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Feb 22Liked by René Walter

Well written, thanks!

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the past tense of teach is taught, not teached. I stopped reading at that barbarism on the fourth word of the third line.

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Can the internet archives be kind of canonized by training a LLM on it?

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The topic of building cultural memory in a time of culture wars intrigues me. I agree that internet-mediated relations don’t really help to build that shared memory: too much stuff, too quickly flows by our eyes and fingers.

Does it follow then that any significant cultural movement must offer people some form of non-digital sociability as a condition of mobilisation (I.e take the streets on demonstrations, or get together in person in small groups, yearly events/conferences, …)?

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