Apple is finally changing the hard drive icon after 20 years. Now it will look like an SSD drive, which some people won't recognize. So much for skeuomorphism.
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It's kind of on brand that Gen X is overlooked. Another article describing how GenX is being overlooked. They were the generation that said "whatever" with the eye-roll. Now, it appears people are saying that about them.
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The rollback on renewable energy is going to be hard on Oregon's economy, since Oregon went heavily in that direction. But renewable energy never made sense, and only made people feel good. The blight on the landscape was terrible. And no one talked about how much carbon was consumed in producing solar panels and windmill blades and wind turbines. If carbon is the concern, we should focus on making emissions cleaner. Oh, we did. And carbon emissions in the United States went down. We're not the problem, are we?
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Someone posted Lewis Thomas' thoughts on hearing Mahler's Ninth Symphony as he got older. How the evocations of death became harder to listen to. For me, it's the ending of Mahler's Tragic Symphony (the 6th). When the threat of doom seems to fade away, into the calming trombones, which are not quite sweet and reassuring, but they seem to signal that the danger has passed. You begin to relax, and then just when you think all is OK, the Hammer of Doom strikes again. Somehow, I can't forget that.
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