There is still a Veronica! I use it regularly for searching gopherspace.

Yes, I have been using eshell exclusively for the last 7 years. It does have a few drawbacks, but for me it’s definitely a win overall due to a) everything being in a buffer, b) being able to run both elisp functions and executables from the command line, and c) tramp.

P.s. I chuckled a bit when you mentioned sixel graphics support as modern. :) Jokes aside, I have my own toy implementation of sixel graphics in elisp, so decent emacs support is probably out there already.

Reading Mickey’s stuff is always such a joy. Must remember to buy his book one of these days!

Wholeheartedly agree. Personally I believe that the only chance we as a species will be able to respond in time, is if there are a string of very acute very tragic disasters to galvanise a lasting global response. I don’t see how cooperation on such a scale is possible otherwise.

Agreed. Any solution that involves somehow magically convincing billions of other people to do things that aren’t in their immediate individual best interests is not a solution. I.e. we don’t “know how to fix it”.

What a great write-up, thank you.