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First, things should disappear more, the way conversations throughout history have naturally not left records.
Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
A Guide to Booklegging: How (and why) to collect, preserve, and read the printed word
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Atmospheric warming, ocean warming, ocean acidification, sea-level rise, deglaciation, desertification, eutrophication—these are just some of the by-products of our species’s success. Such is the pace of what is blandly labeled “global change” that there are only a handful of comparable examples in earth’s history, the most recent being the asteroi
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The death of the public intellectual
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John McPhee • Annals of the Former World
38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later.
More of our information will become written and curated by AI whose data provenance is unknown.
We heritage may be lost as pages die and never reach search indexes of language models
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/