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Hope ya'll yinzers had a great weekend. Don't get into any trouble this week without us.
IT HAS BEEN SO DIFFICULT NOT TO FIX THIS BRIAN. I leave all your double spaces after periods and this is the thanks I get?
Y'all are the best and have a very nice day.
Network effects sort of mean that a specific connection based technology is pretty worthless unless everyone is using it. Somehow we've surrendered one of the greatest achievements of mankind with unlimited potential for innovation and progress to the dopamine merchants of social media who have alchemized our brain chemicals and addiction to infinite scrolling into enormous wads of cash they continuously stuff into their comically extended clown pants. We could stop it at any time by all just... stopping.
We could write blogs and send out email newsletters and snail mail wax sealed parchments to each other. Honestly at this point I'd settle for a search engine that actually searched the web instead of just showing me a million sponsored links from the same leering money-panted-clowns who won't get off my lawn. -Brian
Stay tuned for another issue dedicated to Brian's search for a search engine and Calvin's super dope Decentraland avatar gear.
And if any of you, dear readers, have some related content you think we need to see, just reply back and share.
Thanks as always for reading! -C
Just for fun, I had my brother Tim (who is a Latin scholar) make up a definition of Brian's wonderful made-up word, "solipsoid". Tim's definition of solipsoid and the reasoning behind it is as follows:
It's a combination of Latin words. Oid is like, ips is self, sol is short for solus which is alone. So I would say Like Itself Alone if it's very literal.
We have not had to resort to writing in nothing but a shawl yet, but I almost had to go there this week in order to get this issue out the door. Here's to hoping the next issue requires less gumption.
Also let's be honest, Brian really had everything dialed in and there was very little for me to do. I hope y'all enjoyed reading the content and commentary as much as I did. What were your biggest takeaways?
If you’re surprised / impressed / appalled that we’ve sent out this many issues in a row, then join us because we are too. Here’s to another one!
Have an absolutely delightful Sunday afternoon and we'll see you back here soonish.
See you next week! Maybe!?!
Vale Magistras! Opera in multis extrordinary speramus vase temporibus! Procul dubio!
(Calvin’s brother Tim studied Latin and is surely gonna find something wrong with the previous sentence)
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Spring is here y'all, which in 2021 apparently means alternating between tornado dodging and glorious weather. May your spring contain more of the latter and less of the former. See you soon(ish)!