Five Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish

A lecture on the history and prehistory of Unix. "Unix popularized so many fundamental concepts in computing that it's easy to forget that they had to come from somewhere." [docs.google.com]

Interesting decision by New York magazine to put a Covid-19 conspiracy theory on their cover. [twitter.com]

After a short holiday break, the Kottke Ride Home podcast is back on the airwaves. It's a daily 15-minute shot of the day's most interesting news hosted by @jackisnotabird. [art19.com]

"Twitter is a dying website and that it has entered a period of deep insularity and cultural decline and is now virtually [unintelligible] to outsiders." [garbageday.substack.com]

From longtime Apple watcher @jsnell, a list of the 20 most notable Macs in history. [sixcolors.com]

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