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But the thing about state-sponsored attacks is that they’re a bit like magic tricks: they operate at a scale which is absurd, which makes them unimaginable, and that’s why they work. Like artificial weather or guided influenza.
The Shock and Awe of State-Sponsored Women’s Fashion
Matt Webb
Our smarter, richer betters (in Babel times, the king’s name was Nimrod) often preach the idea of a town square, a marketplace of ideas, a centralized hub of discourse and entertainment—and we listen. But when I go back and read Genesis, I hear God saying: “My children, I designed your brains to scale to 150 stable relationships. Anything beyond that is overclocking. You should all try Mastodon.”
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
Paul Ford
It's hard for me to overemphasize how how central this is. Like, every day that I program I use this, right? It is one of the key things that keeps me sane. Like, you can make lots of other features of the language away from me but like with my last dying breath I will keep my exhaustiveness checks.
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