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https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/06/17/25-its-only-when-you-look-back/

I remember talking to my Grandfather shortly before he passed away about the changes he’d seen in his lifetime. Born in 1911, the thing he said that really stuck with me was that when he was a child people were barely puttering around off the ground in aeroplanes; A few years before his 60th birthday, men walked on the moon. When I look back at the simple 8-bit microcomputers of my childhood, compared to the modern world in which my daughter is growing up, I can’t help but feel like I’ve seen a similar step change. But just as my Poppa said “When it’s happening you don’t notice it. It’s only when you look back you see how much everything has changed.”

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-trouble-with-narrative-history/

To understand human history, we must resist attributing meaning and motive to it.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300227109/in-praise-of-forgetting/

The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana’s celebrated phrase, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this right? David Rieff, an independent writer who has reported on bloody conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and Central Asia, insists that things are not so simple. He poses hard questions about whether remembrance ever truly has, or indeed ever could, “inoculate” the present against repeating the crimes of the past. He argues that rubbing raw historical wounds—whether self-inflicted or imposed by outside forces—neither remedies injustice nor confers reconciliation. If he is right, then historical memory is not a moral imperative but rather a moral option—sometimes called for, sometimes not. Collective remembrance can be toxic. Sometimes, Rieff concludes, it may be more moral to forget.

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https://friedmanarchives.blogspot.com/2026/04/your-photographic-legacy.html

What to do with our physical photo albums remain and nobody (myself included) seems to have the extra space for them, yet also don't have the heart to throw them away?

https://github.com/hgus107/A-Long-Walk-of-AI

A narrative walk through 90 years of AI history, paper by paper. 66 chapters from Turing 1936 to Blackwell 2025. - hgus107/A-Long-Walk-of-AI