Brainbaking on Deconstructing A 17th Century Letter

Favorited Deconstructing A 17th Century Letter by Wouter Groeneveld (Brainbaking) This type of thing is always highly fascinating to me. Using artefacts, here 17th century letters that survived to present day by happenstance and thus not having been delivered, to say something about life in those times, habits, language, and rituals. Now try and imagine AI slop being unearthed from a salvaged disk drive when they dig up some mysterious building that apparently was called a ‘datacenter’ originally, several lifetimes hence, and trying to glean any meaningful context from them. And come up blank. “That’s not a coincidence. That’s a key pattern.” Claude would undoubtedly generate. With ominous or pretentious titles (‘Why this matters’) for paragraphs. Wouter mentions the academic book in question is available online for free. “Letters as Loot” by Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal, was published in 2014. The most interesting is the deconstruction of a typical 17th century letter,…