“This is really going to impact institutions that we take for granted,” Internet Archive director of archiving and data services Jefferson Bailey told the Standard, “like our museums, our historical societies, our public libraries, our academic libraries — just a lot of people that keep information free and accessible and online.”
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Well since I stopped paying federal taxes I might as well donate to the IA directly.
Get out of here you rich fucker!
Hahaha, I wish. It’s more that I just stopped paying. I am sure it’ll come back on me later but that’s a future me problem.
“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”
George Orwell, 1984
We have always been at war with Eurasia
They destroy the past to sell you a future. It’s coercion and extortionate.
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I think people are going to find that, with the existence of the internet, it’s a lot more difficult to completely remove things from the collective memory. Won’t stop them from trying though.
Unless they pull some “Great Firewall” shit. And even then… That said, it does seem like they only need ~30% of the population to believe it, and they have that shit locked down.
I am not now, nor have I ever been a Christian, but shit like this makes me go Jesus Fucking Christ.
Archive.org is a critical repository of knowledge and archiving the internet. Elon has cut nothing, but damaged a ton. It is kinda incredible how many damage he has done.
sucks that the things we need now require regular folks to be their patrons rather than collectively funding them, but here we are…
Thanks for giving the link and making this an easy 1-click thing. Just donated.
I donated.
Thank you for the reminder. I donated 👍
The post made me want to donate. Your link made me follow through. $25 for now. I hope others feel inspired to help too. Even a little bit from all us will help them float through the era Elmo and the Orangutan. 🦧
Just donated 50 ♥️
Your taxes can only go towards kidnappings! /s
Thanks errer
Disposable income Lemmings, this is the way
❤️ love you Internet Archive
❤️Donated. Cash is difficult right now, but I had some crusty old crypto sitting around just shrinking every month - they make it very easy to send some crypto their way so I was happy to dump it.
They are scared because the people don’t want things to go back to the way they were.
The people want them gone.
And it’s 100% justified.
They know they deserve to be handed over to the mob.
Who else is waiting to see “DOGE Cuts Funding for Wikipedia”?
Hopefully this galvanizes support for them, like anti-boycotting essentially
Maybe, but likely only temporarily. Bad guys be winning.
I just want to shake conservatives and ask “Why doesn’t your government want you to know things??”
It won’t do shit. These are the same people that wouldn’t shut the fuck up about “FEMA death camps” when Obama was in office.
This is advanced brain rot.
Extremists always destroy history so they can write their own.
Recent inconvinient history. They love to dig up ancient “glory days” (e.g., Ancient Rome, Teutonic knights…) and attach them to their image.
They’re not meticulous historians though. LGBTQ people were more accepted in the Roman Republic (and in ancient Greek) than today.
“Caius Julius Caesar: husband to all the wives, wife to all the husbands.” was a saying that my Latin professor taught us in school.
They don’t care. Just like with religious texts, they’ll shop around for the things they like and ignore those they don’t.
They’re not meticulous historians though. LGBTQ people were more accepted in the Roman Republic (and in ancient Greek) than today.
“Caius Julius Caesar: husband to all the wives, wife to all the husbands.” was a saying that my Latin professor taught us in school.
Being AMAB and bottom was stigmatized to the point their swearing system revolved around emasculation threats, so that’s different from what the queer movement of today aims for…
I agree that it should not be the goal for any modern civilization to copy Rome. They were not a just society, they had slavery for starters, but Roman citizens enjoyed a lot of personal liberty. If you were dirt poor you would not even have the time for a “nonproductive” relationship, if you’ll excuse my expression. Kids were a resource more than a cost.
I’m not an expert but I think “stigmatized” is too strong a word in this context, I’m sure they did joke around if a rumour or a hunch was spread about a person’s romantic affairs by the people who hated them for their success or by their enemies, I’m not sure they really cared that much otherwise. Of course before the christian emperors came along.
Our swearing system in modern English revolves around sex, violence and infidelity, but our society is also kinda into those things. Societies are complicated.
Edit: also sometimes people still say shit about bottoms when they curse.
Being bottom was really only stigmatized if you were bottoming for a social inferior.
Giving a woman head was more “gay”/stigmatized than taking it up the bum, unless maybe it was a slave penetrating you.
There’s no room or recognition for lesbians really. Trans issues are a tangled web, as they always are.
I doubt the Library of Alexandria had permission from all rights holders to hold copies of many books. /s
What’s the size on this can I download a copy
Pedabytes, but you can help in other ways. Donating, uploading and the Archive Warrior. There may be waits to support via torrents too but I do not know.
Trying to burn digital books. Fascism in 2025.
Modern book burnings create a lot less smoke and noise.
Musk should really be removed from power.
He should join a Mario game as the second player.
no one voted him in power in the first place, doesnt that go directly against democracy too?
Vacation to El Salvador. Permanent.
CECOT or gitmo.
Isn’t he an illegal? Oh he isn’t and you say he has papers? Oops! Sorry, cannot get him back, we don’t have that kind of power, shrug emoji!
he got in on a J-visa, so did his brother, he did something long enough so that him or his brother could permanently stay in the country. he allegedly was going to grad school? but quickly abandoned it once he got his citizenship.
I didn’t see any papers 👊 🇺🇸 🔥
Musk should be removed entirely. He has gone completely authoritarian.
Elon Musk will go to any length to scrub this image from the Internet:
He looks like what you’d get if you took a dick and made it a pussy.
…what
I said, he looks like what you’d get if you took a dick and made it a pussy.
As in, he’s a dick (asshole), that’s a pussy (coward).
Liberetard
Yup
