Going to count this as a mention of OpenCola, The Startup That Predicted Everything™️
I will always wonder whether it was a tragedy, or for the best that OpenCola never managed to completely bring to fruition everything we'd envisioned.
Every few years the industry deludes itself into believing that it has revolutionized software development, when really it's simply forced itself to re-learn everything we already knew about software development.
Every source in this article benefits from the reader believing its central claim.
That's not journalism.
Got out there before the heat really took hold.
A good heuristic for knowing when something is stupid and terrible is when stupid and terrible people think something is good.
For example:
DC bureaus will turn any story into a horse race (and every horse race story will always be dictated by the farthest-right sources available).
I’m no fancy political pundit or consultant, but I’m pretty sure this kind of headline & picture on a few hundred million devices is bad news, actually.
New York City reliably votes 70-80% Democratic in presidential elections. Likewise, Jewish Americans have voted ~78% Democratic since the late 60s. So it's interesting to me that ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt seems to favor Fox News and Twitter for his outreach. Almost like he's in conversation with only a very specific Jewish audience.
This is so laughably stupid, I don’t even know where to begin.
The Mayor of NYC is going to bring a centrally planned economy & gulags to Manhattan.
