No people: Seriously. Listen to me, Right Now:

If you're not using tools from comparative religious studies in your analysis, then you are missing MASSIVELY important contextual cues about a LARGE swathe of past and present-day tech culture, and also potential insights for how to both react to and shape those discourses.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/30/elon-says-copyright-ai-lawsuits-dont-matter-because-digital-god-will-arrive-before-theyre-decided/

Again, to me the the thing that's really standing out is that all our leaders went for it, literally equating opposing aparatheid and genocide, like, in general, with terrorism and violence and... everyone just kinda said "naw."

The mayor of Toronto was calling a Palestinian Youth Rally "Hamas terrorism" the other day and that went out like a lead balloon.

Something IS different this time; what that means, I cannot say. But they can't just wave it away and shout "terrorism" anymore. That's gud

I mean, what did they expect? That was basically a dare.

The engineers who designed the #Voyager probes half a century ago even thought of the possibility that a wrong sequence of commands may point the antenna dish away from earth (like someone did a couple of days ago).

And they implemented a self-adjusting mechanism that a few times a year scans the positions of a few known stars to infer the position of the earth, and point back the antenna in the right direction.

50 years later, these wonderful machines are still working, tens of billions of km away from earth, with only 69 KB of RAM, and even a wrong sequence of commands won't put them out of use, while nowadays 4 GB of RAM aren't even enough to start VsCode or IntelliJ.

The more I understand how they were designed, the more I feel like an early Medieval engineer looking at the Pantheon or other marvels of Roman architecture. Some amazing skills, knowledge and attention to details have been lost from that generation to ours.