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@mek.fyi
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Hi, I'm mek.fyi, a country squire no longer young. Neutral Good. 📚 OpenLibrary.org at the Internet Archive 👨‍💻 Berkman Klein Center '22, '23 affiliate 🗺️ Let's map the world's knowledge.

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Mek @mek.fyi · 04/09/2025
Renting (e.g. a movie) can be a good option to increase access and lower upfront costs. However, it should be illegal to offer a product or service exclusively as a lease to exploit customers or strip them of rights essential to intended use, preservation, or civic value. mek.fyi/posts/the-le...
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The lease trap
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Mek @mek.fyi · 14/08/2025
It occurs to me how closely systems like ChatGPT approximate Niklas Luhmann's Zettelkasten -- essentially a shoebox of well labeled / organized notecards for synthesizing findings. Many workflows emerging to perform this novel synthesis.
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Mek @mek.fyi · 06/06/2025
An perspective I fear is becoming forgotten in the US today: The idea of investing in the American people -- public schools, libraries, transit -- in return for equity in an improved America. What can be more American than uplifting Americans and benefitting from the growth?
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Mek @mek.fyi · 26/05/2025
In politics, when a bill faces difficulty passing, one strategy is to bundle the controversial bill as a “rider” to piggyback on more popular bills, as a method of compromise. This can result in a large, sometimes confused, bills — called Omnibus bills — that are sometimes thousands of pages long.
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Mek @mek.fyi · 26/05/2025
It's an interesting thought experiment, how many dimensions and signals are not visible to the human eye. Imagine being able to switch out lens... www.earth.com/news/scienti...
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Scientists observe the 'shadow' of a crystal in 4D, confirming Penrose and Shechtman's theory
They discover that the topological properties of quasicrystals come from periodic patterns in 4D, revolutionizing optics and materials design
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Mek @mek.fyi · 04/04/2025
Hi, I'm @mek.fyi and for 9 years I've run the @openlibrary.org at @archive.org, where 11M patrons world-wide rely on us to preserve society's library books, many which can't be accessed elsewhere. 🎲 Markets, politics, employment could change: I pledge to keep Aaron Swartz's Open Library OPEN 📖. Why?
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Mek @mek.fyi · 11/12/2024
First follower of @openlibrary.org!
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/06/2024
More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️ Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...
“I live in a very small town in the Portuguese countryside and this was my main source of information related to my job has an archaeologist.”
Joel S. C.
Gouveia, Portugal
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Mek @mek.fyi · 21/11/2023
fortune.com/2023/11/18/s... 😟
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Mek @mek.fyi · 08/11/2023
Yikes www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Mek @mek.fyi · 19/10/2023
cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/10... Yes to a neutral net that both favors equitable access and consumer protection & privacy
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Mek @mek.fyi · 05/08/2023
Lots of mushrooms on our hike in the white mountains.
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Mek @mek.fyi · 25/07/2023
Made a chess set last week!
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Mek @mek.fyi · 25/07/2023
Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, MA
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Mek @mek.fyi · 30/06/2023
But really, seeking investment
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Mek @mek.fyi · 28/06/2023
When you bump into your undergrad friend in the woods across the country
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Mek @mek.fyi · 28/06/2023
When you spontaneously bump into your Cambridge neighbor across the country at a techie event in the woods.
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Mek @mek.fyi · 28/06/2023
I think I now have enough photos over the last decade in SF to create an album dedicated to @danny.spesh.com
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Mek @mek.fyi · 28/06/2023
Been a while since the first two decentralized web summits. Fun to catch up on the latest news about Solid w/ Tim
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Mek @mek.fyi · 28/06/2023
Wonderful listening to the delsolquartet.com quartet play among redwoods and chirping birds.
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Mek @mek.fyi · 28/06/2023
A good one with @ant.bsky.social
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Mek @mek.fyi · 21/06/2023
Hi @bnewbold.bsky.team!
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Mek @mek.fyi · 17/06/2023
Did you hear about the excited historian that wanted to archive a rabbit?
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Mek @mek.fyi · 16/06/2023
Re: valuing engineering versus soft skills, I'm growing to appreciate that cultivating honesty, diplomacy, and trustworthiness is a "hard" Sisyphean endeavor requiring time, energy, & consistency. If one doesn't follow the practice, it's easy to discount the difficulty.
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Mek @mek.fyi · 28/05/2023
This overview covers a lot of ground and demystifies what's going on beneath the @archive.org court case. www.currentaffairs.org/2023/05/book…
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Book Publishers Are Trying to Destroy Public E-Book Access in Order to Increase Profits ❧ Current Affairs
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Mek @mek.fyi · 22/05/2023
What's a thing you wish you could spend more time learning/practicing for the purpose of enjoyment?
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Mek @mek.fyi · 20/05/2023
I'm @mek.fyi, that's satisfying.
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Mek @mek.fyi · 19/05/2023
Do you think as a way to avoid defaulting, China will offer deals to these countries to sell parts of their countries or allow chinese to build infrastructure with stacked profit share? fortune.com/2023/05/18/china-belt-r…
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Mek @mek.fyi · 18/05/2023
I had left over hotpot ingredients and made hot pot for myself. too full/10 Tell me your strongest opinons, what ingredient must be in hotpot?
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Mek @mek.fyi · 15/05/2023
In the book "predictably irrational" the author conducts studies that find honest/moral behavior can be encouraged on tasks by priming participants to first contemplate a moral benchmark, like the 10 commandments. archive.org/details/predictablyirra…
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Mek @mek.fyi · 05/05/2023
I just want to know what books people are reading right now.
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Mek @mek.fyi · 02/05/2023
Reading is fun
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Mek @mek.fyi · 02/05/2023
Reading "predictably irrational"; I found some of these studies/results surprising openlibrary.org/books/OL9952510M/Pr…
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Mek @mek.fyi · 26/04/2023
Been creating some travel guides for myself and friends. Here's one based on my 5 months in Taiwan: tinyurl.com/fun-in-taiwan
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Mek @mek.fyi · 24/04/2023
I think one of the most challenging and paradoxical aspects of trying to be an advocate of free speech is the great responsibility of using speech wisely, oneself, and exercising sensitivity and discretion while still communicating effectively.
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Mek @mek.fyi · 21/04/2023
A small victory for libraries: blog.archive.org/2023/04/20/san-fra…
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San Francisco Board of Supervisors Unanimously Passes Resolution in Support of Digital Rights For Libraries - Internet Archive Blogs
In a stunning show of support for libraries, late yesterday afternoon the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to support a resolution backing the Internet Archive and the digital rights of all libraries. Supervisor Connie Chan, whose district includes the Internet Archive, authored the legislation and brought the resolution before the Board. “At a […]
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Mek @mek.fyi · 12/04/2023
Oh hi, bluesky. ☁️
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