@clacke

there are a lot of adjacent ones. See, for example

https://xkcd.com/1425/

@clacke

https://xkcd.com/1831/

@infernusgoatus @checkervest

my Dad would have done them all

might have added a few

@RobinHood

the five blades of tissue manufacturing

@cstanhope @clacke

it's like they say, if you're not angry, you're not paying attention

@nolan

from my current reading of what I call "the Davids" (Graeber & Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything") it seems the idea of "collapse" is itself fraught.

It looks like a catastrophe when empires stopping doing their imperial things when viewed with an imperial outlook.

From outside of this perspective, it's the rise & intrusion of imperialism in the first place that's the disaster.

The Davids present very good cause to doubt the entire premise of those first few paragraphs.

@mwlucas

This is one of those things that fits into "I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people".

but as it turns out, alas, it can be tough to get people to do sensible things like this, even in their own interests.

Still, we have to try. Good on you, I hope it gets through to someone at least!

So thoroughly have we been steeped in the notion that we must fight against anyone getting more than they "deserve" and arguing "bUt hoW wiLL wE pAY FoR iT?" that we all suffer.

@clacke

sorry to have been the one to break it to you, even if obliquely

@clacke

seems like there was just so much sorrow from the lives of the cast of that show

@clacke

the one place I've encountered it: Brian Cantrell is on video giving a talk where he says "stop anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison"

@clacke

tell me it's a git tutorial

@clacke

it was ok.

cut into my sleep time, but as I dozed off near the end I backed up to catch up on what I missed a couple of times, which is sometimes the point at which I abandon the effort, so I'll give it that.

finally saw Blade Runner 2049 this week

@jens

as best I can tell, it's in response to, and in a style inspired by, McCloud, but it's by someone else

https://contrachrome.com/about-2/

@clacke

That reminds me that at one point in the last couple of years it occurred to me that we hadn't heard much from Clay Shirky recently, so I tried to find out what changed.

He's in NYU administration now

https://www.nyu.edu/about/leadership-university-administration/office-of-the-president/office-of-the-provost/academic-affairs/clay-shirky.html

I misread a news slug as

"A reminder; vacations work"

and I thought "fuck yeah they do!" but also "that's some top-level wordplay" then I realized what I'd done.