A Canticle For Leibowitz is a classic early (1959) post-apocalypse novel where an order of monks preserved the last remnants of learning (the memorabilia) after a nuclear exchange turned the remains of society into book and scientist burners. I first read it in the 80s as a mass market paperback that I somehow lost along the way. Other paperbacks from that time are yellow with age and getting brittle, but still readable. I read it again in the late 2000s on a first edition Kindle. I eventually migrated to iPads for Kindle reading, but every couple years I would come across an old Kindle in a drawer, charge it up, and check out what I had been reading on it. They eventually stopped working entirely. I’m just finishing reading a new Folio Society edition, printed on heavy, acid-free archival quality paper. If it doesn’t get soaked or burned, it could still be in good shape for centuries. The ephemeral nature of digital storage does give me some pause. We can still read Sumerian tablets full of administrative trivia from four thousand years ago, but there are no known copies of some important software products from just fifty years ago. I am a proud supporter of the Internet Archive!

This is 100% true. I was there when it happened. Yassir Arafat was offered 97% of the land and he turned it down. Hamas, the PLO, and Iran didn’t want peace then, and they don’t want it now.

Either Iran had to be dealt with or these people were lying.

Iran digging out its bombed missile bases during cease-fire, satellite images show trib.al/PT5kgr5

this week!

Joe Kent: “There is zero evidence that Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon, Netanyahu is warmongering.” The Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: “We tried to develop nuclear weapons, but couldn't keep it secret.”

Bill Clinton: “Palestinians were offered a state on the entire West Bank and east Jerusalem as its capital. Israel accepted, but Palestinians refused. They did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. All they wanted was to kill Israelis" This must be shared every day.

アメリカにも「座右の銘」ってあるのかな？ 自分は「夢無き者に成功無し」

We are sorry, please deport

“I have nothing against artists. I had a rock band myself. My problem is that if you need a government subsidy to make art, you’re no longer an artist—you’re a public employee.” — Javier Milei

Grok video just got a lot cooler in my book.

Is this real life 😭😭😭

i think something people get confused about is that this isnt what the future looked like in the late 90s/early 2000s, it's what the late 90s/early 2000s looked like

I moved the bitmap ui layer into the threejs scene itself instead of injecting it between the three scene and the CRT shader

When people ask about my favorite weather, it’s this. I crave this.

Is this the greatest video of all time?

gradient primitive with gradients made from VGA 256 palette in CRT shader UI system