What is happening today is no different from what has happened an uncountably numerous number of times before. In my lifetime alone I've seen the "collapse" of

What is happening today is no different from what has happened an uncountably numerous number of times before. In my lifetime alone I've seen the "collapse" of the non-x86 personal computer industry, the dot-com bubble, the "collapse" of UNIX firms, the Great Recession, wave after wave of defense/electronics/space industry consolidations and contractions, and several other events that have caused certain people to believe that the sky is falling. Over and over and over, the sky has fallen. We must be buried under hundreds of layers of sky by now. Now Twitter, a borderline-irrelevant microblogging platform that could easily be replaced by any number of competitors in a week if it disappeared into a puff of smoke, is causing people to lose their god damned minds. I saw an article that included a quote from a current or former Twitter employee saying that "the world needs twitter now more than ever" and I think I may have started to throw up in my mouth a little bit. Every other one of the companies listed in the article is either shitting the bed in terms of performance and needs to tighten the belt, or massively over-hired in the last two years. It is highly unlikely that any one of the recently laid-off employees who want a job will be unable to find one before their severance runs out. I believe that I may have officially become out of touch.