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title = "Interpretive labor"
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glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"]
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The promise of search: no need to navigate explicit ontologies. Google will
crawl the internet for you. Simply type what you desire and the output will
appear! Instantaneous luxury knowledge.
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However, the best answers are found by prefixing a query with "reddit". These
small communities, subreddits, are specialists in their domain. They are the
Encyclopedians of the internet, pulling together the relevant information into
threads. Google is dead!
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This Library of Babel can be deciphered, but only through local custodianship.
A custodian, albeit self-interested, can establish "grassroots way-finding" in
relationship with readers. They act below Dunbar's threshold.
https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying
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https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/