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who could ever tell that someone questioning authority would need to position themselves forward in face of unfounded criticism?

this is genius territory

that is just fatigue. you’ve been vibed too hard.

> According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, in 1989 US officials feared that TRON could undercut American dominance in computers, but that in the end PC software and chips based on the TRON technology proved no match for Windows and Intel's processors as a global standard.

“Excess” implies irrationality, but I wonder how could something irrational be a threat to ‘American dominance in computers’?

why use many word when few word do trick?

Recent publications have not yet passed the test of time.

Imagine being sanctioned for trying to read books.

This assumes that culture and academia work hand in hand, which is just in line with many right-wing conspiracies and plain wrong.

This is interesting. They really can’t keep you locked forever.

My argument stands whether the author meant to be read literally or not. Below the surface it’s still about the tension of rationality and irrationality within social settings.

> If the American press had given me 20 minutes of airtime I could have convinced everyone they don’t want to get involved with Greenland.

On one hand the author recognizes the scope of the “protocol wars” as a rational thing being irrelevant in the actually relevant time span. On the other hand, the author swears that they can bring rationality to a deeply emotional matter through discourse.

There are no natives anymore. For some time, really. Honestly I don’t even think there ever were.

The last time the world had an intelligentsia of this magnitude, the Tsarist State fell.

It sounds like people are being paid to push Erlang for agentic stuff. Cool story, but if I end up feeling like I need to “return to the 20th century” for abstractions, I’ll just use Lisp.

So much money that only running your mega ad operation would allow you to cover the costs.