In this episode I talk about how a solar flare could wipe out all digital media and how I'm preparing for the AI Apocalypse. This Labor Day I put all seven o...
In this episode I talk about how a solar flare could wipe out all digital media and how I’m preparing for the AI Apocalypse.
And it’s not just theory. I listened to several great podcasts which just aren’t around anymore. I have some backups from the time I used to save everything to my harddrive. But some are just gone. And these days I mainly use the phone and everything gets deleted client-side. Also pretty much impossible to re-surface some niche stuff. My YouTube favorites playlist contains an ungodly amount of deleted videos. I constantly lose songs in my Tidal playlists, and several of my old CDs aren’t published on any of the music streaming services… Not really concerned with AI… But all the subscription services which constantly change things in the background aren’t all that great.
And it’s not just theory. I listened to several great podcasts which just aren’t around anymore. I have some backups from the time I used to save everything to my harddrive. But some are just gone. And these days I mainly use the phone and everything gets deleted client-side. Also pretty much impossible to re-surface some niche stuff. My YouTube favorites playlist contains an ungodly amount of deleted videos. I constantly lose songs in my Tidal playlists, and several of my old CDs aren’t published on any of the music streaming services… Not really concerned with AI… But all the subscription services which constantly change things in the background aren’t all that great.