I love reading ancient cuneiform tablets. Classics such as "Fuck you, this copper sucks." (Ea Nasir), "I should get more new clothes, my dad's employee gets new clothes twice a month and it's embarrassing.", and of course "The sesame harvest will die — let nobody say I did not warn you!", which is absolutely a set up for "Per my last clay tablet.".

Social media & email may be
part of the problem. But if we're still like this when we have to carve our petty bullshit into clay then it's clear that we're the problem. It's us.
@tilde @futzle there’s a great book by Tom Standage called Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years which is about how the ancient world often used very social media like communication methods using analog tools
@joannaholman @futzle My experience of this is mostly the Talmud, which one thousand percent reads like Reddit or Twitter.