"The very first question to be considered is the applicability of the Copyright Law to the Moon. "

Thinking ahead (in 1952) about interplanetary copyrights :). if aliens have "Two Heads, Two Authors?"

really fun, worth reading.

American Library Association. ALA Bulletin 1953-01: Vol 47 Iss 1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

American Library Association. ALA Bulletin 1953-01: Volume 47, Issue 1.Digitized from IA1514523-07.Previous issue:...

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Do you know people that would be up for this, maybe as a contest?

we could have prizes, we could have in-person concerts with multiple groups, we could generate lots of open/free music.

We would bring 100 year old music to a new audiences. We might be a bunch of people singing.

I would really like to hear shape-note singing like they do at Bread and Puppet.

Present Joys : Alabama Sacred Harp Singers : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Present Joys, a sacred harp hymnAlabama Sacred Harp Singers, unaccompaniedColumbia 15274-DTwo different takes (recordings) were used: this is take 2Audacity...

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Evangelical musick, or, the Sacred minstrel and Sacred harp united : consisting of a great variety of Psalm and hymn tunes, set pieces, anthems, : Hickok, J. H. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

1 close score (312 p.) ; 15 x 24 cm

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(if anyone wants to run such a project, please come forward!)

project idea (possibly using AI): record a take of songs from old sheet music books

Starting with something like the Grange book of sheet music below and record them ... Apparently the music can get to midi via Play Score 2, and other programs can could sing the lyrics.

or better yet, if anyone wants to perform the songs and upload them to the archive, you could link it into a review of the book.

Grange melodies : National Grange : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Don Yoder Collection of American Hymnody

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@internetarchive

This presentation will show many different ways that people have built services on archive.org data and API's.

The idea is to find others that want to do this, and how the @internetarchive can improve.

@GustavinoBevilacqua

Solar panels are not part of the picture, and even if they were, it would not amount to much power, unfortunately.

$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow, lower than I would imagine. (and it can be as low as $0.12 where rates are lower.).

"During testing, the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling a gross combined weight of 75,000 pounds (34 metric tons) over a 390-mile (625 km) long-haul route."

a tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile.

DHL Supply Chain takes delivery of first Tesla Semi - Truck News

Trucking news from the editors of Today's Trucking

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Sharing the benefits of grid-scale batteries and solar/wind by trading in western US. The current 15 minute market in California Now going to day ahead market.

(I think made possible with recent massive grid-scale batteries allows evening out of renewables)

California now runs 5pm-8pm electricity use on batteries. Turn off more plants cuz can plan for a full day.

Thoughtful article on wholesale electricity grid coordination markets. Sounds dry, but cool:

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/california-solving-solar-power-problems-21207873.php

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot.

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Yes, souped-up golf carts and they are being used for general mobility... In Rome they are common, in Amsterdam they are everywhere!

And in gated communities, like in Palm Springs. Now San Francisco.

Americans can keep the SUV in the garage and drive LSVs.

(ala 15 minute cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city )

Amsterdam little car. Starting to happen in the US!

Why SUV when you can LSV? (Low Speed Vehicles)

25mph max car! street legal in San Francisco.

Can drive on almost all roads in the city.

This one is not that great, imho (but try it at gocar). I want to see more LSVs. Amsterdam has many, and many types.

all roads w/ 35mph limits or less are ok, almost all roads in SF. Here are all limits on all roads in SF:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CYnKdHTLK2tolrgvIenq7-_Y2D6SlMARkTyvm7ZjTqU/edit?gid=2067870016#gid=2067870016

from: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/speed-limits-per-street-segment/resource/d6034e92-4836-40e5-8e93-52bad2dfaf3d (go sf!)

US wine sales are way down, I have seen analyses saying it is people turning from alcohol,

but also Canadians dropped US wine almost completely (see graph). Pissing off your neighbors has consequences.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-trump-tariff-trade-canada-changes-29-ways/

@eff I submitted a comment to the USPTO ...

as a patent holder, one that has been involved in patent litigation and a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering.

Please help with this effort.

we bought a bunch of 'male' guppies, but, uh, now we have tons of baby guppies. Yippie! Happy Sunday.

The Guppy
by Ogden Nash:

Whales have calves,
Cats have kittens,
Bears have cubs,
Bats have bittens,
Swans have cygnets,
Seals have puppies,
But guppies just have little guppies.

https://allpoetry.com/The-Guppy

there are joys to every job.

having this pop up in an @internetarchive slack thread is one for me.

on US election results: vote for "change" ?

in concert with with past election results (both trump and obama): "Change".

(as graeber suggests this comes from wealth inequality)

"For a future of human thriving: Fight’s Congratulations to the Internet Archive"

made me cry. Thank you, Fight!

For a future of human thriving: Fight’s Congratulations to the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive has achieved a once-in-a-generation milestone of one trillion webpages preserved. We’ve gotta fight for the next trillion. This month, the Internet Archive is celebrating and being honored for the archiving of its trillionth webpage. Its WayBack Machine is an archive spanning 30 years of the Internet

Touch Grass (touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org)

2/2

1GWh = would take 1.7M Liters of water = 85 water trucks. ok, that is alot of trucks, but it is also alot of groundwater. so worth it?

maybe a pipeline from the sea. maybe build midcoast california-- dry but next to the sea. and we could use the fresh water for farming.

Datacenter cooling uses so much water because it is

"evaporative cooling"-- it is actually boiling water. transition water to steam takes energy-- energy from the machines.

This can use up alot of fresh water (it is), or...

it could desalinate water at a huge scale. boiling seawater allows fresh water to be separated from salt.

so we could have datacenters boil seawater to create fresh water to water plants.

why not? (am I wrong about this?)

1/2

"An urgent warning about the open web’s shrinking commons"

Vint Cerf,Cindy Cohn,Jon Stokes (ars technica),and me. a take:

"remake the connective tissue—technical, legal, and economic—that made the web an engine for learning and civic life.

Keep the network interoperable.

Safeguard libraries.

Restore competition.

If the open web can still be a place where truth moves farther and faster than lies, the next chapter can still be written with those principles in mind."

https://www.findarticles.com/an-urgent-warning-about-the-open-webs-shrinking-commons/