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For more complicated organisms, robustness comes in the form of cellular turnover, and regenerative healing in response to injury, at least in youth. I wonder though if single celled organisms have or even need such a function.

Individual cells absolutely do have mechanisms to repair damage: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5664224/

They can even repair their own DNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_repair


The polite way of saying that is "Its a jobs program."

Planned obsolescence is a choice, not a likelihood

Not yet...

Prince had intense business instincts, not just for becoming a vertically integrated multi-instrumental composer manager, bandleader and of course prodigious artist. Its rumored that to ruin the market demand for his bootleggers, Prince started his own sockpuppet bootleg label, that eventually released over four hundred CDs of content. Concerts, studio alternate cuts, and of course After-Shows. That label is curiously named Sabotage.

Whether the rumor is true or not, I can't confirm. What I can tell you is it's an amazing soundboard quality collection of his work product that I'm still not all the way through exploring after it briefly circulated among fans for a brief moment shortly after his death.

1. http://tonio.lagoule.free.fr/prince_BootsCats_Sab.htm


They called 'em Tape Trees, way back then, which begat ETree.org

Sugarmegs is up and running for 30+ years now. I knew the guy who started it back then and he was a Sony employee who "inherited" a T-1 connection that Sony forgot they were paying for... At least for the first few years, when content streams were now profoundly ancient real audio files.

Archive.org always made puzzling UI choices, not really sure why, but its a long running trend thats not likely to change. Such that for larger Band repos, fans stepped in and made their own front ends:

1. https://www.gdao.org/

2. https://dlr2008.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/on-public-access-to...

3. https://relisten.net/grateful-dead

Clearly this tape stash is worthy of similar treatment. Also of note for live music fans and collectors: Legendary Long Island Radio Station WLIR Live Show Archives:

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22WLIR%22


Apple learned to hang back from plowing the unsold Lisa's into a landfill.

To this day, using soft keyboards + autocorrect boils my blood. Q: Are we not men?


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