Chimes at Midnight (2024)

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/08/chimes-at-midnight

by chautumn • 1 year ago

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thesuperhacker• 1 year ago

What is happening at midnight?

robinhouston2• 1 year ago

The title is referencing a ’60s movie, I think. Nothing particular is happening at midnight, as far as I know.

jfengel• 1 year ago

The movie is based on a Shakespeare play, Henry IV part 1.

All that happens at midnight is that the clock rings, which is pretty late if you're in the 16th century. The scene is two old men reminiscing about their wild youth:

"We have heard the chimes at midnight"

"That we have, that we have, that we have"

robterrell• 1 year ago

"Chimes at Midnight" is a clever Orson Welles film that combines all of the Falstaff scenes from the various Shakespeare plays that he appears in.

defrost• 1 year ago

It'll be Sunday lunch time in New York City @ midnight here.

robinhouston2• 1 year ago

I am amused by the way the author gives such detailed directions for “an enterprising trespasser” to pay an unauthorised visit to the Clock.

It’s also a clever device to make the account of the author’s visit more vivid, because I as the reader imagine making the journey myself.

(But I do think it would be a fun adventure to try to follow the directions.)

tbolt• 1 year ago

Only half way through but damn what a good read.

CoffeeOnWrite• 1 year ago

I actually didn’t realize till reading this article that The Long Now was so closely tied to Singularity theory.

The clock being deep in a cave reminds me of the clockworks in Even Cowgirls Get The Blues. The clockworks are more of an entropy amplifier than what we think of as a timekeeping device, which I guess is the point of the metaphor, in a way. The clockworks embody eastern philosophy and humility and Bezos’ clock embodies manifest destiny and arrogance?

pkkim• 1 year ago

You may be interested to know that the author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues has just recently passed away.

m463• 1 year ago

I thought it said "Crimes at Midnight"

mrbluecoat• 1 year ago

Once you manage to bypass the gate — which is illegal but not difficult

Yeah, I just finished reading the DOGE teen article; bypassing legal due process seems to be the theme this week...

data_ders• 1 year ago

Heavy recommend the biography of Stewart Brand that’s quoted throughout!

titanomachy• 1 year ago

the entrepreneur Ping Fu is the only person of color

The content of the article had put me in the mindset of trying to look back on our time from the distant future (or even just a few decades), and in that state of mind this line was jarring. I feel like it won't be long before the phrase "person of color" is about as well-received as "negro" is today.

If I was writing the article to last 100 years, I would have probably written something like "all members are Caucasian, except for the entrepreneur Ping Fu", although who knows how that would actually be received.

Chimes at Midnight (2024)

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