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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.