This post was stimulated by "quiet mode" discussion of Postman and his books...

I need to circle back and re-read his "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology".

I read it when it came out in 1992, but frankly don't remember much from it.

Edit: Free #PDF on archive.org!

https://ia601802.us.archive.org/27/items/235p-technopoly-neil-postman/235p%20technopoly-neil-postman.pdf

This is from the Wikipedia entry:

"Postman considers technopoly to be the most recent of three kinds of cultures distinguished by shifts in their attitude towards technology – tool-using cultures, technocracies, and technopolies. Each, he says, is produced by the emergence of new technologies that "compete with old ones…mostly for dominance of their worldviews".

Defend the #InternetArchive
https://www.change.org/p/defend-the-internet-archive

#libraries

It doesn't take much. We must support critical Internet Infrastructure.

@archive.org is a court-recognized history of what was on the internet and is under attack. It is under attack by those who want to rewrite history and ultimately lie about what has occurred. We can fight this with $5/m.

The #InternetArchive wants your support for this petition urging the record labels to drop their existential lawsuit. I signed.

https://chng.it/MdZM9xQXdw

Something to think about:

It's very easy to say,

Well, you should not use the Internet Archive or similar resource because it is unethical because authors are not paid and anyone who does is a thief

I doubt you thought about the fact some people can't afford to buy books and in many areas libraries do not exist,or people are unable to leave their home due to a disability or other reason

With your reasoning anyone who is not well off, disabled or in a situation you have the privilege to never think about or encounter does not deserve to be educated or informed; hopefully your circumstances never abruptly change

The next time you judge someone try checking your privilege at the door.

I said months ago that I'd eventually work on getting the stuff from my old vintage file archive properly organized and uploaded to the #InternetArchive. I've FINALLY gotten started on it!

https://archive.org/details/@purplejillybeans

Morning listening.

https://archive.org/details/0146_miles_davis_in_a_silent_way_1969__mlib/1.+Miles+Davis+-+ShhhPeaceful.flac

Porgy And Bess (1959) : Otto Preminger : #InternetArchive
https://archive.org/details/porgy-and-bess-1959

Vooe De nachtbrakers...

Enjoy!

The #rTorrent developer on adding support for webseeds, which is necessary for people wishing to help mirror #InternetArchive items via #bittorrent:

«Unless the work is sponsored I don't think it will happen anytime soon.»

https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/issues/66#issuecomment-2845609865

Which of these organizations do you have a positive opinion of?

Dark City [ HD] ( 1998) : #InternetArchive
https://archive.org/details/dark-city-hd-1998_202408 (111min)

Beetje rara SF film, maar wel grappig.

Info
Dark City - VPRO Cinema - #VPROGids
https://www.vprogids.nl/cinema/films/film~511186~dark-city~.html

Data Rescue Project: ERICA to the Rescue!. “Several volunteers and partners of the Data Rescue Project (DRP) have been working tirelessly for the last few weeks to back up the ERIC catalog and full-text PDFs. A DRP volunteer going by the username of crizzo has single-handedly submitted the links to 500,000 PDFs to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. To ensure continued access to the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/28/data-rescue-project-erica-to-the-rescue/

Stream 385,000 Vintage 78 RPM Records at the Internet Archive: Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Billie Holiday & More via Open Culture[Shared]

We may have yet to develop the technology of time travel, but recorded music comes pretty close. Those who listen to it have experienced how a song or an album can, in some sense, transport them right back to the time they first heard it. But older records also have the much stranger power to conjure up eras we never experienced. You can musically send yourself as far back as the nineteen-twenties with the above Youtube playlist of digitized 78 RPM records from the George Blood collection.

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/27/stream-385000-vintage-78-rpm-records-at-the-internet-archive-louis-armstrong-glenn-miller-billie-holiday-more-via-open-cultureshared/

#InternetArchive - Saving the past for the present to prepare for the future.

#Trump is deleting.

"What we see happening on the internet today: People are confused about what's true, and that's because someone is trying to confuse them with propaganda," says Brewster Kahle.

"Democracies need an informed population to survive. Authoritarian regimes don't have the same need."

#history #democracy #information

https://politiken.dk/del/38mhDBAEz_wg

The Internet Archive deleted two of my books, presumably because they contained nude images in what were otherwise serious and semi-academic books discussing serious subjects.

Does no one care about context any more? I literally wasn't sharing "porn" because "porn" is about intent unless you are going to argue that just ANY nude body is "porn" (which would be insane).

Dune 1984 : #digitalfolklore : #InternetArchive
https://archive.org/details/Dune19843640x272435mb (135min)

Eindelijk ... na al die jaren eindelijk maar eens gaan kijken. Vroeger was ik nooit zo onder de indruk van de trailer.

Now might be a good time to donate to Internet Archive.

the_39_steps_1935 : Alfred Hitchcock : #InternetArchive
https://archive.org/details/the_39_steps_1935 (86min)