🎤 STARTING IN 15 MINUTES! 🆓

Join us soon for a free livestream booktalk with author Simone O. Elias in conversation with Sonia Mansfield about Elias's new book, PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN.

🕕 6 PM PT / 9 PM ET
📡 Join the #livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/vf0w9qqvHKA

#Bookstodon

NPR: How long will the Grateful Dead's songs survive? https://www.npr.org/2026/08/03/nx-s1-5901986/grateful-dead-future-legacy

Internet Archive: For generations to come. ➡️ https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

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🗓️ Planning your week?

🎤 Join us for the #booktalk PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN with Simone O. Elias & Sonia Mansfield.

Hear why Elias chose to bypass a traditional publisher for her second book, opting instead for an open-access release through the Internet Archive.

📅 Tues Aug 4

Livestream:
🕕 6 PM PT
📡 https://www.youtube.com/live/vf0w9qqvHKA

In-Person:
🕠 Doors 5:30 PM PT
📍 300 Funston, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/27/simone-o-elias-porcelain-rage/

#InternetArchive #OpenAccess #booktalk

🌐 On World Wide Web Day, we’re celebrating the Wayback Machine’s milestone of archiving more than 1 trillion web pages, preserving decades of the web we’ve built.

Explore decades of web history with the #WaybackMachine:
https://web.archive.org

#Wayback1T #InternetArchive #WorldWideWebDay @nprofile1q...

🌐 Happy World Wide Web Day!

Created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the World Wide Web transformed how we share knowledge online. In 2025, Sir Tim was honored as an Internet Archive Hero Award recipient for his lasting impact on the web.

Learn more 👇
https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/celebrating-sir-tim-berners-lee-2025-internet-archive-hero-award-recipient/

#WorldWideWebDay #InternetArchive #Wayback1T

📖 At just 16 years old, Simone O. Elias wrote PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN.

Her book explores femininity, culture, history, mental health, and the pressures shaping a generation.

Elias chose to publish it as an #openaccess book, making it FREE through the Internet Archive!

🆓 Read & download:
https://archive.org/details/porcelain-rage/PorcelainRage_Ack/

And Learn more about Elias, her book, and the Aug 4 #booktalk with livestream 📡 & in-person 🎟️ options at our blog:
https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/27/simone-o-elias-porcelain-rage/

#Bookstodon

📚 Why would an established author bypass a traditional publisher for their second book?

At 16, Simone O. Elias chose the open-access route for her book PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN, making her reflections on culture, identity, and modern womanhood free and available to everyone through the Internet Archive.

Learn more about Elias & the book:
https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/27/simone-o-elias-porcelain-rage/
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📚 Culture doesn’t have to be censored to disappear. 🕳️

Sometimes all it takes is an expired license. 📼💿

In THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, Michael Menna and Lila Bailey argue that preserving our shared memory has become one of the defining political challenges of the digital age. 🏛️

📖 Read or download the paper ⬇️
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/

#VanishingCulture #memoryhole

🌐 Websites vanish. 📰 News archives go offline. 📚 Textbooks are withdrawn. 🏛️ Government reports are deleted.

What happens when the historical record starts disappearing?

The Internet Archive and the Our Future Memory movement explore why "vanishing culture" is becoming a political crisis in THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY.

📖 Read or download the paper here ⬇️
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/

#VanishingCulture #memoryhole