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Indeed, so much so that I don't even remember it!

Don't tax my gig so hardcore, cruster.

Some other fun facts I just learned about my group house, The Embassy: - 15 monks lived on the bowling alley - Dalai Lama came to visit once – the monks built a fancy gold litter to carry him up the stairs, but they were too steep so they gave up half way. - Some scammers threatened to blow...

I thought you wanted to kill everybody? Suddenly just ignoring is sufficient?

Yeah that plus AI now, golden age for DIY.

If anything I think its a post-rat house. If you've never snuggled in a post-rat cuddle puddle, have you even lived?

A little bit yeah. My mom has a whole workshop room back home, so I grew up with a general sensibility and willingness to fix things. For electrical stuff though, I have no idea.

I'm the accountant at this rat house.

The question I never knew I was waiting to answer!

tweed/acc

Totally, and in San Francisco, everyone and their mother self-identifies as <fill_in_the_blank>/acc, its bloated out into a trend largely consisting of conceptual cosmetics.

The Dziga Vertov one, late twenties I think

I hadn't seen that kind of tableau vivant aesthetic before, so that coupled with the esoteric and spiritual subject matter pretty much had me mesmerized the whole time. For what ratings are worth, which for me are mostly about how impressive I find a film to be, this is one of the five films...

One of the more impressive films I've seen. Still want to find his other movies.

A friend of mine has been talking about how we haven't yet developed proper memetic hygiene, as a society, and that a lot of the recent culture war stuff (like the SJW cultural wave, and now this MAGA cultural wave) are essentially memetic plagues that we haven't developed proper resistance too...

He probably does too, if we're being honest

Microsoft unveils their new push notification system, Achtung.

The only one I know of is yup.io, which lets you cross post to twitter, bluesky, farcaster and lens, but their UX was tricky and they may have even been deprecated, not sure.

These protocols are part of a larger trend of wanting people to actually own and control their own data, as opposed to the current paradigm, where online services/products are notionally free because really we sacrifice ownership of our data.