! (US installing, but slowly, but you know that and why). big batteries working and improving

a nuclear power plant is 1GW -- why still talk nuclear?

so 1GW datacenters is one of siting correctly with local solar+batteries. could be not a big deal

The water use is not consequential if sited with thought

rare good news

https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/world-adds-a-record-breaking-814-gw-of-solar-and-wind-in-2025/

https://www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releases/new-report-global-solar-market-hits-new-record-of-664-gw-installation-in-2025-as-global-solar-fleet-passes-3-tw

batteries are getting to be really good. certainly over the short ...

2026-07-14T14:33:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…dget
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batteries are getting to be really good. certainly over the short needs of a day or a couple of days.

California does not need peaker plants anymore because of massive investment in batteries to even out the solar/wind.

so good.

Chinese electricity is now 37% from renewables. In 2003, ...

2026-07-14T14:31:29Z

Chinese electricity is now 37% from renewables.

In 2003, renewables’ share of electricity generation was about 15 per cent, nearly all of which was produced by hydropower. By 2025, this had increased to 37 per cent.

getting there. have a sunny day.

from https://www.ft.com/content/e67f40b6-48d6-4057-8d57-a9f5f6b0a741?syn-25a6b1a6=1

RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116908556846064206 What if ...

2026-07-12T19:15:45Z

RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116908556846064206

What if datacenter builders built out there own solar panel farms around the center and battery packs so they were energy independent. then if the datacenter part is less needed in the future we are left with billions invested in solar infrastructure?

gigawatts of solar infrastructure sounds like a win to me, and they have the motivation and capacity.

lemonade.
nostr:note1nfhjpz232nl5g5nqx422arxw6wpnn3xyuskuxcaja95wx3sc44jqn7s5h0

Dreams for the Web? Reliable Private Fun / No centralized points ...

2026-07-09T08:33:46Z

Dreams for the Web?

Reliable Private Fun /

No centralized points of control /

A game with many winners /

Lock the Web Open /

help people make money by publishing on the web (no middleman) /

_________, but decentralized (fill in cool service, e.g. google docs, tesla carOS, electronic tolls)

PublicAI: make progress on pressing issues like climate and healthcare.

#dwebcamp

#dwebcamp has a whole track on #publicAI ...

2026-07-09T08:25:01Z

#dwebcamp has a whole track on #publicAI

? is there a story I am missing?

2026-07-04T09:16:28Z

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? is there a story I am missing?

full text of MoU Iran/US: ...

2026-06-20T07:18:26Z

full text of MoU Iran/US:

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/18/nx-s1-5863027/us-iran-trump-memorandum-of-understanding-full-text.

wow, that is readable and uh straightforward.

(sorry if you have seen it)

"The Copyright Office Doesn’t Need More Politics—Or More ...

2026-06-19T00:22:40Z

"The Copyright Office Doesn’t Need More Politics—Or More Power."

"Congress Just Rushed Through A Disastrous Copyright Office Overhaul"

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/18/congress-just-rushed-through-a-disastrous-copyright-office-overhaul/

another reason to call your senator

"In May, solar topped coal nationwide for the first time. In ...

2026-06-18T23:52:26Z

"In May, solar topped coal nationwide for the first time. In California, solar is fast displacing natural gas."

California has invested heavily in solar and batteries and it is displacing fossil fuels quickly.

Interesting to see solar top coal-based energy production nationwide in May.

https://www.transitionfinanceweekly.com/p/transition-finance-weekly-june-18

I am saying what I see in the service-- it has cut us off several ...

2026-06-18T23:06:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…3xlg
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I am saying what I see in the service-- it has cut us off several times in its approach to keep from answering some types of questions.

have you not seen this, or not think this is enough? love more concrete observations from others.

claude.ai is taking safety seriously, and may be overstretching ...

2026-06-18T03:17:08Z

claude.ai is taking safety seriously, and may be overstretching and wobbling, but it is interesting to see.

I was looking for the 1985 Science Magazine article whose title included "western Montana of mechanical transmission of Tularemia" and it stopped the session.

"This model has safety measures that flagged something in this message. This sometimes happens with safe, normal conversations."

Starting to weave links to digitized phD theses into wikipedia ...

2026-06-04T01:10:38Z

Starting to weave links to digitized phD theses into wikipedia articles. This one in dutch wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Bonn (look at the end)

soon, nobel prize winners..

Claude code is helping do matches and vetting to get candidate matches to editors to improve articles.

Thank you Leiden University for donating their historic collection so it could be preserved, flipped digital, opened, and linked to!

<insert joke about the readership of phD dissertations... 😀 >

https://archive.org/details/IA40154023_0013

moment of gratitude: claude code to help improve our library. ...

2026-06-03T16:50:06Z

moment of gratitude: claude code to help improve our library.

Wrote a duplicate finder between two historic phD theses collections (physically different items, but same thesis) and doing mulitple algorithms to check and double check before putting in reviews to point to the other one.

We would just never have gotten to this kind of metadata enrichment and collection examination.

e.g. https://archive.org/details/IA40153314_0137 and https://archive.org/details/IA41553017_0067

The Internet Archive working with the NOAA Library to bring much ...

2026-05-28T00:01:14Z

The Internet Archive working with the NOAA Library to bring much of it digital and as accessible as possible is wonderful, and a wonderful model: lets flip more libraries digital.

https://archive.org/details/noaa

https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/27/two-libraries-two-sets-of-superpowers-the-internet-archive-and-the-noaa-library/

Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-- good pick to endorse ...

2026-05-19T01:12:28Z

Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-- good pick to endorse for your seat.

Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, and Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and got the Internet Archive Hero award in 2023!

https://blog.archive.org/2023/04/20/san-francisco-board-of-supervisors-unanimously-passes-resolution-in-support-of-digital-rights-for-libraries/

https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/03/supervisor-connie-chan-recognizes-internet-archive-day-in-san-francisco/

https://blog.archive.org/2023/10/04/internet-archive-to-honor-supervisor-connie-chan-with-2023-hero-award/

Connie Chan understands our digital world and supports our digital learners.

A friend thought we were in a "desktop publishing" moment ...

2026-05-18T14:02:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…z259
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A friend thought we were in a "desktop publishing" moment (but for programming)-- when page layout went from pros to anyone-with-a-mac. We got bad design, and much more of it, as many people could publish leaflets and broadsides more inexpensively.

As programming gets easier (and more fun) via claude code etc... ...

2026-05-16T16:53:30Z

As programming gets easier (and more fun) via claude code etc...

Will there be less programming or more? If there is latent demand for computer programs and ones that works, then the demand for programming, and therefore the number of programmers might increase not decrease.

When lighting got cheaper with electric lights, people lit more things. maybe this will happen with coding and coders?

What an interesting time to be alive.

Yes! good catch. It is July 8-12th. I will be there.

2026-05-15T17:01:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…l9xk
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Yes! good catch. It is July 8-12th. I will be there.

The Daily Weather Report, 1938 International and Upper Air ...

2026-05-15T01:33:29Z

The Daily Weather Report, 1938 International and Upper Air Sections by Air Ministry Meteorological Office, London W.C.2. Check out the first pages at link below.

Someone (or all AI's!) need to know!
I love my job.

pls post photos of why your job is awesome.

https://archive.org/details/daily-international-upper-air-sections_1938-10

Lovingly handwritten title on the spine! Meteorlogical ...

2026-05-13T05:30:05Z

Lovingly handwritten title on the spine! Meteorlogical Observations / Royal Observatory / Sydney / 1874-77

I love my job. (do you have random photos from work that make you happy?)

Yes WikiData! (but could not figure it out yesterday)

2026-05-02T21:30:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…nr5y
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Yes WikiData! (but could not figure it out yesterday)

https://archive.org/details/IA40153304_0058 │ La Syphilis ...

2026-05-02T21:29:10Z

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https://archive.org/details/IA40153304_0058 │ La Syphilis Nerveuse Latente │ Charles Mantoux

https://archive.org/details/IA40153315_0105 │ L'Association Des Idées Dans La Manie Aigue Et Dans La Débilité Mentale │ Madeleine Pelletier

https://archive.org/details/IA40153322_0028 │ Tumeurs Du Testicule │ Maurice Chevassu

https://archive.org/details/IA41507204_0060 │ Ueber Persistenz von Resten der Tunica Vasculosa Lentis │Arthur Brückner

Nostr event nevent1qqsphtvmyvutgcxs8xcju2zkhylq4srykyg00crddgpldp2g8h55azszyp90u078g2l3ukma6sp06j6zf5ugam4ygx86ad2794ts2twvvh88x8yj3j7

2026-05-02T20:38:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…n03t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Pelletier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Carnot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odette_Abadi

Linking data with the help of AI. There are old medical PhD ...

2026-05-02T20:37:00Z

Linking data with the help of AI.

There are old medical PhD theses coming online (yea!).

Found Wikipedia articles about the doctors, and then edit the wikipedia articles that would be improved by pointing to them. Also added a review to the Internet Archive items to point to the wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mantoux

/more on next

wow, china is leading on manufacturing renewables. ...

2026-05-02T18:52:21Z

wow, china is leading on manufacturing renewables.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/china/china-energy-security-global-oil-crisis-iran-intl-hnk

fyi. First Tesla Semis (long haul 18 wheelers) come off of the ...

2026-05-02T17:53:37Z

fyi. First Tesla Semis (long haul 18 wheelers) come off of the new production line in dedicated factory.

at 500 mile range (astounding) I wonder if it could mean destination charging (with solar) rather than lots of charging stations.

https://electrek.co/2026/04/29/tesla-semi-first-truck-high-volume-production-line/

Eyelids for Autonomous cars! Cameras have trouble in the rain-- ...

2026-05-02T17:34:48Z

Eyelids for Autonomous cars!

Cameras have trouble in the rain-- and now the new Waymo Ojai uses 10 windshield wipers to clean its sensors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo_Ojai

Claude Code is good at doing research! In this case helping find ...

2026-04-29T14:50:22Z

Claude Code is good at doing research!

In this case helping find the disposition of 126,000 digitized US Supreme Court dockets (cert denied or full opinion), and then reporting why in a archive.org review (using like a wikipedia discussion).

This took real hand-holding and QA to be sure, but it is super helpful. Looked at court listener, the supreme court site (and the old one via the wayback machine!), the Caselaw Access Project at harvard. So good.

https://archive.org/details/us-supreme-court

Stanford tuition to Be $335 Starting September 1958. (Things I ...

2026-04-15T04:54:41Z

Stanford tuition to Be $335 Starting September 1958.

(Things I learned today from scanning)

geez. Senators want to lock up the law (again). @npub1jre…alex ...

2026-04-07T11:24:29Z

geez. Senators want to lock up the law (again).

Carl Malamud (npub1jre…alex) spent years making sure the law (and standards included in the law) were publicly accessible for free. Even getting the Supreme Court to declare it so.

yeah, but...

"Congress Wants To Put The Law Behind A Paywall. Again."

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/06/congress-wants-to-put-the-law-behind-a-paywall-again/

U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.),
John Cornyn (R-Texas),
Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and
Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)

boo.

"Do you need a liberal education? We say that it is ...

2026-04-06T16:47:01Z

"Do you need a liberal education? We say that it is unpatriotic not to read these books."

""The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

Robert M Hutchins (of Great Books fame)

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215549/page/n149/mode/1up?q=%22unpatriotic+%22

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215549/page/n149/mode/1up?q=%22The+death+of+democracy+is+not+likely+to+be+an+assassination+from+ambush.+It+will+be+a+slow+extinction+from+apathy%2C+indifference%2C+and+undernourishment.%22

"What to do when the ‘public good’ of information goes ...

2026-03-30T09:32:27Z

"What to do when the ‘public good’ of information goes bad
The creation and dissemination of reliable news is at an economic disadvantage" (paywalled ft.com boo)
Opinion Misinformation Martin Wolf

suggests subsidizing info creation, then goes to BBC, skips libraries which pay billions a year.

why skip libraries? Could be because we are not as effective as in the past cuz digital licensing schemes of big publishers so are largely irrelevant to our info environment of most people.

lets fix!

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2026-03-16T22:10:59Z

claude code is more fun than netflix. bravo.

Moment of Gratitude, this time for GitHub.com I have been having ...

2026-02-23T16:01:37Z

Moment of Gratitude, this time for GitHub.com

I have been having fun with claude-code and have been using github in ways I did not know existed (like hosting docker image), and so easy! (and, I think, for free)

Thank you GitHub!

https://brewster.kahle.org/2026/02/01/generative-ai-is-a-new-drug-report-on-my-first-trip/

that mark is called a tombstone marking the end of an article. ...

2026-02-14T17:02:14Z

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that mark is called a tombstone marking the end of an article. Could be that and a clever one for that periodical. but it is also a legal designation.

had not thought of itat. could be.

2026-02-14T16:58:59Z

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had not thought of itat. could be.

® (registered trademark) of an Article? The Register is putting ...

2026-02-14T16:39:28Z

® (registered trademark) of an Article?

The Register is putting "®" at the end of the articles I looked at: e.g. https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/suse_runs_ms/.

What does that mean?

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2026-02-04T18:37:21Z

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https://archive.org/details/feartrembling00wesc/page/n5/mode/2up

and the search for unrestricted:

https://archive.org/search?tab=texts&query=%22fear+and+trembling%22+AND+NOT+access-restricted-item%3Atrue

fyi: waymo is starting service to and from San Francisco Airport ...

2026-01-30T18:21:08Z

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fyi: waymo is starting service to and from San Francisco Airport (SFO).

Boo-- an ad supposedly demonstrating something, but is AI ...

2026-01-30T16:44:34Z

Boo-- an ad supposedly demonstrating something, but is AI generated (see the "player" getting into the front right door of this upcoming EV). Boo.

https://vimeo.com/1159800255?fe=ci&fl=sv&share=copy&syclid=d5uduknhbrrc73e5fof0

Buses and mass transit do work, but For me that is 2-3x more time ...

2026-01-27T19:00:00Z

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Buses and mass transit do work, but For me that is 2-3x more time to get home, and a walk with luggage.

I dream of a "cat bus" that are autonomous, electric, door-to-door, and inexpensive, but it is still a dream.

taxi's still work that way, they just cost more and are not ...

2026-01-27T18:50:12Z

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taxi's still work that way, they just cost more and are not as integrated into the app/maps/credit card system ecosystem many are not accustomed to.

yes exactly.

2026-01-27T18:50:01Z

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yes exactly.

In my experience in San Francisco, airport taxis are about 2x ...

2026-01-27T18:48:09Z

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In my experience in San Francisco, airport taxis are about 2x more than uber/lyft. And the taxi drivers are not getting 2x more money than uber/lyft drivers so there are inefficiencies and intermediary skims that take most of the money.

9.9k views on how the livestream of microfiche digitization works ...

2026-01-27T16:45:45Z

9.9k views on how the livestream of microfiche digitization works at the internetarchive (npub1umd…wfr7) :

https://www.youtube.com/live/r93Q90CWhXo

livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/wG9hiWSrSD4

Digitization as Performance. Nerd-fun.

(wonder when we will get to 10k 😀 )

Better Rideshare: Airport Ubers lined up, and you can get into ...

2026-01-27T16:30:58Z

Better Rideshare: Airport Ubers lined up, and you can get into ANY car, driver scans your QR code, and go. Immediately.

No 10-20 minute delay. No clog to match riders to cars.

This is how Taxi's work, but they are more expensive and no universal app. This is how Waymo could work, but they are not at most airports yet. A new competitor might do well with this trick: "AirRide"?

Many people have opted for rideshare-- lets have it work better. Other ideas?

(this photo shows the problem)

Yes! I will be at DWeb Camp 2026 near Berlin. Would not miss it. ...

2026-01-27T00:37:04Z

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Yes! I will be at DWeb Camp 2026 near Berlin.

Would not miss it. Personally, I want to see progress on a DWeb Server tech.

we have raw storage growth and the number of each media type over ...

2026-01-25T15:17:34Z

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we have raw storage growth and the number of each media type over time. exponential as you can imagine.

Dont want to seem ungrateful, but

We need the disk drive guys to keep getting higher density and lower cost/TB (this is slowing way down).

The Banking system (regulators, bankers, etc) made themselves ...

2026-01-22T00:20:19Z

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The Banking system (regulators, bankers, etc) made themselves deeply unpopular.

I tried to make a good credit union but they would not allow it: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/business/dealbook/dream-of-new-kind-of-credit-union-is-burdened-by-bureaucracy.html

Public Domain Day short film contest by @npub1umd…wfr7 on NPR! ...

2026-01-21T20:12:33Z

Public Domain Day short film contest by internetarchive (npub1umd…wfr7) on NPR!

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-5677702/public-domain-2026-remix-contest-internet-archive-1930

2-3 minutes long films Winners are announced: https://blog.archive.org/2026/01/21/2026-public-domain-film-remix-contest/

A fav entry for me did not win, but is heart bending: https://archive.org/details/georgia_202601

AI Policy Challenges in Europe Book (free!) by a true insider ...

2026-01-21T19:48:58Z

AI Policy Challenges in Europe Book (free!) by a true insider expert Caroline De Cock

https://carolinedecock.com/

(I wrote the forward).

"ICE as the 14th most well-funded military in the world, ...

2026-01-14T21:44:23Z

"ICE as the 14th most well-funded military in the world, right between Ukraine and Israel. "

I think this is just ICE and does not include the FBI or ATF or National Guard or other federal police forces.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/14/ice-is-going-on-a-surveillance-shopping-spree/

here it is from 78rpm record: ...

2026-01-14T21:39:44Z

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here it is from 78rpm record: https://archive.org/details/78_the-cabaret-boys_douglas-byng-and-lance-lister-byng_gbia3028854b

"The Value of Public Domain Day" a thoughtful piece on ...

2026-01-14T19:50:03Z

"The Value of Public Domain Day"

a thoughtful piece on the economics and the loss by our overzealous locking up of our culture.

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/01/01/the-value-of-public-domain-day/

media conglomerates are leading the way against open internet law ...

2026-01-12T18:39:50Z

media conglomerates are leading the way against open internet law by fining cloudflare:

Italy's "shadowy cabal of European media elites" ... "scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. "

https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492

live concert recordings! https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead ...

2026-01-11T23:43:16Z

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live concert recordings!

https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

Bob Weir: 'Speaking with Rolling Stone, Mr. Weir said he ...

2026-01-11T16:19:53Z

Bob Weir: 'Speaking with Rolling Stone, Mr. Weir said he hoped he would be remembered for bringing cultures together.

“I’m hoping that people of varying persuasions will find something they can agree on in the music that I’ve offered,” he said, “and find each other through it.”'

Truckin' on.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/obituaries/bob-weir-dead-grateful-dead.html

https://www.dead.net/

I love this. And this is the same Robin Sloan that did this ...

2026-01-06T23:24:52Z

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I love this.

And this is the same Robin Sloan that did this fabulous "predict the future of news" video: https://archive.org/details/RobinSloanEPIC2014

or early 20th century pictures of machines, glowing glamorous ...

2026-01-03T00:30:07Z

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or early 20th century pictures of machines, glowing glamorous machines.

Interesting point. All the waymo are electric, which is good in ...

2026-01-02T17:51:39Z

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Interesting point.

All the waymo are electric, which is good in my book.

and yes, they can optimize themselves as rolling batteries.

Maybe they could stop by local solar farms.

Maybe they could time when to recharge.

I like that they are starting to park themselves in between trips in SF (of course it causes a ruckus). (I see many many waymo's "dead heading" in other words: driving with no passengers).

Another report said that waymo passed Lyft share of SF market. ...

2026-01-02T16:17:48Z

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Another report said that waymo passed Lyft share of SF market.

(via @rajbot on bsky)

https://www.bondcap.com/report/pdf/Trends_Artificial_Intelligence.pdf (page 302)

Congratulations. A great choice.

2026-01-02T15:41:49Z

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Congratulations. A great choice.

It listed lots of references in its answers. for the stats I ...

2026-01-01T20:35:03Z

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It listed lots of references in its answers. for the stats I have, theirs are consistent. (but it was better at research than I was)

ride hailing trips in SF (helped by chatgpt). Uber: ~54% Lyft: ...

2026-01-01T20:09:22Z

ride hailing trips in SF (helped by chatgpt).

Uber: ~54%
Lyft: ~26%
Waymo: ~8%
Taxis: ~11%

so while waymo's seem to be everyhere, they are only 10% of lyft/uber

total/day ~150k
Uber (ride-hail). ~82k-90k/day
Lyft (ride-hail) ~38k–45k
Waymo (robotaxi) ~13k
Taxis (traditional) ~15k–20k

I am making a habit of being super nice to folks that work on ...

2025-12-29T16:34:09Z

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I am making a habit of being super nice to folks that work on infrastructure-- thankless job.

but these outages in San Francisco have been difficult on the city. The last week has been hard, hope we are past this one, but ...

archive.org temporarily offline based on San Francisco utility ...

2025-12-29T04:49:47Z

archive.org temporarily offline based on San Francisco utility blackout in San Francisco (again, but really it is all the response to a substation fire from a week ago working its way through the system.).

Argh. Sorry, all.

(obviously we are not well prepared for this type of outage, and we need to fix that).

internetarchive (npub1umd…wfr7)

Thank you Rusty! Keep SomaFM going!

2025-12-26T19:55:14Z

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Thank you Rusty! Keep SomaFM going!

SF is getting lots of rain. power outage is fixed. we are good ...

2025-12-24T17:41:12Z

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SF is getting lots of rain. power outage is fixed. we are good here.

Steve Jobs in 1989 offered me a job at NeXT when I was working on ...

2025-12-23T21:32:07Z

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Steve Jobs in 1989 offered me a job at NeXT when I was working on WAIS (pre-Web publishing system Wide Area Information Server), but he said they did not do open protocols, they 'published' theirs (ours was z39.50).

I declined.