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I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark 💬

I have seen things you people wouldn’t believe. HTML tags nested 14 layers deep off the shoulder of a signature. I watched DOM beams glitter in the dark near the font of Verdana. All these containers will be lost in time, like tears from the CPU. Time to cry.

— DHH 💬

This song slaps 😅 music.apple.com/us/album/…

Folks under lockdown sure love to get out and come watch some newly hatched Mallard ducks. The boredom is real.

How to revisit a beloved Sci-fi franchise, Picard.

How not to, Star Wars sequel trilogy.

Have been reading a bunch of posts about how the current forced work from home will help push companies into supporting more of it. Some of that may happen, but I think what we will see a lot more of is, folks getting a taste of what it’s like and seeking out more distributed work.

As someone looking around for a new bookmarking service, Memex looks interesting.