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   Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 00:27:28 JST Rob Landley

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   @RuthMalan This essay was anonymously posted in a pastebin so long ago it got slashdotted back when that meant something. The original has long since gone down, but I mirrored a copy. It's about the loss of institutional memory:

   https://landley.net/history/mirror/institutional_memory.html

   It was about the same time everybody realized that NASA had lost the plans to the Saturn V rocket.

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 00:27:28 JST Eaton

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     @landley this has so many roots of the stuff I was trying to get at in my “institutional doctrine” talk… thank you for reposting it here! https://eaton.fyi/talks/the-doctrine-gap/

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     Ruth — of systems & em dashes (ruthmalan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 00:27:29 JST Ruth — of systems & em dashes

     This moment we’re at, in history is just so … weird. Like, people we work with in tech voted to speed civilization’s wrecking ball… To catastrophically collapse our various institutions and the protections we’ve eeked out to make progress towards equity. But also, even without that, we work on systems that add up to a whole lot of near term grief in the form of speeding off climate cliffs… and other grief escalators.