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@clacke I really loved Halt And Catch Fire. It's a fantasy of certain eras of tech entrepreneurship, but it's a fun fantasy, and the characters are great.

@sunbather Boosting and also replying so I can get notification responses.

@clacke Most handsome to me as a bisexual techbro.

@emacsomancer @bright_helpings If I had to guess, this whole line of thinking probably starts with well-meaning parents and educators who champed a "TV bad reading good" mantra. The kids who loved silent reading enjoyed the satisfaction of being "superior" and grew up to gatekeep that opinion. And yes, kids need to practice their reading skills and commercial TV feeds them a lot of drek. But somewhere along the way, we lost the plot.

@bright_helpings Audiobooks are just a logical extension of being read to, which bring education and thought to situations where visual reading is impossible or impractical, and the practice has a long tradition in enterntainment, education, and social organization. People who dis audiobooks are not welcome in my foxhole.

See also the important history of El Lector de Tobacco
https://loudreaders.com/LOUDREADERS

@delta Even then, that model is only resilient if you are thinking about the system overall and not the needs of any given user. Systems like the Fedi are a collection of fiefdoms where any given user can lose service at a whim without warning.

@ThinkBot The asymmetry is because knowing the current present moment causes most people to privilege it over other alternatives, making any change in the past a "mistake", but as futures can only be speculated upon and a large number of them might be considered acceptable, it's quite hard to find the right pair of butterfly wings to flap today.

@epilanthanomai I actually had both a computer lab typing tutor and typing on an actual electric typewriter in elementary school! I guess I was ~60 wpm in childhood, and I haven't measured it today, but likely much faster. Thing is, I've been touch typing so long that I long stopped thinking about it, and it confuses the shit out of people when I touch type while looking out the window rather than the screen.

@tty I learned a thing today!

@epilanthanomai I suspect I could scrape up the time to set this up on our DO. I'd just need to find, you know, all the passwords and stuff. 😂 Like you, I'm not sure how much I'd write, but I keep missing LiveJournal...