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@textfiles.com

Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.

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You are defending an inaccurate story

10.03.2026 03:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That would be on the auction house.

09.03.2026 22:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Anyway

09.03.2026 22:37 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Technically no, but on the other hand I do not yet know the story of the person or what they think they are doing or what they think they are entrusted in doing. Sometimes those folks can move a little bit beyond accepting defeat.

09.03.2026 21:34 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon character says one million dollars while pointing at something ALT: a cartoon character says one million dollars while pointing at something

The auction house contacted me to tell me that another bidder in the auction that I won wanted me to be contacted about potentially selling the auction I won to them. As so many people donated money to make this dream happen, I will not be doing so. I'll let you know if things turn ugly.

09.03.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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09.03.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Universal Music Group Admits Foundational Legal Claim in Suno Case is Baseless: Executive Vice President Directly Contradicts Court Claims on Investor Call - Chamber of Progress In a surprising development last Friday, Universal Music Group’s Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer Michael Nash admitted publicly that

It's always useful to tune in to these investor calls, where companies have a legal obligation to tell the truth, among other incentives, which makes it harder to claim that the sky is falling due to whatever the current bogeyman may be: progresschamber.org/news/univers...

09.03.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What's New in Game History: 2026 | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming How do games live on after launch? Documenting the underrecognized last stage of the development ecosystemβ€”game afterlivesβ€”this fast-paced panel spotlights the most vital new work in game history, pre...

I was about an hour ago old when I found out that GDC does not open up the exhibition Hall until later in the week when I'm not there. So I guess the only time you're really going to bump into me is at the talk I'm providing MC duties for later this afternoon

schedule.gdconf.com/session/what...

09.03.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what you get when you mouth off about hurkles

09.03.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

2 years for big woods, 5 for the prairie, unless you have really hyperactive estate caretakers, and also in the US only. But you'd be better off seeing if entities like Duke University announce it is public domain to be absolutely sure. Otherwise.. 2028 and 2031 here we come.

08.03.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Short trip from "help raise funds to help pay for this unique audio and video that has been saved" to "help me get bail"

08.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a hand is reaching out towards another hand in a pile of leaves with the name tanner on the bottom ALT: a hand is reaching out towards another hand in a pile of leaves with the name tanner on the bottom

Toy Story 3 has the toys heading towards an incinerator and stopping the fight to survive to instead go out with dignity as a family

08.03.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Most unforced error in an interview I've seen since Prince Andrew

08.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Every once in a while, someone is smart.

08.03.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Watched a TSA agent yelling at a man who clearly was elderly and didn't speak English as a first language and then helpfully turn to me like what's up with these people, right? Even said it.

She was standing a bit too close to the sign that said I would pay $13,910 if I respond appropriately.

08.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
The 88x31 GIF Collection

Need to calm down? Fire up www.textfiles.com/underconstru... and go to full-screen and scroll down a bit.

08.03.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man wearing sunglasses and a green jacket is standing in a crowd and says `` do it '' . ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a green jacket is standing in a crowd and says `` do it '' .
08.03.2026 14:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Current amount of unique data is 210+ unique petabytes of data. Obviously it is at least doubled in terms of disk space usage.

08.03.2026 13:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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WondervilleNYC - Twitch sound: NULLSLEEP / janus rose / Amigos Poderosos / SEV1 // visuals: NO CARRIER / dr!p

Nullsleep breaking heads live on twitch.tv/WondervilleNYC

08.03.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On many days, the amount of data the archive ingests a day exceeds 100 terabytes

08.03.2026 04:38 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

A whopping 100 terabytes

08.03.2026 04:34 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Love a good hell demon themed video game but just can't abide these satanic subliminal messages

08.03.2026 02:47 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Let's gooooooo

08.03.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Three shots of my current workspace. I take these regularly to track progress, consider ideas while travelling.

07.03.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Aren't all our old memories circus wagons

07.03.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How's your Saturday?

My removal of 10,000 spam items from the uploads of Internet Archive is now waiting in line behind the remaining moving of 239,000 uploaded manuals to Internet Archive.

07.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

It's totally cool to like my work and not like me, by the way. I do that with a metric ton of people myself. If everybody got along with everybody, we wouldn't be setting the world on fire with hatred and ignorance.

07.03.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a military uniform says " for me it was tuesdays " ALT: a man in a military uniform says " for me it was tuesdays "

Someone wrote "I respect the work Jason Scott does but I don't like him as a person" and the situation they slightly erroneously described happened 17 years ago, and was resolved.

A classic "for me, it was Tuesday" moment

07.03.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0