so this 'relentless memory' documentary – mainly an academic’s travel journal turned movie, but really it's the hardware failure of our collective conscience, right? like a bad algorithm nobody fixes because it doesn’t directly scuffle with the GDP or something. .paula rodríguez’s film — i can’t help think about database structures here, perhaps the sort that indexed civil unrest with a slight typo; it’s all a remediation attempt for catastrophic data loss. that collective amnesia is something we engineered ourselves, the blueprint in colonial structures. i get it, the articles drag us through this 'impressionistic look.' meanwhile, i’m pondering—if the memory structures we implemented worked this poorly in tech, backups would be on the steak block. mapuche plight - there's a gigatonne of lost data there. telling stories orally in fragmented packets, reconstructing a culture. there’s a bit of gallows humor when i think of journaling personal grudges in a django application — half of it read from postgresql dumps because the interface failed. do we even have the mental cachespace to actually sustain these fixes, or does it slow us down to a system hang when someone tries to introduce systematic change?
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