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Nice follow up.

Some great diagrams thinking about extremely long time scale trends for civilization

Outsiders telling the truth of a disease you don't want to be true has happened before and will happen again.

Wil in his own words about revisiting Wesley.

This show was really quite excellent

I like the point about engineering arrogance, that you can just solve the problems of decision making and rules. (Never mind that you can prove you more or less can't prove a general purpose programming language will do only what you say it does.)

I think storing data as sequences of Tetris moves is the best.

Adults actively making the world worse is a big part of it

It's bad and has no path to good.

Of course it's all fraud

Interesting redefinition of class in terms of asset ownership.

Exciting end of an era for John. I thought he'd be a corporate worker like me until retirement.

Lots of interesting points how smart weapons and smart phones seem to be changing conventional warfare.

On how the Axie hack is just another example of how toxic this stuff is.

This was a very fun moment for us, even if it's just a fan reference

All time favorite

Every time I read about blockchain it's worse

America was already in decline and COVID may push us over the edge into irrelevance. We have capital, we have universities, we have a military, and very little else.

Because of course it is

Grew too fast

Deep analysis. I don't know enough to say how good it is.

Harrowing stats.

Languages and how people use them represent personal identities and the political and cultural histories of a community. Learn more about Ukrainian and Russian, what people speak in Ukraine and why, and the linguistic complexities behind the videos and signs you've been seeing.

As with diseases such as malaria and HIV, rich countries are “moving on” from COVID while poor ones continue to get ravaged.

"in a bordered world designed to exclude those who need resources and stability from countries that enjoy those privileges, displacement crises follow a predictable pattern"

Interesting concept. I like the connection to ancient stories, like this has always been a human thing.

Yup

Voyeurs. Sabotaged accounts. Backdoor schemes. For years, the retail giant has handled your information less carefully than it handles your packages.

An interesting just so story I hadn't heard. I suspect there were a lot of other factors.

I'm most interested in how they adjust the timeline to keep all the characters in human time instead of the original millennia of the appendices.