No :D

But then my question is, do we feel there are a lot of such collections? Or rather not?

To rephrase a little bit:
“Are there places where someone could pull off another Petrarch today?”

• yes
• no
• a few
• a lot
• only in Africa (see the answer in AskHistorians)

That went dark very fast. I appreciate :D

I’ve never considered someone buying books as status symbols. But I can see that happening

Ok, sure. But you still buy them to read them

🤔 Isn’t reading them the point of collecting?
You seriously made me wonder :D

But still, even if they don’t read them, they know they have them. So the collector and the seller know that such book exists and is somewhere out there and the owner knows they have such title in their stash

sometimes I want to read about, I don’t know, advancements in eInk paper, DIY gadgets, transmitting data using non-conventional media (e.g. FM radio), odd games (e.g. that you can play with one hand, with your phone), coding fun things in some esoteric language, or good news like schools benefiting from tech donations

I don’t think there is a one place for all of those at once. But I think some part of your interests might be covered by https://spectrum.ieee.org/ it also provides RSS feed

Yes, for sure. But then that’s a “lost cache”. Similar to the works we’ll find in a few years buried somewhere under the ground. But what about “active collections”?

Interesting indeed

But also those two are cases when we discovered more or less “working copies” of interest.
Has there been a similar find of a text that was copied and given (I’m trying to broadly cover a meaning of “published” here)

Thank you!

I guess the community of private collectors might have (doesn’t have to be institutionalized, centralized nor digital, just the fact of knowing is enough) as a group some kind of grasp on who has what. But is that fact known?

Huh, that’s an example of what I’ve been looking for

What phrase should I search for to learn more about the archive?

But do we know if those have been generally indexed?

Yes, but that is a case when we knew we had them, we just couldn’t read them. I’m wondering if at least “index” of readable contents of most “libraries” is for sure known, mostly known or maybe there are many we don’t know what’s inside

Yes, but that is a case when we knew we had them, we just couldn’t read them. I’m wondering if at least “index” of readable contents of most “libraries” is for sure known, mostly known or maybe there are many we don’t know what’s inside

I think that methodology is wrong. If they analyzed only one instance, then the whole follwer-followee thing might be completely off. And while they measured how many replied frequently, it lacks the “how many replies they got” side

It’s like comparing engagement on whole network vs via only one edge

Bad article. Person who wrote it clearly has no idea how LLMs work and I suspect read more Sci-Fi books than statistics/neural nets ones. “It is not even wrong”

Net Profits: Dropped by 71% to $2.3 billion in Q4 2024.

Since when 2.4 billion net profit is terrible?

“Yes, we earned billions but it’s actually less than the year before!” Dude, go out and touch some grass…

Access would require being logged into the CVS app and connected to the store’s Wi-Fi

Wow. I had to check if the page is the onion

You can’t cover a topic in 35-60 seconds, and not with enough nuance that some people won’t misunderstand something fundamental.

In country X there are riots. Side A with side B has been clashing since Wednesday, there are N people killed and M wounded.

That’s 30 seconds and all the nuance that’s needed. Next news

many others won’t, and they’ll get their “facts” from TikTok just because you can ingest a lot of content in a very short time

Then at least they know something is happening

“Just one more funny cat video to boost my mood… It’s only 20sec long, and I can afford that in my schedule.” Replace “cat video and 20sec” with “pull and dollar,” and it sounds just like a gambling addict.

You mean like 9GAG? Or TV being on non-stop? Or radio?

When was the last time you can recall somebody committing arson over losing an app?

I bet it’s happening all the time. It just doesn’t make the news until the next “game videos are causing violence”, “rock music makes you kill yourself”, “Harry Potter is satanism” etc becomes a hot topic to tie it to

If you don’t know why something is happening, I guarantee somebody with an agenda will happily fill in the blanks for you.

When it comes to current affairs there is no getting to real “why”. Any opinion on why is a personal spin. Are you really cross-checking all the sources referenced in 20 minutes video? If not, you are on the mercy of the talking head the same as in 30 secs. Thing is, if you spent on one POV 30 secs and then another few, it becomes apparent what is the fact and what is opinion. To do the same in long formats you have to spend a lot of time on one topic, where there are many happening around the world

short-burst video format is engaging, but it allows no room for nuance, no room for fact checking or deeper breakdowns

it simply is other format, for other means. Since yt started forcing creators to put at least 12min videos for max ads revenue, you can’t cover a meaningful amount of topics in an hour. Unless you start speeding them up and constantly clicking to get to the meat of the video. And that’s why the short format is gaining popularity. That it lacks depth? Of course, but if I’m interested in depth, I go search other formats. Most of the info I want to get is “more or less what is happening everywhere”. I don’t have to understand the nuances of political and societal situation in a country on the other side of the world, to want to know that there are riots there rn

The fact that most of people use it for cats and drama? It’s been there since IRC