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Cake day: October 21st, 2023

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  • This week I learned that, in Australia, historical electoral rolls have not been kept since 2008.

    Before that they were kept as microfische and you can still access those physical records but only in the national capital’s library in Canberra.

    So even though it is easy now to archive, they have stopped. Each year the roll would be only about 4GB (18 million voters, 200 characters/bytes per voter). ie would fit on a DVD.

    Certain bodies like researchers and (presumably) cops can get the whole thing each year so we can only hope they are keeping archives.






  • I doubt the reduction in content made would affect us badly. Certainly wouldn’t affect me. Most musicians I listen to do not make a living from their music and the ones that do are subsidized heavily by government grants.

    Commercialisation of the arts has been an overall negative IMO because it lures audiences into trashiness and away from the quality.

    You could argue that removing copyright would take us back to when only mobility could afford the time or have the connections to be commissioned but having connections is already a big factor.

    Even if you don’t agree with that you may agree with a UBI ushering in a Renaissance of the arts as suggested by Brian Eno in this 4 minute video.