Monologue to the Maestro | Esquire | OCTOBER 1935
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Monologue to the Maestro | Esquire | OCTOBER 1935
There is something deeply offensive in knowing not only that hundreds of thousands of my words have vanished, but that some LLM is probably crawling through the tattered fragments to churn out mockeries of the very real sources, research, and energy that once backed those words. They’ll be vomited back on the shores of my browser, squirming and sti... See more
s.e. smith • What happens when the internet disappears?
Notre époque vit trop de choses en trop de peu de temps pour conserver une bonne mémoire, et je ne sais pas si le nom d’Émile Verhaeren représente encore quelque chose aujourd’hui. Verhaeren avait été le premier des poètes français à tenter de donner à l’Europe ce que Walt Whitman avait donné à l’Amérique : une profession de foi en son époque, une
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My content grievance is difficult to describe. After all, it’s a new human condition. And while the loss could be trivialized to a list of videos, it feels so much more than that. The death of my playlist feels like losing progress, or something cherished, but also feels as if I lost a piece of myself.
Because content is so intertwined with identity... See more
Because content is so intertwined with identity... See more
If a person turns from print—finding it too slow, too hard, irrelevant to the excitements of the present—then what happens to that person’s sense of culture and continuity?