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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 7h

Join us for the Open Heritage Statement Launch Webinar | 14 October at 14:00 UTC.

openheritagestatement.org/signatories

Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation has already signed the list of signatories to the Open Heritage Statement.

#CulturalHeritage #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain

"Watering Place at Marley" by Alfred Sisley, 1875, CC0, Art Institute of Chicago, remixed with "TAROCH balloon" by Creative Commons/Dee Harris, 2025, CC0.

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 6h

TAROCH Coalition, led by Creative Commons, promotes equitable access to public domain heritage. Its Open Heritage Statement affirms shared values, removes barriers & urges a UNESCO framework to secure global cultural access & participation for a sustainable creative future

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Open Heritage Statement

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 12d

Personal Note: As of today, I am officially "Acting Executive Director" of Project Gutenberg. PG's President and CEO, Greg Newby, is very ill and does not have the energy to do all the things that keep Project Gutenberg running. This is a big responsibility for me and it's going to be a lot of work.

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 20d

Thanks for the skeets

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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 22d

It is so important that we stay engaged and get people ready to vote this November. New Jersey needs a leader like Mikie Sherrill who will stand up to Trump and fight for working families. Be sure to tune in to tonight’s debate!

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The New Jersey Gubernatorial Debate Presented by O’Toole Scrivo

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · Sep 11

Do you love public transit and science fiction? Of course you do! Now you can have them at the same time! Next Tues, 9/16, at 6pm, an astonishing panel of activists and creators are coming together to talk about the future of transit. Seriously do not miss this one-of-a-kind event. luma.com/0olo6szj

Public Transit Visions in Speculative Fiction · Luma

Flying cars in the Jetsons; trains snaking around towers in Wakanda, or the sentient rail system on the newly terraformed Sask-E planet. In building future and…

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · Aug 15

On Wednesday, I finished a 110km trek, the Fjällräven Classic Sweden, along with 500 others, many of whom are now good friends!

Eric and Miggi celebrate crossing the finish line.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · Jul 19

holy shit lmao

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · Jul 1

The intersection of my interests: libraries, books, and whackadoo sports mascots.

American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · Jun 30

Gritty's a librarian now thx.
#ALAAC25

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · Jun 14

Better signs and even more people today, but April had less rain and more Cory.

Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · Jun 11

Project Gutenberg (@gutenberg.org) had its 2nd day ever with over 1M book downloads: www.gutenberg.org/browse/score...
Probably lots of AI bots, but regardless, the folks at ibiblio.org deserve a lot of credit for a hosting infrastructure that serves that load without a glitch!

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · May 27

We only need frequency data. I would imagine others would find the per language info of interest.

Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · May 26

Here’s a project that someone out there will think is fun - do a census of unicode characters used in Project Gutenberg texts. In addition to helping PG code development, it might be interesting from a ddigital humanities/data science angle. github.com/gutenbergtoo...
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Need census of Unicode characters in PG texts · Issue #276 · gutenbergtools/ebookmaker

Here something that woud be really useful for PG development going forward: A count of the occurrence of unicode code points used in PG texts. A recent issue #271 notes that the 2em dash is often u...

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · May 22

Earth shaking events 65 years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Va...

1960 Valdivia earthquake - Wikipedia

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · May 15

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZHW...

Land of Hope and Dreams

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · May 3

So Journalism falls short, the world needs to respect Sovereignty.

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · Apr 30

Thanks for reporting this! we're about half way back to normal.

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · Apr 22

Another edition of Eric's stravaverse. Today: The Boston Marathon and Paul Revere's ride. go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/04/bost...

Boston Marathon Strava-verse: Paul Revere's ride

In seventh grade, Miss Phillips had me memorize "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. So I did. After finishing " Jabberwocky ...

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · Apr 19

Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · Apr 16

#AI Bots are Overwhelming Some #Journals (via @cenmag.bsky.social) cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #scholcomm #publishing

AI bots are overwhelming some journals

Web traffic from the bots is disrupting journal websites, but chemistry titles aren’t yet inundated

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 8

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · Apr 5

#handsoff the sign is weeping.

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · Apr 5

#handsoff Essex County, with Cory Booker

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · Apr 3

Aggressive AI scraping bots have been periodically making it very difficult to access Unglue.it. The image shows the traffic pattern we've been dealing with. We will outlast this evil scourge.

plot of unglue.it cpu usage vs.time for a 3 day period. bots periodically attack the site resulting in 100% cpu usage.

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · Mar 27

BTW if anyone wants training data from Project Gutenberg to do WHATEVER, there's a one click file you can download containing ALL the cleaned utf-8 .txt files at Project Gutenberg, updated weekly. No scraping necessary! gutenberg.org/cache/epub/f... (9.9GB)

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