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Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years - The New York Times
on the heels of the recent discovery of a string trio arrangement by mozart this is pretty neat news. we can only really have these “discoveries” if there’s a durable medium for preserving creative outputs. in this case paper and pen.
with everything being hidden on personal hard drives and in proprietary software/file formats these days, i do find myself wondering what creative bits (no pun intended) we’re going to lose to the ravages of time and bit rot.
i suspect at this rate we won’t be finding billie eilish’s thrown away demos in a couple of hundred years.
Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally - The Washington Post
irony much? in light of recent activities and statements on the part of #spacekaren.
How to research geoengineering ethically - Ars Technica
we’re going to need to have some serious discussions about geoengineering. the over emphasis on carbon reduction was misplaced and has cost us dearly. if this is (and i think it is) the existential crisis we think it is, there should be no tool take off the table here. (yeah, this includes nuclear power.)
‘Stop Counting Votes, or We’re Going to Murder Your Children’ - The Atlantic
yeah, this is where we’re at these days.
post-election update: it’s interesting to see how decorum seemed to return when trump won the election.