More Testament sketches for Pride month!! until next year!!
The Internet Show (1995), "Netiquette"
"electronic mail"
So which of these individuals do you think went full qanon in the 30 years since shooting this video
According to the Internet Archive, this show was hosted by John Levine and Gina Smith, who both remained at least notable enough to have Wikipedia pages. Gina Smith has a short but respectable article, she founded the New Internet Computer Company with none other than Larry Ellison in 2000. The eponymous computer of course flopped terribly, barely clearing 1% of its sales targets the first year, and ultimately just making it onto PC World's "10 worst PCs of all time" list in 2007. Smith, meanwhile, made a 2001 "most influential people on the internet" list, wrote Steve Wozniak's 2006 biography, and per LinkedIn, went on to work on the ill-fated re-re-launch of BYTE magazine, do a stint at HTC. She currently works as an analyst at some market-research company in Hong Kong.
Levine's page on the other hand is barely more than a stub, it doesn't even mention the Internet Show, but it's definitely him. The last sentence is "Levine has moderated the comp.compilers usenet group since its creation in 1986", and the most recent citation is from a strange little 2013 column where Paul Krugman (apparently Levine's college roommate!) basically just re-shares Levine's op-ed about Bitcoin. His now-decade-old take: technically interesting, economically useless, likely to get culty and collapse. Per his LinkedIn, he's now doing public policy, largely in the anti-spam space.
So yeah, these tags are pretty spot on. Everything about Levine's existence points directly to "owns a flip phone", whereas Smith is still demonstrably Online, she has 12k followers on LinkedIn and her most recent Twitter post is a 2021 retweet of a text meme making fun of Matt Gaetz.
No word on whether either of them has gone qanon tho.
I appreciate when people put in the work.
looked up the x files spin-off bc i was curious why iโd never heard of it and why itโs apparently not available to watch anywhere (especially given how huge x files is) and. this is crazy
โno wonder they wiped this show off the face of the earth
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Framerate synced with a birdโs wings
I want a variant of this
One time i tried to explain this to someone at a party and i stopped in the middle of it because i realized how stupid i was sounding
can zelda get him pregnant already damn
can zelda (the princess of hyrule) get him (link the hero of legend) pregnant (cute ๐ฅฐ) already damn (profanity)
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this video does more in 10 seconds than your faveโs entire filmography
For everyone whoโs confused
I feel like im watching a wedding ceremony from a country i didnt know existed. Like, I have no idea how all this stuff is important but good for you?????
This is hella interesting.
btw she gave him a single which can be made in a matter of minute depending on pattern and size but he gave her a giant cuff which can take hours or even more than a day to complete based on just how complex the design and materials are. she wanted to trade something small and simple and he gave her a massive token of his love and respect for her as a fellow raver (and possibly his junior in the scene)
escapist media in general is an ongoing fascination for me. media written with escapism as a main priority typically requires very little thought from the reader - the whole point is to kick back and live vicariously through a fun story, after all. they're narratives written to prioritize reader comfort.
but because they are written to be as unchallenging as possible, they often come with a set of underlying assumptions that can be just fucking fascinating to unpick. like yeah, why IS it assumed to be escapist and indulgent to enjoy colonial wealth without thinking about it in regency fiction. why IS the self inserty female protagonist, who is assumed to be as universally relatable as possible, written to be sweetly naive and sexually inexperienced. why does this "queernorm" contemporary world replicate patriarchial structures exactly but just with Gay People Allowed. why are these ideas assumed to be easy and comforting? can the writers not imagine anything better than the status quo but except maybe with more gay people and poc if you're lucky?
the fact of the matter is that "unchallenging" fiction tends to just simply replicate dominant cultural narratives as a point of comfort. we won't challenge the reader, so we won't think about the way we write certain things. everything we think of as comforting and safe are, of course, universal, and could not be founded on any harmful ideological assumptions. there is nobody who could be alienated by this.
and that's the sticking point to me, in terms of escapist fiction: it's always necessary to ask whose comfort is being prioritized. you've got to interrogate who gets to escape and the mechanisms by which that escape happens. escapism can be good and necessary to survive the current world, but it does not exist in a vacuum separate from the real world, even if it pretends it does!
THE BANANAS ARE GAY
THESE BANANAS
THE BANANAS IN PAJAMAS ARE GAY
BELATED HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYONE
The most beautiful footage of strangers dancing in publicโฆ https://twitter.com/Thorayaaa/status/1660180658646568967
its like a real life version of that childrenโs song with the magic bridge that you had to dance across
Highlights: --all the old people --one dude who starts doing the Cotton-Eye Joe and has the steps on lock --quinceaรฑera girl with a dress bigger than the circle --lots of kids but particularly the dude who's doing the helicopter with his little girl --an entire section of Millennials doing dance moves I recognize, oh the nostalgia
