March 6, 2024

2024.03.06
Ah, Voyager - almost sounds like a touch of dementia - or maybe the edge of the solar system has a dark surprise it can't tell us about...
In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol

"On the Web, everyone is famous to 15 people." Appropriately enough, many people share authorship of that one.
Josh Tyrangiel, in Time

In that vein: the best command line games part i and part ii - kind of makes me sad how impressive yet utterly obscure these are. Like Dwarf Fortress is the only thing past Nethack that most nerds are going to have heard of. Bums me out that I'm sure to languish in obscurity - but I am famous to fifteen people online.
People like to pretend Biden is bad at economy. This and some other charts here say otherwise: