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Filing this one beside "I will face god and walk backwards into hell" and "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" on the list of Impossibly Powerful Phrases With Baffling Origin Stories.
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
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People used to argue, straight faced with sincerely held good intentions, that you couldn't trust free software or wikipedia, because who would you call if it breaks? You don't really know where it all comes from!
But the answer is "people". The answer was always people, and no matter what you've heard from governments, media outlets or corporations, people are far more trustworthy than the average government or the typical media outlet or any corporation.
Bet on people who bet on people.
"Hi, its me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology."
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
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Looking at the measles epidemic and thinking about how lucky we were to get indoor smoking bans, mandatory seatbelts and drunk driving laws enacted and generally accepted before Facebook and Twitter came along.
Two paths diverged in the woods, and I, I rejected these false dichotomies, threw my bike over a rusty fence and found my way to beauty you will never see.
The Robert Frost two paths diverged in the woods poem seems a lot more like obstinacy than poetry if you imagine him already lost as hell and doubling down.
“… and I, I chose the one less travelled by, because fuck it, that’s why. Ball up top, let’s go.”
Watching Microsoft’s robots telling Microsoft’s other robots that they need to agree to Microsoft CLAs in between Microsoft’s developers begging Microsoft’s robots to actually understand the problems they’re trying to fix in Microsoft's platform code on Microsoft's version-control website is kind of amazing.
This is definitely the future Terry Gilliam promised us.