RT @CharlesMooreUK: @c0nc0rdance @AdamHartScience You don’t need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

Amanda Knox on learning to do time. Well learned, well told https://twitter.com/amandaknox/status/1629181705830670336

The Long Now of tech… https://ourworldindata.org/technology-long-run

A career-development reading of Markoff’s biography of me. Handily done. (I wish the publisher had gone with Markoff’s–and my–preferred title: FLOATING UPSTREAM. I think that people who want careers swim for it. I remained a devil-may-care artist floating toward interesting.) https://twitter.com/Willyintheworld/status/1627370857583575041

RT @planet_nerf: Anything you hear about computers or AI should be ignored because we’re in the Dark Ages. We’re in the thousand years between no technology and all technology.

RT @Revive_Restore: “To protect the public health, pharmaceutical companies need an unlimited source for endotoxin tests that doesn’t depend on a wild animal. The world only has so many horseshoe crabs. It’s time for us to let them be,” Deborah Cramer writes in the @nytimes article

Graceful degradation is a gradual form of fail safe. To invite repair it needs to be obvious and a nuisance.

Big Pharma is Bad Pharma when it keeps exploiting horseshoe crabs for their blood now that there is an even better synthetic substitute. Good article. https://twitter.com/hscrabrecovery/status/1626267984921518080

I invited Jon Haidt to do a Long Now conversation after I read his piece in The Atlantic titled “Why The Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid “https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/ There’s lots here about the discouraging of courage in children. https://twitter.com/bblfish/status/1626370905617100801

RT @jul_coh: @balajis Eagerly awaiting @stewartbrand’s new book on exactly this topic https://longnow.org/ideas/stewart-brand-takes-us-on-the-maintenance-race/