interesting points in favor of preserving physical archives
"How Digital Archives Delete the Human Experience"
https://thewalrus.ca/how-digital-archives-delete-the-human-experience/
@lichen I worry about this frequently
Ants as movers of dust. Maintainers of the past, building structures that both destroy and preserve the patterns of sand. We are the ants living in the space between sand and stars.
Ants made from dust.
Jaglavak.
Cataglyphis.
The ant people.
Eating Silicon Wafers, made from a body of sand, eating in communion with the universe.
Storing and preserving.
Figuring out how to persist our memetic mammon in the machines that ru our world. Archiving our thoughts. Creating children to continue our legacy.
Stigmergy of ants, made from dust.
Dust becomes dust. Shapes shifting in sand.