#long-now-foundation — Public Fediverse posts
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When listening to Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson speak at The Long Now Foundation, he had this great line about the nature of science, especially in light of the axe being thrown at our scientific institutions today.
#LongNowFoundation #EzraKlein #DerekThompson #Abundance #quote #quotes #wisdom #teaching #science
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Considered conversation
When it comes, this will be the fourth message received from Alsafi in my lifetime. Few have timed their career so fortuitously. The first came when I was a child. The second came just weeks after I joined the Intercivilizational Observatory’s San Francisco office, and I wormed my way onto the analysis team. The third came the year I met Cassio, and I was doubly lovestruck. Still, I was reading responses to questions another generation had asked. But now, a full 39-year round-trip after I began, I’ll finally get answers to my questions. Ones from my youth, maybe, but they’ll be mine. After all this time, I’ll finally be In Conversation.
slip:4uloie12.
This piece of fiction is one of those things I start skimming, thinking “should I mark this for later reading?” and then read it all the way through. So of course I recommend you do too.
I find tremendous value in considered conversation. Usually, a conversation about the weather isn’t such a valuable opportunity. But this conversation about “weather” is really about what are the limits of what can be considered a conversation… is understanding required for it to be a conversation? Or is simply trying to understand, enough?
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@thisismyglasgow a small step in the direction of The Clock of the Long Now
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"I don't think national governments will or should go away, but we do need to get rid of the idea of absolute sovereign independence of nations that get to make absolute decisions about their territorial space, irrespective of the secondary effects those decisions will have on planetary systems that affect us all."
I, for one, agree with that.
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I was aware of the Long Now Foundation's cute stylistic thing of adding a leading zero when they write the year (like this year is "02024") but I didn't realize they also had a cute name for it:
"Y10K Compliance"
https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-and-10k-compliance-at-home/
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Access, for the win
The Whole Earth Catalog. Now there’s someone who poured their time, energy, money and personal brand of sanity into a project, and it succeeded. Then the Internet came along and supplanted the entire project.
Yet for years, access to the Whole Earth Catalog itself has been difficult. 55 years on from the first publication of the Catalog, it mostly lives on in the interstices — as a symbol of a vibrant countercultural history and an inspiration for writers, designers, and technologists, but less so as an actual set of catalogs that you can read. The Catalog is not lost media per se — copies can be found in libraries, archives, and personal collections across the world — but accessing its trove of information is no longer as easy as it was in its heyday.
That is, until now.
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…and then, that original project rose from the ashes to be something even better.
Sometimes, I find something that warms my dark, frozen, disenchanted, bitter, burnt-out heart. I don’t subscribe to notions like “information wants to be free” but when I see things like this… well, I get a little warm–fuzzy inside.
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#7ForSunday #InternetTech #JacobKuppermann #LongNowFoundation
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Well this makes me feel young 👵 Nonagenarians Doing Shit with Connie Yang #life #age #people #LongNowFoundation
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Who knew all these things glow in the dark?! Graveyard... more like rave-yard :blobcatglowsticks: #Fluorescence #Photography #Nature #Biology #LongNowFoundation
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"Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations?"
Check out our recent mention in this article from the #LongNowFoundation for an important conversation about mitigating data loss in the #DigitalDarkAge.
https://longnow.org/ideas/shining-a-light-on-the-digital-dark-age/
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Souvenirs
I don’t collect many souvenirs. Sometimes I buy postcards when I visit places… and then I tape those into my journals. But in a very real sense a lot of what I write in my journals is meant to be a souvenir. Either way, the physical or the notational souvenir, is meant to trigger some memory.
Even institutions built for the express purpose of information preservation have succumbed to the ravages of time, natural disaster or human conquest. The famous library of Alexandria, one of the most important repositories of knowledge in the ancient world, eventually faded into obscurity. Built in the fourth century B.C., the library flourished for some six centuries, an unparalleled center of intellectual pursuit. Alexandria’s archive was said to contain half a million papyrus scrolls — the largest collection of manuscripts in the ancient world — including works by Plato, Aristotle, Homer and Herodotus. By the fifth century A.D., however, the majority of its collections had been stolen or destroyed, and the library fell into disrepair.
~ Adrienne Bernhard, from Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age
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Always I’m thinking: Do I really want to add this thing to my pile? There’s a timeframe of only a few decades where any thing, or notation, has the chance to jog my memory. Sometimes I think of taking a photo… and then I think, why? Why this image right here? Maybe it would be better (I continue thinking) to just relax and enjoy the moment. Even the Library at Alexandria’s enormous collection was surely only a minuscule fraction of what humanity had created to that point. Why take a photo? Why make a notation? Why build a web site? :)
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#7ForSunday #AdrienneBernhard #LongNowFoundation #MementoMori #Perspective
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Why This Silicon Valley Prophet Says He’s Still an Optimist - Stewart Brand coined the term “personal computer” and was one of the first to envision wh... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/technology/stewart-brand-tech-personal-computer.html #contenttype:personalprofile #computersandtheinternet #wholeearthcatalog(book) #nineteenhundredsixties #scienceandtechnology #longnowfoundation #brandstewart #socialmedia #facebookinc #twitter
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Stewart Brand, Who Coined the Term ‘Personal Computer,’ Says He’s Still an Optimist - Stewart Brand coined the term “personal computer” and was one of the first to envision wh... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/technology/stewart-brand-tech.html #contenttype:personalprofile #computersandtheinternet #wholeearthcatalog(book) #nineteenhundredsixties #scienceandtechnology #longnowfoundation #brandstewart #socialmedia #facebookinc #twitter
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It sounds like it's a rhetorical question, but the #LongNowFoundation is to a significant extent a mechanical and materials engineering counterpart to software bootstrappability. The 10000-year clock project needs to consider how future civilizations would perform maintenance on the clock.
longnow.org/clock/