TIL I look quite a bit like 2 LA cops in particular

Also look at how FB et al can’t even keep themselves from tracking you all over the internet using all kinds of clever engineering engineering beyond plain cookies.

If it actually becomes ubiquitous, the ability to tie all the anonymous impressions to one person is too tempting for surveillance ghouls.

Wave of the future!

Damn I just got Delta. Am I doomed to be perpetually behind on cool chats?

Apologies to everyone I pressed into quitting Messenger to switch to WA in the 10s. Hopefully I’m not repeating the same error in the 20s, but with WA->Signal. 😞

I believe any good thing you can say about crypto will eventually be coopted and controlled by capital.

The same is true for all “disruptive” technology unless it’s built specifically to be hostile to monied interests, like the fediverse - and even then, you have to continue defending it against incursions.

As soon as you could exchange it for real money it just became another tool of capital to move in secret.

I wish the rich would take advantage of our more virtuous qualities. Like I would love for someone to back me financially to go around compulsively pulling up invasive plants and lobbing pollinator flower bombs into abandoned lots.

My plan is: baleted

I was just being a little shit. I love a lot of the movies they produce, but they are very focused on aesthetics

A so called “tone piece” yeah, that’s a good point.

A24 movies have story? I just watch them for the haunting still life pans, dark synth, and general vibe.

Yeah it’s got that uncanny sheen.

Interesting distinction. I use a small managed vps, but didn’t consider that self-hosting, personally. I do aspire to switch to a homelab and figure out dynamic DNS and all that one day.

Self-housing, Linux, vim; hell, even gardening – they all fit this saying?axiom? pretty well.

I suppose I walked into that one with my phrasing…

Geek has always just meant an enthusiast or connoisseur of some topic. But anyone who remembers the cultural cachet of “ThinkGeek” et al in the 00s will recall how the term became synonymous with a consumerist obsession of new tech gewgaws, and other “brainy kid” toys. Like being a gearhead, but about nothing in particular - just the toys.

Anyway, that association has forever stuck in my head, and probably many others’.

Couldn’t you just have several 200-arrow “blocks” ready to go? Like a magazine.

I’ve used so many podcast apps including paid and have never had anything anything anything that comes CLOSE to AntennaPod. I love that it’s foss, libre, all that good stuff.

I just wish I’d tried it sooner.

My friend still has his. Let me tell you, that thing has a presence.