2024.11.28
Thoughtful and poetic Wired Advice column on digital memories - the takeaway maybe is to know how to share them.
Being in the back half of my life, I'm glad I've done a decent job, both of storing and sharing. A quarter century of personal blogging! It means a lot. If you only look to the future and don't respect the past, you're only going to get poorer as time goes on.
Or you sign in to a long-abandoned Yahoo account only to discover that an entire decade of email correspondence has disappeared.I think that happened to Melissa
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
What so annoys people about the media is not its rudeness or its stupidity but its sanctimony.I think that's true for the left in general- and this last election cycle you've seen it run up against the old American ideal that Asimov warned against, thinking that expertise doesn't exist "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge".
And that's the thing for me - I am very into not judging, so I don't judge the left for being sanctimonious when they judge the right - like I think they're basically right about more things than they're not, but that sanctimony vibe can be a killer.