World history should be carved onto stone tablets instead of being printed onto paper or stored in electronic media.
#knowledge #history #knowledgepreservation #stonetablets #engraving #durability #worldhistory #timecapsule

#lispyGopherClimate #live 000UTC (Tuesday night in Americas various) #technology #podcast

https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio

A quiet episode.

#climateCrisis #haiku from @kentpitman
#knowledgePreservation
- and the climate ^
- Scientific computing, with style notes from @AmenZwa again

Revisiting Dungeon Crawler Carl, with descriptions (= light spoilers) and the relation of games and specialised knowledge

Access to knowledge, #lisp, #eev, nonmonotonic logic, testing, proofs and the delete problem.

4: Preserving the Blueprint – The Urgent Mission to Save Knowledge

(This article is part of a six-post reality-check. Concepts and examples are drawn from “Silent Earth: Adaptations for Life in a Devastated Biosphere.”)

In times of crisis, we focus on saving lives and priceless artifacts. But what about the most vital asset for the long-term survival of our civilization: our accumulated knowledge? As the biosphere degrades and the risk of social disruption grows, the mission to preserve the blueprint of our knowledge becomes a critical imperative.

Our current knowledge systems are fragile. Digital archives are vulnerable to energy loss, hardware degradation, and format obsolescence. At the same time, physical libraries are threatened by environmental disasters (Morrow 2020). This has spurred innovative projects like The Long Now Foundation’s Manual for Civilization, which seeks to create a durable, multi-format library of essential information (Brand 2018).

But it’s not enough to save data. We must preserve what author Lewis Dartnell calls “bootstrapping knowledge.” This is the foundational instructions needed to rebuild basic technologies and access more complex information (Dartnell 2016). Without the ability to make a simple motor or generate electricity, a digital library of all human knowledge would be a useless artifact.

Also important is the preservation of cultural and historical memory, which provides the social cohesion necessary to navigate collapse and recovery. This requires a focus on living knowledge communities and practical skills transmitted through apprenticeship (Marchand 2016). This will be difficult, but safeguarding this blueprint is an essential investment in the potential for a future rebirth.

References

Brand, S. 2018. The manual for civilization. Long Now Foundation Press, San Francisco, 324 p.

Dartnell, L. 2016. The knowledge: How to rebuild civilization in the aftermath of a cataclysm. Penguin Press, New York, 352 p.

Marchand, T. H. J. 2016. Craftwork as problem solving: Ethnographic studies of design and making. Routledge, London, 286 p.

Morrow, J. 2020. Knowledge persistence in unstable times. Library Quarterly 90(2): 154-173.

#ClimateChangeAdaptation #KnowledgePreservation

♻️ The #reusability of open data at the research level is my main interest: #knowledgepreservation through #analysispreservation!

Currently leading the "Data Lifecycle panel" set up by ICFA (International Committee for Future Accelerators).

Working for best practice recommendations for open science and data preservation in high-energy physics. Coming soon✨!

Wikipedia’s Terminal Event Management Policy 📚🛡️ outlines how the encyclopedia’s knowledge will be preserved if a global catastrophe 🌍⚠️ threatens internet access or humanity itself. From print archives to interstellar broadcasts 🚀✨, it’s a last-ditch effort to save human knowledge for the future. #Wikipedia #KnowledgePreservation #DisasterPlan #btwthisisaparody

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Terminal_Event_Management_Policy

On that note, I think the need for a community owned, distributed search engine is higher than ever. Generative AI is going to continue filling Google, Bing, etc, with trash and it's pretty much a goal of any fascist or authoritarian regime to control information. One way you can do that is just totally sending the signal to noise ratio down to 0.

I believe we can use #activityPub and #activityStreams as a basis for a distributed search engine. Human curation of data, strict integrity measures, opt-in federation and auditing can help keep relevant, genuine information in and bad actors out. I really think we need to do this.

I am working on it and have various pieces in place but it is admittedly slow going since I am also working on other things.

#search #searchEngines #knowledgePreservation #tech

Personal Knowledge Management & Indigenous Mnemonics (Introduction)

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/pTC8C4KD6rnUPT7gfifh88

Sadness in the Library

https://www.xenofact.com/2023/06/19/sadness-in-the-library/