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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 2h

Back in my mercenary days they called me

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 3h

With my entire being

Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 3h

Have you supported a library accused of violating copyright? We’re seeking storytellers to share their experience supporting a library navigating copyright conflict.

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Participant Recruitment - Experiences of Copyright Conflict in Libraries

The purpose of this study is to gather stories of copyright conflicts experienced by individuals supporting libraries. Individuals will be asked to narrate their own story of navigating a copyright co...

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 4h

Heyyyyyy how about that new Taylor Swift album

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 4h

The best time to not discuss things on social media and chat systems you wouldn't like brought up in a poorly-lit room with a dangerous entity was about 10 years ago. The second best time is now.

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 8h

The @archive.org just published a great blog post featuring an interview with me about HACKING AT LEAVES!

blog.archive.org/2025/10/15/h...

The documentary is free to download from the Internet Archive -- check it out!

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 1d

If you visit archive.money - it goes to the Internet Archive donation page.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.money

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 1d

The fact that he was so generous with his time, and talked to me like I was a bigwig, was truly inspiring. He spoke at a Comic-Con and I made sure to meet him and shake his hand, and he was similarly friendly and outgoing. This guy was a gem.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 1d

I'll tell this story again - during GET LAMP, before I hired @lukasketner.bsky.social I spoke to Drew Struzan about doing the art. This was 2009, he could have told me to take a leap, and instead, he was surpremely helpful, and even offered to do something for $10k. For my little documentary!

Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 1d

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 2d

Applesauce has a way of triggering a camera. I use a highly described name as the filename, then scan the floppies in order and match up - same as I do for CDs. After the first few thousand, it's like butter.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 2d

Applesauce connected to standard 3.5" drives going to a Mac Mini.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 2d

Hard to give an exact or even inexact percentage. Either the batch is almost always pretty good or it's pretty bad. Depends on the batch, not the number. At the end of this I'll have a "difficult" pile and we can see.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 2d

I have a counter keeping track using figlet, and I am at 133 images. I'll keep you updated as I go.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 2d

As 3.5 floppy disk reading begins, my process of clearing out backlog, it's just going to be endless amounts of data. Today's faster processing machines and the ability to write scripts to analyze disc images will make it all much easier. I suspect this is the rest of the year before I make headway.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 2d

The purpose of many ceremonies are to take a moment out of life and find things to be appreciative; I saw a Tik-Tok of a 1st year PoliSci student lecturing on how we don't understand the world and pointing out what they read in their textbook, and a blessing there's no 21-year-old Social Media Jason

a man in a suit and tie is sitting on a couch with his mouth open .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting on a couch with his mouth open .

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 2d

Great: You can do text searches inside of all printed documents uploaded to the Internet Archive

Not so Great: Found myself severely misquoted inside a book I'd have never otherwise found

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dz @somatoform.expert · 3d

WHO UP STARING AT INTERNET ARCHIVE WINAMP MILKDROP VISUALIZER

archive.org webamp player showing a playlist of songs by slowdive, an equalizer, and a Milkdrop visualizer with trippy colors.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 3d

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 3d

16 year old Jason: Will you still like BBSes?
23 year old Jason: Will you still like zines?
55 year old Jason: I just used a program to write a program that writes a program to scan old zines for BBS numbers for my global BBS list.

80 year old Jason: Touch grass, jesus

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 4d

Floppies are back on the menu! Doing CD-ROMs, cassettes, and floppies at the same time. twitch.tv/textfiles

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BOOpurina 🎃✨🪡 @purpurinastitch.bsky.social · 5d

GOD BLESS THE INTERNET ARCHIVE

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 5d

OK, then. We can take it offline.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 5d

Yes, to be clear, I more or less mean the BBC acting like this is huge new hullabaloo

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ceej @ceej.online · 5d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 5d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 5d

Only a specific type of person wants this. It's an Apple II floppy box, original. I feel bad throwing it out without offering it to whoever wants to cover postage, in the US.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 5d

Out the door

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