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Bruce Arthur
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This, from @vermontgmg about communication on 9/11, is fascinating. The gulf that has been opened in under 20 years feels like 10 generations, and I kept thinking about how instantly polluted the information pool would be now. And that we've lost something wired.com/story/pagers-p…
I'm from one of the last pre-Internet generations. Email was barely a thing when I was in university. Me and @SolarNerd and @pixel_bender connected the @Ubyssey desktop computers with ethernet cables and it felt like the future. We are all now 100 years old, electronically.
I joke sometimes about cutting the undersea cables that carry the Internet with laser saws, but let's be honest: I don't know how to operate a laser saw. I'm an old man, born before the world completely changed. I guess I could Google how to use one, though.
I'm going to go to bed now, and dream of my childhood when I thought, I wish I had a little computer that had a map of everything: streets, shops, movie theatres, everything. I would never get lost with that thing. It would have been a better idea had I been able to make it.
I mistagged @thesolarnerd! He is a very smart person but short, so in university he and I were basically Pinky and The Brain
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Bret Stephens is what happens when you fail upwards so hard and fast that any slight on you, no matter how minor, is the French Revolution coming for your head

(Which he has also compared Twitter criticism to)

(And the thing is his columns are *even worse than this stuff*)
A NYT columnist name-searched himself, got called a bedbug in a zero-RT post, emailed the guy's boss super weirdly, was found out and made fun of, quit Twitter, and went on TV to compare it to the language used by totalitarian dictators. This is *unbelievably* embarrassing stuff
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Bruce Arthur
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I am finally buying new basketball shoes. Since I last did this, they came up with like three more ways to tighten and fasten them. So as an old jump shooter with a history of ankle problems who still tries to defend and appreciates long-term reliability, what are the best ones?
Keeping in mind, I am also budget-conscious, as my four kids need new shoes *constantly*
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I'm starting to think one reason so many people can't wrap their heads around just how bad and dangerous things are in America right now is that the scheme to take over the country was carried off in the dumbest way possible, successfully, and very few people want to admit that
I have thought this for a while, to be honest
The elite political press failed; the so-called serious adults failed; Donald Trump took over one party with fake polls and his brand of stupid racist yelling without much difficulty, and then beat the other party with all the scams he could muster. It's all very embarrassing.
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