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Interesting report on an old #archival preservation technique and its challenge for #digitization.
A literal 'Spürnase' is helpful: "a faint scent of vanilla is present, a sign that the paper itself has begun to break down" 👃

Digital Collections Spotlight #52: Digitization for Preservation: PEC Letter Books « Moravian Archives

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'A rare copy for sale of "Lisp Style and Design" by Molly Miller and Eric Benson (Digital Press, 1990), a great book cited by Paul Graham in On Lisp that covers often overlooked topics. All the proceeds will be donated to the Medley Interlisp Project.'

Lisp Style & Design - Molly Miller, Eric Benson - VERY RARE - VERY GOOD cond | eBay
Good design and style enhance programming efficiency because they make programs easier to understand, to debug, and to maintain. Lisp Hackers' Delight. Paul Graham cites this book in his classic text,On Lisp.

The best thing about blogging is that I take things out of my head, which is full, and put them somewhere else.
The second best thing about blogging is that I meet more interesting people when I do it.

Sounds like Russia's tech industry - including internet, software, etc. - is seeing sharp declines in revenue, with widespread, major layoffs.
"The economy is in s***. It seems like everyone really needed IT specialists, there was a shortage of personnel, and all that. But the market has no money for development, the marketing tools have collapsed. Although both marketers and IT specialists are needed, there is no money. But everyone is hiding this."

«Денег нет, но все это скрывают». В России начались массовые сокращения айтишников
Нынешний год для российского ИТ-рынка заканчивается увольнениями.

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AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically after ChatGPT
The advent of increasingly sophisticated and potentially autonomous forms of artificial intelligence poses a challenge to understandings of the human place in the cosmos in ways perhaps as profound as the Copernican Revolution.  And while artificial general intelligence is not yet and may never be a reality, digital technologies are already introducing powerful new possibilities for deception, surveillance, and bias, exacerbating polarization, and changing the meaning of intimacy, care, creati…

«"Terms of Service; Didn't Read" (kurz: ToS;DR) ist ein Projekt, das im Juni 2012 gestartet wurde, um die "größte Lüge im Internet" zu bekämpfen: fast niemand liest wirklich die Nutzungsbedingungen, denen wir ständig zustimmen.»
P.S. Für mich pers. ein guter Einstieg um die Privatsphäre der Menschen im Internet und deren Nutzung zu erörtern, ist aber mMn nur erst der Anfang.
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Terms of Service; Didn't Read
I have read and agree to the Terms' is the biggest lie on the web. Together, we can fix that.

To paraphrase John Gilmore,
*"Europe interprets Trump as damage and routes around him".*

This situation actually reminds me a bit of the dotcom bubble collapse in the late '90s / early '00s, with slight differences.
Declining stocks & VC led to a bunch of startups initially being unable to obtain additional funding. To make matters worse, ad demand started falling, leading to lower revenues for ad-based internet services.
In this case, a decline of ad demand is trailing dotcom revenue shortages. I suspect currency & stock weakness & a slowing econ…

Drawing attention to this thread of comments of mine from a few days ago, as it goes deeper into apparent efforts from European nations to Trump-proof Ukraine, which is actually VERY important for European security.
It's nice seeing news articles pointing out Ukrainian funding & Russian appeasement isn't something Trump gets to dictate, but rather, a situation where Europe is trying to diplomatically push back against Trump to defend their legitimate security interests.