Bitrot is also real. The CD has a functional shelf life of about 20 years, and the diskette is probably less. They are *not* archival media. The printed book is still the single most robust format for long-term, large-scale data storage ever devised.

SPstori3dpast.bsky.socialJan 5, 2024 9:56pm

I'm not a Luddite or technophobe. I just know that after 466 years the thing on the left can be read fine. The thing top-right is 15 years old & uses tech that already no longer comes standard on computers. And the 30-yr-old thing bottom-right needs specialized antique hardware & software to read.

It has to be, imo. I’ve been an editor close to 20 years now. I know what’s involved. I did it for free for years, too. If turnaround time isn’t lightning quick I won’t wait anymore. Some places have made me wait 18 months! I’m not going to live forever.

What? Why? It is the way.

For sure the best Stewart’s. My favourite lime pop.

For years before B99 I was extolling André Braugher's singular genius as an actor and I felt like I was the only one who'd ever heard of him. I'm seldom impacted by the deaths of famous people, but this hurts. His turn as Frank Pembleton might be the best dramatic performance by an actor on TV ever.

ASsepinwall.bsky.socialDec 13, 2023 6:33am

Andre Braugher was a giant, as capable of being the most intense dramatic actor TV had ever seen as he was of being among its most sublimely silly comic performers. I wrote about Frank Pembleton, Raymond Holt, and everything in beween:

Andre Braugher Played Two of TV’s Greatest Cops. But His Family Came First

Star of ‘Homicide’ and ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine,’ who passed away at the age of 61, could do it all, and would then race home to his loved ones.

Oh my God, André Braugher has died. Just devastating. He was an astonishingly talented actor.

the boys are back in town and they aren't worldbuilding, they're encountering the world as they experience it, uncovering its often ironic intricacies and contradictions through larger abstract systems that determine their petty fates.

Warren Kinsella was always an asshole, but he’s become a full-on frothing at the mouth barbarian these last two months. Just a nightmare person.

like yeah. his aesthetics are beautiful but he's using this kind of storytelling specifically to explore these themes. yes i am still thinking about the boy and the heron. but i am also thinking about the wind rises. he has spent his last 2 movies trying to reconcile this as he nears the end

terribly annoyed that all the prose writers (derogatory) who describe their work as "ghibli vibes" seem to have missed miyazaki's internal struggles with growing up as part of a fascist system that contributed to one of his greatest fascinations (flying) as well as. well. he feels guilt about it too