"Most photographed barn in America."

a concept in Don DeLillo, White Noise-- I looked it up on the Internets... and one exists, apparently. (I love the Internet)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/t-a-moulton-barn

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrandTetonNatlPark/comments/1dhjmsh/does_anyone_know_the_history_behind_this_barn/

and many other sitings https://www.google.com/search?q=most+photographed+barn+in+america&oq=most+photographed+barn+in+america

from White Noise

"...A religious experience in a way, like all tourism."

Another silence ensued.

'They are taking pictures of taking pictures,' he said.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

read more it is worth it

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/541239-we-drove-22-miles-into-the-country-around-farmington-there

Have a good weekend. from the @internetarchive collections

The Internet Archive now has a Podcast!

About Libraries, Internet, Copyright, AI, and more.

https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/

please give us feedback @internetarchive

Feeling old...

Exhibit of relics at New York Public Library--friend sent me this.

Moment of Gratitude: CloudFlare

CloudFlare saved the Internet Archive servers from DDOS attack yesterday

The max rate of this DDOS attack was 525 Gbps (44.93 Mpps) of a "TCP flood."

The Internet Archive does not have enough bandwidth to fend off that kind of attack.

Thank you #cloudflare or we would have had a very bad Saturday at the @internetarchive

DDOS attacks are coming more frequently.

Wanted: Voigt-Kampff operator (?)

I had a BladeRunner moment this week—

I video interviewed a tech candidate. I was rattled —was I talking with a person? an AI? An AI assisted human? What?

Aced the programming tests, including the on-the-fly ones. low bandwidth, heavy asian accent, AI'd résumé.

I failed the Turing test. A subsequent engineer recorded their interview.

Others sent me articles (see below). I now think this was low-end effort. maybe I was training fodder.

unnerving.

1/2

A power outage shut https://archive.org down, and some equipment did not come back-- argh, sorry.

Replaced and back!

Moment of gratitude:

Uber and Lyft shared rides are back for getting from San Francisco Airport. (pick up multiple people for one trip)

These are more energy efficient, cheaper, and had a good conversation. I also saw a part of town I have not seen in a long time.

these stopped with covid and glad to see them back.

Thank you, Uber and Lyft.

do we think librarians, who deal with kids and books as their profession, decide what is in a library and who can see which and how the books are contectualized and presented, or

do we think politicians should step into this role?

I understand there might be different opinions, but I am pretty positive on librarians, their training, ethics, and responsiveness to their communities.

But I am not representative in that I spend most of my time with librarians.

"Alberta to hold public consultation on which books should be banned from school libraries".

fyi: Alberta is in Canada

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-alberta-to-hold-public-consultation-on-what-books-should-be-banned/