Well, fuck me, that's just. I'm at a loss.
How can he ever have been seen as a candidate to lead a fucking McDonald's, let alone a country. Fuck sake.

Modern day book burning. Funny how history rhymes like that.

I have been doing this just so when my kid comes home from high school in ten years to tell me what they learned in "history" class, i can set the record straight

It's been backed up a zillion times already. Scanning a rare old book and uploading it to Internet Archive and/or Libgen/Z-lib, seeding Anna's Archive torrents, stuff of that sort is more valuable than an another copy of Wikipedia on your hard drive where nobody will ever touch it.

Done. I've also been hitting up estate sales looking for any kind of book with knowledge in it, especially tables, numbers, conversions, or formulas. I don't trust our AI riddled internet to tell me how many pints are in a gallon at this point.

Yes, yes, metric system blah blah. I didn't choose the system, I just make brownies with it.

Ohh Potolemy, yeahhh right there.....

Ohh, it's probably not that kind of content. my bad...

Been lowkey prepping for a while.

I've been keeping a copy of the Zim for ages just waiting for doom :)

good time for local copies of books/movies/tv

good time to have a decent stock of long-term food staples.

keeping a copy of some LLMs around isn't bad either; they're not great, but they are bang for the buck (compression wise) FULL of data from all over the net, you just need to be careful and not just trust it openly.

I can't say i'm happy that it seems like it might be useful in my lifespan.

I did that in February... after my copy from early January got damaged.

the flavour dulls after 8 years

Here's the Kiwix library too which can be a bit hard to find. Click on the "blue" link for a given file to get a download including a torrent.

I don't think that the fed will shut down the Internet. Not just because it's effectively impossible to do for a timeframe that's anything less than a month, but because it would literally destroy the entire country and the regime's ability to do anything.

There's a reason China still has the Internet, and why VPNs are still kind of tolerated. The U.S. nor any industry in it cannot survive without it. We are dozens of much less serious (but still serious) steps away from an internet shutdown, and I genuinely think that we won't reach internet shutdown at all.

Without the Internet it's not just credit cards that stop working, it's literally the capability for any store to order stuff to sell. Or the capability for every federally regulated employer (nearly all of them) to pay employees. Third world countries can get away with it because their economy isn't anywhere near as modernized as that of western countries.

Additionally, the way that the U.S. government is organized makes attacks on the Internet very difficult without Congress.

Shut it down? No. Fascist firewall it and fill it with shitty boot-licking AI answers? Sure.

they’re going to shut down the internet soon

They would never do that. If they did, then how would Trump keep spreading his bullshit?

They won't shut down the internet. First, there is way to much $$$ involved in keeping it running. The Tech Bs will push back hard against that. Also, they will realize it is more useful to sensor it and use it for state approved information distribution.

Basically, this conversation will happen: https://youtu.be/gyt0bZms5zU?t=2069

get ready to pirate disney+ movies or shows.

They can keep Jay Leno.

Got an article on how I would do this?

Backing up something from the internet, on the internet, just in case the internet goes down?

They prefer ammo over facts

When they realized they could be fact checked.

They're trying to remove as many as they can. See: historical events that highlight women (NASA mathematicians) and minorities' (WW2 regiments) achievements, NASA weather and climate data (to the point of early decommissioning the satellites that are collecting that data), purging medical data of any mentions of women, etc.

2017? It was on the front page!

I wonder if old books are going to increase in value because people know they weren't edited or generated by AI?

The Onion has been a reputable news source for a long time now.