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DSHR's Blog
I'm David Rosenthal, and this is a place to discuss the work I'm doing in Digital Preservation.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
The Risks OF HODL-ing
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Who Is Mining Bitcoin?
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Going Out With A Bang
In 1.5C Here We Come I criticized people like Eric Schmidt who said that:
In January for a Daily Mail article, Miriam Kuepper interviewed Salomé Balthus a "high-end escort and author from Berlin" who works the World Economic Forum. Balthus reported attitudes that clarify why "3C Here We Come" is more likely. The article's full title is:
the artificial intelligence boom was too powerful, and had too much potential, to let concerns about climate change get in the way.
Schmidt, somewhat fatalistically, said that “we’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway,”
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What the global elite reveal to Davos sex workers: High-class escort spills the beans on what happens behind closed doors - and how wealthy 'know the world is doomed, so may as well go out with a bang'Below the fold I look into a wide range of evidence that Balthus' clients were telling her the truth.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Cliff Lynch RIP
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Cliff impacted a wide range of areas. The best overview is Mike Ashenfelder's 2013 profile of Cliff Lynch in the Library of Congress' Digital Preservation Pioneer series, which starts:
Clifford Lynch is widely regarded as an oracle in the culture of networked information. Lynch monitors the global information ecosystem for cultural trends and technological developments. He ponders their variables, interdependencies and influencing factors. He confers with colleagues and draws conclusions. Then he reports his observations through lectures, conference presentations and writings. People who know about Lynch pay close attention to what he has to say.Below the fold are some additional personal notes on Cliff's contributions.
Lynch is a soft-spoken man whose work, for more than thirty years, has had an impact — directly or indirectly — on the computer, information and library science communities.
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Cliff Lynch's festschrift
Vicky and I were invited to contribute to a festschrift celebrating Cliff Lynch's retirement from the Coalition for Networked Information. We decided to focus on his role in the long-running controversy over how digital information was to be preserved for the long haul.
Below the fold is our contribution, before it was copy-edited for portal: Libraries and the Academy.
Below the fold is our contribution, before it was copy-edited for portal: Libraries and the Academy.
Monday, April 7, 2025
Paul Evan Peters Award Lecture
At the Spring 2025 Membership Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information, Vicky and I received the Paul Evan Peters Award.
You can tell this is an extraordinary honor from the list of previous awardees, and the fact that it is the first time it has been awarded in successive years. Part of the award is the opportunity to make an extended presentation to open the meeting. Our talk was entitled Lessons From LOCKSS, and the abstract was:
Below the fold is the text with links to the sources, information that appeared on slides but was not spoken, and much additional information in footnotes.
You can tell this is an extraordinary honor from the list of previous awardees, and the fact that it is the first time it has been awarded in successive years. Part of the award is the opportunity to make an extended presentation to open the meeting. Our talk was entitled Lessons From LOCKSS, and the abstract was:
Vicky and David will look back over their two decades with the LOCKSS Program. Vicky will focus on the Program's initial goals and how they evolved as the landscape of academic communication changed. David will focus on the Program's technology, how it evolved, and how this history reveals a set of seductive, persistent but impractical ideas.CNI has posted the video of the entire opening plenary to YouTube. Don Waters' generous introduction starts at 14:28 and Vicky starts talking at 20:00.
Below the fold is the text with links to the sources, information that appeared on slides but was not spoken, and much additional information in footnotes.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Elon Musk: Threat Or Menace? Part 6
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Below the fold I look at the flood of bad news for Tesla.
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