2025-04-01
8 分钟What up nerds, I'm Jared and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, March 31st, 2025.
Here's a perfectly joyous use of tech.
The Jumbotron operator for the Indiana Pacers adds a crying filter to visiting Laker fans' faces during game breaks.
The effect compounds as the Laker fans begin to laugh along,
giving the appearance of uncontrolled sobbing.
You just gotta see it for yourself.
Okay, let's get into this week's news.
The idealization of farming by tech.
In a hashtag long post,
Theodore Morley wonders why we tech workers so frequently point our wanderlust towards hands-on trades.
Quote, why does everyone who sits behind a computer long to be out in the fields or workshops?
Is this specific to some subgroup in tech that I happen to cross paths with regularly,
or is it a broader modern ennui?
End quote.
Theodore grew up working on a farm,
so his desire to escape manual labor so he could be getting paid to sit in an air-conditioned office makes him puzzled by our seemingly collective desire to move the opposite direction.
Quote, Why would people who are so comfortable, whose job was to me a lifelong goal,
want to do exactly what I worked so hard to move away from?
I suspect the answer is tied up in the nature of our work in the modern world,
as well as in the inspection of who has been mythologized in American history.