protect the archive.org.
its part of the modern day alexandria, and they want to burn it down.
run the archive team warrior if you can too.
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I was saying the other day that the destruction of Gaza is like another burning of Alexandria but across a whole country. You look at satellite photos of rubble and realize that every single pile was part of something that took so many hours of labor to design and build, so much culture that is lost to time due to the bombings. Art, history, architecture, not to even mention the untold amounts of death and sufferring. Fuckin sad.
Nice.
All that knowledge forever lost
It's not something I obsess about, but when it's mentioned, then yeah, I think I am still upset.
And it's happening again, right now, as we speak.
Knowledge is being set ablaze by the powers-that-be and nobody is stepping up to meaningfully prevent it from all being destroyed.
Difference now is that it's easier than ever to save a copy of the books in danger. If you're upset about books being deleted, grab a USB and get to work downloading those books.
Better yet, mirror the Internet Archive, Anna's Archive, and sci-hub.
That takes a rediculous amount of storage, though.
Wonder if there's some kind of P2P backup a la IPFS
Obligatory mention that by the time the library burned its popularity was already in decline, and most of the works had been copied or moved to other libraries, so not much was realy lost.
So, out of curiosity - what number do you see in the yellow circle?
Can still be upset about the loss of the building can't I?
Most of the works were copies to begin with - the loss of the Library of Alexandria is a loss of a possible source of transmission for literally hundreds of thousands of ancient texts. Considering how many priceless pieces of literature have survived by only a single copy, mourning the (multiple) burnings of the Great Library is far from mourning a nonissue.
This is incorrect. I can see some of those numbers, but I feel ALL those things.
its still correct then
If not seeing the number means you are dehydrated, being dehydrated doesn't necessarily mean you don't see the number.
Like if it rained, then the ground is wet, but the if the ground is wet, it could also have gotten wet by other means than rain.
Yes, I am. And I'm shocked this is not rough roman memes.
Screw Julius Caesar ... I know for a fact he helped destroy the library. I'm saying it right now in the open, I'm glad Ceasar got stabbed, it was library justice.
There's only one number?
Wait there's number?
Nah those Greek twats had it coming.
I wish I could read complete Aeschylus plays, but the loss of the Library of Alexandria was only the terminus for great ideas, culture, and mathematics if you ignore the existence of ancient writings of the East. Some of the best ideas were absent from that library before it caught fire.