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Vanilla Doom @dooming.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 07:00 UTC

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 22:34 UTC

If he gets down and gives us five I'm sure the polls will recover

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 22:17 UTC

if I was a cool musician I'd start a grindcore band and if the genre name was ever uttered in my presence I'd make a puzzled face and talk about my inspiration from The Ramones

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 22:16 UTC

I always loved when Lemmy Kilmister would insist his band wasn't heavy metal and he was playing rock'n'roll inspired by Chuck Berry

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 22:04 UTC

punk never died it just became communist grindcore

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:50 UTC

reading a problematic doujinshi

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:27 UTC

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:02 UTC

this is a Google Books graph that shows references to the Library of Alexandria
Carl Sagan's popular TV show, Cosmos, launched in 1980 and made a bunch of bizarre claims about this library containing the sum total of human knowledge
You can work out the relation

books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:58 UTC

a fun example is the sheer amount of references that people make to the library of Alexandria and the implied loss of culture and civilization it represents it's an entirely constructed myth with no relation to history, but it's emotionally powerful for many people

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:48 UTC

the reason I never buy that religious belief is especially problematic or epistemically defective is because mythologies proliferate with or without a religious veneer and are just as resistant history myths are extremely powerful and they're often cloaked in the language of scientific authority

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:15 UTC

Copying of ancient and medieval texts was quite less glamorous and more complicated than "everything is centralized in one place and things are lost forever if the one place is gone"

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:05 UTC

The popular focus on the library of Alexandria as a cultural touchstone is itself an interesting topic because we can trace it to specific events, e.g. Carl Sagan making a big deal out of it, you can literally see the mentions to it exploding in the literature after his popular show

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:01 UTC

I agree about Internet Archive, but I have to be that annoying person that points out the current historical understanding it that the decline of the library of Alexandria wasn't really a devastating loss, and its collection might have very well been copied in other libraries by the time it happened

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 10:30 UTC

lmao this is deranged

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