2025AD? Wah? 3000BC? Who?? I know that I live in 18AiP (after iPhone)(as of 43AL (after laptop)) and that makes it much easier because its talking about things that I KNOW. I don’t know an anno domini, i dont know a christ, let alone trying to comprehend what came before them??
Tag: time
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“Plastic will definitely be a signature ‘technofossil’, because it is incredibly durable, we are making massive amounts of it, and it gets around the entire globe,” says the palaeontologist Prof Sarah Gabbott, a University of Leicester expert on the way that fossils form. “So wherever those future civilisations dig, they are going to find plastic. There will be a plastic signal that will wrap around the globe.” […]
Gabbott says: “The big message here is that the amount of stuff that we are now making is eye-watering – it’s off the scale.” All of the stuff made by humans by 1950 was a small fraction of the mass of all the living matter on Earth. But today it outweighs all plants, animals and microbes and is set to triple by 2040. This stuff is going to last millions of years, some releasing its toxins and chemicals into the natural world,” she says, raising serious questions for us all: “Do you need that? Do you really need to buy more?”
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I spent 24 hours watching The Clock – MoMA
The meta-study “Severe Sleep Deprivation Causes Hallucinations and a Gradual Progression Toward Psychosis with Increasing Time Awake” (Frontiers of Psychiatry, 2018) found that subjects’ “perceptual distortions, anxiety, irritability, depersonalization, and temporal disorientation started within 24–48 h of sleep loss.” I can offer anecdotal confirmation. It is after 2:00 p.m. and I have been awake for 28 hours. I’m not hallucinating (yet) but I definitely hate everyone and, although I’m literally sitting in a clock, time is meaningless. One hour flies by and the next is like spending an afternoon at the DMV. Paul Hogan pretends to tell the time by looking at the sun (Crocodile Dundee, 1986) and I laugh for the first time in hours.
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I know nothing about sex. (Or nothing I recall.) – Oldster
Oatmeal boxes didn’t announce they contained “real oats.” Foods didn’t trumpet, “farm-fresh, farmhouse, farm-to-table, foraged, humane, grass-fed, hand-cut, hand-selected, heirloom, all-natural, lightly sweetened, high in fiber, free range, small-batch, sustainable, pan-Asian, micro, re-imagined, local, private-label, craft, CSA, or non-GMO,” and unlike museums, weren’t curated. A “curated” selection of cheese means cheese someone managed to get on a plate. If it’s also “hand-selected,” someone placed it on a plate with their hands — the perfect appendage for curating cheese.
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What is a Swatch .beat? We have divided up the day into 1000 “.beats”. So, one Swatch “.Beat” is equivalent to 1 Minute 26.4 Seconds. Why use Internet Time? Internet Time exists so that we do not have to think about timezones. For example, if a New York web-supporter makes a date for a chat with a cyber friend in Rome, they can simply agree to meet at an “@ time” – because internet time is the same all over the world. Where is the Internet Time meridian? Biel Meantime (BMT) is the universal reference for internet time. A day in internet time begins at midnight BMT (@000 Swatch .Beats) (Central European Wintertime). When did Internet Time start? The BMT Meridian was inaugurated on October 23rd, 1998, in the presence of Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the media laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Normal time makes it easy to compare progress across different time scales by removing artificial human concepts of time. It creates a unified way to express completion of any cyclic or linear time period. Dehumanizing time in this way has the counterintuitive effect of making it more recognizably natural and intuitive for human beings to express and understime durations. Furthermore it respects that each human life is complete unto itself, removing the implicit judgment of longer lives being “more complete”. It creates a clear distinction between lives that are “in progress” and “complete” without obfuscating the progression of those lives. And it recognizes that all completed lives are equally whole.
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In search of logged time – Public Books
Now, the carefully curated caches of our digital histories—and, therefore, almost all of our histories—face an existential threat. The creators of internet content—that is, us—believe they own their digital material, whether it’s a blog started at age 15 or a carefully backed-up Google Drive. This notion is proving to be a lie. The “digital dark age” is a term that was popularized in 2013 among archivists, who noticed that much of Web 2.0—the space that characterized the internet from the 2000s to now—faces complete obsolescence. Link-rot (dead URLs) and bit-rot (corrupted data) metastasized blog servers, video players, and chat forums. In 2019, 50 million tracks from 12 million artists on MySpace disappeared. This year, Christopher Nolan and Guillermo Del Toro warned film buffs to own DVDs as an archive source in a world where you don’t own many physical things, let alone the films you watch on streamers.
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Century-scale storage – Harvard Law School Innovation Library Hub
We are on the brink of a dark age, or have already entered one. The scale of art, music, and literature being lost each day as the World Wide Web shifts and degenerates represents the biggest loss of human cultural production since World War II. My generation was continuously warned by teachers, parents, and authority figures that we should be careful online because the internet is written in ink, and yet it turned out to be the exact opposite. As writer and researcher Kevin T. Baker remarked, “On the internet, Alexandria burns daily.” -
My machine and me – Los Angeles Review of Books
Mark Fisher described his millennial students as “a generation born into that ahistorical, anti-mnemonic blip culture—a generation, that is to say, for whom time has always come ready-cut into digital micro-slices.” For the next generation, the concept of time is segmented into even shorter media blocks. When is there the opportunity to feel sentimental? Should I feel sentimental about screen time? It is odd to be grateful to the laptop you paid $2,499 for, in 12 monthly installments, for reminding you of your physicality. I doubt Fisher would approve. The laptop gives the illusion of control over work-time when in fact it facilitates the erosion of a distinction between work and life. Still, I will take the help applying pressure to the hemorrhage. I want to be startled out of the trance, to pull my shoulders back and heave myself from bed. I want to remember that I am a body. -
Not my problem – Noema
Elsewhere, the “new normal” world feels dangerous and confusing to many, a lot of whom find themselves still living in ever-growing city-sized refugee camps, unsure if they will ever be able to return home. Looking for a little comfort and distraction at a time when the traditional media and entertainment industries have all but collapsed, they find themselves turning to the abandoned generative art platforms and prompted content. Bixby Snyder rides again, his infamous catchphrase “I’ll buy that for a dollar” repurposed as a darkly humorous, self-deprecating refrain for the millions who find themselves falling into poverty and displacement. -
Christian Marclay: The Clock – MoMA
Due to limited seating capacity, entry to The Clock is not guaranteed. MoMA members receive priority access. Visitors may stay inside the exhibition as long as they like during open hours, but must rejoin the queue if they exit for any reason. Food and drink are not allowed, and we ask that visitors refrain from talking or using cell phones. The use of recording devices, including mobile phones, is strictly prohibited. -
A poem about waiting, and wishing you had a drink – The New York Times
No one would call “Party Politics” a masterpiece: Commissioned for a 1984 issue of Poetry Review devoted to “Poetry and Drink,” it didn’t appear in any of the books issued in Larkin’s lifetime. But it shares the qualities of some of his best poems. Larkin is prized for his blunt honesty about the inevitability of disappointment, and for the stoicism and virtuosity that lighten the gloom.
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Extra extra! The end times, onscreen – The New York Times
Newspapers survive in a tangible way, unlike the final broadcasts on television and radio, which are also frequent tropes in the genre. And in post-apocalyptic worlds where power grids are largely nonexistent, digital trails also vaporize. There will probably be no screenshots to communicate society’s unraveling.
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