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[:ghosts in the signal:]
There are weeks when the universe desperately needs an editor. This was one of them. Dolly Parton. Tim Curry. Peter Cullen. Three people who occupied completely different corners of popular culture, gone almost at once. And somewhere between seeing the headlines and performing the now-standard ritual of checking whether the Internet was lying to me,…
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![[:we brought tools:]](https://darknoise.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/9460d535-0be1-471b-a764-16fff72c2cb1.png)
[:we brought tools:]
We Were Never Cynical. We Were Paying Attention. Everybody is obsessed with generational labels. Boomers killed the economy. Millennials killed napkins. Gen Z can’t look up from their phones. And Gen X? Apparently we just wandered off somewhere in 1994 and nobody bothered to file a missing-person report. Which, honestly, tracks. We are the middle…
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![[:here i go again, on my own:]](https://darknoise.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/bae12442-a27c-4d1f-9016-00f0c64cadb7.png)
[:here i go again, on my own:]
There are two increasingly useful postures for dealing with modern enterprise technology. The first is a certain kind of Gen X feralness: a deeply ingrained suspicion of anyone who tells you the future has arrived and you need to get on board immediately. The second is anger. Not screaming-at-the-clouds anger. Not Twitter outrage. Not performative…
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