Notes

I love this idea about the origin of apocolypse stories as a response to Systemsized time: We invented eternity, but the infinite is overwhelming, so we then invented end times. https://aeon.co/essays/when-time-became-regular-and-universal-it-changed-history

Have I become too paranoid, that I worry this could be politically motivated? https://apnews.com/86e17a4f133046d9a054b68e7cd675cf

America’s next president is going to have some hard decisions to make about defending far-flung allies from swarm forces: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-army-navy/

I’ve never gotten the word “patriotic”, even when I was a young conservative Boy Scout. It has always seemed to stand only for “supporting the same authority we do”. https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1123346471477219333

Topics the algorithmic demons of Twitter have deemed relevant to me:

• Data Visualization
• Information Security
• Software Engineers
• Technology VC
• United Nations

Is anyone tracking these, ontologically, as @alexismadrigal did with Netflix?

I think it’s time the US Congress withdraw the Corwin Amendment.