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    1. a meditation on long-lived software: write a joke that will still be funny in 2000 years
  1. …in reply to @ra
    precedent for this is the Alexamenos Graffito, ~1800 years old and still interpretable as a cruel joke (though not terribly funny)
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
    1. …in reply to @ra
      the deeper question is: how do you write something in your world that continues to make sense to humans in a completely different world?