Data Preservation to Battle Historic Revisionism

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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David Botkin gets on the podcast to talk about how history is being rewritten, and some of the books that he has collected to preserve esoteric military data that used to be common knowledge. We also go down a bit of a rabbits trail involving data preservation methods, personal servers, and AI-generated Muppet war. This episode is something of a follow-up to the T.Rex Labs video on digital libraries.

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0:00.0	Why is it important that you have control of your own data and not just data that you have
0:05.1	personally created, but stuff that you've collected from the past?
0:13.2	Welcome back to another T-Rex talk. I have a guest today, my brother David Bodkin, who is
0:20.7	the CFO of T-Rex Arms. I have a guest today, my brother David Bodkin, who is the CFO of T-Rex
0:21.7	arms, to talk about this issue. By the time that people watch this episode, a T-Rex Labs
0:27.7	video will have just dropped explaining how you backup files, how you download a digital
0:32.0	library, start collecting books and magazines from Gutenberg and Stack Exchange and Wikipedia offline backup copies, stuff like that.
0:41.8	So why is that important?
0:44.0	Why is it important that people actually maintain, you know, access to information that, you know, either can't be trusted because the cloud providers can't be trusted or they can't be trusted because the cloud providers can't be trusted,
0:56.4	or they can't be trusted because the information is constantly in flux
1:00.7	and you can never go back and reference previous historical facts.
1:05.8	Yeah, so I'd say it's a mix of all of the things that you listed.
1:09.3	It could be you want to have access
1:11.3	to your information in the event that there's any sort of grid down, grid interruptions. It
1:17.7	could also be the getting canceled thing. It could also be you don't want the cloud going
1:25.7	through and deleting stuff that it thinks you shouldn't have.
1:28.3	Yeah.
1:29.3	There's been some examples of that.
1:30.3	Sometimes accidents, sometimes not accidents.
1:32.3	Right.
1:33.3	Sometimes they think they know better than you.
1:35.3	Yeah.
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