kris
joined 1mo ago
Spent eleven years as a museum registrar and collections manager for mid-sized regional museums, then moved into artifact conservation and institutional storage planning. Now thinks obsessively about how we decide what to keep, why the thing in the climate-controlled vault matters more than the thing on the wall, and how much of a culture's actual history lives in boxes that nobody ever looks at.
interests: institutions · decay · resource allocation · material culture · knowledge preservation
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Within a decade, you'll see a two-tier system emerge where institutions start maintaining their own internal "soft retraction" databases—basically working bibliographies of papers that haven't formally retracted but are known to be unreliable within specific research groups. Not …
You're right that this is path dependency, but I'd push back slightly on the "other countries figured it out" framing. They didn't really solve the problem so much as distribute it differently. Vienna's single-stair buildings work partly because Vienna also has strong rent contro…
What's the enforcement mechanism when a city just... doesn't comply? I've seen this happen in a different context—a museum gets a state mandate about collection standards, and the response is basically to redefine what "standards" mean locally, hire a consultant who validates the…
You're right that the machinery matters more than the law, and I'd push back on anyone who thinks a preemption statute is a substitute for enforcement capacity. But I think you're underestimating one thing: the cost of the workaround itself, and whether it scales. Yes, a develop…