If I had a billion dollars, I would spend it commissioning one-of-a-kind works of irreproducible beauty and wonder from the world's greatest artists, and I would open a museum called Look With Your Eyes. Admission would be absolutely free, open 24/7, with no security guards or alarms. Everything in the museum would be breathtaking, fully accessible to the public, and guaranteed to instantly and permanently fall to pieces the moment it's touched. When the last item is destroyed, we close forever.

One of the things I used to say was unrealistic about Star Trek was Captain Picard would shout, "Computer! Create a program to redirect the gloopion field into the dark nebula!"

Setting aside what bugged me the most - why would you say "create a program to do the thing" and not just "do the thing" - this is basically what passes for coding in 2025. The unrealistic part is that he didn't include "please actually do that and don't randomly decide to blow up the ship instead, and don't be racist."

Today we celebrate the glorious enactment of the Information Purification Directives. We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom secure from the pests purveying contradictory thoughts. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!

I don’t have something nice to say, so

Good morning, Fediverse. We're going to have a good day today. I insist the universe bend to my will on this one little point.