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it’s funny how having instant communications about every piece of news you want to read might not be great for you
Up all night reading telegraphs! The first president with instant war communication technology.
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Seward telling Lincoln to touch grass
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One imagines the President was extremely concerned about the Aurora that knocked out the telegraph wires in 1859. This was one of the Times' best stories in 1859, "Remarkable Effect of the Aurora Upon the Telegraph Wires": timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
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it's a skill one has to hone to avoid madness
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Going from not enough information, or not timely enough information, to more information than one person can reasonably absorb is a trip.