I like this. (Solomon Bloom,from an unpublished essay quoted in the intro to A Liberal in Two Worlds: The Essays of Solomon F. Bloom, p. 6)

Robert C. Binkley during the 1936 election: "The Federal government, as long as it stands as set up by the Constitution, and unless a Fascist revolution completely changes its character, cannot pay the coupons on the bonds until the relief checks have been honored." - https://www.jstor.org/stable/26433902

(Almost too late for this)

1985: you had to keep track of which floppy the file was stored on, and you could buy single-sided floppies and punch a notch in the unnotched edge to let you use the back, so your floppies had a recto and a verso. This was edited in Nota Bene and printed on a Star Gemini dot matrix printer, which could do italics AND underline AND bold face, not like some daisywheel

1995: trying to enhance a photocopy from the PRO by scanning it (with a hand scanner that rolled across the page), and then blowing it up and printing it on the office laser printer. Didn't help.

I cracked the screen of my phone. New phone, everything migrated properly, including the lock screen background image. But now the fingerprint scanner is in the screen, not on the back, so, by sheer coincidence, I can only access my phone by giving Toby a boop. #CatsOfMastodon

There ought to be guardrails that prevent GenAI from repeating comedy sketch material that shows that GenAI can't exist

It's today! (and yes, of course that's Jane Austen's original mic)

The world we live in: Gemini started answering in Chinese, but we're cool now. I kinda feel like I should apologize for not being able to read a few words in Chinese.

I'll bet no AI can match this as a way to end an article.