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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 21:54:07 JST goatsarah
   Remember when we thought that the internet was going to be a wonderful thing for the advancement of human knowledge instead of the Library of Babel, with Hitler as the librarian?
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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 23:05:07 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @goatsarah At least in the Library of Babel, the most miserable person is the librarian.

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     Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 01:22:58 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

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     @goatsarah I do sadly. And, in quiet moments, I interrogate my part, as a Principal Consultant for a very large international IT services company in the mid nineties, cheerleading for the fabulous future we were going to have with the sum of human knowledge freely on tap. I made the gross error of assuming people were good and kind and honest, like me.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 22:20:56 JST goatsarah

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     • Andrew Ginty
     @k_ginty Also date from before the early September. I worked for ARM in the 90s as well. It’s my fault too.
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     Andrew Ginty (k_ginty@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 22:20:57 JST Andrew Ginty

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     @goatsarah I was working as a programmer on the Internet in the 1980s (before the WWW and social media). Had I known, I'd have given up and joined a monastery.