There’s a strikingly raw and human quality to pre-code Hollywood movies that all but died at least until the late 1960s

Even film noir of the 1950s kept walking the line without actually crossing it (the bad guy always had to get punished, the women suffered consequences for being daring)

I wonder how many creative gems evaporated, never to be cut or admired by the public during the censorship era

@cypnk The number repeatedly given for the proportion of silent films lost to time is 90%. Fifty years worth of seminal culture, the birth of a new form of collective human literacy, gone like a forgotten rumour. I also mourn how virtually all we know first hand of Ancient Greek history boils down to barely more than 2 historians, the loss of Alexandria’s gem...

Given that virtually none of the new infotech has a horizon beyond ten years, the future for our now looks as grim.

@Shufei It’s a very small drop in the bucket, but I encourage everyone to print their own zines whenever they can. We’re leaving fewer and fewer hard copies of our lives, but with every small distributed breadcrumb, there’s at least a chance something will survive

@cypnk Yes, a good suggestion. And zine and such are fun, too! Analogue, human readable media are so important for continuity!

There was a project years ago called the Long Now, I think, which was talking about making and popularizing Norsam Disks (ultra compressed microfiche like polymer or synthetic crystal media). But I’ve not seen them do anything further toward that, sadly. Norsam is still so expensive... 🙍🏽‍♀️