RE: https://scholar.social/@JubalBarca/117570036920574395
i think it's a monumentally cruel, shortsighted, and self destructive thing to do to ourselves and our children to make this the sole remaining means of accessing information.
First, map gaps. Some of these are just nonsensical, like the example below where some parts of the 1616 Holy Roman Empire are apparently non-entities.
Some are more troubling though. Oceania is a blank space before British colonisation in Australia: the pre-colonial histories of Australia and Aotearoa are relegated to "non-civilisation", erased entirely. Even some known cultures like the Hopewell are absent: the computer is unthinkingly replicating the full colonial model of who gets seen.
