i know this isn’t the reguar theme of this blog but i need to share it somewhere because today someone called my local fire department because they found
a horse
and not only was it a not-dead horse, they dug it up and it was
Calling it, this is the fucking Information Age Collapse. Bronze Age Collapse 2.0. We have three or so generations of this shit while everything slowly breaks and then in 1k years archaeologists will be unearthing hard drives and cursing us for putting all our information in such shitty, easily degraded media instead of etching it into metal and stone like a sensible civilisation.
I wrote this before AI started flooding image search results and writing web pages. I expected the problem to be entirely physical (or at least when it was software, a matter of software incompatibility as software stopped being supported), in the future. Didn’t foresee us turning our own records to soup for no particular reason while we were still using them.
Struggling to piece together an itinerary for the upcoming weekend, 27-year-old Greg Randolph confirmed to reporters Tuesday that he has no idea what to do with his visiting friend between meals. “After going out for breakfast, I guess maybe we could check out that bakery that just opened by my place. That’d put us really close to a cool little coffee shop that we could hit up on the way to lunch,” said Randolph, who thus far had only come up with the ideas of having ice cream, grabbing a drink, and swinging by a local farmers market as potential activities to fill in the gaps while his friend is in town.
