Best of the rest
I’m working on a post about the vast archive of information that fuels AI services like Chat GPT, which you may (?) have heard about recently, and how much of this information is not technically online, in the way we would think about it.
In the meantime, I thought I would link to a few of my favourite posts from TNO’s Tumblr days, just to whet your appetites. Some of the links in them are broken, and I’m leaving them that way, to emphasize the ephemeral nature of online communication.
Incidentally, a lot of those posts are taking ages to load, which makes me wonder if they are stored on tape.
The first post I think about from my defunct publication is this one: Your Hippocampus? If anything, public reliance on GPS/satnavs has probably increased since I wrote it, so maybe our hippocampi are even more feeble now.
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This one, just because it tickles me: Hackers? This post reports on 2600: The Hacker Quarterly (your browser won’t like their webpage). I wrote then that the journal is now being released on Kindle, and that’s still the case, but it was a new development then. Archives still on paper as far as I know.
I did a series on smell, and here is Part One: L’Osmotheque. Still relevant because Smell-o-vision is STILL not a thing.
And if you’re here for the archives and rare books of it all, I offer the Winchester Bible. It’s primarily in Winchester, though one leaf, the Morgan Leaf, is in New York — something I wasn’t aware of in 2011.
Enjoy this amuse bouche. I’ll be back soon.
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