I'm no Luddite - far from it - but the ways in which in this development has been spoken of seem blind to, or completely uninterested in, what cannot be machine read and searched for: the pounce, sweat marks, soot, or wax; the non-semantic yet semiotically rich substrate that OCR strips away.

Thanks Aunt Aim ❤️ it angers me too that his uninformed and sexist opinions spread so far because he was given such a weighty position of authority, and no doubt had insidious impact the extent of which we can’t even measure!

Aw. Hugs and sorry for your loss 💔