@cczona I’ve been thinking a lot about how the Merb team put aside their own egos to merge the project with rails, and how much better that effort made rails. Also thinking about how critical Yehuda Katz was to both that effort and bundler.
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@haruki_zaemon IMO the “neo” was always a mistake.
@dx sixth floor window, Texas school book depository, 12:30pm Nov 22 1963.
@SeanCasten and it’s not just this current crop of republicans either, it goes way way back. From 1988: https://www.jta.org/archive/ex-nazis-among-leadership-ranks-of-republican-outreach-groups
Ex-nazis Among Leadership Ranks of Republican Outreach Groups - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A new study charges that accused Nazis, fascists and anti-Semites hold or have held leadership positions in some of the Republican National Committee’s ethnic outreach groups. The report, “Old Nazis, the New Right and the Reagan Administration: The Role of Domestic Fascists Networks in the Republican Party and their Effect on U.S. Cold War Politics,” […]
@grimalkina I don’t think I’ve even seen you refer to yourself as a social constructivist before but that explains a lot about why I’m such a fan of your work!
@tvdeyen also crucial for git bisect to work!
And they’re not just for my future self, they’re for everyone who joins the team after I’ve left too.
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@baldur I wonder what the AI era version of Enron negotiating with the taliban for oil pipelines will be.
@SecurityWriter just like people who believed in the “missile gap” during the Cold War.
@baldur a long time ago I read an article that described this dynamic, in the context of using it to deliberately direct narratives/discourse towards a desired end. I found that so diabolical that I frequently think back to that article, but unfortunately I never bookmarked it and I’ve been unable to track it down again.