Awesome to see TBH. Friendica is kinda the platform that the Fedi forgot and it might be a better place if it got more love.

Yup … 2 years! It’s something. Posted on masto about it too: https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/113853108993184233

AFAICT, this is the story of centre left politics over the past recent years (decades? Since Reagan/thatcher?).

There’s likely a whole story to be told, but I personally suspect modern academia is actually a big but easy to ignore component.

Didn’t know about Maggie Mae Fish … thanks!

I started watching that a while ago and noped out pretty early on the basis that they may have a very good and well thought out point (the video is an impressive ~5hrs and tight too) … but also took something essential out of what it means to watch and resonate the show, something essentially Lynchian and tied the reason why he has fans.

I don’t think this is just the nature of “explaining Lynch” as nothing about Mulholland drive ever felt that way, for eg.

Happy to be talked down from this of course!

Interesting, didn’t realise they had changed the story so much.

I’d say it’s similar to season 1. So kinda yes, but also just part of the continuing story.

Cheers!

As a book reader/fan … how do you feel about the show? Good adaptation?

As a nerd, I don’t like the end of the article where she says we need to get revenge on the nerds.

I hear you, as many would I think. But realistically, I think calling tech culture into question, even beyond its manifestation in the psychotic tech CEO types, is worth while. It’s really had a dominant run both materially and culturally (a revenge as many would see it), and I think it’s worthwhile questioning the value of a lot of it, in a way I don’t think many nerds and tech people are capable of (sadly IMO).

There may be an inclination to separate the capitalism and nerdy parts. But as an industry/profession/whatever that generally tends to care a lot about itself in various ways … I think tech is disturbingly uninterested in caring about the quality of its profession beyond the bike shedding stuff let alone acting on it in any collective way. There are reasons for this, but given the dominance tech now has in the world, pushing back in the culture wholesale is justified I think.

If you just wanted to get a sense of the vibe and maybe the influence of the show, a minimum of 3-5 episodes could get you somewhere.

But as for season 2 not being worth it, I don’t think that’s true. There’s a middle patch, from about episodes 9-20 or so. Look it up, there’ll be guides out there. These are the episodes where Lynch kinda left the show. Watching the parts he was involved in though is probably worth it. Especially as you’ll get the conclusion and the head in to season 3, where part of what season 3 is about has to do with the bigger picture of how it continues on from season 2.

They talk about episode eight of Twin Peaks the Return as it’s high point, but I think that does a disservice to the season as a whole. Though episode 8 is a stand out, the season has a logic and vibe and arc that stands higher IMO and is very much worth sticking through.

Ha. Thanks … I guess! It was right there and I just happened to notice. It was definitely weird to see people using a word you made up though.

And yea, I stand by the idea of giving us forum like platforms a name against the weird Twitter obsession decentralised platforms have

Well I’ve been saying for a while that the fediverse needs to move on from Mastodon in order to grow, so this is a good sign. Though this is total users, not active users AFAICT.

Season 2, episodes 9 to the last two or so, IIRC.

The magic was definitely gone, but if you know ahead of time that patch kinda has its charm as a mid season spin off.

Hits me pretty hard TBH. No other celebrity/artist death has like this for me.

Appreciated my friend!

I wish i could put a finger on what the movie was missing.

Yep. That’s the thing … It’s hard to work out, but I think there’s something missing from Eggers. Like he needs to work with a few great writers just learn some master craftsperson skills.

Interesting! I haven’t seen Murnau’s, but Herzog’s and Coppola’s (if that counts). Interestingly, I don’t remember much of Herzog’s at all apart from enjoying Kinski.

Which forces me to wonder if it isn’t that great a story, or at least not worth remaking. I’m not convinced that the whole “he’s coming” thing, after having literally been in his castle for a whole sequence, really works. I think in the three tellings of the story I’ve seen (including Eggers’), I’ve probably felt a let down from that structure.

Good Will Hunting comes to mind as one that hasn’t already been mentioned.

As one of his non comedic roles, I’d say he kills it and kinda steals the show.

Awesome. I don’t know how, but I’m thinking the unsafe block isn’t necessary? What was causing borrow checker issues?