This column gets off to a bumpy start due to the sheer stupidityclumsiness Scrivener’s unreliable speech recognition function.
I’m writing this on a Sunday, which is about typical. I’ve been reading the newspaper. Today is Sunday, February 18, 2024.
OK
What was in the paper today? All sorts of interesting things. I did not. I overlooked a whole lotta things, a whole lot of articles, because who can read the whole paper right? I have no fear of missing out.
But, yeah, I will talk about what was in the paper. How Trump pushed Silicon Valley off the rails. Did he know? Did he know? Did he know?
Stupid, stupid dictation software. I hate you so much.
Anyhow. And once again, the dictation goes out on me. Thank you so much. Yes, that was sarcasm.
So … How Trump pushed Silicon Valley off the rails. Where shall we begin? I can begin by not using the dictation software, can’t I? Or can I?
[She starts typing with one finger on the left and all five on the right. Many corrections later—voila!]
To quote the article (it’s an opinion piece, so the writer is allowed to express an opinion—see The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution):
If I had to pick the moment when it all went off the rails for the tech industry, I’d choose Saturday morning, Dec. 10, 2016, when I was at a farmers market considering some epic Meyer lemons with my oldest son, who liked to cook. It was there in the San Francisco sunshine that I got a tip: The crowned heads of Silicon Valley’s most powerful tech companies had been summoned to tromp into Manhattan’s Trump Tower and meet the man who had unexpectedly just been elected president and was the antithesis of all they supposedly represented.
And furthermore:
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