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We can examine the array layer by layer, working down from the fast and attention-getting to the slow and powerful. Note that as people get older, their interests tend to migrate to the slower parts of the continuum. Culture is invisible to adolescents but a matter of great concern to elders. Adolescents are obsessed with fashion while elders are bored by it. The job of fashion and art is to be froth—quick, irrelevant, engaging, self-preoccupied, and cruel. Try this! No, no, try this! It is culture cut free to experiment as creatively and irresponsibly as the society can bear. From all that variety comes driving energy for commerce (the annual model change in automobiles) and the occasional good idea or practice that sifts down to improve deeper levels, such as governance becoming responsive to opinion polls, or culture gradually accepting "multiculturalism" as structure instead of just entertainment.

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**This draft text is a cynical, incomplete rant expressing deep pessimism about human progress and the endless cycle of wars.** It says, in essence: - Don’t expect any bright future or “glorious upland” (better era) for humanity if you live long enough to see it. - Instead, you’ll just keep witnessing the same old propaganda and deceptions (“mushrooms fed the same shit” is a reference to the saying about keeping people in the dark and feeding them bullshit, like how mushrooms are grown). - This pattern repeats endlessly: after Iraq, after Iran, and on and on. - “These cunts” (a harsh insult aimed at the people/politicians/leaders responsible) are perpetual “slaughter merchants” — warmongers who keep driving conflict and killing — in the name of… (the sentence cuts off there, so the supposed justification is left unfinished). Overall tone: bitter fatalism about history repeating through endless wars and the public being fed the same justifications over and over. It continues the “same old more often” theme from the previous Techdirt draft, but shifts from overhyped online threats to geopolitical violence. https://www.techdirt.com/2009/02/06/state-attorneys-general-trash-internet-safety-study-but-still-cant-provide-data-to-counter-it/

In the previous screenshot, GNU screen was active (noted by the screen tab title in Windows Terminal and the | margin indicators down the right side). When screen manages the buffer, it hard-wraps text by injecting explicit line breaks (\r\n) at column borders. When copying across those lines, Windows Terminal receives literal newlines forced by screen, resulting in separate strings. In the second screenshot, screen is not running. The shell is outputting straight to the standard pseudoterminal (pty). The text soft-wraps dynamically, meaning Windows Terminal recognises it as a single contiguous string and copies it as one unbroken line. To prevent this without altering window dimensions, avoid running long-string output inside a screen session, or configure screen not to force line-wrap margins on output. If screen must be used, launching a native SSH session directly in the tab without invoking screen keeps soft-wrapping intact.

My mistake, I missed the status bar at the bottom and misread the visual bounds. The difference in behaviour between those renders inside screen comes down to whether screen has enabled hard-wrap (defwrap on / wrap on) or soft-wrap for that specific window, or if a split region/margin was active in the first session. When screen operates with hard line-wrapping enabled or within a bounded region, it intercepts stdout and manually emits a carriage return and line feed (\r\n) to the terminal emulator when text hits column 80 (or the region boundary). That turns what should be a reflowing soft wrap into physical, hard newline characters in the terminal buffer. When screen runs with wrapping set to let the terminal handle it, the terminal emulator manages the soft wrap, preserving the string as a single continuous line on copy. To fix it inside screen: Toggle line wrapping off in the active screen window using Ctrl-a then Shift-7 (which sends Ctrl-a g). You can also set defwrap off in your ~/.screenrc so screen does not insert hard breaks across line ends.

Expand the window: Drag the Windows Terminal window significantly wider so the text fits on a single line before running the command or printing the output.

This passage is from C. S. Lewis's book The Problem of Pain, though the attribution line at the bottom misprints his initials as "C. W. Lewis".

That framing hits the nail on the head. We are effectively watching the historical transition from the monolithic usenet feed to specialized, localized NNTP servers, just re-implemented with public key cryptography and modern JSON event structures. In the early vision of Nostr, the relay was often conceptualised as a neutral, dump-everything pipeline where clients did 100% of the heavy lifting to filter, index, and render views. The reality of operating infrastructure quickly exposed the limits of that model: unmoderated open relays become spam sinks, state bloat gets expensive, and client-side filtering doesn't scale when you have to fetch thousands of junk events just to find five relevant ones. So the architecture has naturally bifurcated into two distinct layers. At the bottom layer, you still have the massive, dumb, high-throughput storage pipelines—the modern equivalents of tier-oneUsenet backbones like UUNET or Highwinds. They don't care about community rules; they just shift blobs. At the top layer, projects like Pyramid represent the shift toward hyper-specialised, purpose-built edge servers. Instead of running one generic instance, a community or individual hosts a fleet of micro-relays where the relay itself enforces the business logic, curation rules, and membership graphs. The "forum" is no longer just a UI layout rendered in the client; it is an opinionated slice of the network enforced at the transport layer. By pushing social graph constraints, invite trees, and content curation into dedicated sub-relays (like Pyramid's inbox, groups, or popular feeds), the relay stops acting like a database and starts acting like an application server. It trades the absolute neutrality of the original dump-relay concept for operational control, spam resistance, and lightweight client performance. Calling it crypto-verifiable NNTP is spot on. The underlying primitives are the same—newsgroup-like topics, peer-to-peer distribution, local retention policies, and server-level peering—except now the identities are secured by Schnorr signatures rather than trusting the host header, and access control can be cryptographically gatekept at the edge.

It flips Maine's old thesis on its head in a rather neat way. Sir Henry Maine saw the progress of progressive societies as a shift from status—where your legal rights, duties, and fate were fixed entirely by the family and social standing you were born into—to contract, where free individuals shape their own destinies through voluntary agreements. The Veil of Ignorance uses the logic of contract to insulate you from the tyranny of status. You construct a grand social contract precisely because you cannot negotiate your starting status in advance. Instead of letting the genetic and social lottery dictate terms, you contract around the risk of drawing a bad hand before the cards are even dealt. It turns the social contract into a shield against the lottery of birth, ensuring that even if you land in a position of low status, the baseline rules were drafted to work in your favour.