Master recordings of 90s music on slowly dying media

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@thomdunn

The rise of digital-first audio recording processes, however, has also made it more difficult to keep track of where and when the original digital audio files were stored in the first place, even if whatever hard drive is holding them remains intact. As Mix Online explains:

find / -type -f -name NIN_Downward_Spiral_Final_3.0_Final_Keep_this_one_Actual_Proper_Good_Version_FINAL.zip

[thomdunn]

Why are you attacking me like this

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@anon61221983

@danimagoo

Even large shareholders, the ones who vote at shareholder meetings, pretty consistently favor short term gains over the long term health of the companies they invest in. It’s one of the weaknesses, in my opinion, of capitalism.

Yes, that’s always been the case, and it’s gotten only worse since the 1970s and the rise of neoliberalism too… the expansion of both venture capital firms and of private equity have not helped in that regard.

I’ve often wondered if this is a fundamental property of capitalism, or “just” our current implementation of it. But certainly current monetary policies reward liquidity over value creation. Which I suppose is to say that they value extraction over cultivation.

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@anon72357663

I’ve often wondered if this is a fundamental property of capitalism, or “just” our current implementation of it.

I think it’s capitalism, but in the postwar period, there was something of an expansion of democracy, and greater demands for either socialist policies or for greater regulation of the worst aspects of capitalism. The capitalists have fought back against that since the 1970s… but you can see lots of this stuff in Marx’s works.

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@orenwolf

With the rise of digital storage on decidedly non-permanent media, I’ve always wondered if all ens finding is in the distant future witll have a @Mindysan33 historian equivalent who will surmise that we peaked in the Renaissance era simply because the structures and archives from that time are still preserved and available, while it seems that after this period, everything disintegrated on unreadable media, or development devolved to rusted metal structures or a fine film of microplastics covering everything.

This sounds like the premise behind Glasshouse, except that was mostly set in an approximate re-enactment of 1950-2000s conservative small town America in a repurposed 27th century military prison ship.

Glasshouse (novel)

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@thomdunn

nearly 20% of the SSDs they’ve been

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@anon61221983

I think it’s capitalism, but in the postwar period, there was something of an expansion of democracy, and greater demands for either socialist policies or for greater regulation of the worst aspects of capitalism. The capitalists have fought back against that since the 1970s…

Lots and lots and lots of exactly this! Post-war liberal democratic government was crucially instrumental in the democratization of prosperity.

Adam Smith’s vision of the Invisible Hand included the seldom acknowledged assumption that individuals would follow their enlightened self interest. Enlightenment is becoming scarce though . . .

Too many capital owners seem to quickly devolve toward just short term greed. And much of the rest of the populace gradually (and increasingly) follows into the same greed.

@anon61221983

but you can see lots of this stuff in Marx’s works.

And a strong dash of this. Neoliberalism has steadily set about proving Marx and Lenin right.

But all this is an entirely different discussion.