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14 Mar, 12 tweets, 3 min read
We got it
At least one item thought lost in a 1978 fire has been found
Tonight is just mostly putting them in non mouldy boxes and stacking them up to be catalogue later
Master tapes from Hall and Oates "livetime".
The heart of rock and roll is still beatin'

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15 Mar
worth noting to a lot of people who will spend this week excited about the tapes we picked up today. We spent today moving them to a storage facility, and repackaging many of the items out of crushed boxes or crates into brand new boxing, and packing carefully. Next: Cataloging
My pal @yburyug took a bunch of photos as we went, but we did not have time to put anything into machines or verify anything. Today was about stabilization and repackaging, so further work will be easier/less dirty
What is clear, though, is while this person worked with Atlantic, they had a long career in a whole range of audio/video fields and had a lot of interesting things. Many of them might be available elsewhere. We're going to digitize everything that is still readable.
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14 Mar
You're not allowed to take pictures inside of vaccine centers, but I'll tell you - what I saw in Albany when I got mine was inspiring, peak efficiency, the level of speed and competency that I'd really hoped I'd see a glimmer of and it was far beyond that.
Drove in, and a National Guard wearing protective gear asked why I was there (since a testing center was there as well), and I said vaccine, he asks first or second dose, and I say first, and he says what I need to walk in, and sends me along. 15 seconds of interaction, tops.
The vaccine center is a huge, huge tent with heating and lights. I go down a small tunnel with instructions. There's zero line. I walk into the processing area. There are 4 intake folks at desks. I go up to one. Total wait time, 30 seconds. They verify me, ask me questions.
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9 Mar
You've created, co-produced, hosted, written, and edited a television show about video games. You cover them, the lifestyle of gaming, the joy of them and to give news and opinion on them.

But G4 doesn't exist. eSports is a typo, not an industry.

It's 1994.

You're 12.
Such it is with "Video Games and More", created by J.J. Styles, who hosted 30+ shows during the 1990s, gaining his footing and doing the show at regular intervals throughout the decade.
It helps if you understand Public Access TV in the 1970s-onward in the US. Cable Companies were given a monopoly in towns and counties and part of the negotiation was anyone could apply to have a show on one of the channels on the cable show. There's a massive set of these shows.
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9 Mar
In 2009, I got laid off from the company that bought the company that bought the company that bought my company. It was a long time coming; each successive firm was looking to cut costs and no cost is cheaper than replacing your long-time employees with not long-term ones.
I didn't want to go from working as a systems administrator to ANOTHER job as a systems administrator while doing the job worse and worse to do what I really loved, which is archiving, history, librarianship, protector of data and stories. I did a kickstarter to get bridge money.
Kickstarter was successful! And I used that money to finish GET LAMP, and then used THAT money to live on while looking for just the right place I could work at. It also afforded me money to go to California at the Personal Digital Archiving Project.
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9 Mar
Everyone keeps seeing me mention some doom or gloom about "copyright law changes" and either go "what is it" or "you're being dramatic".

Nooooo. I'm not.

blog.archive.org/2021/03/09/int…
The new proposed changes/additions have something for everyone, but my personal winner is "notice and staydown", which is going to be a nightmare of proportions beyond belief.
"Notice and Staydown" has been extended out for over a decade. Youtube SORT of does it - they keep an internal list of rough match formulas that say "keep this and anything like it off youtube, or demonetize the content", etc.
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6 Mar
It was unfair for me to point to the fake-kerfuffle of a suggestion by some dude on twitter that Copyright last 30 years and the resulting melee-of-ignorance that would inevitably cause on all sides as people chewed over the consequences. There's several facts some don't know.
First, copyright has changed in term multiple times over the centuries in the US. Right now, it is Life-of-Creator+70 years or Life-of-Creator+90 years if it's owned by a corporate entity at the end.

This is goddamned ridiculous. If you think it's not you're a coconut.
Quick review. In 1790 it was 14 years. In 1830, that became 28 years. We also added a way for a copyright owner to file for an extension of copyright. We have massive books at the Library of Congress with listings of people/entities who paid for and applied for those.
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