Adactio: Links
An excellent interview! From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it. adactio.com/links/22660
Adactio: Links
Digital memory is fragile not because bits decay (though they do), but because someone else owns the shelf. adactio.com/links/22649
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I realized it just yesterday, right in the moment when I felt myself slipping into this strange, almost fantastical mental world, one that only appears when you’re truly offline. No buzzing phone, no glowing tabs, no endless scroll. Just the soft hum of real life, the analog one we keep forgetting...
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I wonder how best to craft an adventure. Maybe I can build it entirely in my mind first, then try to pour what I see onto paper. Every decision in this world could be guided by dice rolls even fights, even the choices themselves. My idea for this blog is that it will be text-only. No pictures,...
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I’m tired of it. All this waiting. Waiting for other worlds I can’t touch, can’t twist, can’t bend to my will. You understand? I want to lose myself somewhere else, somewhere that isn’t here. It used to be easier, back when life didn’t yank at your attention like a greedy child every five minutes....
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Okay. I look at myself. Start of the week. The weekend was “empty”. Hollow. Really hollow. I wait. I wait for something. The terrible part? I don’t even know what. I thought I was waiting for the new mega-game, Light No Fire by Hello Games. To step into a world where I could get lost. Like I...
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Like I wrote yesterday, there’s that ten-year study saying our attention spans have taken a nosedive dramatically, catastrophically. And I feel it. I see it in the people around me, in their jittery eyes and half-finished sentences. I see it out there in the world, too, in train stations and cafés...
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Thursday. Okay, Thursday. Time to get ready for the weekend.Wait ready? For what, exactly? You ever notice how we say things like that get ready for the weekend as if it’s a ritual? A small prayer we mumble to ourselves before the world chews us up again. But lately, I’ve been wondering if...
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Tonight, I had another one of my analog crafting sessions. There’s something almost sacred about it cutting, folding, piecing things together by hand while the rest of the world scrolls itself into a digital blur. I’ve got this strange little hobby: taking games that people usually buy online...
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I stumbled across an article today, one of those little digital whispers that promises salvation through a screen. It suggested using an Apple Watch instead of an iPhone. Yes, really. The pitch? No time-sucking social media apps, just all the “essential” features for life on the go. They called it...
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Wait a second…that’s grass. Oh yes fresh, living grass filling my nose with that wild, earthy scent. I push myself up from the ground, my palms brushing against the cool soil and open my eyes to a wide, endless landscape beneath a painter’s blue sky. I breathe in deep. The air is crisp, almost...
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Okay, I’ve been working on this for a long time. A really long time. But now it’s here.Something that’s going to change everything forever. Picture this: you’re out somewhere, your head full of thoughts that won’t stay still. They rattle around like ghosts in an attic and all you want is a...
John Neel
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2021 Poster Each year for nearly two decades, thousands of people from around the planet have participated in the annual WPPD event. The event is meant to be fun and creative. It brings people together from nearly every nation around the globe. I see it as a tool...
John Neel
As Announced by Sony Please Read – Disclosure Statement Sony Introduces Alpha 7C Camera, World’s Smallest and Lightest Full-frame Camera System SAN DIEGO, CA – September 14, 2020 – Today, Sony Electronics Inc. announced several additions to an already impressive imaging lineup — the Alpha 7C...