Here's an underrated cognitive virtue: "object permanence" - that is, remembering how you perceived something previously. As Riley Quinn often reminds us, the left is the ideology of object permanence - to be a leftist is to hate and mistrust the CIA even when they're tormenting Trump for a brief instant, or to remember that it was once possible for a working person to support their family with their wages:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/27/six-sells/#youre-holding-it-wrong
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This is where blogging comes in - for me, at least. Back in 1997, @ScottEdelman - editor of *Science Fiction Age* - asked me to take over the back page of the magazine by writing up ten links of interest for the nascent web.
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I call this all "The Memex Method" and it lets me write *a lot* (I wrote *nine* books during lockdown, as I used work to distract me from anxiety - something I stumbled into through a lifetime of chronic pain management):
https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/
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https://boingboing.net/2013/06/24/this-day-in-blogging-history.html
With Pluralistic, I turned this into a daily newsletter feature, now stretching back to twenty, fifteen, ten, five and one year ago. Here's today's:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/21/noway-back-machine/#retro
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Right-to-Repair Law Proposed ... for Cars
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https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/05/us/disney-is-blocking-distribution-of-film-that-criticizes-bush.html
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https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-of-an-ai-clickbait-kingpin/
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https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/
The headline finding from "When Online Content Disappears" is that 38% of the web of 2013 is gone today. Wikipedia references are especially hard-hit, with 23% of news links missing and 21% of government websites gone.
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When Online Content Disappears
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Thankfully, someone has plugged the web's memory-hole. Since 2001, the @internetarchive's Wayback Machine has allowed web users to see captures of web-pages, tracking their changes over time.
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The Wayback Machine went public in 2001, but Archive founder @brewsterkahle started scraping the web in 1996. Today's post graphic - a modified Yahoo homepage from October 17, 1996 - is the oldest Yahoo capture on the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/19960501000000*/yahoo.com
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Public Domain Movie Night: “Show People” Starring Marion Davies
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda_mahavihara
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Landa
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/70-features/maya-2012/305-groiler-dresden-codex
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/lindisfarne-priory/History/viking-raid/
https://www.britannica.com/event/Lindisfarne-Raid
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_libraries
Like military mass rape campaigns, it's cultural rape, erasing the original culture & replacing it with one favorable to the new rulers.
Wikimedia list article
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Nicole Parsons
•The past becomes immensely malleable to an authoritarian when there is no history or memory.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasshouse_(novel)
The billionaires funding Trump's GOP have the same motives, supremacy through erasing history.
The loss of online news links isn't accidental.
science fiction novel by Charles Stross
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