Notices by Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes), page 2

@yukijoou @yassie_j I find it amusing that I could read that.

@tankdigital @tinker I do want to key off this. At one point, before a power play knocked me off the puck, I was developing a nonprofit that would exist to provide the kind of accounting and financial work needed so that every Pagan who dreamed of "starting a church" or similar nonprofit project could just shack up with my org and we'd handle the legal and the bean counting and leave the mutual aid to them.

Nonprofit law can be used to amplify mutual aid. I believe this deeply.

I feel like I'm in a particularly unique place to all of this too.

I use the *GPL, I was a volunteer for GNU, as a filmmaker I wrote and produced a movie about GNU and the FSF with Stephen Fry, I was a consultant and then an employee at the FSF which required me to give up my life in the UK at a moment's notice and live in the US.

So other than the GPL what has he done since 1998 (generous) that wasn't complaining about the name of Linux? The FSF has done quite a lot when he didn't interfere.

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@jalefkowit Fuuuu...I'm gonna have to put the whole record on now. "Lost Horizons" has one of the most devastating lyrics ever... "There was nothing left to say, so she said she loved me, and I stood there grateful for the lie."

@jalefkowit Hard hard same. That warm, jangling sound is, for me, the musical expression of being a disaffected 90s gen x teen.

@Jessica No argument from me. Regardless, I hate wristwatches. My last wristwatch was a Legend of Zelda game watch when I was 10 because it was a Legend of Zelda game in a watch and I was 10.

My electrolysis technician uses an Apple Watch, and I kinda see the point there. She spends almost all of her working day with her hands and face in close proximity and she's wearing gloves. It's a bit easier for her to keep an eye on messages or skip the music track while she works.

@Jessica Right...hence the "felt dumb" part. :P

@Jessica When smart watches started becoming a thing, I thought about getting one, but i really hate wristwatches and always have. In fact, I used to carry a pocket watch when I was a teen. So I thought that I might like a smart watch if it came as a pocket watch. Then I realized I had just described my phone, and felt dumb.

@Steveg58 @quinn Fair point for the franchise overall. I was really only thinking of the first Robocop film, where Murphy is not really *for* anything and is largely a victim of OCP's greed and corruption simply trying to figure out who and what he is.

@operationpuppet 🫡

@Steveg58 @quinn I haven't seen Judge Dredd in years, but I remember the point of the original RoboCop was the privatization of the police, so that's why I reach for that one.

@quinn There's an episode of Max Headroom that takes place during the Sky Clearance Festival, a regular holiday where the TV networks de-orbit their old satellites and people party in the streets under special umbrellas to protect them from the shower of debris.

When I was a kid, that seemed like an impossible future.
When I was a young adult, that seemed like the dumbest idea I'd ever heard.
Now, I fully expect the first one next year.

Of all the futures, we live in Max Headroom and Robocop.

@mycorrhiza And certainly whenever I'm in Berlin I notice that glass is the norm for beer and lots of soft drinks, and that there's a 1 Euro deposit on the bottle, which is high enough that people will return them. They seem to have the infra to manage it, but there's likely far more to it than what I see.

@logan @firesidefedi @ozoned Appreciate the tip!

@mycorrhiza I mean, there's really the rub. Glass is heavier, which is more transport energy cost per unit. It's more brittle, which is more breakage (and thus waste) *and* requires additional packaging to reduce breakage during transport and/or handling...I totally get the damage done by too many plastics, too, but there have also been upsides we have to find ways to keep.

I'm currently trying to put together another #Owncast newsletter and I'm looking for a streamer, project, or event to put in the "featured" column. Please reach out to me if you know someone doing something cool and would like to see them get some recognition.

Also, if you have upcoming events to advertise, let me know!

Please boost for visibility.

The most underrated skill in tech engineering is the ability, or maybe the *willingness*, to be an idiot. Sometimes the best way to debug a problem is to forget everything you think you know and re-test the most basic things from ground zero. Sometimes the only way to design a good interface is to look at what you've made through eyes that have no idea what they're looking at. You know too much. Your users don't know anything. Be a user. If you can't be a user how can you make a thing users want

Every day I find a brand-new little horror that's been happening in US agriculture. After a lifetime of collecting ag horrors. ok throw it on the video essay pile with the other 200 that are waiting I guess

Anyway here's today's fresh horror! I think you will like it!

@sharan I thought "Ice Cubes" was some sort of odd capitalization of the concept of freezing water in a cuboidal mold, and that Ivory was the soap. Found it odd either had a Fediverse presence.

Then I realized these were apparently apps.