The Rundown December 31, 2020
The Future Today Institute’s 2020 Year In Review. Who the hell would want to look back at this year? I would, but only for scholarly purposes.
From the Can You Violate the Geneva Conventions Twitter account: “You can violate the Protocol on Mine, Booby-Traps, and Other Devices (which prohibits the use of food as a booby trap) with Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven's poison rice balls.”
Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine - “Facebook does not exist to seek truth and report it, or to improve civic health, or to hold the powerful to account, or to represent the interests of its users, though these phenomena may be occasional by-products of its existence.”
In 2020 I was at least able to stay away from Facebook (I was posting Animal Crossing screenshots and then stopped engaging). I did not delete my account because I still want to prevent strangers from colonizing my identity. However, turning off the entire feed really helped me get off the Facebook treadmill.
Probably the most-played track in the house, based on the number of times Ruby and I started this game: