Russian war has little to do with it. For example Germany had already decided to scrap nuclear for gas, which actually bit them in the ass when the war started.

Doesn’t sound like much rain… Has it ever rained at Burning Man before?

That just makes it smell like weed plus laundry.

How about Kraftwerk?

Benzos

This Xerox Alto restoration series is a really interesting reflection on that. Here’s the point in the series where they finally get it running. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OQMhvArI9g

Yeah, Xerox made revolutionary progress. But it appears that their proximity to a viable consumer product is a bit exaggerated. It really did still take another set of eyes and minds to wrangle it in. I think if they did release it sooner, and without the leaks, the next competitor still would have seen that and soon come along and done a better enough job to nullify their first-mover advantage.

Those days were chock full of companies that ended up just contributing to the zeitgeist of computing without themselves reaping in the glory.

I think Steve Jobs’ comments about what Xerox could have been… Is largely him stroking his ego that he and Apple pulled off what they couldn’t.

I don’t think Xerox would be the Mac of today in most timelines.

The headline shared is somewhat sensationalized editorialization.

“Toutes les hypothèses”, dont l’instauration de l’état d’urgence, sont envisagées par l’exécutif pour “le retour de l’ordre républicain”, a déclaré Elisabeth Borne vendredi 30 juin.

Note the part in quotes said by PM is “Toutes les hypothèses”. The part about a state of emergency (l’état d’urgence) is added by the author of the article in between her actual quotes, with “dont”, to show what the writer is implying can be included in that.

Included in “all hypothesis” I could also imply and add… well basically anything I want to.

I’m not saying there won’t be state of emergency. Just making the actual context of this headline clear to non french readers.

While AA is not a good remedy, I wish that shooting it down would have come with some better solutions attached.

Picard left the TNG storyline state in such a decent and settled place, feels like another story would only risk ruining things. Feels like the series is already in a good-as-it-gets state and can only go down from here, unless they go for total spin-off.

But I’ll still watch it even if it sucks, which the people with $$ in their eyes know so…