Originally published at: https://gizadeathstar.com/2024/10/data-degradation-and-the-disappearing-internet/
You might want to pour yourself a couple of fingers of your favorite adult beverage, sit down, and brace yourself before reading the following article shared by T.S. (with our gratitude). It seems that data degradation (the shock! the surprise! the horror!) is occurring on the internet, and data is simply disappearing for what appears…
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The Archive is a treasure of all sorts of media, of course it’s under attack. Can’t have people reading The Pivot of Civilization or War is a Racket. Explore the site while you can folks. I would recommend their Periscope Films collection.
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Most ironically: We found out about your books via the internet.
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This yet to be released app has a clever name: rebind.
From
https://www.wired.com/story/i-am-laura-kipnis-bot-and-i-will-make-reading-sexy-and-tragic-again/
“The Rebind catalog is evolving by the day: James Wood (Chekhov), Margaret Atwood (Tale of Two Cities), and Marlon James (Huck Finn) have recently been added. Dubuque and Kaag had been thinking mainly about philosophy titles, until they realized how many different kinds of books and conversations there could be. Which was when they realized how big Rebind could be: “Not just big,” Dubuque said, “but a landmark event.”
…Whether to put the AI-generated commentaries in the voice of the actual Rebinder (based on the prerecorded videos embedded in the text) had been a subject of debate. “There’s something really magical about the way someone speaks, something compressed inside people’s voices that brings language to life,” Dubuque thinks, while also concerned about the “ick factor”—are voice clones creepy? Dubuque is convinced that retaining the human element, wherever possible, is crucial. “It comes back to authenticity,” he said. “If you just had the bot, you’d lose that connection.””
Rebind is a new way to experience books, one that enhances the careful practice of reading, reflecting, and writing. Exercise your imagination.
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The devil of it is; they want to digitize it all, including “you”.
No doubt. And no argument from me that it’s not capable of a vast amount of good. But I still oppose ebooks.