Days of Future Passed
19:53 Sunday, 28 June 2026
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There are a couple of posts in today's On This Day in the marmot that I liked. (Those are links to the original posts in the archives, because On This Day changes every day. The latter (later?) one puzzles me because I refer to a link that doesn't appear in the post. Weird.
Also weird is that the Aperture 3.5 post is in today's On This Day, when the June 2014 html exported archive on the server has it posted on the 27th. Part of the temporal rift that ravaged the marmot some years back and continues to cause chaos in the timeline. Something I must have missed when I made an attempt to restore order.
The post about choices makes me think. Today Apple is much more than a widget company. And Apple's use of Private Cloud Compute also suggests that Apple is presenting to you their version of "the world." Is it a distinction without a difference? I don't know.
Those posts were written twelve years ago. Twelve years from now I'll be 81. Twelve years ago tomorrow, Dad passed away at 87. I follow a number of octogenarian bloggers, perhaps I'll be one someday. I rather hope so, because I want to enjoy this house that we're building. But who knows?
The point is, or may be, the pace of change is accelerating. I think Apple has grown to be more like Google and Facebook and Amazon. Can we alter this trajectory?
I rather hope so.
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19:48 Sunday, 28 June 2026
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I have a folder of RSS feeds called "The Crisis." It contains feeds from Talking Points Memo, Heather Cox Richardson, Empty Wheel and Timothy Snyder.
I seldom read many of the posts in that folder. It's too depressing, and they're seldom writing about anything that is surprising or actionable.
This post from Timothy Snyder should be no exception, except I did read it. There's little that's surprising or actionable, but I thought it was interesting.
Depressing too, perhaps. But that's the nature of the present.
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