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Axtremus
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https://www.theatlantic.com/te...allucination/619320/

Long read, a thoughtful treatment of the impermanence of information on the Internet, with some ideas on how to fix some of it.


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ShiroKuro
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Thanks for posting this! Fascinating, and distressing!

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We found that 50 percent of the links embedded in Court opinions since 1996, when the first hyperlink was used, no longer worked. And 75 percent of the links in the Harvard Law Review no longer worked.


HairRaising


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Steve Miller
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Harvard people love attention but are unwilling to do any work.

Who knew?


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