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Dan Hon #xoxofest

Science fiction is all about a Great Forgetting age where records are lost etc and sometimes it's natural disaster and sometimes it's revolutionary action but in our world it's apparently for tax write-offs

27 June at 2:14 | Open on dan.mastohon.com
12 comments
Pavel A. Samsonov

@danhon Sacrificed to Moloch, just like everything else

27 June at 2:15 | Open on mastodon.social
Matt Palmer

@danhon dystopia has nothing on reality.

27 June at 2:29 | Open on infosec.exchange
AlsoPaisleyCat

@danhon

And because no one wants to pay the server costs to keep the archival content preserved.

27 June at 2:30 | Open on tenforward.social
Cal Alaera

@AlsoPaisleyCat @danhon
Correction: There's plenty of people who want to keep archival content preserved. It's the companies who go "... ... ... Stop that, you filthy pirates." >.<

27 June at 5:19 | Open on kind.social
Wiiings

@danhon Can you make something harder than science fiction?

27 June at 2:50 | Open on mastodon.social
Wiiings

@danhon Whose science fiction is this? This is absurd!

27 June at 2:54 | Open on mastodon.social
Glen Turner (VK5TU)

@danhon And limiting non-tax future prosecution too!

27 June at 3:16 | Open on aus.social
Zack Stern

@danhon is there a timely new one?

Was MTV.com one?

I share your perspective if not, just nervously wondering what I missed now.

27 June at 4:49 | Open on hachyderm.io
Bengt

@danhon People are like "oh mien gott TV reruns from 20 years ago could be lost forever! This is literally 1984, but worse!"

Absolute hoarder mentality. Do you guys have piles of old newspapers in your houses as well?

27 June at 8:13 | Open on pnw.zone
tschenkel

@Bengt @danhon

Not personally, but I'm quite certain that my national archive will have microfiche of all of them.

Just like I don't need access to the original sources of the Persian works that underlie the maths I use on a daily basis, it's good to know that they are still available.

Just like with newspapers we can have a discussion if some of these things are worth preserving, but I don't want to make that call and decide what will be seen as important in a century.

27 June at 9:16 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
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