Caroline Spencer

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NC born & bred. K-12 education, books, travel, Cat’s Cradle, and the Oxford comma. 🙄 expert. Voter. Tar Heel. Here about 1/week.

My son, an adult, has been taking forestry (aka trim tall trees on his property) classes. I’ve shared that I appreciate his interest but perhaps he doesn’t need to share details with his mother. This was our “conversation” today after he bought protective gear. 🙄🙄🙄

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“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future

Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

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If ever a case were made to get all of your stuff and things out of the cloud and amass physical copies of everything, here is a prime example of why: PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute | PCMag share.google/mVR4o9Uk84T9...

PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute

The lost footage, said to amount to roughly 50 terabytes of data, reportedly included historical items shot over roughly 70 years of the station's programming.

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