interesting points in favor of preserving physical archives
"How Digital Archives Delete the Human Experience"
https://thewalrus.ca/how-digital-archives-delete-the-human-experience/
@lichen I worry about this frequently
@jjg yeah, and the fragility of the 'digital' both in terms of infrastructure and quality/quantity of information is kind of underestimated. this article on the topic is very interesting too https://medium.com/@hautepop/digital-dust-356172db322f
@jjg oh yeah definitely...there are many ongoing efforts in trying to preserve old software and hardware by people passionate in archiving and retro computing... yet it feels like a loss game at the right time-scale
Ants as movers of dust. Maintainers of the past, building structures that both destroy and preserve the patterns of sand. We are the ants living in the space between sand and stars.
Ants made from dust.
Eating Silicon Wafers, made from a body of sand, eating in communion with the universe.
Storing and preserving.
Figuring out how to persist our memetic mammon in the machines that ru our world. Archiving our thoughts. Creating children to continue our legacy.
Stigmergy of ants, made from dust.
Dust becomes dust. Shapes shifting in sand.
Jaglavak.
Cataglyphis.
The ant people.
@lichen I've already experienced this loss personally (I can't access the programs I wrote when I was young because they are on a medium and in a format that I no longer have hardware compatible with).