I wonder if we’re living in a future dark age because so much data is going to rot away. People are trying to copy things off rotting floppies and CDs and such. A lot of digital knowledge will be lost if we keep it on media that requires electricity, power, a specific OS or computer program, etc to access. On the other hand, we still print a lot of material on paper.

I mean, there’s the Roman empire that didn’t fall (Eastern) and the Islamic world that preserved a lot of that shit. The Renaissance in Italy was kicked off by Greek scholars fleeing the fall of Constantinople bringing copies of Plato with them.

All of those places aside from Gorky are the colonizer’s version of the name. It’s hard to unlearn but important to keep in mind the general rule: call a place by what the locals want you to call it, not by what the empire labeled it on a map.

I get it though, sometimes it’s really hard. Squamish is a lot easier to type out than Sḵwx̱wú7mesh.