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@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:

And that's where he leaves it! The future will be difficult, but so was the past, and it became a tolerable present. Yeesh, well, I hope your present is, at the very least, tolerable!

@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:

Oh: American wealth will be hoarded by oligarchs and there will be less social mobility, but he thought that the effect would be to free up Americans to pursue more leisure (!!!) instead of being worked harder to produce even less. OH WELL

@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:

Women getting jobs! Maybe even being allowed in the President's Cabinet! Also, people will talk about equality but it'll take more than that to undo thousands of years of sexism, UH HUH

@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:

Ah geez

@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:

Cities with climate-controlled glass roofs! Not a thing. But that was the original plan for EPCOT, so half-credit.

@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:

Ah geez he even saw Soylent bros coming! (A product name based on the movie Soylent Green, and hey when was that movie supposed to take place? Oh)

@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:

Homes of the future will be no-smoking -- mostly correct! Furniture of the future will be made of paper mache. Uhhh ... actually that's not so far off from Ikea, so I'll give it to him.

@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:

He's even spot-on about historic preservation commissions in cities! But missed the fact that they will be such assholes about restricting new construction that urban housing will become prohibitively expensive, oh well (cc: @pushtheneedle )

@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:

Not only did he predict modern motion pictures, he specifically predicted the plot of Singin' in the Rain.

@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:

We'll use less fossil fuel and switch to sustainable energy sources and nuclear power, which is more or less accurate! Though George failed to foresee evil coal barons like Joe Manchin strangling the world by hanging on to dirty power for as long as possible.

@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:

Also: Wireless telephones, whatever next?

@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:

Prediction 1! Cross-country flights will be commonplace, with US-to-Europe flights of around 8 hours. Ok, you nailed that one, George. I wish we still called airplane passenger "aeronauts" though.

@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") wrote:

In May of 1922, British writer W. L. George wrote about what the world would be like in 2022. Okay, let's see how his predictions measured up to reality! Horrible, dreadful reality!

@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") wrote:

retiring this teacup before it shatters in my hands

its delicate constitution served many delicious cups of tea and will now enjoy retirement on display in my office

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@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") wrote:

It's 91° outside through the wildfire smoke, and I am willing fall into being with Hōjicha Classic from @HojichaCo

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@drewtoothpaste wrote:

hey man are you sure you want to keep your beans in there

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@WebDesignMuseum ("Web Design Museum") wrote:

The Hampster Dance website in 1999 in Netscape Navigator 4.04

This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998.

#InternetHistory #HampsterDance

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@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") replied to a tweet by @alicegoldfuss:

feel silly not thinking to check it was salted but oh well, I'll put it in the freezer and only have it sometimes

@bylgja_babylons ("Bylgjan🐝") wrote:

I've just done my Christmas poo on a megabus where there was no toiletpaper, used my sock. I love Christmas 🌲

@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") replied to a tweet by @bcantrill:

"Flying Blind" is a must-read for anyone making something that matters, a cautionary tale on the importance of integrity in business and in engineering!
10/10

@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") replied to a tweet by @bcantrill:

Boeing is not the first company in which the broken culture of an acquired company metastasized within the acquirer -- but they serve as a reminder that companies that do not elucidate (and live by!) their values are dangerously immunocompromised /9

@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") replied to a tweet by @bcantrill:

This is bonkers to me, as it must have been to those inside of Boeing at the time: aside from (though presumably not unrelated to) producing shoddy aircraft, McDonnell Douglas was a failure in commercial aviation; its culture should not have been treated as a model! 8/

@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") replied to a tweet by @bcantrill:

If Boeing's deprioritization of passenger safety feels disconcertingly like McDonnell Douglas and the DC-10, it is no mere coincidence; as Robison outlines, when Boeing bought the ailing McDonnell Douglas in 1997, it was in fact the McDonnell culture that prevailed! 7/

@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") replied to a tweet by @bcantrill:

Unsurprisingly, Robison reveals a multifaceted answer, with breakdowns at many levels and over many years. But one aspect in particular stood out... 6/

@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") replied to a tweet by @bcantrill:

When I talked about the 737 MAX in my 2019 talk on ethical dilemmas in software engineering (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wtvQZijPzg), I said that we would ultimately be learning much more about what happened inside of Boeing -- and "Flying Blind" very much delivers 5/

@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") replied to a tweet by @bcantrill:

Godson's 45-year-old book is top of mind today because I just read its present-day equivalent: @petermrobison's superlative "Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing." (This was a Christmas gift from my mom, who knows me well -- thanks Mom!) 4/

@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") replied to a tweet by @bcantrill:

As a kid, I had remembered the big DC-10 crashes in the 1970s and early 1980s, but before Godson's book, I did not realize the degree to which they were a product not just of mistakes, but of a deeper cultural malaise within McDonnell Douglas 3/

@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") replied to a tweet by @bcantrill:

I had not heard of it, and even then (ca. 2000), the book was hard to find -- but I located a copy (thank you, AbeBooks!) and indeed, found that it was deeply revealing... 2/

@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Years ago, during Sun's worst quality crisis (the infamous e-cache parity error that plagued the UltraSPARC-II), one of the physicists working on the problem strongly recommended that I read John Godson's 1975 book, "The Rise and Fall of the DC-10" 1/

@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") wrote:

too soon

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 ("Science girl") wrote:

The frog who swallowed a firefly...

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@quokkaeveryhour ("Quokka Every Hour") wrote:

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