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# The death of data
- URL: https://balaustine.mymagic.page/the-death-of-data/
- Published: 2013-08-04T15:41:46.000Z
- Updated: 2013-08-04T15:41:46.000Z
- Author: VM
- Tags: Uncategorized, external hard drives, fundamental forces, #Migrated-1787483357778, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 11:09

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efskehfsfrhlrfkdrslfhrgrgwfwfsfrehfIDROPPEDMYHARDDRIVE! From a height of six feet. Now it makes a high-pitched noise every time I plug it in, and refuses to be read. I know this isn’t a big issue, one that’s easily fixed, but temporary lack of data access is unsettling for me. More so that such a situation has been precipitated by (accidental) physical violence, not a software-related one, and the lack of access suddenly casts my digital data as a fragile entity. There is something eerily comedic about how data ‘created’ with one of the stronger of the four natural fundamental forces can be ‘destroyed’ by the weakest.

Damn you, mass. And momentum.