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“Have you stopped beating your wife?”
“Have you stopped beating your wife?”
missing three pages of unrelated personal anecdote
being mildly inconvenienced for your ragebait is not censorship
“I lost at Jeopardy, baby!”
Egypt invented matryoshka dolls
typing in Beagle Bros one-liners on an Apple ][ plus
“We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art.” [emphasis added]
—Ursula K. Le Guin
teach them rebellion and revolution and defiance, teach them to dream about a better world, teach them right to repair and reverse engineering and open source, teach them science and technology and engineering and art and design are all interlinked and that economists have no idea what they’re doing, teach them who the dragons are, teach them resilience and sustainability and regeneration, teach them other people have feelings too
don’t teach them conformity and obedience and compliance
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
—G.K. Chesterton
should we really be bringing our kids up to be nice little conformant drones?
“Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.”
—Friedrich von Schiller
lock-in and Apple tax
if you download Boy and the Heron but end up watching Fight Club, you know they can’t be trusted
flattery defense contracts will get you everywhere!
“Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.”
so mayonnaise or tartar sauce it is!
just don’t use talc to get that smell
“The hotel’s free WiFi is really fast”
“the DNS is disabled”
really start to worry when it’s 169.254.0.x
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it’s a sign!