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Jason Scott

@textfiles

Proprietor of https://t.co/sdyjXHCZF7, historian, filmmaker, archivist, storyteller. Works on/for the Internet Archive. Rank Amateur. Pitiful Man.

The 1980s Katılım Mart 2007
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Ringo || Don't You Love It Here?
I don't trust any online archives, including Internet Archive. I recently bought an extra 8tb hard drive and have started archiving anything I find interesting myself. You never know when an archive will get DMCA'd or shut down
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Darren Staley
Darren Staley@DarrenWStaley·
Just unearthed a literal time capsule of industrial automation history. A completely pristine, full 1993 package of Wonderware InTouch, complete with the original floppies, hard disk, and the holy grail: the physical hardware copy-protection dongle. Wonder if @Foone or @textfiles have seen a parallel key this old survive in the wild? #VintageComputing #RetroComputing
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Fr🅾sty
Fr🅾sty@OpcodeWhisperer·
@h4ppst3r76 @IanCarrollShow Just archives the homepage html, not the content/videos (unless you put the direct urls to all the mp4s). Also archive.org is ran by marxists (ie. @textfiles) who have censored far more innocent websites.
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Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll@IanCarrollShow·
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that Jews are going to attempt to do everything under the sun to try to take this website down. You should visit it at least once before that so you know for yourself and see for yourself. This is real. It happened. And you’re not crazy for calling it wrong.
Israel Exposed@xIsraelExposedx

It took a little longer than expected, but we have created a website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. You no longer have to download the entire archives to see them. It includes: 64,537 videos 17,905 photos Ability to download individual videos Searchable index Exhaustive sources list (300+ journalists) Geolocation data Livemap with minute to minute updates Victim list It can be accessed here: ArchiveGenocide.com Please share & quote tweet to help this post break out of the twitter algorithm prison. We will keep adding the rest of the archives to the site, be patient- it is difficult work. Continue to seed the torrents provided, as that is the best way to ensure the footage remains stored in decentalized way. God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out, and everyone invovled in collecting/archiving it. Join our telegram: t.me/+p_Ufon9FBOY0Y… Follow our backup accounts: @ZionismExposedx & @IsraelExposedAr

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kanav
kanav@kanavtwt·
Day 1 of vibecoding
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Jason Scott@textfiles·
@Y2K_mindset @JPlatzHalter @_SatanWatch All have other collaborators but some of the big ones were World Trade Center, most of the Hackers ones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fecal Transplant, others I'd have to track down. The one I'm most proud of is The Case of the Hanover High Shocker.
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Jason Scott@textfiles·
@ID_AA_Carmack Always appreciated when something I care about gets your heat lamp, John.
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John Carmack
John Carmack@ID_AA_Carmack·
It is generally frowned upon to have LLMs precisely regurgitate part of their training set, but it is an interesting question how you could use LLM training to nearly losslesly compress a huge corpus like the entirety of the Internet Archive. The Hutter Prize is for perfect compression, but only one GB. There would be different trades at the PB level, and it gets much more interesting when it doesn’t have to be bit-accurate.
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Jason Scott@textfiles·
Finally, rent money
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Autr+
Autr+@gilbertsinnott·
Anybody at @internetarchive / @textfiles talking about how SIS can get stuff pulled from the Wayback Machine, and if this isn't a little "Winston Smith's dayjob" in the making...
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Jason Scott@textfiles·
As I discover people's alternative ways of communication elsewhere, I'll be unfollowing here. Don't take it badly - it's just optimizing for Not Here.
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Jason Scott@textfiles·
So, The Internet Archive had someone upload a few hundred hours of MTV recordings. VJs, Commercials, and of course Music Videos, from the 1980s. Today, it was asked to be taken down by someone who could ask for that and it's down.
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Jason Scott@textfiles·
Livestreaming at twitch.tv/textfiles - I don't post much on twitter anymore, so that's a good reason to subscribe to the twitch stream (or follow me on Bluesky)
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Jason Scott@textfiles·
@alreadybaned There are more repositories within the archive and obviously I'm not counting the Wayback machine. But still, yeah, 5 petabytes is no joke.
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Greg Lastname
Greg Lastname@alreadybaned·
@textfiles That's less data than I would have expected, from the amount of random youtube videos I see mirrored onto archive.org. Not that it's a small amount or anything.
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Jason Scott@textfiles·
I'll take a shot at this. The Internet Archive is maintaining an archive of roughly 5 petabytes of what are called "Social Media Video" - twitch streams, capcut templates, tiktok, coub, youtube, and more. And that number is growing by the thousands every week.
Kyuuen 💽📒- 2026 Arc 4: Closing the Distance@Kyuu4U

Five days of seeking a response from the @internetarchive or @brewster_kahle. I'm sure there were multiple points in time when people didn't care - treated with silence, or couldn't conceive of the importance of these works. This is why we have so much lost film, lost media. But this is still happening today. All it takes is a wrongful ban, a suspension spurred by AI moderation, or a large company deciding that the libraries they let their users build up for years and decades is too expensive (or not profitable enough for their bottom line) to maintain. The most prominent example is at this link: x.com/TwitchSupport/… I'm not looking for every video every created online to be saved. I want - at minimum, a thoughtful response, some show of support from the people who have made such headway into making sure important works don't disappear. But if someone dared to make innovation and serious effort possible - I will be here for that too. Best regards.

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Jason Scott@textfiles·
But in the aggregate, the Archive has been archiving live music, video, and other works by creators for over 25 years, and is doing so constantly, and the statement of the fact they're doing this was (is) the place itself.
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Jason Scott@textfiles·
Some people have attempted to mirror/archive specific accounts and specific groups, to keep a more robust and deep set for those groups/accounts. The groups/accounts sometimes decline that favor, and ask material to not be available.
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Polyducks
Polyducks@Polyducks·
@textfiles Did you write the website where you could search through iso files and other content using an image recognition search? I'm not sure if it ceased existing or if I lost the link.
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