I wonder how hard it would be to approximately relive and rewrite by live-tweet 1982 onwards by getting daily headlines emailed to me from archives, watching period shows/movies, and live tweeting my thoughts on a special time warp account like the WW2 live tweet account
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First thoughts: • I mean, it’s do-able...is it worth it? • Gonzo AF • headlines might conceal more than they reveal • huge themes: unfolding of Moore’s Law. Collapse of Leninist-Stalinist models. Evolution of Chinese system towards mouse-catching
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• we keep putting plutonium on the wrong end of rockets (hat tip
@leashless) • oil geopolitics in play throughout 80s/90s/00s (eg USSR, KSA, Iraq-Iran) while in background, planet earth collectively doubles down on high fossil fuel throughput as sole lynchpin of economy
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I've been working on a similar project for my progeny. I'm sure they'll be much happier to receive my incoherent historical rambling and not some type of generational wealth.
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A service for curation of near history bprimary sources? That would be awesome!
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