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My three deleted tweets (for the record) along with a typical DM I got. I'm quite happy to have the disk drives of the archive there for when folks have taken appropriate precaution before. An excellent account to follow for advice on your protest footage is @documentnow.
Another excellent couple of resources people have been sending along to me is @witnessorg and their tip sheet: wit.to/Filming-Police as well as @PrjctSTAND and their information sheet standarchives.com/s-a-v-e-method…
A few people who had strong opinions/statements; their reach is smaller than mine, so I figured I'd boost them a tad. Follow or learn at will: @brimwats @nowviskie @NicoleG_Haus @elizabeengland @justarchivistth @kspringeruk @danielleganza @ruthbrarian @LNBel @ng_yvonne
And a few more: @lemurchild @jmjafrx @libkatem @projectARCC and I invite people to reply with other resources/folks they think need highlighting.
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A little side note on the occasion of these gaming magazine sets showing up. There's some drama happening in the scanning world because one of the sites has announced closure. Now, normally you might think it's some legal or financial or health/illness thing. Well, no.
The site, oldgamemags.com, is closing up because the admin is furious at his perception that I or others acting under my influence are mirroring "his" scans at the Internet Archive. I'm not and they're not under my influence, but let's set that factoid aside for a bit.
Scanning is very difficult work, especially if you want to do it right - usually you have to slice the magazines up, there's all sorts of quality checks that need to be done, and many of them do all sorts of touch-up to damage to the covers when they put them in.
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Today is going to be filled with steamy hot-takes on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I've spent 20 years with that thing, it's boring to go into, attempts to "fix" it would all make it worse. Bor-ring.

Let's talk about 18 U.S. Code § 2257 instead!
Here's the relevant laws: law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…, law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…, and the zinger: law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/pa…
These laws were all passed in a huge decency scare of the 1990s. Ostensibly just for protection against exploitation of minors, in fact they're really overreaching in every direction. An Ashcroft-supported bill meant to make it too expensive/difficult to produce pornography.
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A little bit about ADF scanning. (Automatic Document Feeder, for the back row). It's a very powerful tool, but like a lot of such tools, it works best with a bit of setup before you let it loose. I'll be visiting my storage this week to gather stacks of items that it can take.
For example, I have over 6,000 business cards collected from over the years. It'd be nice to have them all for memories, reference. This thing will saw through them in no time at all. I'll make sure to do that.
But as anyone who does lots of scanning will tell you, it also brings in a hellscape of staple removal, careful checking of margins, and the potential to come back into the room looking at some paper form of Hellraiser. But when it goes... whoof! What a rush! I am looking forward
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