Everybody made fun of ugly and poorly designed desktop publishing, too, but slop is similar to Dick’s kipple: nobody wants any but it only grows.

journalists that still use X because they're either lazy or value engagement over ethics can also eat shit

I don't follow US media closely so I have to ask if Anderson Cooper is generally held in high regard as a journalist?

Rent-seeking is a contagion of our age.

An Apple IIe with a Hayes modem and an 80-column card. A really good terminal and game machine.

Gore also seemed to question whether Gates was ever really an ally in the fight against fossil fuels.

"I went back and looked to see if Gates has ever called for eliminating fossil fuel subsidies. I couldn’t find a time when he did that."

Not without reason! We have given it over to some of the worst people in history and their stewardship of it has been a disaster.

gophie.org is a pretty nice modern client so I'm not too motivated. But maybe!

You think I’d lie about a network protocol? It’s also a custom gopher server.

“Want to help” needs to be quantified though. Everybody wants to help but for someone else to pay.

it's great material, I'm not not laughing, but then I don't spend my time in a Skinner Box designed to turn me into a living Grok

I don't know. I've noticed it recently. Just one example- a really virulently hateful thread in the Guelph subreddit had dozens of comments yesterday.