Of course, the wisdom of James Mickens applies:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

@buherator I was about to search for that essay and post that quote — literally the first thing that popped to mind when I saw the news.

@buherator thank you for this. this one escaped me somehow up until now

@devcoffee He has a couple more essays of similar style, all worth reading! :)

@buherator such a funny and vivid and accurate thinker.

@buherator https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/towashitallaway.pdf

@buherator even as I am just getting this to share on mastodon I am reading it and laughing hard enough to bother my fellow train commuters.

@buherator I forgot that Mickens is a prophet