Weeknote 1, 2024

§1 Quotation

“[A] huge segment of the ‘free speech activist’ culture is just absolutely pathologically oversensitive to criticism and dissent and […] much of the ‘we hate cancel culture’ culture is consumed with telling people to shut up.”—Ken White

§2 Free Mickey!

This Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon welcomes Mickey Mouse to the public domain.

§3 Disco fever spread everywhere

In 1978, the Grateful Dead recorded a disco song.