East of West.

Dystopian futuristic not-western western; a strange and epic graphic novel.

That too! 🤪

Good catch. My brain used a more sensible amount for that snide remark. Guess I’m still here in the real world with my stash of good ol’ V bucks brought to you by Sprite/Lego/Amazon Basics.

“This is now worth $80 million dollars because I said so.”

Tarot card ass economy.

“It’s tempting to say we’re stepping into a new world where all forms of media cannot be trusted,”…

Yes, we are and it’s shit for the human mind to have to constantly do a double take on everything to make sure it’s actually real.

“but in fact, we’re being given further proof of what was always the case: Recorded media has no intrinsic truthfulness, and we’ve always judged the credibility of information from the reputation of the messenger.”

Sure subjectivity, biases, and other factors skew things, that’s a thing. But I’m sorry, “Any information humanity has ever preserved in any format is worthless.”, is quite the fucking claim.

Been using Bear Blog for a few years now and it’s been very cool as a small static blog platform.

No excess menus, no ad junk. An enjoyable experience all around.

Charlie Huston’s “Caught Stealing Trilogy” or “Hank Thompson Trilogy”. One of my favourite modern noir pieces of work. A damn solid 3 book series about a guy who gets mixed up in shady stuff and can’t seem to find an exit.

I actually found and read the last book first, not knowing it was a trilogy. Which made me think it was trés cool how things in the past were referenced and added more weight to the main character/world. Turns out it was book 3 of 3. 🤪

All three made/make it hard to get into clunky modern pulp/noir style fiction since.

Not to flagrantly self promote but that’s what I did with neocities. Used it as a static linktree alternative:

https://thepjn.neocities.org/

(Again, provided as an example, not “look at me”.)

Neocities : https://neocities.org/

Interesting. Will give it a look. Thanks!

Yeah. Surely they’ll listen, one of these years… 🤪 Might be a while yet now that they’ve got their fancy new “AI” toys to play with.

Always looking for an alternative…

Beans… I was afraid of that, had hoped my search skills were just letting me down. Thanks though!

“We put ChatGPT into this hammer!”

“Why?”

“FIRST!”

Yaaay! Max Payne! Hopefully they remaster all the janky community made Matrix mods too! 🤪

I mean either he’s just the stupidest or this is all intentional and he wanted to kill Twitter in the first place. Either way, fudge him and his weird face.

Damn shrinkflation.

Neocities (mentioned in the article) is a pretty cool throwback site for making your own simple webpages. I used it for a coding exercise to make my own personal version of a Linktree thing.

Bear blog (link) is also simple and neat for simple un-corporate internet-ing.

Notesnook is a pretty good service. More of a less clunky Evernote. It’s free by default but has paid for options and also very privacy focused.

FreshRSS is cools. The way mamma used to make.