Links #59

• Astral Codex Ten: Links for July 2024 "for anything that's sudden, reporting changes should always be your first guess!"

• The Big Idea: Will Ludwigsen

  That’s the risk of handbooks: though they pretend otherwise, they’re just as fantastical as fiction. They imagine perfect commitment, ample resources, and cooperative circumstances that just aren’t common in the world.

• The critical window of shadow libraries

At Anna’s Archive, we are often asked how we can claim to preserve our collections in perpetuity, when the total size is already approaching 1 Petabyte (1000 TB), and is still growing. In this article we’ll look at our philosophy, and see why the next decade is critical for our mission of preserving humanity’s knowledge and culture.