history is where the deep memes are stored
the deep memes are pulled out and wielded by the historian class
strong historian tells a strong story about a man called Oppenheimer
so that we can remember what it was like to feel the fear
that the Germans might soon have the bomb
like the film or hate it, it is a necromancy-of-the-light. so the memes become the form of the living dead. praise be to the lord.
I am here to tell a history, a recent one. I'll tell it in stages, and at intervals. Today I want to begin with
G O O G L E
nowadays one takes for granted the anti-corporate politics. it took leftists to tell the truth which simply became known. the right would prefer not to know. even now the right lives in denial rather than purpose. this is a problem. they must be rallied.
but for those of us who grew up in the 90s, the Millennials, there was a time when people sided with corporations! serious people! who were taken seriously!
to some extent we must all be those people, because we are so aware that there are only people in those corporations. this can be true, and it can also be true that people who act on behalf of money become meat suits for that money.
2014
Project Dartlang
It's west coast time in California as Lars Bak and Kasper Lund decide to make a name for themselves as fools and inflict the world with another programming language. These two people never seemed to adequately understand why people did not in fact want Google to embed its own vm in its browser for its own language in one of many naked attempts to grab power on the web. Many have sought to conquer the web. But the web lives on.
Lars Bak: It's just that Javascript sucks so much.
Kasper Lung: And Dart has features!
This went on for a long time. The chrome team won that political battle and the dart vm was never put into the browser. The value proposition for dart was always dubious.
This didn't stop people from falling for it. Thus was the hatred of Javascript.
Today Javascript is safely locked away. Below the surface. You can barely hear it, but it's there.
Waiting.
2023
Another developer has decided that it is time to give the users what they do not want in the name of Google.
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the hard part of history
is figuring out which bits
to leave out
so sang we the old librarians
of high america
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I thought Go was the Google language? They made another one?? Why?
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to control everything about how users interact with software, obviously!
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But it's all in service of ads. Why the frick are ads so valuable. I don't like. It's stupid. If it was in service of some totalitarian bullshit then that would at least be understandable but the totalitarian bullshit is completely incidental! It's all ads. WTF. ADDS!
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Ngl, I think I might prefer this impassionata over the OG.
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I'm glad
@Impassionata2 is finally making it a competition
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