I'm basically repeating what Tade said in a less elegant way here, but it makes me mad that the world is this way

right, I think also most working class/low income debt costs more to admin that the debt itself, it mostly a 'write off' and the structures exist to control, rather than any concept of fairness etc.

"licorish" Wirral UK

Was just reading some Mark Fisher and realizing that these retro tech images hark back to a time of popular modernism, where we own and learn from great books, film and music, and culture transforms us. Now we have rental slop.

It's a good film, but come on QT.

I watched Pulp Fiction in the cinema. At first I thought, ok this is in-character, in-world, it makes sense for the art. Then I saw him give himself a cameo appearance 5-min monologue, starting with a push-in shot, specifically so he could say the word a bunch of times.

Yup. I mean, Araki made Mysterious Skin for a fraction of a McD's ad budget and shot the whole thing in 3 weeks - god tier indie film making.

"The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks" - so somewhere around double the time it takes to do the shoot on a 2 hr indie film with a modest budget. The self reporting is so strong with these idiots.

It's worth noting that, like many tech platforms, updates sometimes change your existing defaults/settings for you ... my favourite thing in technology, yay.

It's in your settings. I have never changed from the default and people can only DM me if we follow each other.

My favorite corrupt FIFA breathtaking behavior was Jerome Valcke forcing Brazil to get rid of its stadium alcohol ban to appease their sponsors, and then going on Brazilian TV right after the tournament and scolding the country for being drunk at the games. Give him a peace prize now.

If they'd come with it back in the day they'd have awarded it to themselves every time, with no irony.

Got it, thanks Paul. Mail sent.

Hi Paul, Andy Best of the Shanghai web 2.0 crew here. I have a quick SH question, i think we can only DM if we follow each other, but happy to chat in the replies, it's not sensitive.

yeah, but also they are especially bad about it, it's fine.