John Burwell aka deet shared 5 months ago
Insightful post by Hugh Howey, author of the Silo series. Title of the post, "Arriving Early with Assholes":
"We are blind to the fact that we could build different incentives and arrive at the same place just a little bit later while rewarding better behaved humans.
But nope. We’re in such a rush and have such a confused idea of how things are made, that we’d rather arrive early with assholes. And we only have ourselves to blame."
Web sites like this is what we have a “The Internet” for:
https://everycharacteractorbehindadeskinacoenbrothersfilm.com/film/the-hudsucker-proxy/at/00:06:36
The first one to tip this post gets to go grocery shopping with me. You can pick out the gravy
Legit checking things off my grocery shopping list on my Newton MessagePad 120.
Which apparently Siri still knows how to automatically capitalize.
And, yes, reporting it via my pocket supercomputer
Area man searches for cookie, remembers having eaten it already
Which was the puckish, maniacal mythological Greek god who went around putting articles about Steely Dan in people’s feeds, forcing them to listen to Pretzel Logic
The economy, a system for converting the labor of non-owning users into the convenience of non-using owners
What new information could change your mind about any of this? What specifically are you undecided about, and what new data are you awaiting before you establish your conclusion?
Or are you binging news just to grasp at hope?
Are you finding hope?
John Burwell aka deet shared 6 months ago
The problem in America isn’t that Joe Biden is old. It is that a former president who plotted to kill the next two people in the constitutional line of succession is not being challenged as he attempts to return to the White House. But sure, let’s keep pretending that Joe Biden’s age is what really matters, and ignore the lying insurrectionist running the Republican Party. — Jason Easley, Managing Editor, PoliticusUSA
My vibe is That Talking Robot Episode of Columbo
Hi yes, I’m on the go and I need to manage a personal information. Do you take Newton Pay
This… (waves hands) …this is all true
John Burwell aka deet shared 6 months ago
Everyone makes a big deal about the people who designed and built Voyager 1 because it was supposed to last 4 years and it’s lasted for 47, but all that means is they spent money on reliability that could have been returned to shareholders in a stock buyback.
When I was first listening to Pink Floyd, when I was younger, I misheard the line in Money as “new car, copier, four star daydream…” and was like, yeah if I was rich I’d get a copier too
I wonder if there are any cool new computer programs I can load
So far, the Internet has turned out to be an incredibly advanced and complex yet efficient machine for such a simple task as converting money into bullshit
That scene in Succession where they throw all the expensive uneaten seafood straight into the trash, except it's Apple's WWDC team and Vision Pro sessions… and instead of Logan going "Pizza! We'll have Pizza!" it's Tim going "AI! we'll have AI!"
One Night Only! GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY and the HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SALTS
All right! Who's ready for … whoaaoaoaoaoa!!! (comically slips and falls in puddle of gravy)
… gravy?
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I rise as she sleeps
In the gray dawn, silent
But for the cracking of my bones