We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://t.co/gt9s5lbPE4
I can’t really make fun of this because John Green ended up building a maternity hospital in Sierra Leone and coercing Johnson & Johnson to surrender their patent on Tuberculosis medication entirely off the power of millennial cringe.
imagine creating a character in a tv show that’s just your self insert and all the fans of said show ends up hating him and thinks he’s the biggest loser oh and now it’s also common knowledge that he’s your self insert so by default you both are losers
“Só queria fazer um registro nessa abertura, está um calor daqueles, não sei se vou soar tanto como em Miami, aqui (Boston) é menos úmido. Mas assim: Quando a Copa do Mundo é na África do Sul, é no Brasil, eles fazem uma série de exigências para que tudo tenha as melhores condições, beleza.. mas deveria valer para cá também!
Esse estádio não tem cobertura, se chover, a gente vai tomar chuva, 32º graus de temperatura e estamos todos fritando aqui.
Quando é uma Copa na África do Sul ou no Brasil, existe uma série de exigências que não se repetem agora nos Estados Unidos.”
Everaldo Marques, antes da transmissão de França x Marrocos! ⚠️
Whether it is or isn’t a red to Balogun is now irrelevant. Government interference is a violation of FIFA Article 2 & 15, and the punishment is disqualification and suspension. #FIFAWorldCup
🇺🇿🇨🇴 This is what football is all about. An Uzbek kid is left in tears after Colombia scores, but the Colombian fans around him immediately step in to comfort him and chant "Uzbekistan!"
Pure class. 👏
what if your best friend got into magic boarding school and you didn’t. what if you took a temp job there at 18 and discovered he’s become the villain. what if everyone involved was gay as hell. boy do I have the book for you
I just read the new Haaretz article about how Israeli planted pines are suddenly dying en masse and it is absolutely worth dissecting. Here are a summary & my observations as a Palestinian scholar who writes on green colonialism. 1/