This 2000 interview with Paula Borsook (Cyberselfish) perfectly sums up/predicts everything that's happened with Silicon Valley in the past quarter century. www.salon.com/2000/05/04/b...
![So now, when we talk about high-tech culture, a lot of what we're talking about is really business-speculation culture, and a transplanted Midtown Manhattan advertising culture, or Wall Street financial culture. So, though we may use the words "high tech" these days to refer to this group, they're not all the same kind of person -- but they are finding lots of common ground.
Absolutely. I noticed that at some point in the mid-'90s, we got major culture-creep, when programmers and systems administrators all became covert stock traders on the Web.
Yes. It's horrifying. [laughs] Because -- and I'm not anti-technology or anti-geek -- what is really best about these people is what I call their "curious child" quality -- scientists have it -- that kind of noodling around with code, and zoning out for 36 hours at a time working on something. That's where the really good creative work can happen. But if you have one corner of your monitor that's constantly watching the stock market, or you'r](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:psqralexigiufgtswkszy6zr/bafkreic2klxsqffbku7jdvewrbjm2ulosrtfpy5mczn7nwm4z6nqvclrxa@jpeg)
I saw the movie before the original, but also recently rewatched both. It's one of the best episodes, but Lithgow's version is still even better.
Lithgow.
Personally I love plagiarism. I do it whenever I get the chance. Nothing beats the thrill of copying a page of legal argument, letting a DOJ lawyer yell about how wrong it all is, and then telling the judge "btw I copied that page from the brief DOJ filed in this other case."
Yeah it's a free country. You're allowed to have bad taste
Some of the 4e designers worked on Pathfinder 2e and in my opinion it is a much better expression of the things they were going for.
Watching Google shutter things that actually worked, like Google Play Music, and now Google Podcasts, to turn them into YouTube Music is like someone coming into your kitchen who takes away your blender and kettle then lets you know you'll now only be able to boil water or blend things in your car.
I'm objecting to the idea that dumbing things down makes them better.
Spells are cool, actually.
So no.