Mastodawn

When MTV News shut down, it felt like decades of culture vanished overnight 🕳️

But over 470,000 pages were already preserved.

That history didn’t disappear.
It was archived.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon

Steve 1d ago

Views from South Pole 1d ago

Troll research station via https://www.npolar.no/en/troll/webcam/ #SouthPole #antarctica #view #webcam

Steve Apr 12

Blossoms and Rick Astley Play The Smiths - Glastonbury 2023

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ovcu2

Dailymotion

Steve Apr 9

AI text has a flavour. It might not be obvious at first but it leaves a bad aftertaste. Once it's bad taste hits me, I can't keep going. It lingers and distracts from whatever the text is trying to convey.

Did the "author" think so little of their own voice, or so little of their intended reader, to turn to AI to generate some filler? Do you add sawdust to flour to make bigger loaves of bread and feed it to your guests?

Steve Apr 1

March. In like a lion, out like a ... lion? The local weather didn't get the memo.

Steve Mar 31

Mark A. Rayner Mar 31

I dunno, I might just leave that box alone.

Here's hoping you have a danger-free Tuesday!

#cat #cats #castodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour #deathbox

Steve Mar 30

ashley foxdragon @ FURG Mar 30

almost got lost but i found it

Steve Mar 22

Joanna Holman Mar 22

In Bronze Age Britain, artists made a 100 metre long picture of a horse using trenches filled with chalk. For 3000 years people have regularly repaired the artwork, removing stray plants and topping up chalk. There’s something very beautiful about a chain of people with such wildly different experiences of the world preserving beauty and creativity across millenniums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffington_White_Horse