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<subtitle>The long-running and erratically updated blog of Kathleen Fitzpatrick.</subtitle>
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<updated>2024-12-14T22:27:34Z</updated>
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<name>Kathleen Fitzpatrick</name>
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<title>Preservation and Care</title>
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<link href="https://kfitz.info/preservation-care/" />
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<updated>2024-12-20T19:04:19Z</updated>
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<id>https://kfitz.info/preservation-care/</id>
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<content type="html"><p>I'm finally getting a chance to do some sustained reading, now that my winter break has begun, and so managed at last to dive into <a href="https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage/">Maxwell Neely-Cohen's &quot;Century-Scale Storage&quot;</a>. It's good to see foregrounded the idea that preservation is not a matter of technological development (quite the contrary) but of human care buttressed by financial investment. I found myself particularly struck by this:</p>
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<p>The advantage of print is that it can be a practice. What was printed before can be reprinted. The downside is that, in order to take advantage of the full preservational powers of the codex form, what you are saving and printing has to be valued by the public.</p>
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<p>In the digital realm, of course, we've long heard that Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe -- and it's true -- but we still have to care enough to make those copies, and to ensure that they're properly stored and checked and migrated as needed. Perhaps the public might be enlisted in preservation efforts by being <em>encouraged</em> to make copies of cultural objects they value rather than by being <em>punished</em> for doing so. As Neely-Cohen notes, &quot;The most enduring decentralized [preservation] efforts don’t owe their success to technological or organizational innovation, but rather by having enlisted generations of people with an emotional and intellectual investment in their worth.&quot;</p>
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<p>The scale of the digital preservation problem is going to require massive investment, and the political will necessary to generate it -- a requirement easily generative of despair here at the end of 2024. But here we are, with stuff we care about and want to keep safe.</p>
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<p>[I]f you, an individual reading this, want to store something and ensure it survives a century, what should you do? More than one thing. You should combine every method available to you, layers of backups, armies of copies, and most of all, practices and sites that encourage a culture of watchfulness and care. You should fight for a society that values the sciences and arts and that which they produce. And then, each day, you should do whatever it takes to keep your something safe, do whatever you can to empower the next generation to do the same, and then entrust that battle to them, to repeat into futurity.</p>
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<title>On Distraction</title>
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<content type="html"><p>A thing that I have only just realized that I <em>loathe</em> about newsletters: when links in the newsletters have self-referential preview URLs. So when I hover over all the many clever links in “Your Newsletter,” they show up as taking me to yournewsletter.com followed by a hash that only on the server resolves into the actual URL, leaving me with no sense whatsoever about what I’m going to get myself into if I click. In the year of the internet 2024, this is some bad privacy and security practice, man.</p>
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<p>For the love of all that’s holy, get a blog. I have an RSS reader and I’m not afraid to use it.</p>
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<title>Expedient</title>
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<link href="https://kfitz.info/expedient/" />
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<updated>2024-07-01T20:18:21Z</updated>
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<content type="html"><p>I mentioned yesterday that I'm doing a bunch of fun reading on this mini-vacation, but failed to note (unless you happen to follow my <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/user/kfitz/comment/4786660#anchor-4786660">Bookwyrm self</a>) that a key chunk of the reading I'm doing is catching up on the parts of Robin Sloan's universe that I've previously missed, in preparation for reading his latest, <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/book/1626446/s/moonbound"><em>Moonbound</em></a>. I got my pre-ordered copy the other day and can't wait to dive in.</p>
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<p>Now, however, it's <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/book/44354/s/sourdough-or-lois-and-her-adventures-in-the-underground-market"><em>Sourdough</em></a>. Which I'm thoroughly enjoying, and which has me longing to start a culture (or clone someone else's) and get started baking, even though we really don't eat a lot of bread at home.</p>
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<p>As I was reading yesterday, though, I was taken by his use of the term &quot;expedient,&quot; which comes up one time after another across the story of life in the tech-dominated Bay Area. Our heroine purchases stuff at &quot;an expedient internet retailer&quot; and &quot;the expedient big-box home-supply store.&quot; She gets a ride from &quot;the expedient internet car service&quot; and gets information from &quot;the expedient search engine.&quot; And more besides.</p>
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<p>I was fairly sure I got what was meant here, but reading on the iPad as I am, I finally paused to check, and was gifted with the following definition from the New Oxford American Dictionary:</p>
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<p>(of an action) convenient and practical although possibly improper or immoral.</p>
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<p>Convenient, I had totally expected, with a little bit of &quot;perhaps not the best choice, but what are you going to do&quot; behind it. But that edge of &quot;possibly improper or immoral&quot; casts a whole new light not just on the term but on my own utterly unthinking uses of those services, a light I too often find it pretty inconvenient and impractical to consider.</p>
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<author>
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<name>Kathleen Fitzpatrick</name>
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<email>kfitz@kfitz.info</email>
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<title>Preservation and Care</title>
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<link href="https://kfitz.info/preservation-care/"/>
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<updated>2024-12-20T19:04:19Z</updated>
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<content type="html">I'm finally getting a chance to do some sustained reading, now that my winter break has begun, and so managed at last to dive into Maxwell Neely-Cohen's &quot;Century-Scale...</content>
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<title>On Distraction</title>
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