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Webamp is helping save the day while the Internet Archive’s main media player is getting upgraded.

Total was $325.

I'm taking the brunt of the bug reports for the next period of time for Internet Archive while the services returns, so the help desk can handle emergencies and higher-priority issues. reddit.com/r/internetarch…

Thanks to everyone for sticking through the Internet Archive's recovery process. While not everything is back by any means, it is back enough that additional repairs will come across the next full weeks. To reach me in the future, refer to this account's pinned tweet.

Archive team, would you kindly do what you exactly know to do.

@mcubanhey, sir. A million dollar donation to the internet archive to help support its storing all of the deleted tweets for you would be really welcome.

Emulation in the browser is BACK at Internet Archive and there's a quarter million programs to try out! But first go play our #1 title: archive.org/details/msdos_…

I paid $1,600 to repair two UMATIC decks and describe a pass-the-hat situation (and also how to enjoy the output of the thousands of tapes done so far) here: bsky.app/profile/textfi…

Status update: Jason Scott from the Internet Archive has agreed to accept them. Incredible. Thank you all for the signal boost. Still some logistics to work out, but I can't think of a better set of hands to pass them on to.

This is fascist talk.

Bodaciously True and Totally Awesome: ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5744

The COPIED Act is back, and it's still hot garbage. It dictates the design of every tech from spell check to Instagram filters AND gives every thin-skinned politician, celeb, and pundit a "don't parody me!" protection spell for everything they publish. commerce.senate.gov/services/files…

So Getty can put a watermark on its copies of the world's public domain cultural heritage and *boom* - now it's all theirs forever. Bye bye public domain. …yoftheworldaccordingtogettyimages.com

- No fair use -- parody, critique, commentary, teaching, news reporting, all can be blocked by this new watermark. So anyone (political parties, extremist groups, pundits, celebrities, influencers) can watermark their podcasts, propaganda videos, blog posts, and other media and